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Western Counties
Youth Championships Results - 2008 Click Star
The Western Counties
2008 proved to be are real boost to Dinnaton's Spirits this year.
Senior Coach Alan Rooker said. "Everyone swam their socks off
and acquitted themselves admirably".
Club Captain Chris
Farmer was a star worthy of mention with big personal best times
in every event he swam. Chris entered the Western Counties with
"Consideration Times" but ended up with results that left
him way above many who had entered the competition with faster entries.
Josh Dunn, despite not gaining his NQT's this year was Dinnaton's
top performer with a silver medal in the 50 Butterfly. Wello done
to everyone who took part.
DINNATON COMPETITION CALENDAR - CLICK
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NEWS
Sean Watson -
After taking part in the 1st Round of the Cornwall & West Devon
League, Sean became unwell and was
unable to compete in the last relay. He was taken
to Derriford hospital after returning home and had an emergency
operation to
remove his appendix. Sean is doing well and the
good wishes of the club and his team mates are sent to him and we
all wish him
a quick recovery.
Results of 1st Round of Cornwall and West
Devon League held Saturday 26th April at
Bodmin - 1st Dinnaton,
2nd Bodmin, 3rd Torridgeside,
4th Penzance - Report
Dinnaton SC were matched
against Bodmin, Torridgeside and Penzance in the first round
of the Cornwall and West Devon League. With 26 first places
from the 51 events Dinnaton eventually came out clear winners.
In the boy’s cannon, the Dinnaton team of Sam Carter,
Adam Farmer, Tom Bromley and Sean Watson were to score a first
place before Sean was rushed to hospital with appendicitis
later in the evening followed by an emergency operation the
next morning. In the individual events first places were achieved
by Jasmin Morgan in the 13&U Breast and Backstrokes and
by Stephanie Bennett and Charlotte Evans in the 15&U Fly
and Back respectively. In the open age group Josh Dunn, Ben
Carter and Tom Bromley achieved a clean sweep of individual
first places with Tom Bromley also gaining wins in the boys
15&U Fly and Breast. Also in the 15&U age group, Chris
Farmer and Callum Clay were not to be outdone by recording
wins in the 100m Free and 100m Back respectively. Rounding
off the individual wins were Laura Lamb in the 13&U Free,
Tom Carter in the 11&U Breast and Jasmine Dunn in the
Ladies Open Fly.
In the relays, the story was much the same with 13&U girl’s
team of Jasmin Morgan, Roisin Vosper and Laura Lamb being
joined by Amy Yeomans for a win in the Freestyle and Rebecca
Winstone for a win in the medley relay. The 15&U girl’s
Freestyle relay team of Charlotte Evans, Grace Cunningham,
Hannah Kett and Harriet Tuck came in winners before Jasmine
Dunn and Stephanie Bennett stepped in for Hannah and Harriet
for a further win in the medley relay. The boy’s 15&U
team were also victorious in both their events with Tom Bromley,
Callum Clay and Chris Farmer being joined by Alessandro Kadner.
Similarly, the men’s open Freestyle team of Josh Dunn,
Gavin Bulley, Ben Carter and Chris Farmer came home in first
place before Tom Bromley stepped in, in place of Chris, to
swim the Breaststroke leg of the winning medley relay. The
final two wins were recorded by the boy’s 11&U Freestyle
team of William Potter, William Speed, Andrew Kett and Sam
Carter and the final event where Faye Hammond, Tom Parry Jones,
Laura Lamb, Adam Farmer, Jasmine, Dunn, Chris Farmer, Stephanie
Bennett and Gavin Bulley came home in first place. Final points
were Dinnaton 161,
Bodmin 139, Torridgeside 121 and Penzance with 86.
Dinnaton now move on to the second round where they will be
meeting Newton Abbot, Truro and Devonport Royal in what is
likely to be a much tougher test and a possibly a very close
three way contest.
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Click the star for C & W Devon Results Sheet
in PDF
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Alan
Rooker - Our New Chief Coach
This is Alan Rooker who is
Dinnaton's new Head Coach (From Sunday 11th May at 1200).
