Swimming_in_Shepway Presentation 16-4-13
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Swimming in Shepway
Tim Wiseman
and
Kevin O’Connor
Agenda
Introductions
Background
What could we improve upon?
Challenges
Does anyone else…?
SDC and Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
What next?
Who is it for?
What competitions?
Additional Information
Questions and Answers
Close
Introductions
Tim Wiseman – Head Coach Hythe Aqua
Kevin O’Connor – Head Coach Folkestone Sports Centre
Swimming Club
Dan Hulme – The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
Wilbert Greaves – Shepway District Council Sports
Development Officer
Stuart Jones – Chairman Folkestone Sports Centre
Swimming Club
Jim Parris – Chairman Hythe Aqua
Background
For the past 40 years Shepway has had two strong swimming clubs
Both clubs take swimmers from teaching to swim through to masters
We support currently, or have previously, multiple disciplines including
Competitive swimming
Synchronised swimming
Water Polo
Life Saving
Masters
Open water swimming
Even diving!
Shepway is a relatively small area to draw swimmers from and half of
our catchment area is the English Channel!
However each club, and their respective swimmers, have been
successful often to very high standards both in the past and currently
What could we improve upon?
Is what we are constantly looking at and have been since
we started coaching
We have always tried to set objectives for our clubs, both in
training and competition, that are stretching and challenging
enough to show constant improvement
This has to be a steady improvement so as not to put off
those swimmers who don’t have the desire to aim higher but
still want to swim competitively for their club
We have strived, as clubs, to meet these objectives and have
been successful in hitting them
However taking the clubs to a more successful level
generates its own challenges
Challenges
Some of our challenges are
Lack of pool time available and at a reasonable cost
Lack of dry land training including stretching
Not enough strength in depth of squads to be as competitive as
possible at the higher levels
Not being able to properly support our swimmers as they qualify
for more prestigious competitions
A relatively small pool of qualified volunteer teachers and
coaches and the ability to train them to better support our
swimmers
Access to funding
Losing swimmers to other “bigger” clubs
Does anyone else have same
challenges?
This is when Jim and I started to have discussions
It became clear that we both have similar issues and both
had ideas on how we could overcome them
We continued to meet further with both Stuart and Tim
joining our regular discussions to develop our ideas
It was agreed that working more closely together to
support each other could greatly assist both clubs
At this point we decided to discuss further with Shepway
District Council and the Roger De Haan Charitable trust as
we knew that there were already plans in place for the
development of sports in Shepway
Shepway District Council and
The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
Dan and Wilbert will now explain more about
Sports Development in the Shepway area
What Next?
Following our discussions and having heard from both
Dan and Wilbert we thought the way forward was to
form a new club called Shepway Swimming Club
The purpose of the new club being to
Provide additional pool and land training time
Give our swimmers as much support as possible locally
Enter certain events jointly thereby improving the
strength in depth of the team
Enter higher standard competitions jointly
Secure additional funding
Utilise the support of the Roger De Haan Charitable
Trust and Shepway District Council
Who is it for?
The club would be open to all but is centred around
the members of both Folkestone and Hythe
It is not just for Elite swimmers as we will enter
competitions with two teams the second being the
development squad
What competitions will be entered?
Kent Junior League
National Arena Swimming League
Also the ability to enter competitions like
East Invicta Championships
Kent Championships
Additional Information (1 of 2)
The clubs are not merging
Both will retain their own identity and enter competitions in
their own right. For example the development series of galas
A constitution for the new club has been agreed by the ASA
and a committee will be formed with members from both
clubs
Is it a take over?
No definitely not hence keeping two separate clubs
Movements between clubs will be discouraged and will
only be sanctioned by the agreement of both clubs
Neither club wants to poach swimmers from each other
Will this new club involve the other disciplines?
Yes if they want to
Additional information (2 of 2)
How much will it cost?
Very little the Clubs ASA registration has been paid for as has
that of the swimmers through their own clubs
We don’t plan on lots of additional kit but will have our own
identity with items like hats
How will swimmers be selected for the teams?
On their ability the same as now and jointly by the two clubs
It is anticipated that we will jointly hold a Shepway
Championships gala
Questions and Answers
Please feel free to ask any questions and we will do
our best to answer you
Close
Thank you for coming
Kevin and Tim