Updated on the 6th January 2010

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EAST REGION YOUTH CHAMPS 2010

Regional finalist Gemma Sargent from St Ives Swimming Club came back from injury to claim an impressive 5th place in the 50m backstroke final with an outstanding personal best time of 32.03 seconds at the East Regional Youth Champs held the 1st and 2nd May at Norwich. Gemma age 16 (pictured) has suffered with knee injuries over the past year and has only recently been back to full training, making this accomplishment even more impressive.  Other St Ives club swimmers Alex Berezynskyj, Ashley Bygraves, Becky Hime, and Cathy Thomson who also met the demanding cut off time criteria enabling them to compete, gave excellent performances.

St.Ives attained more success that weekend at the heavily attended Tulip open meet Spalding. Hazel Sterling (age 10) triumphed gaining two first place and one second place medal positions and was the fastest in her age group in the two open races. Hanna Jaszkiewicz (age 9) also won an impressive first place and two second place positions and was the fastest in her age group in the open races. Tom Davis (age 14) achieved two second place and one third place position with Luke Watson (12), David Cummings (17) and Helen Timmins (14) all gaining places in finals.

Note to mark: The Regional Champs include all the counties in the whole of the east of England. They are the next step up from the County Champ. The minimum cut off times required to be eligible to compete are very high. The next level up from the Regionals is the Nationals where the very best in the country swim. Therefore it is an amazing achievement to gain the times to swim in the Regionals and even greater to be in a final.

Bagcats 2010

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Fundraising at Co-Op

 From the Bag Packing Day at the St Ives Co-op and we managed to raise £666, a fantastic amount in just 5 hours. So a massive thank you to all who helped, the co-op and alll the people who gave so generously.

Birimingham Open

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ST IVES SWIMMING CLUB COUNTY SWIMMING CHAMPS RESULTS

St Ives Swimming Club went into the British Gas Cambridgeshire County Swimming ‘A’ Championships full of high hopes. On Sunday 28th March after two gruelling weekends of competition they emerged having excelled their own expectations.  This year’s competition had proved tougher to qualify for with much more stringent times to be achieved and the St Ives swimmers surpassed themselves and outshone many of their other County challengers.   After the last day of competition St Ives emerged with over 85 top 3 medals including 32 Golds, Over 100 Finalists, Four County Records broken, three swimmers winning the coveted Top Boy and Top Girl Age Group titles, the City of Cambridge attained 2 Age group titles with the rest going to the City of Peterborough and a resounding 3rd placing in the relays close behind the City of Cambridge in second place and 28 points clear of  Huntingdon Piranhas in 4th place.  This has reinforced St Ives as a major player in Cambridgeshire swimming following on from their promotion to Division 1 of the Arena National League in December 09 to compete alongside Cambridge and Peterborough and with an eye to again participating successfully in Division 1 of the Milton Keynes Junior League from June onwards.  St Ives Swimming Club would like to thank their sponsors for their ongoing support and if there are any budding swimming champions.

Thank you and Congratualtions to the swimmers who swam:

AARON TINDALL, ALEX BEREZNSKYJ, ALICE KERR, ANDREW DAVIS, ANDREW WEATHERITT,ANNABEL McKENZIE, CAIDAN WELCH, CAITLIN ROBERTS, CAROLINE McKENZIE, CATHERINE PRITCHARD, CATHY THOMSON, DALE BROWN, DANIEL YARNEY, DAVID CUMMINGS, ELEANOR ROGERS, ELLA HARTLEY, ELLIE ROBERTS, ELLIE WATSON, GEMMA SARGENT, GIOVANNI DISIENA, HANNA JASKIEWICZ, HANNAH HOWE, HANNAH MILNER, HANNAH SMITH, HAZEL STERLING, HELEN BROWN, HOLLY WEBB, JACK TAYLOR, JAZZ POWELL, KATIE HUGHES, LOUISE TODD, LUKE WATSON, MARTHA WATERS, MATTHEW DAVIS, MATTHEW LARDNER, MEGAN PRITCHARD, MICHAEL LARDNER, MICHAEL MACKRELL, OLIVER COOK, OLIVER WHITE, PETER TODD, REBECCA HIME, ROBYN GRANT, SAM WEBB, SAMUEL COX, SEBASTIAN DI SIENA, STANLEY WATERS, THOMAS DAVIS and TOM PRITCHARD.

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movewithus support local swimming club

Property specialists movewithus are the latest sponsors of St. Ives Swimming Club, providing the team with new swim caps ahead of the Club Championships held in early December.

movewithus, also based in St. Ives, have strong links to the club with two of the current employees, Caroline Watson and Sandra Brice heavily involved with the club. They were joined by Caroline Hart and Caroline Woodall at the Club Championships to present the swim caps to the members of the club, who proudly sported their new headgear during the races that evening.

Caroline Hart, movewithus director, commented: “We are delighted to be sponsoring SISC this year as we believe it is important to invest in the local people and organisations that make this community such a vibrant and exciting place to live and work.”

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