LSC in the mix at SER Youth Champs

LSCs IDS squad were in action today at the South East Region youth championships. There look to have been many high quality swims and lots of finals places for the squad. The SERYC has both heats and finals for most events and judging by the results this made for some exciting racing.

The results for the first 3 sessions were up on the SER site promptly this evening. Here's the link:
SER 1st day results

Update - 2nd May: The link above now shows the full list of results. The link below is the LSC press release for the SER weekend
LSC show their strength at SER Youth 2006

Speedo Team Pic and Press release

Follow the link below to get a copy of the LSC press release for the Speedo 2006 Final. Click on the pic for a larger view

Speedo Press release

LSC Speedo squad go Hawaiian - and bag a top 3 place!

Members of the IDS and NDS squads acquitted themselves with considerable grace & style at the National B final of the Speedo league today and enjoyed the moment to boot!

Each swimmer adorned poolside with beach shirt, garlands and topped with a day-glo pink swimhat - "stepped up to the plate" and gave of their best during the 50 event contest battling some of the nation's best clubs.

Earlier estimates from the aqua - cognoscenti (LSC parents) recognised that a top 3 place would be a "big ask". And so it proved, until the final few events when we managed to nose ahead of Lincoln Vulcans whom we had been 'nip and tuck' with throughout. Those fortunate enough to witness the 50th and final event will carry the memory of it into posterity.

Perhaps the only minor irritation on the day was the shock victory of City of Liverpool SC's supporters over the ever noisy LSC Wigs. As big a surprise (allegedly) as their home town's football squad unexpected win against our "Stoke D'Abernon trained" team from the south, for a place in the FA Cup Final!

S P E E D O National Finals >>>> 23rd April @ Ponds Forge

Good Luck to the LSC Speedo team 2006 this weekend - we are all so proud of you!

Speedo League Live Results links:

A Final
AND ...
B Final - LeatherheadSC have drawn lane 3

LSC EASTER MEET 2006

Leatherhead's second Easter meet was -we are happy to report -a great success in spite of the other galas on the same weekend!

>>> Here's a link to the press write up <<<

Thanks to our generous sponsors and the hard work of our many supporters
(parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters!) the weekend-for the most part-went extremely smoothly and was enjoyed by all those attending. A huge amount of effort went into arranging and putting on this event and we would like to thank everyone who helped, in any way, however small.

Many swimmers achieved those all important qualifying times as well as many personal bests.Well done to everyone who took part.

Herne Bay were awarded" The Top Visiting Club" , whilst two of our own young swimmers achieved Top Boy and Top Girl-see photo link.

Good luck to the Speedo team travelling to Sheffield next weekend-GO LSC GO!

....and now onto Cranleigh...!!!!!

High Octane performance by LSC swimmers @ European Trials

There was a tremendous set of performances by LSC swimmers in what was very select company at the recent European Trials/British Championship meet. See the attached link for more details.

http://www.swimmingclub.co.uk/html/press/press06/British%20Championships.pdf

LSC Website is back!

I'm happy to report that the LSC main website is back on line.

LSC WEBSITE PROBLEMS

LSC is currently experiencing problems with the website which we hope will be resolved soon.
In the meantime all current information can be found here, or on one of the links on the right.
The club can be contacted directly, in the same way.

What it's like to take part in the European Trials

Here's Charlotte Robertson's take on the experience of being in a major championship meet!

