Summer News 2016

Inside this issue

Chairpersons Update……………. 2

AGM Update ……………………….. 3

Millennium 2016 Results………. 4

Events ………...………………………. 4

Supported Opens…………………. 5

Level 1 & 2 Training ...... ………..6

Welcome Back Minnows! ……. 6

Olympic 2016 Review …………...7

Special points of interest

Summer Holiday Break DDSC will be closing for the Summer 5th August - 15th August (inclusive)

Top Squad training is now moving to Wednesday am from Sept 7th

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August 2016

Welcome to the DDSC Summer Newsletter

We have some great features in this edition, highlighting the successes and achievements the squads have done….

Message from the Chairperson

This is my first message as Chairman of the club committee. Some of you will know me, some

will not. The work of the committee goes substantially unnoticed by the average member and their parents.

It is often the case members and their parents only become aware of the committee when something is go-

ing wrong, which, hopefully is infrequently. I joined the committee only a year or so ago and was nominated

for the position of Chairman when Nick Pembroke stood down after many years of service to the club on the

committee. Nick has done a remarkable job as chairman over the past years and has steered the club

through choppy waters during our period of nomadic existence around the pools of north-west Kent. Hope-

fully I will be able to continue his great work. I am assisted in my role by the excellent Julia Hall (Secretary)

who has already proved to be indispensable dealing with the sheer volume of business which flows through

the committee and by Rob Wise as the treasurer who is consumed with keeping the ever-present wolf from

the club's door. The other members of the club’s committee also perform many vital roles, for which I am

grateful, in keeping the club running.

Now we are back to Fairfield and we have a home again. The pool and the water in it is significantly better

than it was previously and we have lights which stay on all the time! Despite the time taken to complete the

works I am sure we are all impressed with the end result and grateful to the borough's tax payers for the

funding provided. Places for People run the facility excellently and we as a club are pleased that a good

working relationship has quickly blossomed between them and the club.

Steve Anscomb who serves on the committee and has responsibility for social events was the engine behind

the recent fun night at the pool. This appeared to be a roaring success for the swimmers and a perfect way

to celebrate the end of the school year, the coming summer holidays and the return to Fairfield. A massive

thank you is due to Steve and his wife, Fiona, for their considerable efforts in making the night a huge suc-

cess.

I am planning to repeat the opportunity for meetings with members and parents which I initially did after the

difficult period following the change of the Top Squad Coach. I hope that these meetings will give a chance

for the Committee to be more engaged and communicate better with the members and parents and vice-

versa. These meetings will commence in the new school term and if demand is there will be repeated in the

spring and summer terms of the coming academic year.

Congratulation to our club stars for their outstanding swimming performances; James Angell, Lilie Chambers,

Jaedon Lynch, Max Moulten, Josh Solly and Nia Villar to name but a few, may they be an inspiration to oth-

ers progressing through the club squads.

The club received a grant from Dartford Borough for which we are extremely grateful. The money received is

ear-marked for bursaries for training and development of our senior swimmers in to teaching and coaching

roles through Level 1 and Level 2 ASA accredited Teaching Aquatics and Coaching qualifications. Some swim-

mers are already on the road to these qualifications and other will be soon. I am pleased that our senior

swimmers are taking these opportunities to develop themselves and that they are also giving something

back to the club through helping the squad coaches with high numbers of swimmers, particularly on the Fri-

day club night, in the pool. It speaks volumes to the quality of the young people whom the club has within its

membership that the demand for these bursaries is high and the numbers of helpers on pool side is more

than adequate.

Welcome to Chloe Pembroke as our new Gold Squad coach. It is a great delight to have an old club swimmer

back at the club as a coach. I have personally seen her in action with her Gold Squad charges at Eric Liddell

and could see the enthusiasm for the task and connections being made with her swimmers after only a few

sessions in her post.

Finally, I wish all the members of the club a great summer and the best of luck with the coming season.

Stewart

AGM 2016 New Committee Appointments Following our AGM in June, we bid farewell to members of the Executive Committee, Nick Pembroke (Chairman), Linda Hurley (Treasurer) and Jacqui Lombardi (Club Secretary) who made a huge contribution to the Club, particu-larly during our displacement period. However, Nick will continue his role as Bronze Coach; Jacqui and Linda have been appointed to non-Committee roles as Officials Secretary and Badge Secretary respectively. All three were presented with gifts as a token of our thanks and appreciation.

