Beckenham Swimming Club - Jack Petchy Beckenham SC

BECKENHAM SWIMMING CLUB

Beckenham Swimming Club

Jack Petchey Achievement Awards

In July 2007, Beckenham Swimming Club was accepted as a beneficiary of the Jack Petchey Foundation Award Scheme.

Jack Petchey OBE is a self made successful businessman and one of the foremost sponsors of young people (usually 11-25) in the UK. Since the Foundation was formed in 1999 he has donated over £35 million to the cause.

Beckenham Swimming Club are part of the Gold Scheme, which is for clubs with over 100 active members. Each month an Achievement Certificate is awarded to a young person within the Club together with a small presentation cheque for £300 made payable to the Club. A decision is then made, in consultation with the winner, as how best to spend the money to benefit the Club.

Once a year the whole Club partakes in a ballot for the Leader's Award where a cheque for £1,000 is presented to the winner in recognition of the qualities that the leader has brought to the Club. Again the money is spent on the club after consultation between the leader and the other Club members.

An annual presentation of medals takes place where all recipients to date receive a boxed medal from a representative of the Foundation, or by a suitable VIP. The Leaders medal and cheque for £1,000 is also presented.

We have also just been awarded a Jack Petchey grant of just under £5,000 toward a Training Camp for 26 of our Top Swimmers in October, for which we thank the Foundation.

We were very fortunate that Kay Grimshaw kindly agreed to make the presentations to our winners. Kay is currently President of The London Region, Vice President of the ASA and who takes over the Presidency of the ASA in October 2008, which is an enormous honour. Kay has been associated with Beckenham Swimming Club for many years during the time that her son was swimming for us, and was a super efficient, tireless worker for us. Since leaving us she has worked endlessly in swimming as an official in the County and the Region. Kay is also still a Vice President of Beckenham Swimming Club and we were delighted to welcome her to our Presentation Ceremony which was held at on Wednesday 11th June 2008 prior to the AGM meeting at the Public Halls, Beckenham.

You can download and print off a copy of the Jack Petchy Nomination Form.

Note Award Winners must be aged between 11-25, and each person can only receive the award once.

Jack Petchey Award Winners:

