News

First of all thank you for the offers of support that we have received this week, it is very much appreciated.  We have met this week with another coach who will be joining us to coach alongside our existing team. Cameron visited the club on Wednesday so you may have seen him poolside getting to know our other volunteers and familiarizing himself with the club set up. He is keen to start but due to the usual paperwork it may be a couple of weeks before you see Cameron on poolside coaching.

Committee member and swimmer parent Kay, is going to do her Level 1 coaching qualification next month and another parent has kindly volunteered to become a poolside helper and progress to assistant teacher.

The coaches and committee met this evening as due to our continued success at events along with Kev Hope and Jon Cheshire both leaving the club this week, covering poolside has been problematic for the next two weekends.

Saturday 22nd October  Due to our coaches being at the Yorkshire’s this weekend we are unable to provide a safe level of cover for training so unfortunately training for all apart from masters will be cancelled on Saturday morning.

Sunday 30th October Due to the club having over 30 swimmers at the Halloween Meet we are unfortunately having to cancel the training session 5-7pm. Training 4-5pm on 30th October will be on as normal.

We thank Jon and Kev for their commitment to the club and wish them well. Looking forward we can’t see any other dates that would be problematic especially when our volunteer base is increasing and as a committee and coaching team, we are eager to continue the club’s success.

Yorkshire Swimming Association Winter Competitions 2022
8th & 9th October 2022
John Charles Centre for Sport, Leeds

FINAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE ATTENDING

We will be selling a limited number of programmes at the event.
The Warm Up Schedule is below.
The Start of the Sunday Morning Session has been put back to 9–30am.
SATURDAY 8th
OCTOBER
Morning Afternoon
Girls 7–45am to 8–15am
BOTH POOLS
Girls 12–45pm to 1–15pm
BOTH POOLS
Boys 8–20am to 8–50am
BOTH POOLS
Boys 1–20pm to 1–50pm
BOTH POOLS
Session Start 9am 2pm
SUNDAY 9th
OCTOBER
Morning Afternoon
Boys 8–15am to 8–45am
BOTH POOLS
Boys 12–45pm to 1–15pm
BOTH POOLS
Girls 8–50am to 9–20am
BOTH POOLS
Girls 1–20pm to 1–50pm
BOTH POOLS
Session Start 9–30am 2pm

There will be a NESS Swimwear shop in the Studio. The Café should be open.

Withdrawals
If a swimmer is not going to swim they must inform the Entry Manager of their
intention to withdraw no later than 5pm on the Thursday Evening for all events on
the weekend. Start lists will be produced. Notifications should be sent to
entries@yorkshireswimming.org

Tickets

As indicated on the Yorkshire Swimming Association Website, and on social media, the purchase of
tickets is via an online system with tickets being sold on a first come/first served basis until the
capacity is reached. We will not be selling tickets at the venue.
Tickets are priced at £10 per day, which entitles one person entry to the Spectator Gallery at any one
time to spectate at the event. Where a swimmer is only competing in one session, or event, the ticket
may be shared so that another person can attend for the remaining part of the session/day. There will
be no concessions except one child under 5 will be admitted when accompanying a ticket holder.
There are a very limited number of tickets remaining which can be purchased here
https://www.swimmingresults.org/events/yorkswinter22tickets/ticketviewer.php
Spectators should sit in the 5 blocks of seats towards the start end of the pool (The end with the
Scoreboard). The other block of seats will be available to clubs.
We welcome offers of help from technical officials, and other experience volunteers, at all our events.
If you are able to assist us for any of the sessions please contact our Officials Coordinator, email
address jaynesmart.ysaofficials@gmail.com
Barry J Saunders
YSA Swimming Secretary
September 2022