We welcome Rebecca Burke, Julia Hall, Richard Hall and Rob Wise as new Committee members. Our Committee consists of: Stewart Booth Chairperson Rob Wise Treasurer Julia Hall Club Secretary Rebecca Burke Opens Secretary Graham Rackstraw Club Champs/IT and Results Secretary Neil Martin PR and Media Steven Anscomb Social Secretary Richard Hall Pool Bookings &Fixtures Secretary Andy Dix Membership Secretary Sarah Angell Trophies Secretary Sally Willis Communications Secretary Andrea Knight remains our Welfare Officer in the interim; a suitable replacement is to be appointed in due course. The Welfare Officer deals with all welfare or disciplinary issues which may arise. Kerry Booth has been appointed Club Development Officer. Gurjit Ladher, our Swim 21 Officer is currently collating all the documentation required to submit for our Swim 21 Initiative. Questions for the Committee? If any swimmer, parent or guardian has anything they wish to bring to our notice, please email Julia at clubsec@ddsc.org.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. C.G. Jung

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Warming Up!

PRE-WORKOUT STRETCHING

Stretching is integral to

getting the most out of your

exercise programme - as

swimming is an all-body

workout, try to stretch all of

the major muscle groups

before you swim.

Remember to raise your

body temperature before

you stretch and if you're in

the water, keep your body

temperature up between

stretches.

Don't overstretch - your

muscle or limb shouldn't be

shaking - and hold each pre

-workout stretch for 10 - 15

seconds.

For more interesting facts

please follow the link

http://www.swimming.org/

swimfit/stretching-guide/

#stretch

Congratulations to all our swimmers who have competed in the Mil-

lennium League this year. Your efforts saw us pick up the league tro-

phy for only the second time since the league was created.

Very proud team manager! For those off on their holidays have a great

summer break and the training will commence back in earnest in Sep-

tember.

Promise me you’ll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A.A. Milne

Events

Millennium League 2016

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Fun Night We hope that you all enjoyed the “Schools Out, Fun Night”. The Club is hoping to repeat this next year, if you have any suggestions

how to make it even better please let us know. events@ddsc.org.

Race Night Our next fundraising event will be held on the evening of 22nd October at The Bexley Social Club – a Horse Race Night! Tickets will go on sale at the beginning of September. Limited availability.

If you have an idea for a fundraising event please contact events@ddsc.org

CLUB KIT

All swimmers selected to represent DDSC at club gala's must wear Royal Blue Costumes / Jammers and their Royal Blue DDSC Com-petition hat. All enquiries: shop@ddsc.org

Dietary Advice

In order to be able to train hard and swim

fast at competition, you need to eat a well

balanced diet consisting of 50-60% carbo-

hydrate (eg. pasta, potatoes, beans, cere-

als, bread, etc) 10-15% protein (meat, fish,

eggs and soya substitutes, etc) and 25-30%

fat (concentrating more on vegetable and

fish oils rather than dairy produce - fish

like salmon, tuna and mackerel are among

the best oily fish to eat and things like

olives, avocados and nuts provide useful

fats).

Also, guard against dehydration. Pre-

hydrate before you come to training and

drink the contents of your water bottle

during the session and re-hydrate after-

wards.

The Importance of Rehydration

Just like any other form of intense exer-

cise, intense swimming training in the

steamy environment of a heated indoor

pool leads to sweat loss. Of course

sweating in swimming is not obvious to an

already wet athlete! This is why remem-

bering to rehydrate regularly before,

during and after training is even more

important in swimming. Smart swimmers

bring drink bottles to the poolside and

drink during rest periods or between

sets. Your drinks bottle should be part of

your kit, just like your goggles are!

You need to plan your eating

during a gala as getting it

wrong could be costly in terms

of your performance.

BWFSC County Qualifier at the Aquatics Centre Competing in the 50m Olympic Pool,

didn't deter our 29 swimmers. They all

represented the club fantastically, it was

lovely to see the swimmers supporting

and encouraging each other. Some bril-

liant PB's achieved, most noticeable for

Liberty Anscomb, achieving a 15second

PB in both her 100m backstroke and

100m breaststroke. Freya Hall, who

slipped hurting her back and arm, coura-

geously continued obtaining a PB in her

50m breaststroke.

Gold, Silver & Bronze medals went to

Nia Villar, Evie Martin, Freya Hall, Lilie

Chambers, Jessica Bisrat, Sophie Pem-

broke, Jaedon Lynch, Keane Cepeda,

James Angell and Luca Lombardi.

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BWFSC County Qualifier Meet

Aquatics Centre

Kent's Relays

We are very proud to announce all the

swimmers who took part in the Kent re-

lays produced great results, especially the

u12s who made every final and the girls

came away with a silver in the 4x50m

freestyle. Well done team!

12U Boys: Jaedon Lynch, Josh Solly, Oak-

ley Hollands, Keane Cepeda, George Willis

12U Girls: Lilie Chambers, Jessica Bisrat,

Nia Villar, Anastassia Beletskaya

Supported Opens

Erith Sunday Sprint - 25th September -

Crook Log

Lis Hartley Open - 1st & 2nd October -

Crawley K2

Entry Dates Closed

DDSC & ERITH FIREWORKS OPEN - 5th &

6th November - Crook Log

Our Home Open!!!

