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Club BBQ. The weather forecast is good, so please come along. It is great for everyone, from D7 to P1. It is being held onSaturday 4th September 2010, at Porthkerry Park. It starts at 11.00am and is a great opportunity for swimmers and families to have a relaxed social gathering away from the pool. Tickets can be obtained through your class managers, or through Sue Flanigan. More information can be downloaded here.

Club News - Dave Lloyd has kindly volunteered to try and keep our club notice board up to date with club and swimmer news and information. He has set up the following e-mail account, swimnotice@hotmail.co.uk so that any information, news articles, etc. that may be of interest to the membership can be forwarded to him for inclusion on the notice board. It would be great if everyone can offer their support to this, so that all club news can be viewed by all and all our good work and positive results kept up to date! Many thanks to Dave for taking this on

Changes to Training Unless specified below, your squad will train as normal

Date	Event	Swimming Training	Land Training
Sat 4th September		Normal	P1/P2 09:00 - 10:00; P3/P4 08:00 - 09:00 BOYS
Sat 11th September		Normal	P1/P2 09:00 - 10:00; P3/P4 08:00 - 09:00 GIRLS
Sat 18th / 25th September	CCSC Club Champs	tbc	none

Cardiff International Open Meet, 2nd - 4th July 2010 IThe results are now also available by following the link to the Cardiff International Open Meet Page

Forthcoming Away Meets. Information about the following meets can be downloaded from the fixtures page:

Meet	Venue	Date	Squads	Entry pack	Closing Date	Entry Form	Entry Report	Confirmed Entries	Meet Information
Greater Gwent Fastwater Open (L1 & L4)	Newport ISV	23 - 24 Oct 2010	All Squads	Yes	Mon 6th September 8.00pm

Forthcoming Home Meets. Information about our home meets can be downloaded from the relevant page in the Events section.

Meet	Level	Date	Squads	Entry pack & meet file	Closing Date	Confirmed Entries	Draft Programme	Meet Information
CCSC Club Championships	L4	18, 25 Sept 2010	All	On Fixtures page	23rd August 2010
Welsh Capital Open Meet	L2	26 - 29 November 2010	P1 - D2	On Welsh Capital Open Meet page	11th October 2010
Tiger Bay Open Meet	L3	25 - 27 March 2011	All
Cardiff international Open Meet	L1	1 - 3 July 2011	P1 - D2

Results. The meet results listed below (and all other previous results) can be downloaded from the Results page:

Rotherham Metro Open Meet

SEW Region Development Meet

Stuttgarter Schwimmfest 2010

Gloucester L3 Open Meet

Cardiff International Open Meet

Cardiff Bay Sprint Meet

British Gas Swim Wales Summer Nationals

Welsh Squads - Selection Policies. Information re the selection policies for Welsh squads can be viewed on the 'Swim Wales Regional Squads' section.

Swim Wales Selection Statement - ASA Inter County Competition The selection policy for this event to be held on the 17th October 2010 can be viewed here.

ASA Selection Policies. Selection policies for forthcoming international meets can be viewed here:

European Junior Championships 2010 (Helsinki)

European Long Course Championships 2010 (Budapest)

A draft of the selection policy for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, to be held in New Delhi, India can be downloaded here

Lost & Found Property. This section can be found in the Swimmers Corner (lost & found property).

Welsh Long Course Rankings (to June 2008), the Welsh Long Course Records and British Age Group and Open Rankings (Long Course - 2008, Short Course - 2007) can be found on the results page.

WASA Age Group and Youth Qualifying Times 2010 can be downloaded [here]. ASA National Qualifying Times 2010 can be downloaded here.

Kit for Sale. There is now a section on the Club Swim Shop page where you can place and view adverts for swimming kit for sale.

How do I Join the City of Cardiff Swimming Club ?

Trials for the City of Cardiff Swimming Club are held at Maindy Pool at 7.15pm on the first Thursday evening of each month. Swimmers should be able to swim to at least National Plan for Teaching Swimming(NPTS) Level 8. The club's welcome pack, with information about us can be downloaded here. Swimmers and parents should make their way to the cafeteria / viewing area and let the club coach / representative know they are there.

Please note - there will be no trials on Thursday 5th August 2010 due to the club shutting down for summer. The next trials will be held on Thursday 2nd September 2010.

Jeweller’s to the Club, Bezeal, will be exhibiting at the following locations, so come and join us and others at :-

28^th, 29^th & 30^th August Sat - Mon All day
Easter Artist’s & Maker’s Festival, Beacons National Park Visitor Centre, Libanus, near Brecon

30^th & 31^st October Sat - Sun
All day Cardiff Autumn Crafts & Gifts Fair, Park Inn Hotel, Cardiff

If you have any queries then please contact Sarah Warden-Smith, or visit the website at www.bezeal.co.uk

Competition Photos

To purchase photos of competitions where we have had photographers DE Photo, please click on the symbol below.

CCSC would like to express our appreciation to Deloitte, the professional services and business advisory firm, for their support to the City of Cardiff Swimming Club. Each year, Deloitte donates a number of laptop computers to community organisations where their people have personal involvement. We have just been awarded one for the second year running after successful bids from Ross Flanigan. One is used by the volunteers who help to run the club and the other is likely to be used by the coaches to help manage, coordinate and monitor swimmers' progress. Thanks Deloitte.

