Chester-le-Street
“Chester-le-Street Amateur Swimming club is clearly
playing a fantastic role in their local community by providing
people with the chance to improve their swimming skills in a
safe, enjoyable and competitive environment.”
There are no age limits set against of
any of the squads with swimmers able
to move up or down depending on how
coaches judge their skill and progress.
Particularly talented swimmers can also
be selected for further training with
Swim England and British Swimming.
Performance Squads
The club’s performance squads are
their top level squads which are coached
by Head Coach Gary Henshaw and are
known as the A and B1 squads.
The entry level for these squads
is National or Regional qualifying
standard as well as a minimum training
commitment of seven sessions across a six
day training programme. This training is
made up of swimming, flexibility and
stretching and metafit sessions. CrossFit
is also part of the programme although it
is paid for separately.
Age Group Squads
The Age Group Development
squads are in place for swimmers that
have achieved or are working towards
achieving county and regional qualifying
times.
These squads are known as B2 and
B3 and are both coached by Lorraine
Lawrence. There is a minimum
commitment of six sessions for B2
swimmers and five sessions for B3 across
a six day training programme.
Stroke Development Squads
These squads are divided into three
levels; C, D and E with the focus being
on developed good technique across the
four strokes, general water skills as well
as introducing swimmers to competitive
skills such as racing starts and turns.
They have three stroke development
coaches in Kevin Burns, Stephanie
Trevisan and Vicki Piggott who are ably
assisted by a number of assistant and
trainee coaches.
Chester-le-Street
Amateur
Swimming club is clearly playing a
fantastic role in their local community
by providing people with the chance
to improve their swimming
skills in a safe, enjoyable and
competitive environment.
Those involved deserve
tremendous credit for
the hard work that
they put in and if
they continue
in the same
manner then they will continue to build
on the proud history that they have.
It will certainly be exciting to see
how they are able to progress over
the coming years and everyone
at Sport in Profile Magazine
would like to take this
opportunity to wish
them the best of luck
for the future.
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