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 Thursday 29th of July 2010
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
City of Birmingham age group swimmers (Boys 10-14yrs, Girls 10-13yrs) raced over the weekends of 5th/6th and 12th/13th June at the Midland District Age Group Championships. The club came away with some great results. Our 13 swimmers achieved 3 Gold, 13 Silver and 11 Bronze medals between them and gained 60 new P.B's and several new National Qualifying Times along the way.
Extra congratulations go to our Gold medal winners, Bradley Lynch (1500fc) and Emily Graham (100fly and 100fc). The club also qualified for National Age Groups on every relay.
These Championships are the last major event prior to the National Championships in Sheffield starting in July and for all qualifiers the focus now switches to preparation for this event.
Photo: Steve Harlow Photography
City of Birmingham swimmer Givenchy Sneekes recently competed at the Dutch National Junior Championships in Amsterdam (18th-20th June 2010) coming away with a PB in every event and 2 Bronze medals. The Bronze Medals came in the 400IM and 200 Breastroke with her coming 4th and just missing a medal in the 200IM.
Givenchy is a Dutch National and would be eligable to compete for the Netherlands in International competition in the future.
Congratulations to Givenchy on her success from all at City of Birmingham.
Photo: Steve Harlow Photography