The European Trials were such an amazing experience.....even if i was a little bit nervous about swimming with Commonwealth and Olympic medalists!!
The first famous person i saw was Darren Mew outside Primark (who later that evening qualified fastest for the 100m mens breaststroke final)!!
And of course knowing who else was there and how good they all were i decided to watch some of the Finals & Semi finals on the tuesday night before i swam.
It started with a bang, the first event being Katie Wylds' 100m freestyle semi-final.
She had already p.b'd earlier in the heats and she managed to better that by going a 57.20!! WOW!! Obviously that earned Katie a place in the final the following night...and she was ranked 3rd!!
The best race of the night though i think had to be the mens 400m free final.
It had so many well known swimmers in it! : Robie Renwick,
David Carry,
David Davies &
Ross Davenport. To name just a few.
But also another good race was the Mens 50m Fly Semi.
Another good swimmer from Surrey, Owen Morgan (Who swims for Kingston Royals and swam for Wales in this event and was a semi finalist in the 50m crawl at the Commonwealth Games.) was in this, he did a 24.50 which i dont think was quite a p.b but it was a good enough time to get him seeded highly for the final wednesday evening.
I knew Owen because when we all went on the training camp to Tunisia him and a few other good swimmers of Kingston Royals were also there training ( In Owens case it was more posing and sunbathing than training...but we couldn't really complain!) and my dad being my dad decided to challenge him to a 50m fly! Quite obviously Owen won.
Wednesday morning was definitely the highlight of the 2 days i was there though.
As I was waiting for a lift to go down to breakfast David Davies and Gregor Tait came out of their room and GOT IN THE SAME LIFT AS ME!! WOW two commonwealth GOLD medalists and me in the same lift....proves what a great hotel the Bristol is for celebrity spotting.....only if your a swimming junkie!!
Then it was over to the pool with Chris (Ashton) & Ron for our warm-up & races.
Chris started off the day in the 200m IM, he didnt do a p.b but it was still a very good swim.
Then it was my turn to swim. I was in the Final heat of the girls 800m free ( i wasnt by any means the fastest but it was seeded strangely ) This meant though that i was swimming in the same race as Kerri Anne Payne who just missed out on getting a medal at the Commonwealth games.
Ron gave me instructions to go out a bit faster so that if i didn't die i would get a faster time than the last time i swam this event at the Surreys.
I definitely went out faster, so much so that i nearly got my NQT on the first 400!! Oh well maybe next time at our Easter meet.
In the end my time was about the same as last time i swam it but with different splits. ( Something to work on ) But at least Ron smiled.
I returned to the pool once more after my race in the evening to watch Katie in the 100m free and all the other finals and semi's. But before going on poolside i nearly managed to trip Bill Sweetnam up ( Not purposely of course.....)
Well Katie's race was definitely worth staying for, she did yet another P.B and got a bronze medal! WOOHOO!! What an amazing achievement.
Also not to be outdone our friend Owen also got a Bronze medal in his 50m fly final.
The multi disability swimmers may not be as well known, but they were still good races to watch. The best one being the 50m free where i was lucky enough to see a new WORLD RECORD be set by Matt Walker in the 50m Free.
I now can't wait till Nationals to see all the swimmers again, but i really hope i can manage to get the Qualifying time for the 2007 British Long Course Champs so i can experience the event once again!!
Chris, Stuart, Dave, Katie and Claire our girls Club Captain are still there representing the club and I have checked the results page today, Stuart McCrea (Pat's son ) has qualified for the mens 50m back semi and also Katie for the womens 200m free
GO LSC!

Charlie

Havant & Waterlooville results++

follow the link to see the results from the weekend's H&W Meet
http://www.handwsc.co.uk/springopen.htm

I can see lots of high placed LSC results but I'll leave the full report to the normal channels, except to say well done to Chloe Bean (1st place 9/10 yrs 50M Breaststroke in a great time of 46.09).
Also Josh's mate Tony Graham (aka The Albert) as far as I could see always placing 1st '95 boy in his events.
Congrats also to Nicky and Rebecca Cooke for doing so well on their first LSC team gala.
Also a sub 60 second 100M Freesytle time from Ex - LSC swimmer Josh Hart.
Well done the LSC Team!

PS: Bexley results are also up - here's one I'm paticularly proud of!
http://www.bexleyswimmingclub.com/Bexley%20Swimming%20Club/BexOpenApr06/RB2H26.HTM
Well done LSC Team of one!

European Championship Trials @ Ponds Forge

STOP-PRESS! STOP-PRESS! STOP-PRESS! STOP-PRESS!

Leatherhead swimming club are extremely proud of the 5 swimmers travelling to Sheffield this week to compete -with members of the British squad recently back from Melbourne-in The European championship trials.
WHAT A FANTASTIC ACHIEVEMENT!
Good luck to David Ashton, Chris Ashton,Stuart McCrea,Claire Abraham and Charlie Robertson. Also to Katie Wyld of Nova Centurion SC. Katie has been one of the LSC stars for the past 10 years!

LSC ROCKS!

PS results sheets will be published here:
http://asaftp.sportcentric.net/sports/swimming/results/2006/gblc06/webpages/index.htm
more details about the event (from the LSC viewpoint) :
http://www.swimmingclub.co.uk/html/press/press06/British%20Champs%20-%20March%2006.pdf

1st LSC 100 Club winner!

Lucky Richard McGrath becomes the 1st £50 prize winner of Leatherhead's 100 Club, having been the 1st person to buy a ticket.

Richard was very pleased on hearing of his good fortune.

The number was drawn in front of the National development squad by boys team captain David Andrews.

Congratulations Richard!

2006 Speedo Final here we come!

LSC Draw a good lane at the Speedo B final @ Ponds Forge, Sheffield... just follow the link below:

http://forum.speedoleague.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=75&goto=nextoldest

Bexley Level 1 2006 - LSC Team of one!

Josh bags a brace of medals at the weekend's Level 1 Bexley gala. Bronze in the 50m Freestyle (32.8) and Silver in the 100m Freestyle (1:12)

LSC 2006 Easter Meet

Stop Press!!

• 2006 LSC Easter meet is still open.
  Entries to LSC race sec ASAP!

Welcome to the 1st LSC Weblog!

Here's a way of posting things that can be used by LSC to spread the latest.

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