Work
experience with the ASA...
The Youth Sport Trust and ASA are
looking to recruit one young person, who ideally would be between
18 and 25-years-old, to become a Young Official Development Officer
within swimming – but they must get their application in
by Friday 26th June 2009.
Yvette Heywood, the ASA’s
Volunteer Manager, said: “This is a brilliant opportunity
for a young person to enhance their contacts within the swimming
industry.
“It will look great on their CV and will give them experience
of a range of organisational skills, including time management,
presentation skills and attending and conferences.”
The role, which will cover approximately 30 hours per week, will
begin in September 2009 for 40 weeks.
Expenses of up to £60 a week are available for everyday
expenses such as food, travel and subsistence, as well as up to
£4,000 towards accommodation expenses.
The ideal candidate would, among other attributes, have strong
verbal and written communication skills and demonstrate genuine
enthusiasm to work with young people. For a full job specification
and more details please use this link http://asa.sportcentric.net/db/asa_front/view.php?id=1054
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Jon
and Ben Selected to Swim for GB....
Jonathan Fox and Ben Procter have
both been selected to swim for Great Britain in the European Swimming
Championships to take place in Reykjavik Iceland from 18th to
24th October 2009. The events that they will be competing in will
be decided later in consultation with their coach [Phil Goldman]
and British Swimming..
The selection was expected after
their fine performance at the trials last week where they, along
with club colleague Jessica Keast, all became National Champions.
Phil Goldman [coach] said "Jon
has a busy time with competing at the Paralympic World Cup in
Manchester over the bank holiday, and then he is in Germany with
the British team at the end of the week arriving back in Newquay
on the 31st".
Ben will be in the Czech Republic
for the World Global Games between July 5th and 16th after which
both boys will compete at the National Youth Championships at
Sheffield from July 27th for the week.
Jessica will be targeting
the National Short Course Championships at the beginning of November
as her next major goal, where Jon and Ben will join her after
their exploits in Iceland...
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The
International British D.S.E Swimming Championships.
The International British D.S.E
Swimming Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, sponsored by
the Nationwide Building Society, was a magnificent event for the
Newquay Cormorants swimmers who produced a brilliant set of results.
The event was also the qualifying
event for the European Long Course Championships to be held in
Iceland in October.
Ben Procter stole the show and
was unstoppable. The 19 year old broke 5 British records on his
way to claiming gold in the 100 meters free, fly, back, 200 I.M.and
the 50 free. Ben said his training had gone completely to plan
with a good taper and he and his coach knew he was in for some
very fast times. He will swim for Great Britain in the World Global
Games in the Czech Republic as his next major event and will be
a leading contender for the podium.
Ben (Lane 4)

Photo: Gordon Whorwood
Jessica Keast claimed her first
major gold medal with a massive swim in the 200 meters freestyle
. Jess said "My coach stepped up my work since the new year
to 6 sessions a week and its really starting to pay off and I
was able to swim the race at even pace, having Phil with me helped
me plan the race and I am delighted".
Jonathan Fox, our silver medalist
from Beijing in the S7 100 meters backstroke, was just half second
outside his European record in claiming gold he was pleased with
his performance after just coming back from Altitude training.
Jon is back up to Manchester on Friday for the Paralympic World
Cup and his events are scheduled to be televised
Newquay's Matt Whorwood who is
training at Swansea University where he is also studying, finished
the programme with an excellent silver medal behind the gold medalist
from Beijing Sasha Kindred in the 200 I.M.
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Highest
Ever Club Points and a World Record in Bad Bergzabern...
Newquay Cormorants achieved their
highest ever finishing position at the very prestigious International
Club Competition held for the 30th time in Bad Bergzabern Southern
Germany.
The Cormorants team put up the
best performance from a U.K. team in the history of the event
gaining 59 points and taking 10th place behind the overall winners
China Swim Assn.
47 clubs took part from 27 nations, the competition providing
awards for the top six swimmers in each age group event. Additionally,
each swimmer in the top six gains points toward the club trophy.
