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 2005 trophy winners are over there waiting for collection. 

Speed Awards Certificates 

During 2006 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 57 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: Mollie Churney, Harry Edwards, Alice Garnier, Kirsty Hawes, Charlotte Henson, Miriam Jones, Daniel Lever, Sophie Meller, James Scott

• At Silver level: Bryony Earnshaw, Hannah Earnshaw, Oliver Edwards, Rachel Lewis, Emily Raw, Sophie Wolf

• At Gold level:  George Henson, Peter Ridout

                                  

But perhaps the most significant achievement in terms of speed awards this year is: 

• The Platinum level speed award gained by Michael Molloy.

 

1500 Metre Competition 

In the 1500 metre competition of 2006 22 swimmers completed the 1500 metre swim – this is 65 lengths of the Haberdashers Pool; and all swimmers did it in less than 32 minutes.  To mark this we are presenting them with a special medal tonight:  

 

 

Club Championships

As usual 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.  In 2006 we saw five Club Championship records broken in the year. 

These were:

• Girls U8      12m Free           Hannah Rose 10.56 sec.
• Girls U8      12m Back          Hannah Rose 12.59 sec.
• Boys U8     12m Back          Alex Raw 13.72 sec.
• Boys U14   100m Breast      Andrew Sewell 1.24.57 sec.
• Boys O17   100m IM           Stuart Long 1.08.45 sec.

We have the certificates to mark these achievements to present to the swimmers concerned.

Club Championships overall age group winners

Moving on to present the trophies to the overall age group winners for the three club championships held in 2006.  the winners are:

Trophy	Winner
U8 Boys	Alex Raw
U8 Girls	Hannah Rose
U10 Boys	Louis Rose
U10 Girls	Anoushka Meller
U12 Boys	Thomas Hughes
U12 Girls	Sian Lockett
U14 Boys	George Henson
U14 Girls	Bryony Earnshaw
U17 Boys	Daniel Evans
U17 Girls	Eva Waddup
O17 Boys	Jonathan Harding
O17 Girls	Stacie Long

 

50 Metre Sprint Race Overall Winners

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

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

In the Junior event:

• The Junior Boy 50 metre sprint winner of the Wendy Cook Shield was Harry Edwards.

• The Junior Girl 50 metre sprint winner of the Wendy Cook Shield was Sian Lockett.

In the Senior Open event:

• The Open 50 metre competition for Boys, the Bryan Cook Shield was won by Kevin Binns.

• The Open 50 metre competition for Girls, the Bryan Cook Shield was won by Eva Waddup.

 

200 Metre Race Overall Winners 

The 200 metre event was swum on 7 May 2006.

• The overall winner of the Boys’ race was Daniel Evans;

• The overall winner of the Girls’ race was Eva Waddup.

 

1500 Metre Race Overall Winners

As mentioned earlier the 1500 metre event was held last November. 

• The overall winner of the Boys’ race was Michael Molloy.

• The overall winner of the Girls’ race was Eva Waddup.

 

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 2006

U8 Boys          Charlie Mitchell	U8 Girls          Chiara Brown
U10 Boys        Harry Edwards	U10 Girls       Victoria Humphreys
U12 Boys        Steven Binns	U12 Girls        Kirsty Hawes
U14 Boys        James Allan	U14 Girls        Emily Raw
U17 Boys        Ian Dix	U17 Girls        Lauren Raw
	O17 Girls        Julie Crawford

 

Most Improved – Tamsyn Willis

As overall most improved we have a swimmer who has shown great commitment and dedication over the course of the year. She has worked hard and concentrated on developing her technique, stamina and speed. Her commitment and attitude in training have been exemplary and this hard work has translated itself into results in Galas. 

• This year the Most Improved Cup goes to Tamsyn Willis.

 

Endeavour Plaques 

The next set of awards is made to swimmers who have really worked hard at their swimming throughout 2006.  Teachers nominate swimmers for these awards and this year there were a lot of contenders.  After much deliberation the awards this year go to:  

Boys	Girls
Joshua Freuchen	Katie Armitage
Joseph Jones	Ellie Bateman
Peter Lever	Eleanor Bellis
Paul Norman	Alison Binns
James Scott	Mollie Churney
Robert Shermer	Sophia Colville
JonLuke Summerfield	Rebecca Edge
	Ellie Fox
	Juliette Garnier
	Grace Harland
	Alex Humphreys
	Miriam Jones
	Jessica Mitchell
	Naomi Raw
	Caroline Selwood
	Sarah Wertheim
	Becky Wood
	Debbie Wood

 

Overall Endeavour – Raymon Bellis

The overall endeavour award goes to a young swimmer who has consistently attended sessions and shown great improvement. He is very keen and his attitude has been fantastic. He has been a real pleasure to teach.

• This year the Bill Dowse goblet for Endeavour goes to Raymon Bellis

 

Tony Amos – Hannah Rose 

The Tony Amos award is usually presented to one of our young swimmer to recognise Tony’s interest in teaching juniors.  This year the Tony Amos award goes to a swimmer who has excelled in her swimming. She has broken two club records at Club Champs and has continued to develop her style and speed. We will be watching her progress keenly.

• The Tony Amos cup goes to Hannah Rose.

 

Chairman’s Shield – Kevin Binns 

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

In 2006 we had a good entry of club swimmers take part in the County BAGCAT competitions and several other Open Meets.  A lot of personal best times were swum.  However, one club member had particular success at the Herts Masters and so for 2006 the Chairman’s Shield is awarded to

• The Chairman’s Shield goes to Kevin Binns.

 

Gala Performance 

The next two awards are made by our Club Captains for 2006:  Eva Waddup and Dan Evans:

• Gala Performance Girls    Lauren Raw

• Gala Performance Boys    Ian Dix.

 

So to the last two awards of the evening.

 

Vice Chairman’s Shield – Colin Smyth 

The Vice Chairman’s Shield this year goes to Colin Smyth. Colin is a valuable member of our coaching staff. His association with the club goes back many years and if you care to look you will find his name on some of the silverware that has been awarded tonight from when he used to swim for BASC in his younger years. Nowadays you will find Colin using his skill and expertise to develop our most promising younger gala squad swimmers. He continues to volunteer his time to BASC as he enjoys passing on his knowledge and skills and as a club we are privileged to benefit from this commitment. As a mark of our respect and thanks we have decided to recognise this by the award of the trophy.

• This year the Vice Chairman’s shield goes to Colin Smyth.

 

President’s Cup – Eva Waddup

The President’s Cup is awarded to the overall swimmer of the year. This year’s award winner won their Club Championship age group along with the 50m, 200m and 1500m competitions.  In recognition of an excellent year’s swimming

• The President’s Cup goes to Eva Waddup.

 

Gala Medals

Finally we have a medal for everyone who has swum for the Club in an external gala during 2006.  103 swimmers have represented Bushey ASC – to save your hands from getting sore I will announce their names in their main gala squad groupings. 

BASC Gala squads 2006

Note: Many swimmers have swum for more than one squad, so they are named below in the first squad they swam for in 2006.