Welcome to Wellington (Telford) Swimming Club
We are a competitive swimming club based at Wellington Leisure Centre in Telford, Shropshire. The Club takes great pride not only in the standard of teaching and coaching it provides but also on the friendly and approachable atmosphere created by its members and volunteers.
The Club welcomes swimmers from the age of five who are able to swim 25 meters. These youngsters progress through our teaching classes before being encouraged to compete at our own Club Championships and other junior competitions. Our dedicated and experienced teaching and coaching staff routinely produce swimmers who compete at County, District and National Level. The Club currently takes part in the Nuneaton Diddy and DEVA League as well as several other inter-club and open meet galas. At the other end of the scale, the Club also maintains a strong Masters element that regularly train and compete alongside our younger swimmers.
Most of the Club’s sessions take place at Wellington Leisure Centre and together with our two evening’s sessions at Wrekin College, our swimmers are now able to train five days a week.
The Club is affiliated to the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA), Midland District.
Information on the ASA & links to other swimming sites are available on http://www.britishswimming.org |
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Membership Renewal
Sorry folks but it’s that time of year again. We need all renewals in by 28th Feb, if we have not received your renewal you or your child WILL NOT be permitted to swim as they will not be covered by the clubs insurance policy (even if you have a standing order in force)
A big thank you to those of you that have already returned your renewal, it makes life on the administration side that much easier as we are not rushing to try and get them in to the asa (the club get fined if we are late with our submission).
If you have not yet received a renewal form email
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and we will get one sent to you.
Many thanks
Carl
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 Sainsbury's are launching a new campaign for Active Kids Vouchers commencing on 17th February to 8th July. Clubs are able to redeem the vouchers against new equipment and Wellington Swimming Club have been invited to join the scheme. A collection box will be on our welcome desk and you are also able to leave the vouchers in our postbox next to the notice board at Wellington Swimming Pool.
So get collecting and ask all your friends and members in your family to collect the vouchers for you. Hopefully, we will have lots of new equipment for our swimmers to enjoy courtesy of Sainsbury's and all those that collect the vouchers for the club. |
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We were very fortunate to have had a visit from one of our former swimmers and now Olympic hopefuls to offer some guidance on competitive swimming at a recent master class in Telford. Charles Turner who presently is the third fastest British short distance swimmer (Frontcrawl) not only gave our members some tips, but also joined them in the pool as well.
The session was extremely well received and the young swimmers were delighted to have been able to spend some time with Charles - needless to say that some requested his autograph after the session. The club would like to express their extreme gratitute to Charlie for giving up his very limited free time to assist some younger swimmers to understand the demands and joys of competitive swimming.
Although swimmers like Charles receive some funding, it is limited to training and travel to events only - despite being part of the International competition team (British Gas) representing Britain, he still has to find sponsors to enable him to meet day to day living expenses. So if any companies are out there wishing to support a young and promising Olympic hopeful for 2012, then now is their chance to have their name associated and promoted by him from an early stage, before sums reach Rebecca Adlington levels - did we mention he is extremely photogenic?
 
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Due the growing popularity of our water polo sessions, we are delighted to inform you of an increase our sessions. To enable our younger players to benefit from more dedicated coaching in smaller groups and therefore picking up the basics and techniques of the game more easily, we are introducing a change to our session times with effect of 6th February 2010.
The new sessions are (still on Saturdays at Wellington Swimming Pool):
6 - 6.40pm - Junior players only (under 12's and beginners)
6.30 - 7.30pm - Senior players - team practise (over 12 and experienced players only)
Payment for these sessions remains unchanged at only £10 per calendar month (based on 46 weeks provision of coaching).
All players MUST be members of an ASA registered club and/or be a member of Wellington Swimming Club (Dual membership minimum requirement) - for insurance purposes.
We offer a free trial session free of charge - please contact us for details. |
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