In previous years Cormorants had scored 7 pts 15 pts and last
year 34 pts
In the 11years age group Jordan Holroyd gained 4th in the freestyle
clocking 1.14.86,
5th in the butterfly recording a time of 1.28.0 and 6th in the
breaststroke with a 1.36.10 .
Team mate Ellen Jenkins added to the points with a super freestyle
swim taking 6th place in 1.15.34.
Emily Harbisher in the 12 years
age band took a well earned 5th place in the breaststroke, sister
Natalie in the 15 years age group had a very good weekend picking
up three 3rd places a 4th and a 5th . In the same age band Brogan
Parsons worked hard in taking 3rd in the breaststroke.
Emily Andrew had some good P.Bs
without getting in the points in the 12 years band.
Rhiannon Jones, Brogan Parsons
and the Harbisher sisters added valuable points in the 4 x 100
medley team taking 6th.
Ben Procter who although has a
S14 disability class swam outstandingly in the able bodied programme
smashing the World record for the 100 butterfly and also breaking
the British Record for Backstroke. He PB'd in his other 3 events
and collected 17 individual points!
Frazer Fox in the 16 years age
group pulled out a 57.33 to take 6th place in the freestyle.
Frazer with team colleagues Jarrod Benny, Callum Roberts and Ben
Procter gained 5th in the 4 x 100 I.M.team event, While the boys
4 x 100 free team of Procter, Fox, Roberts and Cameron Russell
added more valuable points in taking 4th place.
The final points score came from
the 10 x 50 mixed team Fox, Procter. Roberts, Russell, and Benney
with Natalie and Emily Harbisher, Brogan Parsons, Rhiannon Jones
and Grace White putting up a super team performance in taking
5th place.
Another honour that came
Newquay's way was after the event had finished. At about 9.00
pm
the Bergameister (mayor) of the town contacted coach Phil Goldman
requesting that he bring the boy that broke the World Record to
the Town Hall. At the town hall in the Bergameisters Office Ben
was asked to sign the Golden Book a very old leather bound book
that holds the signatures of persons that have historical records
of note. Photgraphs were taken and we are now part of a historical
record of the town. Such was the Cormorants impact on the event
they have received invites to Portugal, Hungary U.S.A, Israel
and Czech Republic.
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Golds
for Newquay Swimmers in both the DSE British Junior Championships
& the Counties...
With the Cormorants swimmers competing
on two different fronts over the weekend the stage was set for
the Fox boys with paralympian Jonathan at the D.S.E. British Junior
Swimming Championships at Sheffield, and younger brother 15 year
old Frazer at the Cornwall Counties second weekend of the Swimming
Championships.
Jonathan was in outstanding form
after his recent injury and took gold in all four events he competed
in, smashing the World records in both the 50 and 100 meters backstroke.
He added two lifetime best in the 50 and 100 meters freestyle
to enter the world top six rankings in both.
Younger brother Frazer added the
100 and 200 meters Junior County freestyle titles to his 400 and
800 meters titles from last week, again re-writing the county
records book.
Jarrad Benney was also in excellent
shape adding the 400 I.M. County Junior title to his 200 fly title,
and as a late developer is starting to show his potential. Coach
Phil Goldman said that the development and improvement of the
15 to 19 years boy's age range is very pleasing and he puts the
strength of this down to the the influence of the paralympic training
programme that the boys are accessing.
Ben Procter added a new British Record in the 200 meters freestyle
and a European record in the 100 meters freestyle for the S14
disability class, and looks towards the Global Games in July as
his main goal.
Natalie Harbisher completely dominated
the County Senior and Junior 200 meters butterfly with a massive
swim, and had taken the gold and put it away before the silver
medalist had finished such was her dominance.
In the age groups of the same event
Newquay showed their strength with Millie Sander 11 yrs &
Emily Harbisher 12 yrs both taking gold, with Jordan Holroyd in
the 10 yrs claiming silver.
The final medal in the event went to 14 yr old Charlotte Scotland
in in her first attempt at the 200 fly. She swam the race of her
life to take the Senior and Junior bronze medal and looks a fine
prospect for the future in the event.
