Over the weekend a number of swimmers attended the St Martin’s Cup swim meet host at ABAC swimming pool. This 3 day swim meet is one of the final opportunities in the swimming calendar to achieve the entry times required for the Thailand Open Swimming Championships held in April.

Congratulations to Prim P and Win who both achieved qualifying times and will be attending their first Thailand Open Swimming Championships in April.

Prim P – Placing on the podium in two of her nine races, Prim achieved  3 qualifying times for the Thailand Open Swimming Championships. Prim placed 2nd in the 50m Backstroke and 3rd place in the 50m Freestyle, she also achieved the qualifying time in the 100m Freestyle.

Congratulations Prim

Win L Swam and amazing nine races, winning six medals and qualifying for the Thailand Open in eight races.

Win’s results were: 1st Place in the 14 year old 50m Fly, 2nd Place in the 100m Fly, 50m Backstroke, 200m IM, and 3rd place in the 100m Backstroke. Win also achieved the Thailand Open qualifying times for the 50m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle and 100m Freestyle.

Congratulations Win

Congratulations to both Win and Prim. We look forward to hearing about your experience at the Thailand Open when we return from the Songkran break.

If you are interested in knowing how close your personal best times are to the current qualifying standards, please follow the link below:

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Dear Senior Swimmers

If you have received an invitation to the UWC Dragons Den Swim Meet, this is a gentle reminder that the closing date for consent forms and passport copies is tomorrow.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

To date we have 59 people signed up for the BISAC swim trials next Thursday (3rd March). If you have not already done so, please follow the link to sign up:

BISAC Swim Trials Sign Up

Below is the order of events for Thursday, this is the same order as the BISAC competition. Swimmers will be required to swim in all events. Previous recorded times will not be considered – this ensures the event and selection process is fair to all swimmers.

The team will be announced on Friday 4th March.

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To speed the registration process on poolside on March 3rd, please register your intent to attend the BISAC swim trials here:

BISAC Swim Trials Sign Up

Half term is almost upon us 🙂 please have a wonderful restful break. Rest is a very important part of the improvement process, it is during this rest period that your muscles repair, regenerate and get stronger allowing you to become faster.

When we return from the half term break we will be back into full training:

BISAC Trials – Thursday 3rd March (entries will be submitted to BISAC Monday 7th March) – attendance at these trials, confirms your availability to represent the school at the BISAC swimming championships

U13 FOBISIA – Wednesday 9th – 14th March

BISAC Seniors – Saturday 26th March

BISAC Juniors – Sunday 27th March

Primary FOBISIA 25th – 27th May

Training Sessions:

Monday mornings 6.30 – 7.15am Land training

Tuesday – Friday mornings 6.15 – 7.15am Swim Training

Evenings 2.40 – 3.45/4pm (squad dependent) & 4-5/5.30pm (squad dependent)

Saturday mornings 8 – 9.30/10am (squad dependent) ** please note NO training Saturday  – 13th & 20th Feb,  2nd, 9th & 16th April**

All BISAC and FOBISIA swimmers should be attending a minimum of 1 swim session a week (ideally 2 or more).

Dear Parents and Swimmers

Earlier this week you should have received a message via parent portal that the BISAC swim trials have been postponed until Thursday 3rd March.

All swimmers who wish to represent Shrewsbury at the upcoming BISAC swimming championships (26th & 27th March) are required to attend these trials. We actively encourage all swimmers to take part, should you not be successful in securing a place on the team, these trials provide a opportunity for you to improve your current personal best times.

Although we can only take the fastest three swimmers in each event, due to the number of available events and that juniors may only compete in four events, it is often necessary to select swimmer number four, five or six in some events. Please remember “you have to be in it, to win it!”.

Registration will take place on poolside between 2.40 – 3pm. Please do not be late.

