Anyone joining the club now as a category 1 swimmer will need to pay £25 per person.

This covers your membership to the club and Swim England (formerly known as the ASA).

This is reduced from the full year’s fee of £33 🙂

The Midland Masters Championships took place on 13th and 14th May 2017 at Pingles Leisure Centre, Nuneaton.

Massive well done to Pete Purdy and Cathy Reekie who both took part over the weekend. Pete had  6 swims, 2 Bronze, 1 Silver, and Pete was very happy with his 3 personal best times. Cathy kept the medal haul going with 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals. Well done to both of them.

CLICK HERE for the full results.

Venue: Wolverhampton Central Baths

A note from Strourbridge swimming club regarding the meet –  which is on Sunday 11th June:

Thank you for your entry for our Junior Sprint Meet on 11th June 2017.

SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY

Session 1 Warm up 9am Session starts 10am

Session 2 Warm up 1:30pm Session starts 2:30pm

To avoid empty lanes and make a better competition, it would be appreciated if any withdrawals prior to the day of the meet, could be reported by email to stourswim@virginmedia.com.

The organisers reserve the right to make an alteration to the start time of the sessions, should the need arise.

SPECTATORS The meet is full and will be a busy event and therefore we must make it clear that we cannot guarantee spectator spaces and we will stop entry to the pool on Health and Safety grounds if all seats are taken and we must ask that you help us with this message.

Finally a big thank you to all who have supported the event, we look forward to welcoming you on the day.

Programme Junior Sprint Meet 2017

TROPHIES The first six in each age group, in each event will receive trophies or medals except for the winner who will receive a Crystal goblet. A prize will be presented to the visiting team scoring the highest number of points at the meet on a 6-5-4-3-2-1 placing basis.

The second round of the Nuneaton and District Junior League (affectionately known as the Diddies) went swimmingly at Cheslyn Hay Swimming baths last Saturday.

With 31 top three finishes, 12 of which were first places, the team enjoyed their second position on the night, coming runners up to Coalville.

Winners for Beeches were:

Joel Harris (9’s 25 Breast, 9’s 25 Free and 10’s 25 Butterfly) – well done Joel! Also Harvey Higgins (12/under 50 Breast and 12/under 50 Free); The girls 10/under Freestyle relay (Kadijha Cox, Carys Higgins, Kianna Hughes and Sophie Mason); The girls 8 by 1 cannon (Lily Ravenhill, Eva Chikurunhe, Kianna Hughes, Abbie Fuller, Carys Higgins, Kadijha Cox, Becky Gulliver and Sophia Deans); Carys Higgins (10/under 50 Backstroke and 10/under 25 Butterfly); the boys 12/under medley relay (Ellison Hart, Harvey Higgins, Lewis Carless and Vinaye Gaddu).

Other top three finishers were:

Kadijha Cox (2nd 10/under 50 Free and 2nd 11/under 50 Breaststroke); 3rd the girls 11/under medley relay (Lottie Coley, Kadijha Cox, Emma Fuller and Tegan Nolan); Catrise Hart (2nd 12/under 50 Backstroke); Ellison Hart (3rd 12/under 50 Backstroke); 2nd the boys 9/under medley relay (Sebastian Deans, Joel Harris, Billy Martin and Harry McGovern); 2nd the girls 11/under Free relay (Abbie Fuller, Tegan Nolan, Emma Fuller and Lottie Coley); Becky Gulliver (3rd 12/under 50 Butterfly and 2nd 12/under 50 Freestyle); Lewis Carless (3rd 12/under 50 Butterfly); 2nd the girls 10/under medley relay (Kianna Hughes, Kadejha Cox, Carys Higgins and Sophie Mason); 2nd the girls 9’s freestyle relay (Millie Boulton, Eva Chikurunhe, Lily Ravenhill and Lois Markham); Sophia Deans (2nd 12/under 50 Breast); Eva Chikurunhe (3rd 9’s 25 Freestyle); 2nd for the girls 12/under both the freestyle and medley relays (Sophia Deans, Becky Gulliver, Catrise Hart and Trearna Hart); 3rd the boys 8 by 1 cannon (Billy Martin, Sebastian Deans, Joel Harris, Metin Ulukus, David Coleman, Jack Robins, Lewis Carless and Harvey Higgins); Lily Ravenhill (2nd 9’s 25 Backstroke).

Head Coach Helen Pordage is very proud of all of the swimmers who took part and supported the team. Lying in 7th position in the league, here’s looking forwards to round 3 on June 17th 🙂

That time of year is almost upon us again!

PBSSS’s annual AGM will be held at Hollyfields Social Club on Tuesday 27th June at 19:30 – followed by an exciting Quiz Night – all proceeds to  Macmillan– more details to follow!

We would like nominations for the following roles for this year’s AGM – please send any nominations through to secretary@perrybeechesswimming.co.uk no later than 19:00 Monday 19th June.

The main committee roles at PBSSS are as follows:

None Committee Posts include Officials, Fixtures, Club Captains, Social Events Group, Plus many other exciting roles. Any queries please email secretary@perrybeechesswimming.co.uk. Thank you.