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Membership
& Constitution
News:
Derby & Barnet meets
Competition Kit –update 20/9/08
Christmas Party Sat. 20th. Dec.
Directions:
Aims
To swim and
enjoy! Gloucester Masters formed in 1988 by Mike Phelps (our chief
coach) to promote fitness through swimming and competition in Masters events at
regional, national and international fixtures. (Visit the ASA website via the
link opposite & select Masters swimming on the left of the page; there are
also links to other clubs)
Membership
open to swimmers aged 18 or over. Competitions are in 5 yr age bands.
Coaching
and stroke improvement for all abilities from Mike Phelps, Graham
Turner & Jo Little.
Social events held through the year.
Swimtimes
Full Club sessions Sunday 7.30 – 9.00pm & Tuesday 8.30 –
9.30pm both at Barton pool, GL1 (25m. x 8
lanes) all abilities
Competitive- training sessions: Monday 7.30 – 8.30pm at Swimwell
pool Ribston School
and also Thursday 8.05 – 9.05pm
Twyver pool, GL1 (25m. x 4 lanes)
And from May – September there is a session at Cheltenham Lido – Saturday
10am.
Committee
Chairman: Mike
Phelps
Treasurer: Jane
Brown
Administration
& Secretarial: Carole Carpenter & Jane Brown
Captains: Dave
Langley & Sandy Jones
Fixtures
& Kit ( Click for Competition Kit details):
Hannah Paull
Social
Events: Penny Hickson
Press reports: Esther
Murray
President
& Web: Nick
McDowall
Other
Members: Gill Ferris, Jo Little & Peter Smith.
Membership – 2008. (Includes compulsory ASA insurance – click here for details) NB waiting list
often operating.
Annual fees for existing members £38 for competitors, £24.75
for non-competitors (less £10 for concessions & also pro rata
reductions for part-year) plus for new members a one off joining fee £10.
Swimming fees are either by monthly in-advance standing order as follows:
£35 per
month for all sessions. May be cancelled with 1 month’s notice. No refunds for
holidays etc.
or: 12-Swim cards
£36 (or 6-Swim £18) – for those not wishing to pay by Standing
order.
Occasional guests (e.g. former
members, family etc) £3.50.
Contact Jane Brown 01452
855346 (e-mail Jane) or Carole Carpenter 01452
543565 or attend as guest on a Club night.
Click here to print a new-member registration form for presentation at reception on a club night.
News (rolling commentary) I’ve got News / Feedback
Richard Searle swam 5 PB’s (!) at the
Etwall Eagles Derby meet and Dave Granger excelled at the Barnet 1500 swim. See
archived results.
“Active
Gloucestershire Sports Awards 2008” – the Club took 2 awards (having
been shortlisted for 4) – we won the titles “ Adult Club Performance of the
Year” & “Adult Club Volunteer” of the year (awarded to Carol Carpenter).
Jane Brown narrlowly missed out on the Adult Club Official award. A contingent of us attended the evening do
at the Racecourse which starred Sharron Davies MBE. Click on the 
icons opposite.
Counties competition at Weston
–S – Mare Sunday 16 Nov. – Gloucesteshire came 3rd out of the 6
counties in this S.W. area competition –won by Devon- & Herbie Adams has
forwarded a thank you to the competitors - & we thank him for his
organization & entertaining commentary at the meet.
More
golden –oldie photos have been added in the gallery – latest are kindly
provided by Janet Gwilt and contain such gems as “Mike from the B&W era,
Mike and a plate of cake and best of all, Gerwen sporting a moustache that
formed the inspiration for Magnum P.I. ( see in gallery “Miscellany of old…”). Once again thank you
to Dave Bartlett for scanning them all - & I also look forward to getting his
old photos sometime when he searches his attic!
Sheffield Nationals October: Press Report. Many
thanks to Capt. Sandy for all her work in organizing hotel accommodation, the
Sat. night meal & the helpful summary slips. Furthermore she has collated
all the results! – see archive.
Here is her overview of the club performance:
“30 of us managaged to collect 31 medals - 14 Golds (9
male, 5 female), 9
Silvers (4 male, 5 female), 8 Bronze (1 male, 7 female) - Blokes may
have got more golds but us girlies out did you on the overall medal
tally (14 male, 17 female). . . Nah, nah,nah nah nah!!
Loads of good swims from everyone and too many PBs to mention.
Regardless of position it was lovely to see newcomers like Riccardo
setting PBs as well as old faithfulls like Penny and Anne still raising
their game . (Not forgetting brave troupers like Esther, carrying on and
doing all remaining races despite having been poorly early on in meet)
Golden Girls and Boys -
Tony - 6 Golds & 2 GB Records - Say no more!
Han - 2 Golds, 2 Silvers & 1 Bronze (inc 2 PBs)
Kate - 2 Golds, 1 Bronze (inc 1 PB)
Colin - 2 Golds (just Fab)
Jon - 1 Gold (a 10 second PB)
& Gail - 1 Gold & couple of others
Pete, Richard, Gill, myself & the mens 200+ relay team also added to the
haul but medals were far harder to get hold of this year than I can
remember before. “
Congratulations to Emma &
Nathan on the birth of their baby daughter Ava Grace Richards (b. 17/10/08).
Thank you for the pics. – displaying as “2008 Water babies…..”
Press report
on Western Counties by Esther Murray (Thank you, Esther)
“Congratulations
to Ollie & Liz on their recent engagement” (Sept 08)
Pat Pitt:
Oct 1946 – July 2008.
Thank you Diane for composing the following;
Glos.
Masters lost one of their most loyal members who died on July 19th
after a short illness with cancer.
Pat joined
GMSC in 1989 mainly to get herself fit for a fund raising “It’s a Knockout” fun
event for Multiple Sclerosis. She enjoyed swimming enough to continue regular
training for 20 yrs……,.,, and when the old Leisure Centre closed in 1998 for
four years she continued her support and travelled to the various locations around the
county where we had pool time.
She
encouraged and supported her children Edward & Yvette in club swimming and
attended and officiated in their galas.
Such was
Pat’s love of swimming that she became a swim coach and instructed at Beaufort
for several years.
Pat was fun
loving and had a great sense of humour. This was always very apparent on
the annual trips to Club la Santa where she was a regular for 18 yrs! –
enjoying the open-air pool training in bright sunshine and the fun and laughter
with good friends.
Pat was a
very brave lady and accepted her final illness with great courage and dignity.
She felt blessed to have had 32 yrs of a great marriage to Barry and two lovely
children and a sweet granddaughter Alicia (4).
She said her
goodbyes to family and friends, put her affairs in order and considered herself
fortunate to have had the time to do so.
She was a
remarkable lady and will be greatly missed.
Three of our top swimmers performed at the
Barnet meet in July. Thank you Sandy for results.
Richard Searle & Tony
Cherrington take age group golds at GL1 in 1500m swims on 28/06/08 - see
archive.
Henleaze Swimming Club
Distance Swim (an attractive quarry location in Bristol) on 13th.July
08 (closing date 5th. July) – Richard Searle has drawn our attention
to this. Visit www.gcasa.co.uk
for entry form & poster.
South Cerney Lake distance
swim:
“On the
8th of June, Karen Taylor and I represented Gloucester masters in a
3.8km lake swim at South Cerney near Cirencester. For those of you who never
venture beyond a laned swimming pool, open water swimming can be a novel and
challenging experience. It attracts swimmers, triathletes and madmen. Wet
suits were not compulsory but well advised and 120 swimmers
lined up for the siren blast at a mass start. The course was two and a
half laps around a lake following a route marked out by large orange buoys.
Finishing times varied from 47min to 1 hour 50min. Both Karen and I managed to
beat home the majority of competitors, Karen was the 5th woman over
the line and an impressive 12th overall in a time of 57min 21s. I was pipped to
the line by some young whipper snapper of a 17 year old and finished 2nd in
47min 41sec. Being a regular open water swimmer in Australia I think it is
great fun, quite different from pool swimming but definitely worth a go at.
VOTWO who put on the event have another in a few weeks near Bedford and for the
first time this year there is a 'Great North Swim' in Lake Windermere, www.greatswim.org”.
-- Oliver Wilkinson
GB Masters Manchester June 08: Captain Sandy gives her overview:- (some photos up more follow soon) Press Report
“Team of 23 swimmers - 76 swims - competing over 8 different age groups & Club represented in 'every' event. (I thought this was quite an impressive testimony to our diversity as a club.33 individual medals & 4 relay medals = 37 :- Including 11 GOLD medals (Katie 3, & Han, Tony, Simon, Ollie all 2 each )& my personal votes (as a spectator) for best swims of the meet are:Katie’s win in the 400 free (4.50.35 which was a PB), Carole’s 400 Free (7.39.64 which was 10 seconds under her entry time)But best of all . . . Karen’s 200 Fly (just for the sheer hell of it, No normal person should enjoy 200 fly THAT much!!! KT just made my weekend!!) Sorry, no men on list! - you all just swam really well & were just all too predictably consistent . . .was missing the excitement factor I'm afraid!! “
Alex Drury & Hannah Pfaff (now engaged ! –
congratulations) leave for their new life in New Zealand end of June (08) and
we wish them well. They will be missed. Between them they have made an outstanding
contribution to the club over many years.We hope they will send us some news from time to time. Nice farewell do
at ZiZi’s (photos displaying).
Welsh Capital meet 10th. May: about a dozen
of us enjoyed a hot day in the beautiful new pool & carted off some
medals.Full results in archive. A few
pics.are on display.
Fina Masters Perth: Lorna, Stuart & Tony all
acquitted themselves very well of course & have now got over their jet lag.
Regretfully they didn’t take one of the rest of us along as official
photographer to record what a great time they had!
Terry Ward Memorial trophy for 2008 – I (Nick McD.) was chuffed to bits to be awarded it this year. Thank
you - & thank you Angela & Keith for presenting.
Terry had been a long time club & committee member
and a good friend to many when he died
3 yrs.ago. I particularly remember him on Lanzarote trips not so much
for his efforts in training but for his explorations to find new &
sometimes obscure restaurants on the island. Also he was an old Richian !
Our Open Meet: Thank you to all those who participated. Amongst many
fine swims there were also some records: Balazs Gyorffy in 200m F/S and Eric
Henderson in 50m & 100m Fly. - awaiting ratification by ASA. ( ? was there
a Welsh record also.) Huge thanks to the organizers particularly Brian Jones,
Mike Aldridge, Belle O’Connell and the very witty chap on the microphone Herbie
Adams. All overseen by our very own Karen Taylor with unstinting support from
many timekeepers, programme sellers etc.
Etwall Masters took the coveted top team trophy away with them and Ben
Rees, from Amersham, the Carl Freeman trophy. (pictures in the Gallery link
“Trophy collection”)
Richard Searle from our club meanwhile was distinguishing himself at
Millfield long course swim with three 200m PB’s & 1sts. (see Archive)
Results from Leamington & Yeovilton are kindly being assembled by
Sandy. Please see archive. Report follows later. Also gallery pictures
gradually being expanded (Penny’s Lanzarote pics, Richard & Niki’s Yeovilton
pics, re-union party)
Thank you to Gerwen, Carole, Jane, Esther, Penny & Han for
organizing the 20yr. Club reunion party on 29th. March. The turnout
was estimated at around 150 with many old members making an appearance. Mike’s
presentation gifts were a handsome engraved glass trophy item, a vintage Heuer
stopwatch and cased champagne..
The 2007 World Top 10 Rankings have been recently published by FINA.Gloucester Masters have been represented on the individual rankings by Tony Cherrington, Hannah Paull and Katie Nimmo. Relay teams saw the Mixed 160+ (SC) MedleyRelay Team and the Womens 120+ (SC) Medley Team both being ranked 9th.Individual results: Tony 50m Free SC 9th100m Free SCS 7th LC 9th200m Free SC 3rd LC 3rd400m Free SC 5th1500m Free SC 3rd200m IM SC 8th Han100m Free SC 10th50m Fly SC 9th100m Fly SC 9th Kate200m Free SC 8th400m Free SC 7th LC 10th800m Free LC 10th1500m Free SC 4th
400m IM SC 9th
Lanzarote: the annual “Let’s Tan & Party” fest has
completed. Pictures are appearing in the gallery (Hann’s, Carole’s and Keith’s,
already displaying).
Welsh Masters results from Swansea archived (29/2 –
2/3/2008)
T30 results (Age groups): Kate Nimmo 1st.(2300m),
Tony Cherrington 1st. (2125m), Heidi Wood 1st. (2120m).
Janet Gwilt 3rd. (1540m), Richard Searle 4th. (2320m),
Esther Murray 7th. (1550m),
Gill Ferris 10th. (1700m), Carole Newman 12th.
(1540m). These four women formed a 240-279 team taking 1st place for
age group with a distance of 6330m. Well done to all! Press Report.
Sandy & Richard swam at Shrewsbury (5th
Jan 2008) and despite Christmas/ New Year lay off gained 4 PB’s between them.
An impressive start to the season!
Captain Sandy has checked through the Decathlon
results for 2007 and we have 3 swimmers in the top !0 (and 5 in the top 100):
Tony Cherrington 7th.,Richard Searle 51st., Kate Nimmo 6th.,
Sandy 10th., Gail Baptist 99th. Also Ladies team – Kate /
Sandy / Gail / Hannah Paull 3rd. out of 342 teams.
Older News Commentary viewable:- HERE
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