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Volunteers in Action!

Sunday 19th January was the first day of the 2025 Somerset County Championships. Over 70 people volunteered to support the event, including technical officials, meet managers, recorders, announcers, front of house, medals and trophies desk, marshals, runners and young volunteers and of course not forgetting the essential refreshments team! Thank you one and all and… Read More »

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New Year, New Term, New Team!

This Sunday we were delighted to welcome 3 new Skills Coaches (Colin (Wincanton), Daisy (Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater) and Ellen (Wincanton)) and 5 new swimmers to our programme. We were also supported by 4 Team Managers (Jack, Irene, Liz and Paul) and by Kelly Podbury, the SASA Competitions Secretary, who stepped in to run the programme… Read More »

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Coach Continuing Professional Development at the CDP

Today at Somerset’s County Development Programme, we were excited to welcome Ash Stoneman, Millfield’s Leading Swimming Athletic Development Coach, to deliver a CPD session for Coaches, with the aim of enabling them to deliver confident and effective Pre-Pool. Ash demonstrated then enabled all participants to experience ideal movement patterns for swimmers and then supported them… Read More »

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Calling any Master’s Swimmers

Somerset ASA would like to reach out to the County to identify all of our current and potential Master swimmers. We aim to raise the profile of Masters swimming across the County. This is our starting point. Please take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire below to be identified by SASA for news about… Read More »

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Nutrition Workshop for CDP Swimmers

In response to feedback received from our swimmers and parents on last year’s CDP we have an exciting addition to our CDP programme: Nutrition for Race-Day 6th April 11.15am – 12.15pm A practical presentation and food sampling workshop looking at preparations for race-day with Millfield’s Youth Development Nutritionist, Dan Alcock. Daniel Alcock completed both BSc (Hons)… Read More »

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December Swim Camp

Bridgwater Swimming Club will run a camp in December in collaboration with Brodie Williams. The camp is open to swimmers aged 10 to 17 who are swimming at or with county potential.

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Somerset Achieve Accreditation

Dear Mike,Re: County Governance CodeI am pleased to congratulate Somerset ASA on being awarded the condition of ‘met’ in relation to theSwim England County Governance Code. Having completed all required evidence, this means youare compliant and have achieved the minimum standard of checks.You may now use the County Governance logo on County documentation and website… Read More »

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New CPD Opportunity for all Somerset Coaches

Somerset ASA are delighted to announce an exciting new opportunity for Continuing Professional Development within our coaching community. In response to feedback from our CDP Assistant and Skills Coaches following our latest session, we are hosting an additional coach training session open not just to our CDP team but to all coaches in Somerset: “Supporting… Read More »

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The John Bolton: Thank You

Dear volunteers, officials and club secretaries, Thank you so much for supporting The John Bolton. Overall, we were delighted with how it went and I believe we all contributed to creating a supportive and relaxed atmosphere for our swimmers – most of whom were trying a potentially intimidating race for the first time.   After a… Read More »

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