Dear Swimmers and Parents

Please follow the link below to access the meet program for the weekend:

Meet Program

Swimmers will be competing in their age groups for BISAC 2016 – therefore all swimmers who will be 11 and over on March 26th 2016 will compete in the 200IM.

To start the morning all swimmers will compete in a fun 25m (Junior) and 50m (Senior – 11yrs +) freestyle kick with kick board race .

Following the conclusion of the meet at approximately 1.30pm the children will be able to enjoy a small pizza party, should you wish to bring some drinks and snacks for the other swimmers to enjoy please feel free to do so. Tables will be set up outside the swimming pool for the pizza party.

Warm up will be available from 9.30am with the first race starting promptly at 10am. We would like to encourage all swimmers to make a note of their heat number and lane number to speed the marshaling process.

Any questions or problems please do not hesitate to contact me

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear All

A polite reminder that there will be NO swim training or You Time swimming tomorrow night, all swimmers will be taking part in the fun run.

Many Thanks

Mrs Gill

Dear Parents and Swimmers

Please follow the link below for the psych sheet to the meet this weekend:

Psych Sheet

Age on day of BISAC (26th March 2016)

Events will be swum according to entry times with results in BISAC age groups (U8, 9Yrs, 10Yrs, 11-12Yrs, 13-14yrs, 15Yrs +)

If you do not see all of your entries or would like to change your event choices, please contact Mrs Gill (Victoria.g2@shrewsbury.ac.th), no later than break time on Thursday.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Save the Date!!

Shrewsbury will be hosting the first Bangkok Invitational Aquathon on Saturday September 19th, the event is open to all BISAC schools and a select small number of teams.

The event has been designed to support both the swimming and athletics programs of all BISAC schools and as such will shadow the same distances as the BISAC cross country held one month later in October:

U9 – 50m Swim & 500m Run

U11 – 100m Swim & 1Km Run

U13 – 200m Swim & 2Km Run

U15 – 400m Swim and 3Km Run

Open – 400m Swim and 3km Run – Varsity, Parents and Teachers

Entries into the event are 300thb per person including a finishers t-shirt.

Entries can be made via the link here: Aquathon Entry Form and are open to all members of the school community (from current year 1 upwards) who can competently complete the swim distance.

Payment is to be made directly at the accounts office, please note that entries will not be confirmed until payment has been received by the accounts office, and will be limited to 100 people per event. Please be aware that it is likely that this event will close before the entry deadline of August 31st, please do not delay in making payment for your entry.

The final event of the morning (Open) has been designed for U18, parents and teachers, should you wish to take part in this event please complete the same form: Aquathon Entry Form, also making payment directly to the accounts office.

Please do not hesitate to contact me in the sports and activities office or on victoria.g2@shrewsbury.ac.th with any questions or queries you may have.

Best Wishes

Vicki

To view the block 1 swimming timetable for 20152016 please click the link here: Block 1 Timetable

To view the initial BISAC squad selections please click here: Available from Thursday 25th June 2015

This year, the annual end of year swim meet will be hosted on Saturday June 20th.

The meet will run from 10am – 1pm, after the meet we will have some fun relay races and a pizza and pool party for all the swimmers to enjoy. The meet is open to anyone in year 3 and above who has trained with swim team this year.

Following this meet, selections will be made for the 2015/16 squads – including the initial BISAC and FOBISIA swimming squads.

Swimmers who are selected for the prestigious BISAC / FOBISIA squad will train together throughout the year; swimmers will have further opportunities to move into the BISAC / FOBISIA squad at the Tuesday night race nights that will be a regular feature from next term. It is expected that more swimmers will join the squad throughout the year based on their results at the Tuesday night race night events

How will the initial BISAC / FOBISIA Squad be selected?

A total of 8 boys and 8 girls per age group will be initially selected for the BISAC/FOBISIA Squad:

The fastest 4 freestyle swimmers per age group will form the freestyle relay team – training together throughout the year; Under 8 Swimmers 25m Freestyle, all other swimmers 50m Freestyle.

The remaining 4 swimmers will be selected from those with the fastest IM times – swum on Saturday June 20th – no previous swims will be considered, all year 3,4 & 5 swimmers will swim 100 IM and all year 6 and senior swimmers will swim 200IM

To enter the meet please register here: https://docs.google.com/a/shrewsbury.in.th/forms/d/159X-6FMqsHEqMQlP9zLGv3GDMPVK2nuUM3AnBjjJ2rY/viewform

Further details will be available on the swimming notice board early next week.

On Sunday July 5th and Sunday July 12th Bangkok Dolphins will be hosting four swim clinics at NIST. Each session (3.5 hours) is 2000thb, sessions have been designed to suit junior swimmers (morning sessions) and senior swimmers (afternoon sessions).