JULY 2007	Tom Cordrey. Awarded for his constant hard work, dedication to the sport and positive attitude.
AUGUST 2007	Marlon Gasparotto. Marlon achieved outstanding results at the National Age Group Championships where he reached two National Finals.
SEPTEMBER 2007	Gabriel Dada. Since joining the Club Gabriel has' stepped up' his training to include mornings, and his total commitment to training twice a day is now reaping rewards.
OCTOBER 2007	Tom Cart. Tom's award was for excellent attendance and punctuality and hard work. Tom regularly turns out to swim in League matches even though he has Water Polo commitments. Tom was genuinely surprised and delighted to receive this award.
NOVEMBER 2007	Rahul Bagga. Rahul is outstanding in his dedication, commitment and attendance. He is a superb example to the rest of the squad.
DECEMBER 2007	Jade Donaldson. Jade was a late starter to the sport and had only been in the Club a few months when nominated. However, she has shown that you can catch up for those lost years if you really want to. She always attends the sessions and is a very hard worker.
JANUARY 2008	Barclay Bram-Shoemaker. Barclay has shown constant improvement, playing for the Senior Water Polo Team as well as the Age Group team. The Water Polo coaches believe that it is no co-incidence that the improvement comes at the same time as his level of dedication to training has improved along with his additional swim training in Platinum Squad.
FEBRUARY 2008	George Chan. George must be an inspiration to all who partake in sport by bouncing back from adversity to full training in the squad following major brain and spine surgery. He is truly an inspiration.
MARCH 2008	Emily Grant. The award was given to Emily for being an example of the ideal squad member. She always attends every session and is always ready and waiting on the poolside. Throughout the sessions she always tries her very hardest and does everything that the coach asks of her.
APRIL 2008	Francesca Haywood (Top Squad). Francesca had an excellent attendance in April. Francesca trained really hard during the month and combined this with enjoying her swimming.
MAY 2008	Alex Gardner (Platinum squad). Alex always attends regularly and trains hard. Alex is one of the longstanding members and sets a great example for everyone else in the platinum squad.
JUNE 2008	Vanessa Newman (Club Squad). Vanessa works really hard and is really self motivated. Vanessa has improved immensely on all strokes.
JULY 2008	Tom Austin (White Squad). Tom turned up to pretty much every session and trained hard throughout no matter how hard the set was. Tom regularly attends galas and showed steady improvement, for instance overcoming an illegal breaststroke leg kick. Tom has a positive attitude to training sessions and to the rest of his team mates and asks sensible questions if he doesn’t understand something or feel needs help.
AUGUST 2008	Danny Casey (Water Polo). Danny’s dedication to polo training has led to improvement from a solid age group player to being on the verge of playing for Invicta Marlins in national League division 2. This has culminated in him being selected for a GB age group team.
SEPTEMBER 2008	Freddy Pearson (Silver Squad) Freddy has shown a great attitude to swimming throughout training and competitions, both in his in own performances and encouraging others - being an all round good sport.
OCTOBER 2008	Zoe Pope (Gold Squad) Zoe had excellent attendance during October and never gives up during training even when it got tough.
NOVEMBER 2008	Michael Gunning (Top Squad) Michael didn’t miss a single training session throughout November, culminating in impressive National League performances as well as a British Championship qualifying time a year out of his age group.
DECEMBER 2008	Owen McMahon (Platinum Squad) Owen was a regular attendee in December training really hard. Owen always sets a great example in training.
JANUARY 2009	Maia Reddy-Devlin (Club Squad) Because she is very responsible, positive and hardworking. She always attends well and trains to the best of her ability. She is a great support when other members of the squad get too noisy or behave out of hand and she is good friend to the whole squad. She has also been helping out with Development 1 on odd occasions and will make a great teacher or coach one day.
FEBRUARY 2009	Chad Knapman (Water Polo) For improvement in 2009, helping his Invicta Youth Squad get to the ASA Final and establishing himself in GB youth squad.
MARCH 2009	Lyudimil Popov (White 2 Squad) For excellent improvement made since joining last year.
APRIL 2009	Henry Knight (Top Squad) For his excellence attendance, hard work and attitude in training.
MAY 2009	Grace Ockwell (Gold Squad) For her excellence attendance, hard work and attitude in training.
JUNE 2009	Jack McDonlad (Club Squad) For his excellence attendance, hard work, attitude in training, and performance at the elementary galas.
SEPTEMBER 2009	William Reid (Water Polo) As goalkeeper, William was a key member of the Beckenham U14 team which won the Kent water polo title on 5th Sept. He has improved greatly over the past year and has a very good attendance record at training.
OCTOBER 2009	Stephan Humphrey-Gaskin (Platinum) He did nearly every session, always works hard, and has a great attitude in training.
NOVEMBER 2009	James Allan (Top) For stepping up the way he trains. For instance he moved himself into a higher training lane. He has learned to pace his racing better, for instance improving his competitive swims. James’s all round training and racing it at a higher level and significantly he has put the effort in himself.

THE JACK PETCHEY LEADERS AWARD CILLA DANIEL.

Cilla is an inspiring coach who has been with the Club for 25 years. She is a kind and encouraging coach who always retains the swimmers' interest yet has their total respect and discipline. She ends every session with starts, turns and relays to keep the swimmers sharp. She is the Club's longest serving coach who has seen so many successful swimmers pass through her squad having gained so much from her coaching.

Presentation of Jack Petchey awards to a number of BSC swimmers at the AGM on 11th June 2008 (photo right); this was carried out by Kay Grimshaw, President of London Region and later this year to be President of the ASA itself. Winners were: Tom Cordrey, Marlon Gasparotto, Gabriel Dada, Tom Cart, Rahul Bagga, Jade Donaldson, Barclay Bram-Shoemaker, George Chan and Emily Grant. The Leaders Award went to Cilla Daniel.

Beckenham Swimming Club hopes to see many more of its members being recognised in this way. For further information on the Jack Petchy Foundation please visit their website at: www.jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk