Winsford Amateur Swimming Club AGM 2016 7.00pm Wednesday 27th April 2016 Winsford Lifestyle Centre Comments Action 1 Chairs’ Welcome: Barry thanked and welcomed all to the meeting. 2 Attendees: Barry Keeling (Chair) Helen Jones (Treasurer) Diane Christopherson (Club Secretary/mins) Claire Brown (Team Manager) Sarah-Jane Armitt (Parent Member) Jayne Deeming (Treasurer/membership) Sue Wright (Parent Member) Julie Grindley (Parent Member) Andrea Blackshaw (Treasurer/membership) Diane O’Grady (Vice Chair) Claire Brown (Team/Gala Manager) 3 Apologies: Dan Goodwin (Head Coach) Peter Rose (Gala Entry Co-ordinator) Sarah Keeling (Welfare Officer) 4 Chairman’s Summary: The Chair summarised the last year and talked through some of the challenges the club faced. Brio made changes to lessons supported by the ASA, this had a – big impact on the as originally club. However, it isn’t as bad anticipated. The improved again this year, with club’s performance has greatly more County, Regional and National swimmers. 5 Head Coaches Report: The Chair read out Dan to the Goodwin’s report which is attached minutes (see Appendix A). report talks about the In Summary Dan’s clubs’ progression, provides statistics about our swimmers/squads/medals and thanks everyone involved with the running of the club, the committee, volunteers, parents/family, coaches and most of all the swimmers. The focus now needs to be on organising extra pool time at other clubs. 136 swimmers across all squads 103 swimmers in WASC lessons programme (this is down by approx. 50% owing to the change brought about by Brio). There is a recognised point where swimmers would need to potentially move on to progress, instead of this happening suggestions were made on how we, as a club can realistically prevent this. One of the suggestions made by the Vice Chair is to offer a more bespoke land training programme to the squads, and perhaps allow the younger swimmers to help increase team building
Winsford Amateur Swimming Club AGM 2016 7.00pm Wednesday 27th April 2016 Winsford Lifestyle Centre Comments Action 1 Chairs’ Welcome: Barry thanked and welcomed all to the meeting. 2 Attendees: Barry Keeling (Chair) Helen Jones (Treasurer) Diane Christopherson (Club Secretary/mins) Claire Brown (Team Manager) Sarah-Jane Armitt (Parent Member) Jayne Deeming (Treasurer/membership) Sue Wright (Parent Member) Julie Grindley (Parent Member) Andrea Blackshaw (Treasurer/membership) Diane O’Grady (Vice Chair) Claire Brown (Team/Gala Manager) 3 Apologies: Dan Goodwin (Head Coach) Peter Rose (Gala Entry Co-ordinator) Sarah Keeling (Welfare Officer) 4 Chairman’s Summary: The Chair summarised the last year and talked through some of the challenges the club faced. Brio made changes to lessons – supported by the ASA, this had a big impact on the club. However, it isn’t as bad as originally anticipated. The club’s performance has greatly improved again this year, with more County, Regional and National swimmers. 5 Head Coaches Report: The Chair read out Dan Goodwin’s report which is attached to the minutes (see Appendix A). In Summary Dan’s report talks about the clubs’ progression, provides statistics about our swimmers/squads/medals and thanks everyone involved with the running of the club, the committee, volunteers, parents/family, coaches and most of all the swimmers. The focus now needs to be on organising extra pool time at other clubs. 136 swimmers across all squads 103 swimmers in WASC lessons programme (this is down by approx. 50% owing to the change brought about by Brio). There is a recognised point where swimmers would need to potentially move on to progress, instead of this happening suggestions were made on how we, as a club can realistically prevent this. One of the suggestions made by the Vice Chair is to offer a more bespoke land training programme to the squads, and perhaps allow the younger swimmers to help increase team building