Dear Swimmers and Parents

Please find below the link to the program for this weekend. All swimmers will receive a printed version of this program on Saturday morning.

Splash Meet Program Saturday 2015

Splash Meet Program Sunday 2015

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear Swimmers

For those swimmers who were selected into the BISAC Squad please remember to continue attending your weekly swimming commitments; we are carefully monitoring the attendance registers (Level 0 – 3: 2 sessions per week, Level 4 – 6: 3 sessions per week) to ensure only those swimmers fulfilling their training requirements are selected.

FREE FLOW HOUSE TICKETS

Until the end of term we will be offering Free 1 hour Flow House Ride Tickets as spot prizes during training. Flow House were are a major sponsor of the FOBISIA Swimming Championships and have provided the swim team with a small number of free tickets.  Over the next five weeks we will rewarding outstanding training / commitment with one of these spot prizes. These tickets may be issued for the following reasons:

• The first person from a squad on poolside ready to train
• Bringing the correct equipment to poolside – water bottle, shoes, kickboard, pull buoy etc
• Streamlining off every wall
• No breathing inside the flags – every time during the session
• Keeping the head down on every wall touch
• No breathing the first stroke off the wall – every time during the session
• Tumble turning every freestyle or backstroke set
• Two hand touch every breaststroke or butterfly set
• Being particularly helpful
• Working extra hard throughout the session
• The winning relay team in a training practice

Good luck swimmers.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear Swimmers

Congratulations to all the swimmers who achieved 1st – 8th place at the recent FOBISIA Swimming Championships, if you have not yet collected your award swimming cap or ribbons, they are still available to collect from Mrs Gill. Award hats and ribbons are available for both individual and relay events.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear Parents and Swimmers

Please find below details for ISB Splash this weekend. If you have not yet booked a place on the bus, please confirm your intention to travel by bus no later than Wednesday 4th March at 5pm.

Swim Meet Guidelines

Splash Warm Up Lanes

ISB Splash 2015 Psych Sheet Saturday

ISB Splash 2015 Psych Sheet Sunday

If you have any questions or problems, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many Thanks

Mrs Gill

Dear Parents and Swimmers

If you recently competed at the Martins Cup competition please may I ask that you submit your results via email to victoria.g2@shrewsbury.ac.th your current personal best times held at school will be updated and these new times used for all upcoming swim meet entries.

Many Thanks

Mrs Gill

Dear Swimmers and Parents

Entries have been submitted to ISB for the upcoming ISB Splash (March 7th & 8th), please could I ask you to check your entries are correct and if necessary advise me of any changes that are required. These are the entries received from ISB yesterday, if you have already spoken with me regarding your changes I have already passed these on to ISB.

Psych sheets should be available on Thursday, therefore please submit any changes required by Wednesday morning at the very latest.

Saturday             Sunday

Many Thanks

Vicki

BISAC Squad Selection 

Junior BISAC – Saturday March 28th, Senior BISAC – Sunday March 29th, Hosted by Harrow International School.

This squad has been selected based on the results achieved by swimmers in competition over the past 12 months, together with their commitment to the minimum number of training sessions per week through CHQ. If you believe your name should have been included below please contact Mrs Gill, Khun Lynn or Khun Tum in the Sports and Activities office to confirm your training commitments.  For safety it is essential all swimmers are present on the register for every session they intend to attend.

Minimum training requirements: Level 1, Level 2 & Level 3 – 2 training sessions per week. Level 4, Level 5 & Level 6 – 3 training sessions per week commitment is required, swimmers are able to register for more sessions per week if they are available.

For the swimmers who have moved this year into the senior age group please remember the above training commitments also apply to your squads. It is wonderful that this age group is now so competitive for places in the team. If you were unlucky not to have been selected this year please do not be disheartened – next year you will be the oldest in this age group and will be a strong contender for a place.

