Please note that the AGM will take place on Wednesday 8th June.

Nominations for positions on next year’s committee should be received by 6th June.

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On Saturday and Sunday Prim, Pon and Maxi took up the opportunity to swim with Australia Swimming High Performance Coach Rohan Taylor at a workshop hosted by Ruamedee School.

The swimmers took part in two morning sessions with Rohan where they improved all four strokes, together with their starts, turns and underwater work. Following this session Coach Mica and Ms Gill then spent both Saturday and Sunday with Rohan, listening to the latest best practices for swimming, both were delighted to learn that the current practices used here at Shrewsbury are in line with those being undertaken by the very best swim programs within Australia and across the world. Following the theory sessions a senior swimmers session took part for swimmers aged 13 and over.

If there are any swimmers who would be interested in assisting producing a series of stroke practice videos, that will be used within swim lessons and team practices please come and see Ms Gill in the Sports and Activities Office. Swimmers will be required for a 30 minute session on a Friday morning both this week and next week and will receive a Starbucks voucher for their hard work. If you are interested in helping out please speak directly to Ms Gill.

Dear Parents and Swimmers

Please find below the psych sheet for the upcoming 2 Fast 2 Furious Swim Meet. Please double check your entries, should you spot any mistakes please let me know before Wednesday. Full Meet program and transport arrangements will be available on Thursday.

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Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

6 Shrewsbury Senior swimmers (Rena, Alex W, Matthew W, Peem, Win and Bobby) travelled to UWC SEA East Singapore to compete in the 2nd Dragons Den Invitational Swim Meet from 22nd – 24th April 2016.

The meet was an outstanding success for all swimmers who had an amazing opportunity to swim against a number of top level swimmers from across Asia many of whom attend schools with over 2000 students.

For some swimmers this was both their first international meet and first senior meet, learning coping strategies for adapting to new sleeping routines and eating habits is one of the major learning experiences from international meets. Changes in sleep and eating routines can greatly affect your performance, this did not appear to be the case for our swimmers – every Shrewsbury swimmer recorded at least one personal best time with Bobby making all four of his possible finals and achieving 2nd Place in the U12 Boys 50m Backstroke and 1st Place in the U12 Boys 50m Freestyle. Win achieved 3rd place in the 13 -14 yrs Boys 400m freestyle. Congratulations to all swimmers, we are extremely proud of each and everyone of you.

Link to full meet photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131892529@N05

All swimmers have returned highly motivated to train to the best of their abilities ready to improve on their performances at the meet next year. This meet is open to all senior school swimmers who achieve the qualifying times and we look forward to attending this meet next year with a bigger squad.

Congratulations to the team.

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Dear Parents and Swimmers

A polite reminder about the following events this week:

• Payment closes for 2 Fast 2 Furious this evening at 4pm – please pay directly to the accounts office
• Khun Monz will be available in school this week from 2.40 – 4pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday for your swimsuit needs.

Best Wishes

Vicki

Dear Parents and Swimmers

There is an exciting opportunity for swimmers to undertake 2 coaching sessions with the Australian Swim Coach – Rohan Taylor at Ruamrudee International School on Saturday and Sunday 6th & 7th May.

Rohan has 25 years coaching experience and has been a Victorian Institute of Sport High Performance Coach since 2000. Rohan was the Carey Aquatic Head Coach/High Performance Coach from 2000 to 2006 and CA Tritons High Performance Coach from 2006 to 2008. He has been the Nunawading High Performance Coach since October 2008.

Rohan coaches the High Performance squad at Nunawading, Victoria, oversees talent identification, and assists with Coach Development at the club. In addition, Rohan is a current High Performance Coach for the Australian Olympic Swimming Team.

Junior swimmers (8 – 12 years) have the opportunity of two sessions with Rohan 7 – 9.30am on both days, while the senior sessions (13 years +) will take place between 3-5pm. Please kindly note that this is NOT a Shrewsbury event and therefore all swimmers will be responsible for their own transport arrangements and parental supervision.