Entry Criteria:

Swimmers must be able to complete the following entry times

100 IM                        100 Free

8 and unders                        2:10                                  1:50

9-10’s                                    1:50                                   1:30

11-12s                                    1:40                                   1:20

13-14s                                    1:35                                   1:15

15 and overs                        1:30                                    1:10

To book or for further information please contact Khun Pook at Bangkok Dolphins on 02 712 9297 / info@bangkokdolphins.com

Swim Clinic Information Poster

At the weekend five senior swimmers (Prim B, Rena, Matthew P, Matthew W and Pun) competed in their first international three day swim meet, hosted by UWC East in Singapore. After a delay for a storm and a very early start to catch our flight that morning, the three day meet commenced with the long distance events on Friday night. Rena won a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle and both Matthew Wilkins and Pun recorded personal best times for their 400m freestyle swims.

Saturday and Sunday consisted of 50m, 100m and 200m events, the 50m events were held in a true championship format with preliminaries and then finals later in the same session. Matthew Wilkins made two finals (50m fly and 50m freestyle) and narrowly missed out on the 50m backstroke by just one place. Prim B narrowly missed out on the 50m breaststroke final by just one place. Rena (who was 13 only four days before the meet) won the 13-14 years 200m Butterfly and placed 3rd in the 100m butterfly. After a long tiring weekend, on Sunday Prim B was the heat winner for every event she entered, these results are a superb achievement and a testament to how hard you have trained throughout the year.

Despite the very tough qualifying times and the meet held so closely to the Songkran holiday, all swimmers achieved a staggering number of personal best times and should be extremely proud of their efforts, especially considering that for many of the swimmers this was their first attempt at some of the events in a long course pool. The full meet results can be found by following the link here: Full Meet Results Dragons Den 2015

The link to the Shrewsbury only results can be found here: Shrewsbury Only Results

Competing internationally is an exciting step forward for the senior school swimmers who were lucky enough to compete against some of the best swimmers across the South East Asian region at this meet.

A link to the you tube video produced by UWC East can be viewed here – look out for the team cheering and Matthew Wilkins walking out to his 50m freestyle final towards the end of the video:

A link to the flicker feed with all photos can be found here:

Congratulations swimmers, I am incredibly proud of all your efforts this weekend. I hope next year we are able to take a larger successful senior team. A big thank you goes out to Mr Radcliffe who accompanied the trip for the weekend.

Dear Parents and Swimmers

Please find the updated squad lists below, squads are formed on the basis on skills demonstrated over the course of the past school year and also personal best times:

Squad Skills Progression

Squad Entry Times 2014-2015

Development Squad April 2015

Level 0 April 2015 Coach Mew

Level 1 April 2015 Coach PP

Level 2 April 2015 Coach Mix

Level 3 April 2015 Coach Noon

Level 4 April 2015 Coach Max

Level 5 April 2015 Mrs Gill & Coach Mew

Level 6 April 2015 Mrs Gill & Coach Mew

Swimmers are required to swim a minimum of 1 session per week in term 3 while more sessions are actively encouraged.

Level 0

2.40 – 3.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

3.45 – 4.30pm Tuesday & Thursday

Level 1

2.40 – 3.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

3.45 – 4.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Level 2

2.40 – 3.30pm  Thursday

3.45 – 4.30pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Level 3

2.40 – 3.30pm Monday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

3.45 – 4.30pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Level 4 –  all sessions will contain an element of land training work, swimmers will require trainers and a t-shirt at every session.

3 – 4.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

3.30 – 4.30pm Tuesday

Level 5 / 6 –  all sessions will contain an element of land training work, swimmers will require trainers and a t-shirt at every session

3 – 4.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

3.30 – 4.30pm Tuesday

75 swimmers took part at the weekend in the annual BISAC swimming championships hosted by Harrow International School. The swimmers performed amazingly with Shrewsbury finishing in 3rd place for the juniors and 4th place for the seniors, this is a particularly impressive result by the seniors given the team consisted of just 20 swimmers.

A big congratulations to Amelia who was crowned the Under 8 Girls Champion at the BISAC Junior Championships, scoring the maximum number of point available (64) from her individual swims.

Moving up in the 9 year old category both Prim and Loogcluin came a close 2nd, well done to both of you.

Final Team Results:

U8 Boys 2nd

U8 Girls 2nd

9 Years Girls 2nd

9 years Boys 3rd

10 years Girls 3rd

10 year Boys 4th

The junior team consisted of many swimmers for whom it was their first ever BISAC, the swimmers looked professional in their team kit and remained calm throughout the event which was a particularly hot day. 176 personal best times were achieved, this is an amazing result. The team continues to grow and grow, you should be incredibly proud of yourselves.

To view the junior results please follow the links below:

Full Meet – Junior Results

SHB Junior Results

On Sunday the Seniors took part in their meet, delayed slightly by the rain. For many junior school children this was their first ever senior competition. Moving from single age groups to an age group that can span 3 school years is particularly demanding. The swimmers who competed at the weekend took it all in their stride and performed amazing smashing their personal best times.

To view the senior results please follow the links below:

Full Meet – Senior Results

SHB Senior Results

If you have not yet collected your medals or ribbons they are available in the sports and activities office.

Well done to every swimmer you have worked incredibly hard this term, have a very restful holiday.