A massive well done to all DASC swimmers who qualified and competed at the first weekend of the Northumberland and Durham County Championships, 4-5th Feb.
The pdf below shows the medal table after the first weekend. A huge congratulations to our medal winners Harry Whitfield (5), William Oliver (4) and Lucy Oliver (2), plus our medal winner Josie Johnson swimming under NE Disability.
It was a first time swim for some of our qualifiers to this level of competition: Oliver Appleyard, Tristan Wheeler, Seth Farmer, William Oliver, Emily Robson, Kian Wood and Elodie Guy. Well done swimmers and hope you enjoyed the experience.
Roll on the weekend 2 of the competition on 25th-26th Feb – Good Luck to all swimmers!
While the Dolphin Centre main pool is closed and the temporrary training programme is running, we are not going to have a Tuesday Club Desk, but will try to make some DASC Swim Shop items available for sale as follows:
Darlington ASC hats
Water bottles
Sprint Award Badges
T-bag T-shirts
Debbie Johnson, mother of swimmers in A2 and A1 squad, will usually be in the Dolphin Centre Back Tank on Sundays 4.40-6.20 and can fetch specific items from the Swim Shop locker for you. If you are not able to make that, then please send your ‘order’ to enquiries@darlingtonasc.co.uk stating your swimmer’s name and squad and what you want to buy. Your order will be made up and we will arrange for it to get to you as best we can. You will be given a receipt with your order and you will be invoiced via your Direct Debit at the start of the following month as usual.
Just a reminder that you can find out more about what you can buy and where by clicking on Club Kit menu above.
Attached is the final information ahead of the first weekend of the County Championships including warm up and session times.
Please note in particular the arrangements for the online sale of spectator tickets, which open at 12 noon on Saturday 28th January and are first come, first served.
Children under the age of 10 do not require a ticket.
Well done to divers Alexa, Evan ,Theo and Toby who all won medals at the NER & N&D diving championships at Leeds this weekend.
Alexa won 2 N&D gold medals in her first ever 5 metre and 3 metre age group competitions
Evan won 2 N&D gold medals in his first ever 5 metre and 3 metre age group competitions, Evan also won Silver NER medal on 3metre and Bronze NER medal on 5 metre.
Theo won 2 N&D gold medals on 5 metre and 1 metre age group competitions
Toby won N&D silver medal inn 1 metre age group competition just 1 point behind Theo in a very close competition.
