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Home Nations Coaching Conference

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**SAVE THE DATE**

Home Nations Coaching Conference

24-25 November 2023

East Midlands

Swim England, Scottish Swimming and Swim Wales, supported by British Swimming, are planning to resume hosting their bi-annual coaching conference at the Leonardo Hotel (East Midland Airport) on 24-25 November.

Building around a theme of ‘Developing Excellence in Coaching’, the two-day event will showcase a range of presentations from some of the leading performance sport speakers and practitioners in the country, along with some of our most successful and highly respected coaches.

Who is it for?

All head and assistant coaches of clubs who are operating in the performance development world, or coaching athletes to British Championships and British Summer Meet level.

Who’s speaking at it?

The final speaker schedule is still being finalised but we have various leading speakers and topics lined up.  UK Coaching’s Tom Hartley will discuss ‘Play Their Way’.  British Swimming staff will consider what excellent coaching should look like and provide updates on the OADF and OCDF projects.  Scottish Swimming’s Paul Wilson will present on how clubs can easily and successfully fully integrate para-swimmers into their mainstream training routines.  Coaches involved in the careers of elite swimmers Tom Dean, Katie Shanahan and Maisie Summers-Newton will report on how they successfully navigated the athlete journey.  Biomechanics expert Olly Logan from British Swimming will share key learnings from some of the technical projects that have been taking place in recent years.  And much more.

Register Interest

Please complete the short form at this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSu3xa7uA8YiGXJu3D5P7bxYvDLsD7nfuT8aorNHsC3jiTXg/viewform?usp=sf_link in order to register your interest in the conference.  Note that this is just to help us establish indicative numbers and is not a formal booking.

Artistic Swimming Development Days Target 12 & Under

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Two regional development training opportunities ran on 24th September and 1st October at Hatfield Swim Centre aimed at the region’s youngest artistic swimmers.  The first day was for 9 and 10 year olds with no figure grade and the second day for 12 & Under swimmers who had a minimum of figure grade 1.  Swimmers attended from Chelmsford SC, Dacorum ASC, Hatfield SC, Norwich ASC and Potters Bar ASC and completed a one hour land session followed by one hour in the pool.

The sessions targeted the youngest swimmers in the region to encourage them to develop strong basic skills that will then help them to pass figure grades and reach their full potential.  The land session focused on body awareness and balance to enable swimmers to understand how to know what they are doing by using their muscles and extension to move into and maintain accurate positions in the water.  They also considered technique of some key sculls that are essential for swimmers to move through figure grades.  After then completing some warm up stretches, swimmers put what they had learnt into practice during the pool sessions by practicing a range of positions and sculls.

Both sessions saw swimmers maintain impressive levels of focus for their age and they all worked hard throughout both land and pool sessions.  The region looks forward to seeing how these young artistic swimmers progress in the coming years!

Upgraded process for uploading Licensed Meets results to Rankings

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For licensed meets agreed from 3 October, Swim England are introducing a new automated process that will enable meet promoters to upload the results without having to email the results to our Rankings team.

Currently Meet Promoters will send Meet results to Swim England, in order for these results to be manually added to https://www.swimmingresults.org/showmeetsbyevent/ .

Swim England have created an automated process that speeds up this process and gives control to the Promoters to upload results via https://resultsuploader.swimming.org/ . If the uploaded results have no errors, they will automatically be uploaded to Rankings within 1-2 hours, reducing the time from potentially days to hours. Refer to the below diagram for the new process.

Please use the updated Licensed Meet application form for your next meet. We also have a step-by-step guide to assist when uploading your first set of results. Both documents will be accessible from 3 October on the Licensed Meets page.

Any meet that has already been licensed will continue to use the previous process by sending results to the Rankings team.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

East Region – Regional Awards 2023

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The Awards recognise and celebrate the incredible spirit of our aquatic community especially evident during these challenging times. These Awards showcase individuals and groups who create and foster the community spirit of aquatics.

The winners of the East Region 2023 awards are:

Artistic Swimming Club of the Year – Aqualina Artistic Swimming Club

Diving Club of the Year – Dacorum Diving Club

Swimming Club of the Year – Flitwick Dolphins Swimming Club

Water polo Club of the Year – Colchester Swimming Club

Coach of the Year –Sarah Vanderloo (West Norfolk Swimming Club)

Volunteer of the Year – Ian Rollinson (Luton Diving Club)

Technical Official of the Year – David Metcalf (Biggleswade Swimming Club)

Congratulations to the winners and to all who were nominated. The winners will be put forward for the National Swim England Awards 2023 being held inside the Great Hall at Birmingham University in November.