Brogan Parsons produced a massive
personal best in claiming a Championship 100 meters breaststroke
bronze and gave a performance that will threaten the opposition
in Germany where she competes in the 14 yrs age group in ten days
time.
The brothers Angus and Dylon Scotney
also got among the age group medals in the 50 metrers breast with
Dylon gaining gold, and Angus the bronze in the 12yrs and 10 years
ages respectively.
Jack Semmonds in the 11 years age band added to the medal haul
with a silver performance with a positive swim to bring the County
Championships to a close. Emily Harbisher showed her class in
the 100 meters 12 years age group breaststroke with a gold medal
performance of maturity beyond her years.
Jessica Keast who was up in Sheffield
with Jon Fox contributed to the very successful weekend with a
10 second improvement in time in the 50 meters backstroke, taking
gold in the S5 disability class. Her main target is the European
trials and international long course British Championships in
May.
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Jon and
Ben Smash World and British Records at the County Champs!...
The Cormorants picked up a good
quota of medals in the first half of the county swimming championships
held at Penzance and Bodmin over the weekend, (28th Feb-1st Mar).
Many of the performances of the team were very impressive in accumulating
10 Gold 17 Silver and 6 Bronze medal swims.
Jonathan Fox was in Record breaking
form taking the World and British record of 11 times Paralympic
gold medallist Dave Roberts in the 50 meters backstroke class
S7.
Ben Procter took second place in
the 100 meters Men's Championship and in so doing smashed the
World record for the event for Disability class S14 and added
the British record in the 50 meters backstroke.
Pascal Latham S14 and Jessica Keast
S5 SB4 also produced life time bests in gaining gold in their
respective events.
Jonathan and Jessica are at the
D S E National Junior Short Course next weekend representing the
South West in Sheffield.
Emily Harbisher was in dominant
mood collecting 5 golds and 3 silver from the 8 events she contested.
Her best performances came in the multi stroke events where she
completely outshone the opposition in both the 200 and 400 meters
12 years age band.
Jordan Holroyd in the 10 years
age group has improved alarmingly with a super 200 back gold medal
performance some three and a half seconds inside last years winning
time. The young lady added 2 Silver and a Bronze to her growing
collection.
11 year old Millie Sander collected
gold in the 400 meters I.M. with a time that says 'National Swimmer'
for the event in the future. She also gained a pair of Silver
and a pair of bronze medals for the mantelpiece.
Frazer Fox took the 400 meters
freestyle Junior title( 15 AND UNDER) and was second in the Junior
50 meters free both times will take him to the South West Regions
Championships later in the year.
Team mate Cameron Russell took
the 50 meters Junior title with a very aggressive swim making
it a one two in the event. Cameron also has a date at the Regional
Champs and is looking to medal .
The final gold winning performance
of the weekend was produced by 11 year old Jack Semmonds who had
an inspired swim in the 200 meters breaststroke and gave a clean
pair of heels to his opposition .
Natalie Harbisher and Ellen Jenkin
also made the medal table. Natalie gained 3 silvers in the 14
and overs, and Ellen bronze in the 200 meters free in a time that
would have won last year's 10 yrs event.
Angus Scotney captured 2 silver
and 1 bronze in the 10 years age band, brother Dylon gained 2
silver in the 12 years group. There was silver for Jarrad Benney
in the 200 meters Junior Championship and bronze for Joss Boylan
in the 50 meters freestyle.
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Ben
Procter selected to swim for GB in the Global Games but struggles
for finance.
Newquay Cormorants swimmer Ben Procter
has been selected to swim for Great Britain in the Global Games
which are taking place in the Czech Republic between July 5th
and July 14th .
The games cover a number of sports for swimmers who have learning
disability and Great Britain are sending teams for swimming, athletics,
table tennis, cycling and tennis.
Ben who lives with his retired
grand-parents in Cubert nr Newquay in Cornwall, will be competing
in the 50mts 100mts and 200mts freestyle, 50mts and 100mts backstroke,
50mts and 100mts butterfly and the 200mts I.M.
