Welcome to Aberaeron Swimming Club website. We are a small friendly swimming club based at the local pool in Aberaeron. The club is commited to encouraging all children to enjoy their swimming regardless of age or ability. We offer weekly 1 hour beginner sessions to those new to the sport and at only £12 a month it's half the price of lessons. All that we ask is that your child is confident in deep water and able to swim at least 10m. If you would like your child to develop their swimming and learn how to perform each stroke correctly then please contact us to arrange a free trial session.
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NEWS

May Bank Holiday

Training will be as normal on Monday 6th May.

Club AGM
The AGM took place on Wednesday the 13/2/13 at Aberarth Hall, please see here for the minutes from the meeting. Thank you to all who attended.


Urdd Gala News

Carys finished 2nd at the Senior Urdd Swimming Gala in the girls yrs 11/13 100m Freestyle, not only that she finished 5th in the 100m Backstroke.
Ifan, Morgan, Jac (part of the boys Freestyle relay team yrs 7/8) finished 6th.
Caryl, Freyja, Poppy & Chloe yrs 3/4 Freestyle relay team came 5th and 6th in the Medley relay.
Celyn finished 8th in the girls yrs 5/6 50m Butterfly. Bethan who qualified as a reserve, swam in the final and finished 10th in the girls yrs 5-6 50m Backstroke. Others who also made it as reserve swimmers were Poppy (girls yrs 3/4 25m Butterfly) and Josh (boys yrs 3/4 25m Backstroke), sadly they didn’t get to swim in the finals.

Well done all.

AWARDS

In order to try and provide a smooth transition between lessons and competitive swimming the club will be introducing the ASA National Swim Awards. All swimmers in the beginners squad will be taken through the various stages and certificates awarded when a level has been achieved. As the club will be asking parents to make a small contribution towards the cost of purchasing the certificates a list will be placed on the noticed board at the pool of all the swimmers involved. Certificates will only be ordered and processed when a parent/carer has indicated that they are happy for their child to be included in the scheme and contribute to the cost. Only swimmers who train on a Mon or Tues are eligible for this scheme due to the lack of coaches/helpers available. If any swimmers in other squads would like to be included then please let Careyann know asap so that she can add you to the list. A Performance Award Scheme will be introduced in the next few weeks for all those swimmers participating at a competitive level. 



We have several galas coming up over the next few months (please check notice board at pool and events page on website).

Some of the older swimmers have requested early morning swims please check the notice board for details and put your name down if you're interested. We need to have a min of 4 swimmers to justify having a lane out.

With the club now healthier than ever we will be looking at the squads and possibly making a few changes, details of these changes will be placed on the notice board and via email, coaches will also notify you if your training times change.

Although we have so many more young people in the water our numbers poolside are decreasing and we are keen to encourage more parents to get involved. If you would be happy to help out then please let either Linda or Careyann know, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.




A squad list is displayed on the notice board at the pool, please check this to which squads your swimmer/s are in. If you would like to discuss any aspect of promotion or a swimmers availability to train then please speak to either Careyann before this time so that we can take your views into consideration. Promotion is agreed by all coaches and is based on a number of factors, attendance and performance at both galas and training as well as attitude, behaviour and conduct during training sessions. Please can everyone ensure that they are now paying the correct monthly fee if your swimmers have moved up a squad. We really do not want to deny swimmers the opportunity to train because in correct fees are being paid.

Please refer to the events page for entry packs to forthcoming galas I will do my best to post them as soon as I have the info.
Please can all swimmers and parents make a concerted effort to keep up to date records of times acheived. Offical times will be needed to enter most galas and it really helps the person submitting the entries if swimmers have included their times. Log books are available from most on-line swim shops or a simple spreedsheet does the same job.


THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT DURING 2012, EVERYONE HAS IMPROVED SO MUCH IT HAS BEEN EXTREMELY REWARDING. LETS HOPE 2013 BRINGS US EVEN MORE SUCCESS.