Affiliate Scheme

CCSC have signed up for an affiliate programme, whereby if purchases or bookings are made through the links below, a percentage of the booking fee or purchase price will be returned to the club. These funds will then be used to support Club events and trips, to the benefit of swimmers and parents alike.

Holiday Inn Express

SRS Leisure

Training Information

2010 Training Timetable The new training timetable (WEF 15th March 2010) can be downloaded here.

Fixtures List The format of the fixture list has been changed so that it relates to the different squads. There is a 'master fixture list, and a squad specific list. They can be downloaded by selecting the links below.

Master List

Squad P1, P2, P3 and P4

Squad P5, P6, P7, D1 and D2

Squad D3, D4, D5 and D6

Key Dates 2010 Important 2010 dates can be viewed here.

Home Meets 2010 - 2014 The list of home meets being held by the club can be viewed here

News

Commonwealth Games 2010 - Delhi

Congratulations and best wished to the four City of Cardiff Swimmers in the Welsh Team travelling to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi this October.

They (L to R) David Davies, Tom Haffield, Ieuan Lloyd and Danielle Stirrat.

ASA National Youth Championships 2010

Medallists Danielle Stirrat, Alfie Howes and Ieuan Lloyd

Congratulations to all who travelled to Sheffield for the ASA National Youth Championships to take on the best in Britain. It was a hard week of competition for all, but it was an achievement just to be there!

The team was the largest City of Cardiff has sent to the Nationals for many years and included : Alex Finn, Seren Jones, Jenna Hussey, Sophia Pauley, Sophie Cox, Otto Puttland, Sophia Pauley, Sam Ventrice, Robyn Ventrice, Chloe Tutton, Vicky Jones, Nicole Gooding, Ieuan Lloyd, Glyn Chisholm-Jones, Alfie Howes, Rhys Jones, Kevin Rossiter, Morgan Kane-Roberts and Danielle Stirrat

Particular success was achieved by our three National Medalists!

Danielle Stirrat won silver in the Girls 200 freestyle in an incredibly exciting race which saw her lose out on the gold by only 0.09 seconds!

Alfie Howes gained a bronze in the 200m freestyle pictured above on the podium with Ieuan Lloyd.

Ieuan won a hat trick of gold medals in the 400 free, 200 IM and the 200 free as well as a bronze medal in the 100m Freestyle

Finalists and semi-finalists included Chloe Tutton, Sam Ventrice, Robyn Ventrice, Otto Putland and the boys relay team with Glyn Chisholm-Jones, Otto, Alfie and Ieuan.

David Davies is returning to the Club

Our Olympic silver medallist David Davies has announced that he is to return to the City of Cardiff, where he swam from the age of 7 years, until his move to Loughborough in 2007. With only 2 years until the London Olympics, he felt that he needed to change his surroundings, and that the return to Cardiff, coupled with the ongoing support of British Swimming, would help with his preparations for 2012.

We would all like to take welcome David back home.

European Junior Championships, Helsinki, 14th - 18th July

Ieuan Lloyd took the silver medal in the Boy’s 200m Individual Medley missing the number one spot by two tenths of a second. He touched in 2:02.72 behind Luxemburg’s Raphael Stacchiotti who took gold in 2:02.52. He later teamed up with Braxton Timm, James Young and Liam Selby to swim the final leg of the Boy’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay, earning the British team their third silver relay medal of the Championships.

Alfie Howes secured a bronze medal for the team in the Boy’s 400m Freestyle touching in 3:56.11 behind France’s Yannick Agnel who took gold in a Championship record time of 3:46.26 and Ukraine’s Sergiy Frolov coming in second in 3:55.70

Cardiff Bay Sprint Meet, 17th July

More top swimmers with Bethany Burt (P6) winning top 9 year old girl, Kieanna Deacon (P5) and Jacob Cook (P5) winning toop 10year old girl and boy, and Emma Key (P4) and Jacob Avery (P6) winning top 12 year old boy and girl.

Taunton Deane L3 Open Meet- 10th /11th July

Another outstanding group for Cardiff swimmers, winning top club, and top overall boy (James Davies (P3). Rhys James (P6) - aged nine also broke the meet record for the 100IM (which had stood for 10 years) with a time of 1minute and 27 seconds

Cardiff International Open Meet - Record News

Congratulations to Chloe Tutton who broke the Welsh junior (15 and under) long course record for the 100, freestyle with a time of 00:58.17, whilst she was still 13!!

Congratulations to the Slaters

CCSC recently nominated Mr & Mrs Slater for the "Cardiff.Sport Coach and Volunteer Awards 2010". They were nominated in the category of 'Young Peoples Coach', for their many years of commitment and dedication to the City of Cardiff Swimming Club. They were successful in reaching the final three of this award and were invited to a recent award ceremony. On behalf of all in the club many congratulations to Mr & Mrs Salter and many thanks for those years of dedication and commitment to the club.

Further Success for Cardiff Swimmers 19th/20th June 2010

Another weekend of competition saw success for our team at the Stuttgarter Schwimmfest in Germany, with a clutch of medals, and the Top Visiting Club award.

This was mirrored by our team at the Gloucester Level 3 Open Meet, with with plenty of medals, speeding tickets and retention of the top visiting club trophy. At Gloucester Tegan Frizelle (P6) and Jacob Cook (P5) got top boy and girl in the 10 year old category;Francesca Rowlands (P4)won top 10 year old girl; Alex Beynon P5) won top 15 year old boy.