Welcome to the City of Birmingham Swimming Club
Welcome to the City of Birmingham Swimming Club website. The Club provides elite coaching in aquatic sports for Birmingham's swimmers, water polo players and synchronised swimmers. Bringing together swimmers from across the region, the club's highly successful coaching teams build on the excellent work of local clubs to further develop the potential of outstanding competitors, preparing them to compete at the highest levels regionally, nationally and internationally.
Latest Club News on Wednesday 8th of September 2010
On behalf of the Birmingham Swimming Action Group please find below details and an entry form for the Birmingham Water Festival, together with a
copy of the promoters conditions for the event.
The Festival is an unlicensed meet run in the style of an Open Meet and
is intended for up and coming swimmers aged 8, 9 and 10 who are not yet
competing in a serious manner. Prizes will be awarded to the first three
places in each event and all participants will receive a certificate.
Clubs: we would be very grateful if you could consolidate your club entries (see Entries Received below) and send them to Helga Edstrom by 2nd October. (Email and contact details can also be found on the entry form).
Introduction and Overview - please read carefully
Promoter's Conditions
Entry Form
Entries Received
The City of Birmingham recently competed at the National Age Group Swimming Championships in Sheffield (July 28th-August 1st). The club had some remarkable results and finished up as 6th overall ranked club behind City of Leeds, Plymouth Leander, Stockport Metro, NOVA and Millfield. The 10 Birmingham swimmers that raced ALL swam in either a relay or individual final and Medals were won by Bradley Lynch (2 Bronze) and Emily Graham (2 Silver, 3 Bronze). Things could have been even better with Birmingham swimmers coming away with 4th place SEVEN times!
Massive credit must go to the swimmers for their performance, commitment and behaviour during the Championships and coming away with such fantastic results. The swimmers now have a well earned break before getting back to hard training at the end of the month.
Rebecca Cole represented Great Britain at the European junior
championships in Helsinki, Finland last week. Rebecca, making her
international debut, had a great meet swimming two life-time bests and
winning a silver medal as part of the heats team in the 4x100m Medley
Relay.
Rebecca was very unlucky in her individual 100m backstroke where she
finished fourth overall in the heats but failed to qualify for the semi
finals. Although four swimmers per nation can enter European competitions,
only two may progress into semis and finals and two of Rebeccas teammates
were 2nd and 3rd after the heats.
Rebecca's time in the lead off swim of the relay of 1.03.55 was also a new
Worcester County and West Midlands junior record. City of Birmingham SC
would like to congratulate Rebecca on her achievements and wish her all the
best for the upcoming National Youth Championships starting on 2nd August
ALL OFFICIALS (All Clubs) in the W Midlands Region: Please read this important reminder. It is in your children's/your club's/your county's/your region's/your sport's interest for all officials to obtain their ASA Licence (No Charge) before September 1st. Click HERE for information.
Water Polo Development Programme - Taster Sessions
The City of Birmingham Swimming Club - in conjunction with
Boldmere Swimming Club - would like to extend an invitation to boys
and girls to come along to Wyndley Leisure Centre (Clifton Road,
Sutton Coldfield) on Sunday evening
6.30 - 7.30pm for a taster session on Water Polo.
The session is open
to all good club swimmers aged 12 years and over. The aim of the
session is to introduce youngsters to the sport, and raise a team to
represent the City of Birmingham in the ASA National Age Group
Championships.
The Boldmere Club are hosting these sessions on behalf of the City of
Birmingham Swimming Club, and the sessions are free for a two week
trial period.
Contact: David Giess on 0788 7778191 or 0121 384 5961 or email:davidgiess@blueyonder.co.uk
The City of Birmingham Synchro team gave fantastic performances at the Warwickshire ASA and Staffordshire ASA Warwickshire & Invitation Championships held in Rugby on 3rd July. The final medal tally in the Warwickshire Championships was 13 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze. In the Invitation Championships we won 7 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze.
The 13-14 team and 19 & under team took gold in both competitions as did Katie King (15-17 figures & 15-17 solo); Phoebe Bradley-Smith (13-14 solo); 13-14 duet (Lois Powell & Phoebe Bradley-Smith); 15-17 duet (Katie King & Lucy Ridge).
Emily Firth took gold in the Championship Figures and was crowned the Figures Champion. City of Birmingham was awarded the trophy for Best Overall Team. The full medal list is available at www.synchro.org.uk
