Bathgate A.S.C. AGM Minutes 2014 r0 Page 1 of 12 Meeting Date: 7 th December 2014 Venue: Fairway Hotel, Bathgate. Date: 7th December 2014. Meeting commenced 19:10hrs and concluded 20:19hrs. Attendees : Andrew Millar (Chairman), Nigel Kelly, Ruth Gill, Martin Kelly, Antasha Wolmarans, Andrew Revell, Chris Farrell, Ralph Crooks, Niall Bell, Terence Davies, Patsy Kelly, William Stirling, Craig Hossack, Elizabeth Archibald, Neil Quinn, Annette Bell, Ronnie Morgan, Annabell Drummond, Sharon Gill, Iain Sinclair, Jillian Sinclair, Callum Sinclair, Evan Wolmarans, George Hossack, Anna Kelly, Nyah Archibald, Jessica Service. Apologies: Joe Robb Minutes by: Andrew Revell, dated 24th December 2014. 1. Welcome: Andrew Millar welcomed everyone to the meeting and outlined the agenda. 2. Approval of Previous AGM Minutes & Matters Arising: Previous Minutes (AGM of 14 th November 2013) accepted with no amendments. Proposed by Patsy Kelly. Seconded by Craig Hossack. 3. Club Captains Report: 3.1. The Club Captains (George Hossack and Anna Kelly) and Junior Captains (Nyah Archibald & Jessica Service) spoke to the meeting about their first year in these new roles. George and Anna have been swimming with the club for a long time and, in their new roles, have been able to pass on their experiences to some of the other older swimmers. They thought that their experiences of some of the pressures of study and exams, and of time spent in the performance pathway in Swim West Lothian (SWL), was particularly relevant. Nyah and Jessica were able to encourage and support some of the younger swimmers who were entering their first competitive galas. They all wanted to use their own experiences to inspire younger swimmers. They all said that they enjoyed being involved in the organisation of events; presenting medals at the Tadpole champs, choosing team tea shirts, assisting at galas.
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Bathgate A.S.C. AGM Minutes 2014
r0 Page 1 of 12 Meeting Date: 7th
December 2014
Venue: Fairway Hotel, Bathgate.
Date: 7th December 2014.
Meeting commenced 19:10hrs and concluded 20:19hrs.
Attendees : Andrew Millar (Chairman), Nigel Kelly, Ruth Gill, Martin Kelly, Antasha
Wolmarans, Andrew Revell, Chris Farrell, Ralph Crooks, Niall Bell, Terence Davies,
Patsy Kelly, William Stirling, Craig Hossack, Elizabeth Archibald, Neil Quinn,
Timetable of Key Events 2013 – Nov 2014 Nov 2013 Club Champs
Alana Wait wins Lifetime Achievement Award at VSGWL 2013 Awards
Dec Revision of new tadpole pool layout
Jan Good Sport Contracts introduced
Club enters the first Scottish Swimming 5K event – Graeme Burton is second
nationally in age group
Friday night land training introduced for Masters
Feb Regular slot in the West Lothian Courier secured
March Introduction of new Adult Improvers group
April Introduction of Club Captains
May 1st Choice Blinds and Shutters New Club Shirt Sponsor
June New BASC noticeboard on display at pool
Club is honoured to participate in the Queen’s Baton Relay event
August Natalie Ellis completes UKCC Level 1
First entry as a club at the Great Scottish Swim in Loch Lomond
Sept All Water Helpers encouraged to register for Saltire Awards
Oct Top squad coaching support secured from Oliver Waddington until 31 Dec
Successful recruitment of new club volunteers
Nov 2014 Club Champs
New tadpole format – medals presented on the night by Club Captains
Ruth Gill wins a Judges Discretionary Award and George Hossack is runner
up in the Sports Volunteer category at VSGWL 2014 Awards
Club announce plans for 2015 Open Water Swim Camp in Annecy – 35
swimmers to enter the Lake Annecy Swim in August 2015
Club banners researched and in production
New seasonal club newsletter launched by senior swimmer – John Fisher
New Squad Administrators in place
Gold squad trial new resistance land training kit with Xcite
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Record Breakers
48 Short Course & 14 Long Course Club Records were recorded with 11 swimmers recording club records in 2014: Matthew Revell, Gregory Revell, Rebecca Stirling, Natalie Reilly, Caitlin Drummond, Nathan Robb, Sophie Morland, Laura Crawford, Katie McGhee, Jessica McKee & Rachel Donald.
