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SPEEDO LEAGUE

Six swimmers from Haverfordwest recently competed for the Pembrokeshire Aces in the Speedo League (Western Division). The team made the final in second place in the league but were unable to duplicate the rounds 1 and 2 performance in the final and failed to achieve promotion. The swimmers were: Cara Watson, Tesni Galvin, Ieuan Cooke, Jordan Thomas, Claire Fitzpatrick-Smith and Matthew Lewis. Well done to you all!!!

Colours Gala

Yet again a great success, our fourth Colours Gala 23/09/07. The theme was "Mini Beasts". Won this year by the Red team "Red Water Scorpions"-team manager Shirley Bevan-Captain Matthew Lewis. The poster from the blue team won "Spongebob Blue Pants"-manager Gareth Thomas-Captain Chelsea Kendall. An event open to all children in the club masterfully directed by the team managers and team captains. Tactical game play is what is needed to win and it was one of the closest, running with all four teams competing right to the finale to give us the RED Team victorious. All thanks to the organisation and the clever management and time spent organising the teams and how well balanced they were to give such a close running event. Thank you to all for a very successful event.

Keeping in the PINK!

Masterfully organised by Matthew Lewis our most senior swimmer who had a penchant for swimming in a colour! Dragging along three other willing participants Luke Watson, Jake Watson and Kieran Williams. How brave! He organised a relay at the Dyfed Fast Water event at Llanelli on 22/09/07 and the spectators raised £100 towards Breast Cancer Research. On the 23/09 they again rose to the occasion to throw down the gauntlet to the team managers of the Colours teams pledging to swim breaststroke against the managers' freestyle team. After seeing a masterly swim from team manager Gareth Thomas I don't think they were quite as confident as they had been and may have been a little ruffled. As spectators you raised along with the raffle money donated by the club to Matthew's cause a huge £150, which was quite staggering. The 2 days raised a magnificent sum of £250, which was presented to Breast Cancer Research on 29/09/07.

 

Swimmers meet World Champion!

Swim Wales, South West Region, organised a very successful swim clinic with world champion swimmer, the dolphin boy James Hickman, at Wales National Pool, Swansea on Saturday, January 5. A group of 10 swimmers from the Haverfordwest Swimming Club was selected to participate in the event, along with 30 other swimmers from swim clubs in the South West region. The region includes 28 clubs. The clinic targeted young swimmers whose development is seen as a major priority for Swim Wales. The clinic included pool work, together with dry-side aerobic training and a stimulating talk with question and answer session with James Hickman. James Hickman was the world 200m butterfly champion in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004. He was also a Commonwealth 200m butterfly champion in 1998. He held world records in 100m and 200m butterfly from 1998 to 2001. He was a member of the GB Olympic team in 1996, 2000 and 2004. James brought a clutch of his medals to the event, which were a major interest to all the young swimmers. The event was very successful, with all who participated enjoying the day. A lasting memory of the day for the swimmers will be the autographs on their swim kit and Hickman photos. Swim Wales looks forward to these young swimmers achieving in local, regional and national swimming events in the future. Who knows, maybe a future world class swimmer will be from this group.

James Hickman is pictured at the back with (from left, middle) - Todd Watson, Sam Withers, Jordan Thomas, Hollie Thomas, Sion Bevan, Alice Russell-Stretch; (from left, front) - Emyr Taylor, Rhiana Galvin, Kelsey Williams, Liam Fitzpatrick-Smith.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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