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BSC Club Championships 2008 Session 4 17th November 2008 Yet another successful Session 4 of the Club Championships on the 17th November. One new record went to Michael Gunning in the 14/15 200m Fly, taking a whopping 6 seconds off the previous record set in 1996 even though he is only 14 years old! Well done Michael! We had many swimmers trying their first 100m IM and the 200m Fly, a really hard one! Yet again we had lots of help on the night to help with the smooth running of the Gala, Thank you everyone! Only one more session on the 1st December 2008 which includes the 50M Back and Fly and 400M IM. We are very short of raffle prizes for this last session if anyone wishes to donate. A Christmas theme may be in order, it will be December!! For full results, go to the Results webpage.   Thank you, Jackie and Justine

 

BSC Club Championships 2008 Session 3 11th November 2008 Five new records in the third session of Club Championships Well done everyone on yet another successful Club Championships. We had a great evening of swimming from the younger swimmers swimming their first 25m Butterfly, which can be very daunting, to five new club records. Rebecca Walton managed to take 2 records, the 200m Backstroke and 400m Freestyle in the 13 year age group, Michael Gunning took another 2 records in the 100m Butterfly and 400m Freestyle in the 14/15 age group even though he is only 14 and Steph King added a record in the 200m Backstroke in the 14/15 age group. Thank you to the Coaches and Parents for supporting the swimmers and all those on poolside and the table for helping keeping the gala run smoothly. We had some officials running in straight from another Gala to help out. Session 4 is next Monday, 17th November and the events are 100m Breaststroke, 200m IM (10/ov), 100M (9/u) and 200M Butterfly. Please sign in at 5.45pm. For full results, go to the Results webpage.   Thank you, Jackie and Justine

 

BSC Club Championships 2008 Session 2 13th October 2008 Another BIG THANKYOU to all the swimmers/Officials last night for another successful Club Champs. We had 3 new Records, Marlon Gasparotto in the 50m Breaststroke  and 200m Breaststroke and Francesca Hayward in the 200m Breaststroke. A very well done to both of you! We had lots of great swims from the youngest swimmers in their first race to our President, Richard Collins, who just missed out winning the 50m Breast in the 16/OV age group, even though he is considerably older than the rest of the field. The event ran pretty smoothly thanks to the team of Officials. A special thanks to those who support the club even though they do not have swimmers currently competing. We have a month now until the next session on the 10th November 2008, which includes the 25m Fly for the 9/U and 100m Fly for the other age groups, 200m Back and 400m Free. For more detail see fixtures web page and again please make sure you sign in before 6pm as it can cause a delay to the start. Latecomers cannot be guaranteed a swim.

 

Speedo League Gala Round 1 11th October 2008 Well done to both our 'A' and 'B' teams for winning the first round of the Speedo League. The Beckenham "A" team, in the Premier Division at Reading, ran out winners by a good margin of 46 points after the 50 event competition. To put the performance in context, the teams' total of 244 points was 2 points more than the highest achieved in any round of the premier league last year. And not to be outdone the Beckenham "B" team competing at the Spa, in the second division, won their gala by 60 points after winning over half of the events. For a report please go to the Results section of this website.

 

Beckenham Swimmers meet the Mayor of Bromley 10th October 2008 On Friday 10th October 2008 Beckenham Swimmers who were part of the Bromley London Youth Games team were invited to a reception with the Mayor of Bromley, Councillor Denise Reddin, at the Civic Centre in Bromley. This was to celebrate Bromley being overall London Youth Games Champions for the second year running. Swimmers and parents listened to speeches from the Mayor and celeberety guest speaker Lesley Owusu, a GB international 400m runner who gave tips for success. Patron of Bromley Mytime, former footballer Paul Elliot also gave a speech. Highlight of the evening for Beckenham swimmers was to listen to our own Steffi King who was interviewed by the compare about her trip to the Beijing Paralympic opening ceremony, while we were shown pictures of her trip. Steffi won the opportunity to be part of the torch relay for her triple gold medal winning acheivements at the London Youth Games. You can read Steffi's blog of her trip on the Bromley Mytime Web Site.   Click here to read Stephanie's diary of her Beijing experience.

 

BSC Club Championships 2008 Session 1 29th September 2008 Well done to everyone on a successful first session of the BSC club championships. There was one new club record set by Stephanie King in the 14/15 years Backstoke. Many thanks to all the swimmers, coaches and parents for supporting this event, look forward to seeing you all at the second session of the Club Championships on the 13th October 2008, events are the 50M and 200M Breastroke, and 100M Freestyle - for more detail see fixtures web page. Please make sure you sign in before 6pm as it can cause a delay to the start. Latecomers cannot be guaranteed a swim.

 

	Ellen, Congratulations on reaching the Olympic Semifinals! From all at Beckenham SC               Women’s 200m Butterfly, National Aquatics Centre. Tuesday 12th August 2008. Team GB Olympic Profile

 