Alan has been at Dinnaton for over a year and has coached
the Senior Swimmers for the last nine months. Alan comes from
Nova Centurion where he worked as an assistant Coach to Bill
Furniss (the coach of Rebecca Adlington) Alan came very highly
recommended by Bill.
Alan is very popular with
the senior swimmers and the club looks forward to a long and
happy association with him. |
Recommended Galas coming
up soon
| The
Devon Development Galas
(click Star for program) |
The Developments
are recommended for a range of swimmers from novice in T2T
squad to experienced performers in the T2C Squad. They also
may be suitable for some T2W squad members but not those having
WC times or those having achieved Devon Finalist status They
will be held on 21st June and 12th July for swimmers aged
9 - 11 and 22nd June and 6th July for swimmers aged 12 - 14.
There are no qualifying times. There will be full club support
including Manager and Coach |
The Plymouth
Leander Open
click Star for entry form in pdf |
19th
- 20th July 2008 - Good Quality Open Meet licensed to Level
Three Suitable for all Dinnaton
Swimmers unless you have achieved a National Qualifying time
- Entries to Competition
Sec by 27th May 2008
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Margaret
Gardner Memorial Open
click Star for entry form in pdf |
26th & 27th July 2008 -
Low Key Budget Meet without the frills but suitable for All
Younger Squad Swimmers - Held locally at Plymouth College -
Not to be missed by T2T and some T2C squad members. See John
for advice about entering. Closing date 10th July - Events for
all age groups including 8 years and under |
Pre-payment
of Session Fees
Details to follow soon
COMPETITION CALENDAR -
CLICK STAR -
THE
END OF AN ERA (well, not quite.)
John
is to stand down from his position as Dinnaton's Volunteer
Chief Coach on May 10th after 15 years to take up a new roll
as Club Development Coach. |
John
made this decision over a year ago but decided to stay on
until a worthy successor was found. Alan, John's Deputy Coach
is to step up to fill the vacancy and the two men will work
alongside each other and have great plans for the improvement
of the Ivybridge Team.
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John said. "I
have been the Competitive Coach for a long time now and feel that
someone new could inject the enthusiasm which I had always been
able to do. The last few years have been quite hard especially from
a personal point of view and I will be happy to give up the responsibility
for the competitive team to Alan who is my good friend. I do not
intend to give up swimming teaching and will take the less onerous,
but just as important task of reorganizing our junior swimmers aged
8 - 13 before they step up to senior squad level. I have had a swimmer
or swimmers at every National Competition for the last 10 years
and our tally now stands at 19. This experience will
not be lost and I will be there to support Alan in which ever way
he chooses. I started my swimming career 30 years ago encouraging
little children to improve their swimming and feel that it is a
fitting way to end it (but not just yet)."
Matt
Clay Presented the prizes at our Annual Prize giving on Sunday 28th
January at
the Ivybridge Rugby
Club
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Earlier in the Day
Matt held two swimming clinics at Dinnaton which were attended by
42 swimmers. The swimmers
picked up some really useful tips from the Commonwealth Games Gold
Medallist and a great time was
had by all. Later Matt also presented scores of Certificates and
Trophies that the swimmers had won at
the recent Club Championships.
EXETER
SILVER JUBILEE MEET RESULTS (CLICK)
CLUB CAPTAIN 2007
BELOW ARE THE
CHOSEN TEAM CAPTAINS FOR 2007 - 2008
 
Chris and Jasmine
FAMILIES GUIDE
You can access the Families
Guide By clicking the button at the head of the page you
will be able to access all the information you will need
when joining Dinnaton or changing from Teaching groups to
Coaching groups. There is also a lot of useful information
all all aspects of the club including.......
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How
do I join? (Overview), What does it cost?, Membership Application
form,
Swimmers Details Form, ASA – Registration, The Committee
and Contact Telephone Numbers, Training Times, Club Uniform
– Overview, Club Uniform – Order form, Child Protection,
Swimming Lessons, Improvers Lessons, The Squads – T2T,
T2C, T2W, Squad Info. Session Attendance, bullying & Training
Kit, Land Training, Competitions, Competitions continued, First
Gala, Gala Guidance notes, Gala Guidance notes, Masters –
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