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.
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.
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
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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
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
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.
This week’s Carnegie-nominated pick is Tinder by Sally Gardner. A dark tale based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox, Tinder tells the tale of a soldier during the 30 Years War. Tinder was also nominated for a Greenaway Medal this year, for its dark but beautiful illustrations by David Roberts. Copies of the book are available in the library. Interested students are invited to a book club this Thursday at 12:15 in P205 (Ms Andrews’ room) for a discussion about the book.
Watch this trailer made by Sam in 6GA to learn more about the book: