2005 AGM Reports and Annual Achievement Awards

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Achievement Awards

We now move to the exciting part of the evening when we recognise the achievements of all our club swimmers and present awards to a large proportion of them to mark their endeavour and success.

 A special reminder to the winners:  some of these awards (the cups and shields) are only yours for a year – many of them are very old and some are very valuable.  Please do look after them – treat them with care and clean them with the proper cleaning materials.  If you get one of these awards, David Evans will give you an insurance statement that needs to be signed and returned to him immediately.  Because you cannot keep these trophies we will at next year’s AGM give you a replica award and certificate to mark the achievement – the replicas and certificates for our 2004 trophy winners are over there waiting for collection.

 

Speed Awards Certificates

 

During 2005 the club has continued to monitor progress of our swimmers using the ASA Sprint Awards.  The times are shown on the club website.   We now have some 50 swimmers registered for the scheme. 

 

When a swimmer achieves the qualifying times in all competitive strokes and the individual medley they are presented with their certificate.  At the Annual Awards Ceremony tonight we are presenting the most recently gained certificates:

 

At Bronze level

At Silver level

At Gold Level

But the most significant achievements in terms of speed awards this year are:

 

The Platinum level sprint speed awards gained by 

1500 Metre Competition

 

In the competition of 2005, 29 swimmers completed the 1500 metre swim (ie 65 lengths of the Haberdashers Pool; and all swimmers took 35 minutes or less.  To mark this we are presenting them with a special medal tonight:

 

1

Kevin Binns

1

Eva Waddup

2

Daniel Evans

2

Helen Clifford

3

Michael Molloy

3

Sophie Lockett

4

Ian Dix

4

Mair Beesley

5

Phillip Lockett

5

Julie Crawford

6

Peter Ridout

6

Tamsyn Willis

7

Stephen Raynsford

7

Heather Grant-Davey

8

Carl Raynsford

8

Sian Lockett

9

George Henson

9

Emily Raw

10

Robbie Waddup

10

Taryn Rice

11

Oliver Edwards

11

Naomi Raw

12

Bruce Rice

12

Jessica Lewis

13

Daniel Lever

13

Jade Dareve

 

 

14

Charlotte Henson

 

 

15

Rachel Lewis

 

 

16

Jade Levison

 

Club Championships

 

We held three Club Championships during the year.  Points are awarded for each event and the overall age group winner for the boys and for the girls respectively is presented with the age group award.  This year quite unusually no swimmer achieved maximum points in club championship events for their age group, however we did see FIVE Club Championship records broken in the year; These were:

 

 

Two of these records were longstanding ones.  Stephen broke a 12 year old record for the U12 sprint and Peter magnificently broke a 24 year old record for the Boys U14 breaststroke.   For all five record breakers we have certificates to mark their achievements.

 

And moving on to present the trophies to the overall age group winners for the three club championships held in 2005.  The winners are:

 

Trophy

Winner

U8 Boys 

Will Scott

U8 Girls 

Fiona McQuire

U10 Boys 

Harry Edwards

U10 Girls 

Naomi Raw

U12 Boys 

Stephen Raynsford

U12 Girls

Sian Lockett

U14 Boys 

Peter Ridout

U14 Girls 

Helen Clifford andTamsyn Willis

U17 Boys 

Daniel Evans

U17 Girls 

Mair Beesley and Eva Waddup

O17 Boys 

Kevin Binns

O17 Girls 

Julie Crawford

 

In addition to the Club Championship events we also hold some special races. 

 

50 Metre Sprint Race Overall Winners

 

The 50-metre sprint race is held at the third club championships. 

 200 Metre Race Overall Winners

 

The 200-metre event was swum on 8 May 2005. 

1500 Metre Race Overall Winners

 

The 1500 metre event was swum early in November last year. 

Junior and Senior Style Competitions

 

The style competition is a unique event in the Club diary as the total emphasis is on style – so it is not necessarily the fastest swimmer that wins!

 

Swimmers have to demonstrate their swimming style over three strokes of their choice.  Independent judges mark each stroke and their scores are aggregated to give an overall score per stroke.  The winner is the swimmer achieving the highest score across their chosen strokes.

 

In 2005 our winners are:

TROPHIES & PLAQUES

 

The Club likes to recognise improvement and endeavour across all ages.  To be eligible for these awards swimmers must have completed three terms with the Club.

 

Improvement Plaques

 

These next awards are made for overall improvement in their age group in 2005

 

U8 Boys         

Bradley Waite

U8 Girls         

Maddie Harding-White

U10 Boys       

Steven Binns

U10 Girls       

Sarah Wertheim

U12 Boys      

James Scott

U12 Girls       

Charlotte Henson

U14 Boys       

Not awarded

U14 Girls       

Lauren Raw

U17 Boys       

Ian Dix

U17 Girls       

Sophie  Lockett

O17 Boys       

Not awarded

O17 Girls      

Not awarded

 

 

Most Improved

 

As overall most improved we have a young swimmer who has significantly improved her times in all strokes and continues to demonstrate improved technique, in addition she has performed excellently in both internal club and open meets. The most improved Cup goes to one of the junior swimmers who through determination and hard work has consistently improved in all strokes in the year.

 

This year the Most Improved Cup goes to

Endeavour Plaques

 

The next awards are made to swimmers who have really worked hard at their swimming through 2005.  Teachers nominate the winners and this year there were a lot of contenders.  After much deliberation the awards this year go to

 

Boys

Girls

Jamie Allan

Ellie Bateman

Raymon Bellis

Eleanor Bellis

Oliver Edwards

Grace Cain

Stephen Evans

Aneka Ganatra

Victor Garnier

Alice Garnier

George Henson

Katy Grant-Davey

Callum Jewell

Heather Grant-Davey

Joseph Jones

Kirsty Hawes

Anthony O’Toole

Alex Humphreys

Michael O’Toole

Victoria Humphreys

Alex Raw

Lucy Macdonald-Taylor

Conor Swannick

Sophie Macdonald-Taylor

Robbie Waddup

Ella Marsh

Ming Wang-Koh

Jessica Mitchell

Jordan Waite

Beth Richland

Daniel Wood

Caroline Selwood

Michael Wood

Rebecca Smith

Joe Wright

Beth Windmill

 

Becky Wood

 

Amber Young

 

Overall Endeavour

 

The overall endeavour award this year goes to a club swimmer who has worked really hard throughout the year to improve her strokes and speed – she has competed in club competitions, attended lessons regularly and achieved badges – in recognition of her efforts

 

This year the Bill Dowse goblet for Endeavour goes to

 Tony Amos

 

The Tony Amos award is usually presented to one of our young swimmer to recognise Tony’s interest in teaching juniors.  This year the award goes to one of our youngest swimmers.  Through 2005 he has shown steady progress, he always partakes in lessons fully and with endless enthusiasm and he shows lots of promise for the future.
 

For his efforts in 2005, the Tony Amos cup goes to

Chairman’s Shield

 

The Chairman’s Shield is awarded to the swimmer who has achieved the best results in Open Competitions.

 

In 2005 we had a significant number of club swimmers who took part in the County BAGCATs and other open meets.  A lot of personal best times were swum.  However, one club member had particular success at several of these open competitions so this year

 

The Chairman’s Shield goes to

Gala Performance

 

The next two awards are made by our Club Captains for 2005:  Stephanie Holpin and Jonathan Harding:

 

So to the last two awards of the evening.

 

Vice Chairman’s Shield

 

The Vice Chairman’s Shield as a general rule this award is given at the discretion of the teachers and has in the past been given for commitment or support to the club.  This year it was decided unanimously that the award should go to an exceptional member of the teaching staff who has given over 30 years service to the club during which time he has held nearly every post as well as being one of the mainstay teachers.  It is hard to believe that during this period he has taught over 200 boys and girls to swim.  It is with great pleasure that I announce that this year the Vice Chairman’s Shield goes to

President’s Cup

 

The President’s Cup is awarded to the overall swimmer of the year. This year’s award winner won their Club Championship age group with maximum points and also his age group 50m sprint event, 200m-event and style competition.  He finished 2nd in the 1500m competition and also the open 50m dash.  He has competed consistently well for the club in inter-club galas and has also improved his PBs in all strokes throughout the year.  In recognition of an excellent year

 

The President’s Cup goes to

 

Gala Medals

 

Finally we have a medal for everyone who has swum for the Club in an external gala during 2005.   Seventy three swimmers have represented Bushey ASC –taking part in Herts Major League, Peanuts League and Chiltern League galas plus a couple of friendly galas with other local clubs. To save your hands from getting sore I am going to call them up in their gala squads.

 

And this year we also have medals for the coaches and officials of our very successful 2005 gala squads:

 

B Long

P Holpin

C Clifford

A Edwards

D Evans

K Lockett

H Willis

K Waddup

K Hardstaff

A Hardstaff

G Raw

J Raw

P Scott

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