Chapeltown & District Amateur Swimming Club

Affiliated to ASA, NECSSA, YSA, S&D ASA, RLSS

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PRESS RELEASE

25^th June 2008

Chapeltown regains LJ Timber trophy at swimming competition

Chapeltown Amateur Swimming Club successfully regained the LJ Timber trophy at its recent home gala competition against Sheffield City, Matlock, and Dearne Valley swimming clubs. The trophy, which is provided by Chapeltown ASC’s long time sponsor, LJ Timber Tree Surgeons, was collected by two of the club’s swimmers, 11 year old Laurie Monaghan, and 10 year old Lewis Haddon at the end of the competition.

Tom Barlow, chairman of the club and pictured with the two swimmers, commented, “It was obviously a big disappointment for the club to lose the trophy to Sheffield City last year at our home gala, so everyone was up for putting maximum effort to win it back this year and I’m delighted for all the swimmers that it’s now back in our trophy cabinet.”

The performance is yet more evidence that the new technology, along with the development of a dedicated Gym for the swimmers, is paying dividends for the club which was formed in 1961. The projector and laptop technology, partially funded by a grant from Local Network Fund and South Yorkshire Community Foundation, are now in use at the club’s training sessions both to deliver the training schedule with an automatic countdown clock for each section, and also to provide above and below water video analysis of swimming technique.

Chairman Tom Barlow with swimmers Laurie Monaghan (age 11) with the regained L J Timber trophy and Lewis Haddon (age 10) with the club's first place trophy.

Story by Kevin Canetti.