His Coach, Phil Goldman, said "Ben
has been selected for a very busy programme with 8 individual
events and 2 team events and we are looking at the balance of
the event schedule and it is likely he will withdraw from the
I.M. which will leave him with two events each day and hopefully
two finals."
Ben will be in action this weekend
at the County Championships at Penzance and Bodmin.
Ben has one major problem, until
the World Body F.I.N.A agree to placing the learning difficulty
disability back into the Paralympic Programme U.K Sport will not
financially support leaving Ben and his grand-parents to find
the 1300 GBP he requires for the Games.
If anyone would like to
help with his financial problem it would be very much appreciated
by contacting his coach Phil Goldman on +44 (0)7886822190
Roll
of Honour - Request for information...
A ROLL of HONOUR list is being
compiled by Jim Saulter for any Swimmers from Cornwall,
(not just Newquay Cormorants), who have represented the U.K at
International level either at Junior or Senior level during the
past 50 years. The criteria is that the swimmer must have been
born in Cornwall, or resident in Cornwall, and in each case been
a member of a Cornish club for at least three years.
If you have any information please send to:
Jim@bjs.eclipse.co.uk
Tel +44 (0)1736 363259
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County
Swimming Championships - A Great start for the Cormorants...!
The county swimming championships
got off to a very positive start for the Newquay Cormorants with
just nine entries in the long distance events they climbed the
podium 9 times collecting 6 gold and 3 silver, and put down a
marker to the rest of the county.
In the individual events there
was a double gold for both Millie Sander (11 years), and Emily
Harbisher (12 years), in both the 800 meters and 1500 meters events.
In the latter both created new competition records!
Frazer Fox came out of the shadows
of his brother, the Paralympian silver medalist Jon, in taking
gold in the 800 meters Junior Championship in his first major
race at this distance.
Natalie Harbisher picked up the
sixth medal in the individual events, taking silver in the 800
meters .
All four swimmers claimed their
place at the South West Regional Championships with the times
they recorded.
The sixth gold medal came from
the males 15 to 18 years age group in the 4 x 200 freestyle team,
the quartet of Frazer Fox, Callum Roberts, Ben Procter and Jarrod
Benney, who won an exciting race by just 7 tenths of a second
from the favorites for the event, City of Truro. The boys gave
in every case a super team performance knocking lumps of time
off anything they had done previously.
The 13 and under team sporting
three 12 year olds Emily Harbisher, Emily Andrew, Ellie Vercoe
and 11 year old Millie Sander, produced a fine team performance
in taking silver behind the much older Truro team. Coach Phil
Goldman said that the youngsters did us proud and are all young
enough to swim together in the event next year with a favorites
chance.
Not to be over phased by their
younger team mates, the Girls 14 to 17 years age group also took
silver with the quartet of Rhiannon Jones, Brogan Parsons, Charlotte
Scotland and Natalie Harbisher who will have another three years
in the age band together.
The full county championship programme gets under way on the weekends
of February 28th and March 7th .
March is a busy month for the
Cormorants, including a competition in Germany from March 19th
to 23rd in which they have 13 swimmers competing in a international
club competition some 200 kilometers south of Frankfurt in Bad
Bergzabern.
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Cormorants
are Junior Champions of Cornwall!
The Newquay Cormorants Juniors
covered themselves in glory with one of the best displays of league
swimming in the past 20 years of Junior League history.
Phil Goldman [head coach] said
"It was the smallest team I have ever coached for the event,
but what they lacked in squad numbers was made up for with sheer
quality."
"We went into the event with
the bare minimum but in every age group of the team they performed
with quality and grit."
The Junior League Champions of
Cornwall is the most prestigious competition in Cornwall for team
swimming for youngsters 9 yrs to 12yrs age groups.
The winning performance broke
the strangle hold that City of Truro had on the Junior League
Championship which they had won for the last 5 years.
Newquay had a massive 52 point
turn around with Truro on last years league results to run out
comfortable winners by 21 points
The full result of the
championship final
NEWQUAY 199
TRURO 178
CARN BREA 175
LAUNCESTON 158
PENZANCE 151
WADEBRIDGE 110
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