DDSC & Erith hosting our annual event!

All competitive squads are expected to

enter and support this event. Entries to

be received ASAP as this is a very popu-

lar event, please do not leave your en-

tries till the last minute!

See www.ddsc.org for the full entry pack

and email Rebecca on opens@ddsc.org.

Future Opens

Minnows Welcomed Back

In June, we were pleased to welcome

back our youngest squad, Minnows.

Swimmers in this squad work on

basic water skills and developing

their confidence in the pool on Fri-

days in preparation for joining the

higher squads.

Following their hard work this term,

all Minnows achieved a distance

badge and Water Skills Award. Well

done to all the Minnows swimmers.

This squad is open to siblings of

existing members only, who are aged

4 years or above. If you have a sib-

ling who would be interested in

joining the Minnows squad, please

contact trials@ddsc.org to apply for a

space.

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Trials for New Members

Over the past few months we have

been very busy trialing lots of new

swimmers all keen to join our club.

Finding them a space has been chal-

lenging as most of our squads are

now full and we have even had to

start implementing a waiting list

system for some of our lower squads.

Trails are now held by appointment

only. As a minimum requirement, the

youngest swimmers must be able to

swim a length in deep water confi-

dently on their front and back, but

these criteria become progressively

harder depending on the age of the

swimmer so as they meet the squad

criteria appropriate for their age.

If you know someone who is interest-

ed in trialing for DDSC, please ask

them to contact trials@ddsc.org to

arrange an appointment.

Congratulations

To our new swimmers, coaches who passed their Level 1 Teaching accredi-tation in 2015: Maya Willis, Charlie Knight, Luca Lom-bardi, Max Parris Also to Hannah Knight for passing the Level 2 Teaching Certification.

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Official Training

We continue promoting The Young Volunteer Programme or-ganised by the ASA for Volunteers 15years and above. Certifi-cate achieved by, Luca Lombardi, Oliver Atkinson, Tessa Nolan and Maya Willis. Teaching Aquatics Courses 2016: Isabel Kelly & Tessa Nolan have passed their Level 1 Teaching Aquatics Certificate. Maya Willis, Luca Lombardi, Sophie Pembroke and Charlie Knight are all completing their Level 2 Teaching Aquatics Certifi-cate. We are looking for additional volunteers to take official courses, if you are interested in taking part please email Officials@ddsc.org

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Find My ASA Number

Find My ASA Times

Junior Top Squad Coach — Steven O’Neill Highlights the Top Ten Swimmers to watch in RIO

So we’re all off on our summer holidays and have a nice break from swimming - well, from swimming ourselves may-

be. One thing we don’t usually get time to do between training, galas and oh yeah, school is actually watching swim-

ming. Well our break couldn’t have come at a better time because the 2016 Olympic & Paralympic Games is just about

to start in Rio and swimming’s up first!

Here are my top ten swimmers to look out for, but remember; one of the most exciting thing about the biggest

event in our sport is that there will always be some surprises along the way!

10: NEWBIES

It’s hard to believe that someone with such a great pedigree as Jazz Carlin is going in to her first Olympic Games but

maybe all that experience will help her claim her first medal too? She has two chances in the 400m & 800m Free and

last year won Bronze at the World Championships. Sprint king Ben Proud wowed every winning both 50m & 100m Free

at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow but struggled at the World Championships last year – what has he learned in

the last 12 months that could help get him on the podium in possibly the closest events on the programme?

Max Litchfield and Chloe Tutton will also be swimming in their first Olympics but they are both relatively new names to

everyone having had their biggest successes at the European Championships just two months ago; Max getting in to his

first international final in the 400m IM and Chloe winning individual bronze in the 100m Breast as well as team gold in

the 4x100m Medley. How will they cope with the next step up?

9: THE YOUNG ONES

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Gaurika Singh from Nepali will become the youngest ever Olympic swimmer when she’s starts her campaign in the 100m

Back. Even getting through the heats will be tough but just to reach such a high standard at such a young age is an

achievement in itself, and one made more poignant as Gaurika was witness to one of the biggest ever earthquake disas-

ter’s just last year but was one of the few lucky ones to survive.

You can also look out for our youngest ever Olympic swimmer as Sharron Davies will be interviewing our swimmers after

they’ve swum. Sharron competed at just 13 in 1976 and four years later won a silver medal in the 400m IM. In effect she

won, as the person who beat her was later found to have used performance enhancing drugs. It’s never worth it, let’s

hope nobody makes that mistake this year.

