Championships 2010 - Photo Report

CSSC ASA Championships - Sheffield 13 & 14 May 2010

15 departmental teams and 180 competitors took part in the Annual CSSC ASA Championships at Ponds Forge on 13 and 14 May 2010 where 13 new records were set. Emma Wise (MOD) and Martin Douglas (HASSRA) won the victrix and victor ludorum. MOD won women's open whilst HASSRA took the men's and overall open aggregate trophies. RCSL took men's, woman's and overall aggregate championship trophies. HASSRA won the water polo tournament and MOD won both men's and women's lifesaving championships. CSSC divers entertained divers from the RAF team in a diving invitational competition.

Emma Wise became the newest member of the CSSC Executive Committee as Ladies Secretary, seen here being presented with a trophy by Vice President Fred Humphreys, our longest serving member of the Executive who announced his retirement. After some 60 years of faithful service to the CSSC ASA all we can say is a big thank you and that we all wish Fred well in a long and happy and well deserved retirement ! Championships Results
  

Suzanne Witton CSSC ASA President 2010-2011

Suzanne joined the CSSC ASA Executive Committee over 10 years ago when managing the HASSRA swimming team. She has recently taken over the treasurer's job and for the past five years has been our announcer at the National Championships and at the CSSC Games.

Already a Vice President of the CSC ASA she was proposed as President for the first time at the 2010 ACM held on 13 May. Suzanne will be representing CSSC ASA at CSSC Conference in June this year.

Victor & Victrix Ludorum - Swimming

Martin Douglas (HASSRA) was once again achieved the highest number of points in the Individual men's open championships events and was presented with the Victor Ludorum trophy. Martin won the 100m breaststroke and backstroke along with the 200m Breaststroke and IM events. He was second in the 200m, 400m and 15500m events and third in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle and butterfly evens as well as the long plunge. He amassed a total of 33 points beating his closest rival Nick Valentine (also HASSRA) by six point.

Emma Wise (MOD) our new ladies secretary achieved the highest number of points in the Individual women's open championships events by winning the 50m, 200m and 1500m freestyle along with the 100m backstroke events. She was also narrowly beaten to second place in the in 100m freestyle. Emma achieved a total of 19 points beating her closes rival lynn Hodges of RCSL by 5 points.
  

Water Polo Tournament

24 players turned out for the water polo championships tournament making up four teams playing a round robin on the Thursday morning. The only complete team (HASSRA) beat teams A and C both by 10 goals to 2 and drew their third match with team B 6 goals each.

On the Friday morning we were hoping to put up a CSSC team selected from the tournament against the Royal Signals Team but unfortunately they were unable to attend. This however did give us the opportunity to play a full game with CSSC competitors and will have given the water polo secretary plenty to think bout when choosing his team to play in the Triangular at Aldershot on 20 & 21st September.

Diving Invitational

RAF divers turned out in force to support our second annual diving invitational event as well as providing additional competition during our diving championships. The invitational included both firm board and spring board events and in categories suitable for both novices as well as more proficient competitors. Results

On the Friday morning we also held a diving 'taster event' for CSSC members to try the boards out and get some instruction from experienced divers. Our divers will be competing for the CSSC ASA at the Triangular at Aldershot on 20 & 21st September.
  

Officials

A grateful thanks to all ASA Officials and helpers who worked hard and combined to make the event possible. We have a really good team and with several new members joining the team this year for the first time it was probably the most officials we have had available for years!

It's fun and games at the CSSC GAMES with fancy dress in the water as well as at the evening entertainment. The great CSSC sporting and social event of the year! Don't miss out!

CSSC ASA to take part in the 2011 CSSC Games at Loughborough

It was announced that the CSSC ASA have again been invited to the CSSC Games at Loughborough on 15 and 16 September 2011. Very much an experiment in 2009 the event was held over one day and attracted 6 teams of six. the competitors had a hard day getting through 23 individual and team events in just over 4 hours but with hopefully further interest for the 2011 event the competition will be held over 2 half days. Team events include push me pull you and pass the ball with very much the emphasis on fun and leisure side of swimming. Many competitors went to great lengths to dress up in the Centenary Style swimming events for both men and women in 2009 and it is proposed to keep this event in future years.

There was a great atmosphere at the Games with nearly 2,000 competitors and volunteers making the whole experience very enjoyable. To see results and photos of the 2009 event ....   Results   Photos (password cssc0209)
  

Team CSSC ASA - Have you joined?

Nick Valentine and Martin Douglas (shown left) are the first CSSC competitors to register as Class 2 Category swimmers with the ASA through CSSC ASA. This means Nick and Martin are eligible to swim in ASA competitions under the CSSC ASA banner.

If you are not already in a ASA affiliated club and wish to swim for Team CSSC ASA you can download the registration form and send it with your cheque to Iain Colquhoun.

We will let you know how Nick and Martin get on in their events throughout the year!