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Dorset Masters Championships 2016

February 19, 2016   By


Dorset County ASA Masters Championships were held at Rossmore on Sunday 14 February 2016. The Championships, which incorporates Dorset Masters Open Meet, had sixty swimmers present representing ten clubs and competing in 236 swims. Participating clubs also included two swimmers from SouthEast Region clubs Fareham Nomads and Basingstoke Bluefins.

The Championships began with a minute’s silence followed by a round of applause in memory of Littledown Masters’ coach Laurie Dormer.

During the competition, a total of 37 Championship Best Times were set with the most prolific new record holders being Lisa Durward (Seagulls) with six CBTs, Peter Kirk (Littledown Masters) with five CBTs, and Hannah Wiltshire (Poole) also with five CBTs.

The top team trophy was awarded to Poole Swimming Club who amassed 350 points. Runners-up were Littledown Masters with Seagulls finishing in third place.

A huge thank you must go to all the officials who gave up their time to officiate, and to the Poole SC Swim Meet Committee for organisation and running the competition on the day.

Laurie Dormer

February 13, 2016   By


 

Laurie 80th with Nat Champs (2)

Laurie Dormer, former Head Coach of Bournemouth Dolphins SC and coach of Littledown Masters has died aged 85 years on 11 February 2016.

During his coaching career Laurie, who started with the Borough of Ealing SC circa 1960 and moved to Bournemouth Dolphins in 1985, has produced a string of National Age Group Championships together with a Commonwealth Games medalist and, since 2006 with Littledown Masters, National Masters medalists and World Triathlon and Iron Man champions.

Laurie’s passion for the sport and determination to raise the profile of swimming, not only in Dorset but also nationwide, was instrumental in the formation of the British Swimming Coaches Association and the Southern Junior League, while his tenacious involvement in the late 1980’s at the planning stage of what we know today as the Littledown Centre has ensured that Dorset got the 8-lane competition pool it so badly needed.

He will be sadly missed. Our thoughts are with Luke, Laura, Joe and his grandchildren.

Photo, courtesy of Roger Guttridge: Laurie on his 80th birthday in 2010 with (L-R) his first National Champion Jimmy Faben (1966), Commonwealth Games silver medalist Malcolm Tucker (1966) and more recent National Champions, BDSC swimmers Ben Gibbs and Danielle Moore.

ASA National Winter Meet 2015

January 5, 2016   By


This year saw the first ASA National Winter Championships since 1999, the flagship event of the year to end the new designated short course season and, in a striking demonstration of the quality of the meet, an array of British Records were felled one after another. Long standing as well as newer records were broken. Plymouth Leander’s Ben Proud took the 50m Freestyle record held by Mark Foster since 2001 in a time of 20.74 and became the first British swimmer to go sub 22 seconds while 16 year old Imogen Clark (Derventio) swam 50m Breaststroke in 30.02 to claim the record held by BCS coach Zoe Baker since 2001. In a fast pool and with an electric atmosphere, how would Dorset’s qualifiers shape up to the competition?

At the end of the four days of competition, Dorset’s swimmers did not disappoint – the results were spectacular. The Dorset tally included two impressive new Junior British Records for 100m Butterfly and 50m Butterfly (producing new English, ASA SouthWest and DCASA records too) as well as five Junior Gold medals from Poole’s Jacob Peters, together with two new DCASA Senior Records and a further nine DCASA Junior Records broken by Poole swimmers Jacob Peters, Harriet Perfect and Jasmine McCrea. The full story can be found on the PSC website.

National Inter-County Masters Championships 2015

December 3, 2015   By


At this year’s regional Inter-County Masters gala the Dorset team finished equal second with Devon, representing Dorset’s best ever result for Dorset in this competition, and just five points behind Gloucestershire who won the ASASW Masters Inter-County for the first time since 1997.

Dorset Masters had 15 race wins and 23 second places, finishing in the top two for more than half of the 68 events. Final points totals were: Gloucestershire 308, Dorset 303, Devon 303, Wiltshire 200, Somerset 160, and Cornwall 124.

Hoping that the regional results would translate into a good result in the national competition, the team was not disappointed. The Dorset Masters team finished in seventh place overall out of 28 counties, which is not only Dorset’s best-ever national result by three places but, once all points had been calculated, pushed Dorset into first place of the South West counties for the first time, ahead of Devon and regional winners Gloucestershire who finished nationally in tenth place.

In the national showdown, Dorset also clocked up three national wins from Nigel Foster in the 65+ 50m Backstroke, Julia Kemp in the 65+ 50m Butterfly and Hannah Wiltshire in the 25+ 50m Breaststroke. Julia was also second in the 65+ 50m Backstroke and Hannah third in the 18+ 50m Breaststroke which she swam just two minutes after having won the 25+ age group event. However the overall results was very much a team performance and credit goes to all of the swimmers.

 

ASA Aquatics Awards 2015

December 3, 2015   By


ASA Awards 2015The achievements of all those from across the aquatics community were celebrated at the ASA Aquatics Awards 2015 held on 14 November 2015 at the historic Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa.
Split into 19 categories the Awards honoured the commitment and achievements of individuals, facilities and schools involved in aquatics and, as the ceremony drew to a close, the spotlight fell on Dorset’s own 81 year old Gordon Smart from Poole SC (centre) who received the prestigious gold ASA Services to Aquatics Award for his unwavering support and contribution to the sport for over 40 years. The Awards were presented by British Diver and Commonwealth bronze medallist in the 3m Synchro, Freddie Woodward.

Catch up with the post-presentation interview with Gordon on You Tube