The 2010 nationals has started with style with mid beds ss swimmers making 7 finals in the first two days.
George Catterall has swam two solid swims just outside his personal bests. The two girls started off a little nervous in their 200 IMs but qualified for the 100 freestyle finals. Ellie Wase swam a big personal best and finished in 5th place. Jess Jackson swam 1.01 for the first time and finished in 6th place. Caleb Hughes swam himself into the 100 back final just missing out on the medals in 1.01.23.
The 400 freestyle make relay of Chris Murphy, David Allen, Tom Lambert and Caleb Hughes qualified 10th for the final, progressing to 8th in a new best time.
Thursday started well with Caleb qualifying for the 200 fly and IM finals. Jess also qualified for the 400 free final.
Caleb just finished the 1500 in a time of 16.05.04 winning the gold medal in the process.
Well done to all swimmers and good luck tonight.

Stevenage Leisure Limited are looking to recruit a temporary Head Coach of Mid Beds Swim Squad to cover the maternity leave of current Head Coach Vix Metcalf. If you are interested in the job then please see the link below. If you would like an informal chat about the job, please phone Vix Metcalf on 07828 644 427.

Swim Ed Mgr (mat leave) is the advert for the job.

MBSS last session will be on Friday 6th August 2010

Summer Break

Pre-Season Training in 2010-2011 Squads.
Monday 23rd August PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Tuesday 24th August PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Wednesay 25th August PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Thursday 26th August PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Friday 27th August PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Monday 30th August NO TRAINING DUE TO BANK HOLIDAY.
Tuesday 31st August PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Wednesday 1st September PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Thursday 2nd September PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.
Friday 3rd September PM only at Saxon. Normal squad training times.

Monday 6th September Normal training timetable resumes including morning training at both sites.

The committee and coaches at MBSS would like to congratulate Harriet Brettle on claiming the East Region Junior Sprint Triathlon title. Well done Harriet!

Thank you to all members who helped to collect 3850 sainsburys vouchers. We will be using these to buy land training equipment for the swimmers.

Mid Beds SS will be taking it’s largest ever contingent of swimmers to nationals in 2010. 20 swimmers have qualified in one or more events, making a 40% qualification rate from the squad. Swimmers are: Nathan Hughes. (too young to attend), George Catterall, Eleanor Wase, Jessica Jackson, Chris Murphy, Tom Lambert, David Allen, Caleb Hughes, Aydin Berki, Harriet Brettle, Alice Marchant, Katie Tavener, Alasdair Kerr, Amber Swales, Lawrence Palmer, Shauna Lee, Jessica Karp, Yasmin Bithrey, Sam Bradley & Harriet Lee.
The coaches and committee at MBSS would like to congratulate all swimmers and wish them good luck at their specific championship.

Congratulations to Aydin Berki who finished 9th in the elite race. Alice Marchant swam in the general heats but swam a faster time than 4 of the elite race at the open water festival in the Olton Resevoir in Ipswich.
Special congratulations to Peter Marchant and Simon Barker who also completed the swim.

The coaches, committee and swimmers at MBSS would like to congratulate Sam Bradley on winning a Bronze medal at the German Open last week. Sam won a bronze in the 100m Breaststroke

Mid Beds SS had a fantastic second weekend at the East region bagcat championships finishing second in the medal table with 40 medals. The swimmers amassed 23 Golds, 12 Silvers and 5 Bronzes during the two weekends. We now have 20 national qualifiers for 2010 making this our most successful season by far!

Mid Beds SS have had an outstanding first weekend at the regional bagcats in Norwich with lots of personal best performances, 5 new national times and have totalled a second position in the medal table so far with 12 Gold medals, 9 Silver medals and 2 Bronzes! Well done to all and keep the effort up for next week!