Coaching news
Head Coach Following the birth of her beautiful baby Evan, Antasha is now back in her role as Head Coach. Antasha is the lead coach for the club and is the main point of contact for parents in relation to coaching and training queries. The coaches worked together to ensure there were cover plans in place each week during Antasha’s maternity leave and maintained continuity in her absence. The Club have secured some additional temporary coaching support from Oliver Waddington from Swim West Lothian. Oliver is also providing invaluable professional development support to our younger coaches. Additional Coaches The club has gone through a period of change with coaches moving on and new ones coming in. Lisa Kelly has now started university and the club wishes her well with her studies. Natalie Ellis qualified as a Level 1 Coach just after the summer and Ailsa McApline, Graeme Burton and Rosie Kane are all going through their Level 1 Coaching qualification at the moment. We have 2 senior swimmers who are shadowing coaches at the moment, George Hossack and Jack Burnside and we hope they too will progress onto their Level 1 qualification in due course. Nathan Robb is also going to be involved in coaching in the New Year. The club promotes volunteering to its older swimmers and we have a very committed group of water helpers supporting our youngest swimmers in the tadpoles section. Our Water Helpers are actively encouraged to register for the Saltire Awards which recognises their efforts through accreditation of hours spent volunteering and is endorsed by the First Minister. Club Captains The club introduced the roles of club captains earlier this year and we have 2 Junior Captains (Nyah Archibald and Jessica Service) and 2 Club Captains (Anna Kelly and George Hossack) in post. There was a great deal of interest in these roles from our swimmers and our younger swimmers look up to our Captains as role models for them. A report from the Captains will follow. Venue Hire Like all sports clubs in Scotland, we are facing significant increases to our venue hire costs. West Lothian Council have already increased the hourly cost of their pool hire and we expect additional increases in 2015 in light of the ‘Delivering Better Outcomes’ agenda. The local authority have to save £30.4 million between 2015 and 2018 and we expect further cost increases both with WLC venue hire and Xcite facilities in the coming months.
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BASC Swimming Pathway The BASC swimming pathway continues in a positive way. With the introduction of new pathway we embarked on new era of competitive swimming within the club. There have been numerous club records broken in the last year, with countless gold, silver & bronze medals won at various galas. The committee have made efforts to strengthen the pathway from the club onto Swim West Lothian. The club now benefits from skills and expertise of 2/3 top SWL swimmers attending our training sessions once a month. Our swimmers benefit a great deal from seeing these high quality athletes in action and it demonstrates the progression routes from the club to both parents and swimmers alike. We have also secured the support of Oliver Waddington, Assistant Head Coach of SWL who team teachers with our coaches at Armadale Academy on Tuesdays. This partnership has provided high quality professional development opportunities for our own coaches. The committees approach to partnership working and building on the pathway sees our largest contingent of Bathgate swimmers in SWL since 2011 and we will be revisiting our squad criteria in the new year to ensure swimmers are able to progress through our squads up to Gold and then onto SWL. The club has grown its membership from 160-180 helped by a revision of our Learn-to-Swim programme. Working in partnership with Scottish Swimming, the club has built additional capacity into the Tadpoles sections thanks to the new layout and format. We have also introduced a new squad for adults to improve their swimming technique which runs alongside the Masters squad. As a result, we now have the largest number of Masters swimmers ever in the club demonstrating the age range of our club membership. For our younger swimmers, it is important they can see swimming is a sport they can participate in at any age.
East District Age Group Champs Pt2 29/30 Nov 2014 Edinburgh & Midlothian Schools 23 Nov 2014 Carnegie Mini Meet 23 Nov 2014 Coast Grand Prix 14-16 Nov 2014
East District Age Group Champs Pt 1 1/2 Nov 2014 Carnegie Winter Meet 25/26 Oct 2014 West Lothian Championship 12 Oct 2014 Bo'ness Mini Meet 5 Oct 2014 East District Time Trial 4 & 5 Oct 2014 Scottish Team Championship 27 Sep 2014 Stirling autumn Meet 21 Sep 2014 West Lothian Schools 21 Sep 2014 Haddington 100 Meet 14 Sep 2014 Iain MacFadyen Meet 6 Sep 2014 Dunedin Challenge Meet 30/31 Aug 2014
Welsh Summer Nationals 2 - 8 Aug 2014 Scottish National Age Group Champs 25-29 Jun 2014 Aquanauts Graded Meet 22 Jun 2014 East Lothian Distance Meet 21 & 22 Jun 2014 Trojan Time Banded Gala 8 Jun 2014 INCAS Distance Meet 31 May/1 Jun 2014 SASA North Grand Prix 30 May/1 Jun 2014 Bathgate Procession Gala 28 May 2014-Girls Results Bathgate Procession Gala 28 May 2014-Boys Results SWL IM Tough Meet 16-18 May 2014 LDD Graded Meet 11 May 2014
Carnegie So Long Meet 3 & 4 May 2014 Midlothian Spring Meet 26 & 27 Apr 2014 FIRST Open Meet 19 & 20 Apr 2014 Scottish National Open Championship 3-6 Apr 2014 East Lothian Novice Meet 29 Mar 2014 Warrender JAG Open 23 Mar 2014 Glenrothes Spring Meet 22 Mar 2014 Portobello Mad March Meet 15 Mar 2014 Scottish Schools Championship Final 7 Mar 2014 East District Challenge 1 & 2 Mar 2014
Bellshill Sharks Open 15 & 16 Feb 2014 East District Age Group Champs pt3 11/12 Jan 2014
2014 BASC League Results SWL Splash League 14 Nov 2014 – finished second overall FVJL 16 Nov 2014 FVJL 21 Sep 2014 SWL Splash League 5 Sep 2014 FVJL 24 Aug 2014 SWL Splash League 30 May 2014 FVJL 1 Jun 2014 Lothian Intermediate League 10 May 2014 Lothian Intermediate League 12 Apr 2014 FVJL 16 Mar 2014
Lothian Intermediate League 8 Mar 2014 FVJL 23 Feb 2014 SWL Splash League 7 Feb 2014 Full Meet Results Splash League 7 Feb 2014 2014 BASC Masters Events Attended
Masters Events
East of Scotland Masters Champs 22 Nov 2104 Scottish Masters SC Championship 17 & 18 Apr 2014 SASA 5K Championship 24 Jan 2014