Free Swim England/Institute of Swimming Foundations of Inclusivity CPD for UK Coaching Week

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“As part of #UKCoachingWeek Swim England and the Institute of Swimming are offering their ‘Foundations of Inclusivity’ CPD free of charge.

As the title suggests, this is intended to showcase the foundations of an inclusive approach and includes case studies from the world of Aquatics, Rugby Union, Cycling and Trail Running.

Make sure you keep your eyes peeled as they will also be releasing an Inclusive Club Guide in the coming months that will support this approach with a range of practical resources and guides from across the sector.

https://www.swimming.org/ios/course/9835

As always, if you have any questions please contact Mike Hawkes, Head of Diversity and Inclusion via email [email protected] or [email protected]”

2023 Open Water Championships – Entries now open

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Entries are now open for the 2023 Regional Open Water Championships taking place on 9th July at Whitlingham Lakes. Please make sure you have read the Event Conditions document prior to entering. All details can be found on the Open Water Competitions webpage. Entries close 18th June 2023.

The Region is also looking for volunteers and Technical Officials to help the event run smoothly. If you can assist on the day, we would appreciate you sign up using the forms on the Open Water Competitions webpage.

Welcome to our new East Region President

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Darren Peck, who is a member of a number of East Region clubs, has become the East Region President following our Annual General Meeting. We welcome Darren into the role and look forward to seeing him at regional and national events throughout the year.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Helen Stephens for her time as Regional President, and for all her support and enthusiasm she has provided our athletes and volunteers at the many events she has attended during her time in post.

Artistic Swimming Important Information

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Artistic Swimming Important Information

 

Following World Aquatics rule changes the following updates need to be undertaken:

 

  • ALL Current Judges – to attend at least 1 of the 3 Zoom online sessions – to upskill to the new system – in order to be able to continue judging at their current Level from 1st Jan 2024. Any judges unable to attend 1 of the 3 sessions will not be able to judge past 1st Jan 2024, unless they attend another full course – at their current Level to continue onwards. Registers will be taken and OMS updated.

 

  • IN ADDITION ALL Level 3 Judges – invited to attend Synchronisation Technical Controller Upskill course – to be able to be a Level 3 + STC into 2024. If Level 3 does not attend this course they can continue as a Level 3 Judges just without the Synchronisation add on.

 

 

  • IN ADDITION ALL current Referees to attend Referee upskill to continue as a Referee into 2024. If unable to attend cannot continue as Referee.

 

 

Artistic Officials Courses 

  • Any Level 3 and above Judges who are interested in becoming Presenters for Regional Level 1 and Level 2 Courses can contact Hannah Secher directly to express interest

 

  • New Level 3 Judges Course – to be ran 1 day 2nd December venue TBC – for Level 2 Judges wanting to move upwards. (Save the date – registration to come later in the year)

 

  • New Referees Course – to be ran 1 day 11th November in Loughborough – for current Level 3 Judges with 2+ years experience, Senior Judge experience also. (Save the date – registration to come later in the year)

 

Technical Officials and poolside volunteers – We need you!

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Thank you for your support at the first two weekends of the regional championships in Norwich.

The region is currently short of officials and volunteers for the forthcoming weekend of swimming at the regional championships in Luton.

In respect of poolside volunteers, there is a genuine need for volunteers across all sessions.

The need for officials is particularly acute for session 20 and 22 on Saturday 13th May and session 23 on Sunday 14th May.

If all clubs assisted in some capacity for one session each, the roles would all be filled. Please could I ask that colleagues attending the meet give serious consideration to indicating their availability for a session or two of the competition.

The Region’s volunteer coordinator carefully plans volunteer roles to ensure that all those participating have the opportunity to see their child compete.

The link to sign-up can be found here:

Technical Officials and Poolside Volunteers Applications to Officiate at Regional Swimming Competitions – Swim England East Region

Technical Officials and Poolside Volunteers Needed

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The region is currently short of officials and volunteers for the forthcoming two weekends of swimming at the regional championships in Norwich.

In respect of poolside volunteers, there is a genuine need for volunteers across all sessions.

The need for officials is particularly acute for the second weekend (29, 30 April, 1 May) and for all finals/long distance sessions, including this weekend (21, 22 April)

If all clubs assisted in some capacity for one session each, the roles would all be filled. Please could I ask that colleagues attending the meet give serious consideration to indicating their availability for a session or two of the competition.

The Region’s volunteer coordinator carefully plans volunteer roles to ensure that all those participating have the opportunity to see their child compete.

The link to sign-up can be found here:

Technical Officials and Poolside Volunteers Applications to Officiate at Regional Swimming Competitions – Swim England East Region

Many thanks in anticipation of your support.

Tom Baster

Swim England East Region Swimming Manager