Dear Parents

Due to a last minute overseas team withdrawal, I am very pleased to announce that Shrewsbury have been invited to attend the 2015 hosting of the ISB Splash Meet (March 7th and 8th). Please note we will therefore no longer be attending the St Andrews – Marylins Mayhem meet on March 7th.

Swimmers may attend 1 day or both days if they wish. For swimmers who did not attend Splash last year; the meet is a short course meet on Saturday (hosted in a 10 lane 25m pool) and a long course meet (hosted in a 10 lane 50m pool) on Sunday. The Sunday hosting of this meet provides our swimmers with much needed experience of swimming in an international long course event.

Entry is open to any swimmer in Level 0 and above – including those selected for BISAC. Swimmers may enter a maximum of 4 individual events on Saturday and 3 individual events on Sunday. Entry into this meet is 1000thb payable by the swimmer.

Due to the last minute nature of this invitation, entries are required to be with ISB by Monday 23rd February, therefore all entries must have been received in the Sports and Activities Office by 5pm on Friday 13th February at the very latest, i apologise for this short notice.

If you wish to enter this event, please download the entry form here: Entry Form Payment is to be made at the accounts office (who will stamp your entry form) before returning it to the Sports and Activities Office.

Full meet details including the withdrawal policy set by the hosts can be found here: Splash Meet Conditions

Saturday March 7th is the BISAC athletics meet – also hosted at ISB; swimmers who have been selected for this event should make this their priority, but may attend the Sunday if they wish.

Many Thanks

Vicki

Dear Parents and Swimmers

The BISAC Swimming Championships will this year be hosted by Harrow International School; BISAC Juniors will be hosted on Saturday March 28th and Seniors on Sunday March 29th 2015.

The the following changes will take effect for the 2015 Championships:

• There will be NO 400m event for the seniors
• There will be NO senior Friday night events
• Juniors are permitted to swim a maximum of 4 individual events and 2 Relays
• Seniors are permitted to swim a maximum of 6 individual events and 2 Relays
• Maximum of 3 swimmers per individual event
• Only 1 relay team per relay event

Swimmers have taken part in numerous meets and time trials over the recent few months (FOBISIA, FOBISIA Trials, SAS dual meet, ISB meet), I am extremely conscious of the pressures and demands on your time and to this end there will be NO time trial selections. Selection will be based upon times achieved since March 2014, (personal best times can be viewed from the Personal Best tab on the homepage) should you wish to record an improved time for a particular event, an opportunity will be available during Saturday morning training this week (7th Feb) 7.30 – 9am.

Events (Age on the day of the competition)

Juniors

U8 – 100 IM, 50m Freestyle, Backstroke, Breastroke, 25m All 4 strokes

9 Years – 100IM, 100m  Freestyle, Backstroke, Breastroke, 50m All 4 strokes

10 Years – 100IM, 100m  Freestyle, Backstroke, Breastroke, 50m All 4 strokes

Seniors

11 – 12 Years, 13-14 Years, 15 Years +

200IM, 200m  Freestyle, 100m All 4 Stroke, 50m All 4 strokes

The team will be announced later next week, together with full training details. Swimmers who would like to represent Shrewsbury International School at the BISAC Swimming Championships 2015 will be required to maintain the minimum training requirements for their squad; Level 0, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 a minimum of 2 sessions per week, Level 4, Level 5 and Level 6 a minimum of 3 sessions per week.

Swimmers not selected to be part of the BISAC team have an opportunity to represent Shrewsbury International School at the ISB Splash Meet hosted on Saturday March 7th and Sunday March 8th 2015.

Please do not hesitate to contact me in the Sports and Activities Office with any questions or queries you may have regarding BISAC or any aspect of the Swimming Excellence Program.

Many Thanks

Mrs Gill

Dear Senior Swimmers,

A trial TRX session will be held for senior swimmers on Tuesday (tomorrow) poolside 3.30pm – 4pm. Senior swimmers should be poolside ready to start at 3.15pm, wearing swim kit, with shorts and T-shirt and trainers.

If the session is a success this will become a regular feature in the training timetable.

Mrs Gill