If you have any questions regarding the event please do not hesitate to contact me in the Sports and Activities Office.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

We are pleased to announce that the third annual Shrewsbury Parents cocktail party will be held on Friday 4th March 2016. The event will once again be hosted in the Silver Waves restaurant of the Chatrium Riverside Hotel (36th Floor), from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet and catch up with fellow parents in a fun and relaxed setting, whilst enjoying the amazing sunset view over the Chao Phraya River. All parents are warmly invited to attend, and we especially welcome new parents to join us for the evening.

Tickets (700THB each) can now be reserved via email at parents@shrewsbury.in.th. Tickets will also be made available to purchase in person after half term.

17 swimmers traveled to Phuket on Thursday for the 2nd hosting of the FOBISIA Swimming Championships. The swimmers competed against 500 swimmers  from 17 schools across the FOBISIA network over three long and hot days.

Junior swimmers were able to compete in six events and two relays while senior swimmers could compete in eight events and three relays. In a similar format to last year, senior swimmers had the exciting opportunity to swim in both heats and finals.

Every swimmer scored valuable points and came away with at least one ribbon or medal.

There were outstanding performances in the relays where swimmers often swan up into the next age group. In the 10 year old girls relay team: Prim P (year 5, 9 years old) Amelia (year 5, 9 years old), Genis (Year 6, 10 years old), Kate (Year 6, 10 years old) won the 4 x 50m Freestyle relay.

In the girls 11 year old 4 x 50m Freestyle relay; Remie, Gam, Sarah and Thane placed a close 2nd place.

Swimming up 3 age groups into the 13-14 year old relay Pon from Year 7 assisted Matthew P, Matthew W and Peem to 2nd place in 4 x 50m relay and 3rd place in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay. Loogcluin Year 5 swim up on Sunday to assist the boys to a closely fought 4th place in the 4x50m medley relay.

While the girls; Alex, Rena, Prim B and Gaby had a very close race in the 13-14 years 4x50m and 4x100m freestyle to place 5th and 4th respectively.

In their individual events both Prim P and Genis placed 3rd overall in their age groups, congratulations girls this is a superb achievement.

Matthew P, came 2nd in the boys 12 year old 100m freestyle. Peem, placed 3rd in the boys 13-14 years 200m freestyle.  Rena, undertook a demanding program of events, with three back to back finals on the first day, narrowly missing out on a medal in the finals of the girls 13-14m 200m IM, 200m freestyle and 100m Butterfly finals. Celebrating her birthday and therefore swimming up into the next age group Alex swam two brilliant races in both the 50 and 100m backstroke. Prim B together with Matthew P made at least one final on each day of competition, against such a strong competitive field this was an amazing achievement. Swimming outside of their comfort zone Peem and Matthew W undertook both the 400 IM and 400 freestyle, these are events Shrewsbury would love to see more swimmers undertaking.

To see the full set of results please follow the link> [pdf-embedder url=”https://blogs.shrewsbury.ac.th/swimming/files/2016/02/MEET-RESULTS-3.pdf”]

Together the team scored 2000 points to finish 6th overall, this gave the team an average of 111 points against the average of 118 scored by Bangkok Patana, putting Shrewsbury an amazing 2nd place in the Average Points Trophy.

Total team scores:

Well done to all the team, we now look forward to BISAC on 26th & 27th March hosted by Harrow.

Dear Swimmers

Would you like to be considered for the BISAC Swim Team?

Trials will take place on Tuesday 9^th February 2016. 2.40 – 5.30pm for swim team members in year 3 and above. Only the fastest 3 swimmers in each event on the this night can be selected, previously recorded personal best times will not be considered.

At BISAC  junior swimmers (under 11 on March 28th) may compete in four individual events and two relays, senior swimmers (11 years and over on March 28^th) may compete in six individual events and two relays, it may therefore be necessary to select swimmer number four or five from the results on Tuesday.

The selected relay teams will be required to attend Tuesdays 2.40 – 4pm, with all swimmers required to swim a minimum of two sessions per week at school (the relay session may be included as one of these sessions.)

There is no need to register in advance, poolside registration will take place at 2.40pm with the first event beginning at 3.15pm prompt. However, should you be committed to another you time on a Tuesday please ensure the activity office has been informed so that the you time registers are correctly adjusted.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill