SLASA Awards & OECS After-Party

Dear All:

We will host a combination OECS "After-Party" and SLASA Annual Awards Night on Saturday 5th February from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the St. Lucia Yacht Club on Reduit Beach. This will be a much less formal event than we have had on previous occasions, more of a celebration/Beach Party. We will start with the presentation of the swimmers awards, and coaches certificates from the FINA course, then move quickly into party mode. Some simple snacks will be provided, with soft drinks for the kids and a pay-bar for the adults. Bottled water will be available at no cost, other drinks can be purchased at the bar.

Be very pleased if you could spread the word, we would really like to see as many of the OECS swimmers as possible, as well as the athletes and parents who helped by volunteering their time to make the meet so successful.

There will be no formal invitations sent out this year, this is it!

Kind regards,

Joyce

Min. of Education & Culture - Awards of Excellence

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This morning, 25 January 2011 Two Sharks were honored.
Siona Huxley - Senior Female Athlete
Joshua Runako Daniel - Junior Male Athlete.
Congratualtions to them both.

Message from Tom

Hello everyone,

I hope and pray that the new year finds you refreshed and ready!

Just a reminder that swim training starts this Tuesday even though I know school doesn't start for many until Wednesday.

Please make sure to check out our website and blog for un to date information on our swim club.

www.sharkswimclub.info

www.sharkwimclub.blogspot.com

Congratulations to all of our swimmers who swam in the swim meet. You all did great!

Just a couple of reminders...
-The next couple of months are chilly. Make sure ot send along a warm towel. The children might want to wear a swim shirt or t-shirt during practice to stay warm.
-Remember to pay your swim fees BEFORE the month begins.
-No refunds for sick days.
-If your child wants to take a break from swimming, let me know.

Just to give you an idea of our upcoming training, it is going to look like this.

LEVEL 1

We will be working on the basics to each stroke.
January - Breath Control
February - Balance
March - Sculling
April - Rhythm

May and June will focus on the three competitive strokes that we will be dealing with - freestyle, breast stroke and back stroke.

LEVEL 2

We will be covering the basics for the four competitive strokes in the next four months.

January - Freestyle or Breast stroke
February - Freestyle or Breast Stroke
March - Back stroke
April - Introduction to Fly

May and June will be reviewing the strokes and working on competitive aspects to each one.


Thanks everyone!

Coach Tom

Training

Coach Jamie sent out this message...

Beach practice tomorrow morning at the Ramp 8:00 AM

Coach Tom

Training this week

Hello all,

Coach Jamie asked me to pass this on to the Juniors and Seniors...

Practice at regular times tomorrow and Thursday.

No practice for the Learn to Swim this week. We will start up next week on January 3rd, Tuesday.

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas!

Coach Tom

Happy Holidays

Two more Gold for Siona

Siona again gets gold in the 100m Back and the 50m Free.

Even though she only swam 6 events this gave her a total number of point of 47, enough to take second place in the 15 & Over age group.

This brings her haul to 4 Gold and one Bronze medals with one national Record.

Dani completed her las event the 200m Breast with another National Record. This mean she had a National Record in all her events.

Congrats to all our swimmers

Update for Dubai & Trinidad

DUBAI:
Men's 100m Free:
Julien - 53.52s - 79th out of 119 swimmers - Age Group Record
Runako - 54.77s - 92nd out of 119 swimmers - Age Group Record

Men's 100m IM
This event sees three Caribbean swimmers going through to semi-finals - George Bovell of Trinidad finished 3rd in heats, Shaune Fraser (Cayman) 8th and Bradley Alley (Barbados) 12th.
Julien - 1:04.61 - 64th out of 76 - Age Group Record
Runako - 1:05.32 - 66th out of 76 - Age Group Record

Women's 50m Free
Dani - 26.97s - 48th out of 101 swimmers - New National Record, breaking Siona's 2008 record

The boys have now completed all of thier events, but Dani is swimming 200m Breast tomorrow.

Meanwhile in Trinidad, two more medals last night:

Siona Huxley - Girls 15 & Over 100m Free - 1st place in 1:02.71 - New National Record, breaking Natasha George's record established in 2004
Siona - Girls 15 & Over 50m Fly - 3rd place - 30.81s

Jon-L Innocent-Dolor breaks the 1 min barrier in the 100m Free for the first time in a time of 59.11

Gold & National Record

Siona Huxley has just taken the Gold in the 100m Free in a National Record time of 1:02.71, this bested the time set by Natasha Georges in December of 2004

Dubai & Trinidad

First Dubai
Our swimmers are all performing extremely well.
Danni has made two HUGE National & Age Group Records in the 50m (2 sec off) & 100m Breast (5sec off)
Runako now has 3 Age Group Records and Julien has 2 personal best times from his 3 swims.

In Trinidad on the first day Siona captured Gold in the 50m Back and there have been many personal best times.

All results up on the SLASA site.