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8: HOME ADVANTAGE

The home nation always does better than they normally would and Brazil looks set to be no exception. Matheus Santana is the

young gun on the rise and has won everything in the last year and is an intricate part of Brazil’s 4x100m Free team which just

missed on a World medal last year. Maybe there timing is going to be just right.

7: THE IRON LADY

Not often you hear Hungary’s name in light but Katinka Hosszu has been trying her best having won everything else across

multiple events; Back, Fly, Free & IM but is yet to win an Olympic medal despite two previous attempts. She may need one to

keep her name and this could be her last chance so be in doubt she will want to win – and everyone else in that race will

know it.

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6: DEFENDERS

One of the hardest things to do in sport is to win an Olympic gold medal. So one of the few things harder than that is to go

back four years later (imagine the training!) and do it all over again. These girls are about to find out just how hard that is

as not only will they be defending their titles but they are also the favourites going in – which was not the case four years

ago when no one had really heard of them. Missy Franklin still only 21 and the most successful female swimmer at world

championship level turned pro two years ago and has dedicated her life to swimming. She’ll be in the 200m Free & Back

plus relays.

Katy Ledecky who has won across nearly all the Freestyle distances; 200, 400, 800 & 1500m at the last world champion-

ships seems to be part machine as no one can get close to her at the moment. Last year in between winning individual and

team gold at the world champs she had a 20 minute gap – so she swam a 1500m in the warm down pool and missed her

own presentation!

We didn’t manager to win a gold medal in 2012 so we adopted Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte (it’s true she has a gold post

box) as she lives and trains in Plymouth. Winning Olympic Gold at 15 is outstanding, especially in one of the fastest ever

times for 100m Breaststroke, and in the four years since she’s shown no signs of slowing down including breaking the

world record.

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5: PARALYMPIANS

The Paralympians wowed everyone in London 2012, especially our swimmers. Ellie Simmonds matched her double gold

from Beijing (when she was just 13) and will be going for a treble in the 100m & 400m Free and 200m IM. Ollie Hynd be-

came one of the new stars of the pool with success in the 200m IM and has continued a good run of forming the 400m

Free in the recent majors. I think all swimmers can relate to how hard it must be to reach that level, but to do so with a

disability in tow is truly something to both enjoy and admire.

4: TEAM EFFORT

If anyone was in doubt as to just how far British swimming has come in the last ten years it was the moment when our

men WON the 4x200m Freestyle relay at the 2015 World Championships. This is something we have never been able to

do, get four of our swimmers on form and a win a major title in a world class field. The team has only gotten stronger in

the last year, with one of most successful ever European Champs in between so now we wait and see if we can beat the US

one more time and do the unthinkable. Only one man could spoil the party – he wasn’t at the worlds but he’s already in

Rio. Check out number two.

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3: SCORES TO SETTLE

One thing that makes the Olympic Games the life goal for our top swimmers is the fact that it only happens every four

years, so everything you work for has to come together at the right time. For these girls Rio will be the third attempt. Keri

- Anne Payne won Silver in Beijing 2008 and despite two world titles after could not make the podium at home four years

later. She’ll be swimming the 10k marathon – the only open water event on the programme and very different to having

the whole lane to yourself. One of the reasons she found it so hard last time was because people were pulling and kicking

her out of the way!

Hannah Miley and Fran Hansall have won every other major title multiple times but in two tries have not managed an

Olympic medal of any colour. Everyone in British Swimming would love to see both these girls get something; not only

are the capable but they work so hard and their passion for the sport is evident whenever you see them speak post-race.

Hannah even has to train herself in the early morning sessions with a lifeguard to help time her! Fingers crossed J

2: THE KING HAS RETURNED

Yes I quoted The Lion King but how apt for what could be the biggest swimming comeback of all time. Retiring after 2012,

getting in to mischief (law breaking mischief no less), even getting banned from the US team at one point hasn’t deterred

Michael Phelps from chasing his dream of a fifth Olympic Games, the first ever swimmer to do so. He is once again the

fastest swimmer in the world at 200m Fly and has a score to settle himself with Chad Le Clos who is possibly the only

swimmer to take a title from Phelps that he really did not want to lose. With 18 Olympic gold medals to his name its less

of a question as to can he win again but more of how many more can he win? Let’s hope age has lessened his recovery

ability when it comes to the team events ;)

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1: ADAM PEATY

He’s that good he gets his name in the title! Everyone knows Adam Peaty even people who aren’t that interest-

ed in swimming, and so they should. In the last two years he has won every major honour at 50m & 100m

Breast and broken the world record in both .This is his first Olympics, and he goes in as the overwhelming fa-

vourite, but he only has the one shot as 50m Breast is not an Olympic event. With a whole country watching we

will see how well he deals with pressure but if ever there was a champion-in-waiting, it’s Adam Peaty.

Happy Watching

Steve