ASA National Youth and Welsh Summer National successes 8th August 2008 Last weekend saw the end of the club's swimming competition year conclude with the National Youth Championships in Sheffield and Welsh Summer Nationals in Swansea. Last week I mentioned Liesje Van Der Velde hit Gold in an impressive PB of 57.08 in the 16/17yrs 100m Freestyle. Not content with that Liesje then made it a double in the short sprint 50m in a time of 26.52 and also made the final of the 200m Free finishing 8th in a time of 2:06.32. For Liesje, it capped an impressive year in addition to being selected for the GB team for the World Youth Championships in Mexico last month. This followed yet another successful sprint freestyle performance from Steph Denny, who in the 14/15yr event secured a bronze in 27.50.  This is a great achievement from Steph who has had to battle a tough year with injury. Steph King, who recently joined the club, also successfully made two finals in the 14/15 Backstroke events finishing 4th in the 200m in 2:23.08 and 5th in the 100m in 1:06.63. Overall the girl's team finished 11th (10th if you remove Team Ireland!) and Beckenham finished 23rd.   Well done to Tony and everyone who competed in Sheffield!                                 (Left: Tony Beckley with Liesje Van der Velde and Steph Denny.  Right Liesje with Trophies from both sprint freestyle events)   Click here for the ASA Youth Results Many then travelled from Sheffield to Swansea for the Welsh Summer Nationals too supported by the club for the first time. There were a number of good swims. Star of the show was Georgia Phillips who won two Golds in the 14/15yrs 100 Free and 50 Free. Georgia won the 100 in 1:02.40 just pipping Katie Irving who finished in a time of 1:02.69. Katie went on to win further medals, along with Jack Regan, Olivia Handley, Jack Brown and Louis Phillips, as well as numerous other finalists. Well done to everyone in Swansea and click here for all the Welsh Summer Nationals Results.   Some farewells For Liesje, competing in Sheffield was her last swim in Beckenham colours, as next year she will be completing her A-Levels and swimming at Millfield School .  In a personal message to the whole club Liesje said…  "Dear All… Sadly I have now swum my last race for Beckenham and it is time to move on to pastures new.  I will miss the club, I will miss Tony Beckley, and I will miss all my friends tremendously.  Although I have already told some of you, I just wanted to state for the record, that my reason for leaving is purely because I couldn't continue with the 24 hours a week travelling time given that I had A levels looming.  Beckenham is a fantastic club and Tony Beckley is a fantastic coach.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank him publicly for all that he has done for me and for helping me to achieve what I have achieved.  If I can leave one piece of advice then this would be to put your faith in Tony and if you work hard for him he will bring success for you.  I would like to wish all of you, the coaches, the parents, those that do so much for the club behind the scenes and mostly my friends, a very fond farewell and I wish you every success in your swimming careers… Liesje van der Velde"

 

Well done to Michael Gunning at the Age Group Nationals 1st August 2008 Michael swam five events and successfully achieved a place in the finals of the 200M butterfly in a time of 2.14.56. In the finals he came 7th. He achieved a PB in the 400m IM. He came 10th in the BAGCATS for the 14 year old age group and he attended a presentation ceremony and was awarded a years’ free subscription to the Swimming Times and a certificate. Overall in the BAGCATS he came 1st in the Kent County, 1st in the London Region, and 10th in the National Age Group. Well done on a successful year of swimming!

 

Brighton Pier to Pier Sea Swim 20th July 2008 Jackie Elliott, Masters swimmer, swam in the Brighton Swimming Club Pier to Pier race in July and came 7th in the Veteran competition. To read the report please go to the Results webpage.

 

Bromley Girls and Sutton Boys go to Olympic Aquatic Centre Site 17th July 2008 On the 17th July two Beckenham swimmers, Steph Denny and Jack Brown from the national squad, were invited to spend the morning at the Olympic Site and have a photo shoot with Seb Coe, Tessa Jowell and the top executives from Balfour Beatty.   Both were in the winning teams from the London Youth Games. Three swimmers from the Bromley girls team and three from the Sutton boys team were asked to take part in the event in Stratford as the first day of work began on the Aquatic Centre. They spent the morning looking at the plans for the new pool and having their photos taken by lots of photographers and TV crews on the site where the pool is being built.

 

Darmstadt 45 International Update 16th July 2008 Ricky Outhwaite, Michael Gunning, Katie Irving and Steph Denny recently selected by Kent County to compete at international; meet in Darmstad competed in a challenging top level 3 day meet with teams from Canada, South Africa, Italy, Germany, Qatar, Egypt and more. A fantastic experience and time was had by all our swimmers who performed well amongst very high level competition. Our medal haul was: Ricky = Gold 100 Freestyle; Katie = Gold 100 breastroke, Gold 200 breastroke, Gold 200IM, bronze 100 fly; Michael = Gold 200 fly, Silver 200 Freestyle, and Bronze 100 Fly; and Steph = Silver 50m Freestyle, Bronze 200m Freestyle, and Bronze 50m Backstroke. A special well done to Michael who achieved 8th place in the Men's Open 400IM.   A fantastic achievement. Well done to Ricky, Michael, Katie and Stephanie.

 

Beckenham Success at the London Youth Games 21st June 2008. On the 21st June some Beckenham swimmers were part of the Bromley team for this year’s London Youth Games. With Crystal Palace being closed we went to Ealing. Our junior and senior girl’s team won the overall girls trophy with a large points margin and the junior and senior boys came 5th overall. Our swimmers were: Steph Denny, Steffi King, Rachel Bull, Fay Donovan, Rebecca Walton, Lauren Walton, Heather Travers, Ricky Outhwaite, Jack Regan, George Eagle, Michael Gunning, Henry Knight, Robert Deane. Individual medals were won by the junior girl’s freestyle and medley relay, Michael, Steph, Steffi, Rachel and the senior girl’s freestyle and medley relays. The photos are the Bromley Team and the girls receiving their overall team trophy.

 

Golden Boys 22nd June 2008   Beckenham 11 to 14 year old boys win Gold in the 4 by 100m freestyle relay & Silver in the 4 by 100m Medley relay, in the London regional this has resulted in them qualifying for the Nationals at Sheffield in July.   The Team is from left to right Gabriel Dada, Marlon Gasparotto, Jack Brown, Michael Gunning.

 

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