Entries are now open for our 3rd Autumn Open Meet! Due to demand, the meet this year being run at Level 2 to gain entry times for Short Course Nationals.
Further information, Meet Pack and Sports Systems file are available here
A team of 19 swimmers recently undertook a 5 day training camp in Torremolinos, Malaga for the first time. Training morning and evening for the first time too.
An excellent location and hotel supplied by Sports Abroad, complimented by swimmer fund raising and generous sponsorship.
Well done all!
Entries are now open for the Buxton 1st Autumn Open meet @ Matlock ARC on 19th & 20th November 2022. Further information and meet pack here
Results from our Level X round 1 competed on Sunday 20th December 2020. All results will be published to Swim England here: https://www.swimmingresults.org/levelx/
Over the last week, we have continued with the planning and close liaising with the leisure centre management to enable our swimmers to return to the pool as soon as possible. There are still some fine details to be sorted and we will have a full timetable to share with you very soon.
We will be operating a phased return, starting Tuesday 1st September, with the 3 Competition groups and the Physical Training group. On Sunday 6th September we will be adding Academy groups to our programme, and then on Sunday 13th September all of the Learn to Swim groups will be added too. Please keep an eye on your inbox for details over the next few days.
Meanwhile, we have two important areas of ‘admin’ required by Swim England before you can return. Without these completed, you will unfortunately be refused entry to the pool.
Firstly, we have an updated Code of Conduct, that must be read and agreed to, and individual links have been emailed to all swimmers. We have highlighted the updates, but please remind yourself of all of the points.
Secondly, we require a printed & signed Health Survey. Please bring this with you to your first session back. Covid Health Survey.pdf
(If you don’t have access to a printer, please let us know and we will prepare a form for you to sign, but please accept this as a last resort).
Finally there is also a ‘swimmers guidance sheet’ (Return to the pool – Swimmer guidance.pdf) which we have prepared as a club; this is a handy way to think about the things that need doing before, during and after train ing. Some swimmers are choosing to print this off at home to help remember what to do for each session.
Swimmers must arrive at the pool, what is being termed, “Beach Ready”; this does not mean arrive in surfing shorts….it means having your swimming costume or trunks on under a changing coat/robe, a towelling poncho, a onesie, or loose fitting and quickly removable joggers and hoodie. The changing areas will have limited numbers allowed in and we have found during our back to pool planning that it is this aspect of the leisure centre, not the swimming, that has caused the most difficulty. Long gone are the days of standing for ages in the showers…and fact, showering really must be done before and after at home (see guidance sheet).
We will be in contact soon with session timings and invites for each squad as the week progresses.
Hello everyone
You may have seen on social media that Buxton Swimming Pool is due to open on Tuesday 1st September, and asking yourself what this means for you as a member of Buxton Swimming Club….well, good news – yesterday we received time slots across a week in which we can hold our club sessions.
Members of the coaching team and the committee have produced the necessary risk assessments in line with the Swim England guidelines and we have had these signed off by the pool management. We have also re-written the club’s Code of Conduct in light of the risk assessments and we will send these to you as the week progresses. Finally, you will also receive a guidance sheet with user friendly instructions on the ‘new’ working ways at the pool and a health declaration form that you must return on the 1st session you come back to swim. No signed form – no swim. We appreciate that you can fill out a form on 1 day to say you are Covid free, and then catch it the next,….so it becomes up to you on a session by session basis to evaluate your own and the swimmers health and not attend if you display any of the symptoms listed on the governmental websites related to Covid-19. We will take a Track n Trace register at the door for every session, and you are signing in each time stating that, to the best of your knowledge, you are Covid symptom free and not serving any quarantine restrictions. We obviously ask for your honesty each session and stay away if you are unsure at all, for the good of all.
Unfortunately a major issue facing the club is that the pool’s opening hours are reduced; week day opening doesn’t start until 7am making our Thursday am training a no go, Mon -Fri evenings is a 8pm close and on a weekend the pool closes at 4pm. The club’s normal timetable just will not be able to exist. The pool have kindly sent us the available slots across a week and I have contacted all of club’s teachers, coaches and volunteers to establish which sessions they can work on; from there we can construct a new pool plan…but this may involve flexibility on our part as swimmers and parents on which sessions we can attend. I should be able to send out the new times for each of our groups over the next few days once we have constructed the weekly programme.
What is going to be very difficult here is that as a club ‘we can’t please all of the people all of the time’; you may see the new timetable and say it doesn’t suit you. That is really tricky for us a club because it is not our doing to have to alter a timetable that pretty much worked before CV-19 arrived – all we can do is create the best fit with the staff and sessions we have and hope that the majority of swimmers can access the water at some point in a week. Some people may be disappointed when they see the new timetable, but please recognise we ha ve done our best. That said, if 10 or 15 of you email in to say that a planned session clashes with scouts, guides or hockey practice (or other) then we will do our best…..but we won’t be able to re-arrange everything for 1 or 2 people.
In terms of fees….once we have created the pool plan and programme we can calculate any adjustments. However, we did ask if the pool operator were putting the hire prices up – yes they have, but we have yet to find out how much.
Can I respectfully ask that you wait until you have read the updated Code of Conduct, guidance sheet, health forms and new timetables before asking/emailing a series of questions. Hopefully everything will be answered in due course.
With tough qualification times just to get into the gala, which was held at the Arc in Matlock, the Buxton club knew they would be up against some seriously good opposition.
But Stokes aaid: “Our select team showed they can achieve not only great times but also a raft of medals against the bigger clubs.
“This was a really tough gala for a small club like Buxton, but our performances will set our swimmers in the right direction as they prepare for the county championships in December.”
Seth Partridge celebrated victory in the 50m butterfly, while Ollie Ecob was second in the 50m freestyle and third in the 50m backstroke, and Matthew Foreman (50m butterfly), Chloe Montgomery White (100m individual medley) and James Ralph (100m individual medley) collected third places.
Personal-best times were recorded by Ralph, Montgomery White, Reece Bromley and Mia Stokes.
Olympic hopeful Abbie Wood returned home this week to launch a new initiative at Buxton Swimming Club in her name.
The Abbie Wood Academy has been created by the club to ensure young swimmers making their first steps into competitive swimming have the key fundamentals of racing embedded early on.
Wood, a multiple junior medalist on the international scene has gone on to represent Team GB and England across the world, started at the Buxton pool.
“I started my swimming journey here at Buxton pool and the town’s swimming club” Abbie told the younger swimmers.
Her list of honours include 400m individual medley gold, 200m individual medley bronze and 4x100m medley relay bronze at the 2015 European Games in Baku and competing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Australia.
The new academy’s head coach Liam McWee said: “Getting Abbie involved in our new academy is fantastic and it’s great to welcome her back in such a key season in the build up to next summer’s Olympics. Abbie’s skill level is so high and I’m sure our younger swimmers will be inspired by her.”
Wood is scheduled to return during the autumn term to spend time coaching and demonstrating techniques to the academy swimmers.
Richie Ralph, chairman of Buxton Swimming Club, added “We are so pleased to have Abbie involved in the club’s new section – and even more pleased when she agreed to us naming it The Abbie Wood Academy”.
With the new race season on the horizon, the club is encouraging new swimmers to sign up. Interested in joining the academy? Email membership@buxtonswimmingclub.co.uk
