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Richard Percival and Kelly Young both took part at the British Transplant Games held in Leeds this July. This competition enables people who have received an organ transplant to get together to hear each other stories, celebrate life post-transplant and to compete in their hospital teams where they received their transplants. Richard came away with 4 golds, and Kelly came away with 2 golds and 2 silvers.

Kelly has set up a Just Giving Page to help her fundraising for the World Transplant Games in Perth, Australia in April 2023. If you feel you can support or are just interested in the background visit the link below

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/kelly-young-94

Jessica, Mark and Sean all competed in the Swim England Masters National Championships at Sheffield last weekend. Star of the show from a Stroud point of view was Jessica who won gold in three events: the 400m and 1500m freestyle and the 200m butterfly, and also came away with a silver in the 400m Individual Medley. She was closely followed by Sean who won the 400 IM in his age-group as well as getting a memorable silver medal in the 200m butterfly. Mark’s best placings were sixth in the 50m breaststroke and ninth in the 100m breaststroke.

Hello everyone

Archway is closed on Monday so there will be no morning swimming.

Regards

Mark

Hello

Training on Monday starts at 7.30 instead of 6.30

Mark

Hello Everyone

We are cancelling a couple of Archway morning sessions in August as we have no lifeguard cover. These are Wed 24th and Fri 26th August.

We are also going to have a two week break at Archway on Tuesday 23rd and Tuesday 30th August.

Sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any queries please get in touch,

Mark

Hello

The Club is offering the opportunity to all members to gain the NRASTC (National Rescue Award for Swimming Teachers and Coaches) qualification.

The training will be over two Sundays (25th Sep and 2nd Oct) and be for 6 hours on each day with the venue likely to be St Edward’s School Cheltenham. The full cost of the course will be paid for by the Club.

A small number of people in the club hold the qualification already which enables us to swim without lifeguards at Archway pool in the morning and on Tuesday evenings. There will people from the club attending on the above dates either taking, renewing or gaining training hours for the qualification.

If you are interested and want to find out more please let me know. Alternatively see the RLSS web-site for more details.

Mark

Hello

I’m sorry to say that I’ve had to cancel tomorrow’s session at Archway as our coach has tested positive for COVID and so is unavailable to coach.

Please assume all will be okay for next week unless I let you know otherwise,

If you have any queries please get in contact with me,

Regards

Mark

Hello

The session next Friday will be at 7.30am instead of 6.30am

Regards

Mark

Hello Everyone

Just to let you know that the session on Monday morning will start at 7.30am instead of 6.30am so an extra hour in bed courtesy of the Club

Mark

Hello

Sessions over Easter are as follows

• Good Friday - Archway - 7.30 - 8.30am
• Easter Sunday - Cancelled
• Easter Monday - Archway - 7.30 - 8.30am

If you have any queries please get in contact

Happy Easter!

Mark