The fee for both sessions (Saturday and Sunday) is 6000 thb per person which includes the two 2-hour sessions with Rohan Taylor, plus a T-shirt, and food following the clinic. Any swimmers interested in this amazing opportunity should register through this link https://sites.google.com/a/rism.ac.th/vcp-conference/swimmers. Please kindly note, places are limited and will be on a first come first served basis.

This is superb opportunity that should not be missed.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear Parents and Swimmers

The 10th hosting of 2 Fast 2 Furious will take place on Saturday May 14th at Harrow International School 8am – 5pm.

I am delighted to inform you that this meet will be open to EVERY member of the Shrewsbury swim team who would like to attend, we hope that this meet will be provide any ideal opportunity for many swimmers to experience their first competitive swim meet.  All events are just 25m in all four strokes – no relays are available.

Swimmers may enter as many events as they wish.

For swimmers 9 years and above, they will have the opportunity to swim in a preliminary event and a final. For swimmers 8 Years and younger their events will be HDW (Heat Declared Winner) – similar to BISAC, where the fastest swimmer is the winner, irrespective of which heat they swam in.

This meet would be ideal for all swimmers competing in the upcoming primary FOBISIA Games.

All swimmers will require the green and gold swim suit and white swim hat.

Entry fee is 400thb and should be paid to the accounts department after completing the registration form here: 2 Fast 2 Furious Entry Form

Full meet details can be accessed here: [pdf-embedder url=”https://blogs.shrewsbury.ac.th/swimming/files/2016/04/2-Fast-2-Furious-10-info-letter.pdf”]

Entries close at 4pm on Monday May 2nd! – entries are not confirmed until payment has been received.

Please do not hesitate to contact with any questions or queries you may have.

Best Wishes

Vicki

BISAC Medals and Ribbons are available in the Sports and Activities Office.

Sign up for Block 4 opens tomorrow (Saturday 2nd April), please see below for the block 4 timetable. Stroke School is open to any swimmer who wishes to join the swim program, for all other groups, swimmers are asked to first join stroke school where they will be assessed ensuring they enter the correct squad for their ability. For more details on the squad structure please visit :

Swim Squads

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Congratulations to all swimmers who have progressed to the next squad, the full squad lists can be found below:

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Congratulations to all 69 swimmers (45 Junior and 24 Senior) who competed at the weekend in the annual BISAC swimming championships hosted at Harrow International School.

All swimmers performed exceptionally well with a large number of personal best times recorded.

A huge congratulations to the 9 year old girls team – Preem, Pang, Praow, Jinly, Amelia, Eclair and Rose who after two exceptionally close relays were crowned champions.

Team Championships:

1st Place – Bangkok Patana TigerSharks 3526.5 points

2nd Place Falcons Swim Team 3080.50 points

3rd Place ISB Panther Swim Team 2205.50 points

4th Place Shrewsbury International School 1655 points

5th Place Harrow International School 1027 points

6th Place Ruamadee

7th Place ICS

8th Place ASB

9th Place TCIS

Junior Championships:

1st Place Bangkok Patana TigerSharks 1574

2nd Place  Nist Falcons Swim Team 1492

3rd Place Shrewsbury International School 1089.5

4th Place Isb Panther Swim Team 841.5

5th Place Harrow International School 818

6th Place Ris Phoenix Swimming Team 105

7th Place Ics Swim Team 103

8th Place Tcis Wolfpack 10

9th Place  American School of Bangkok 7

Senior Championships:

1st Place Bangkok Patana TigerSharks 1952.5

2nd Place Nist Falcons Swim Team 1588.5

3rd Place Isb Panther Swim Team 1364

4th Place Ris Phoenix Swimming Team 589

5th Place Shrewsbury International School 566

6th Place Harrow International School 209

7th Place American School of Bangkok 203

8th Place Ics Swim Team 134

9th Place Tcis Wolfpack 62

We are still awaiting the final details of where each team finished in each age group. To access the full meet results please follow the links below:

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Swimmers will be able to collect their ribbons and medals once they have been received from Harrow. A message will be sent out after the holidays.