White Oak Open
This year's White Oak Open will be held on 4th October at Black Lion Pool in Gillingham. Click here to view the program. Entry forms will be available soon.
Kent Junior League - Round 1
Our swimmers and supporters arrived at Seven Island Leisure centre to contest the first round of the Kent Junior League. This gala was always going to b a test for our swimmers following promotion last season. Our cause was not helped by a drastically depleted squad following late withdrawals. However this did not deter our gallant swimmers who produced 18 personal best times from 32 individual races. A special well done must go to Harrison Cornwell & Rhys Nolan and Natasha Warr. By the end of an exhausting evening the club finished in a very creditable 4th place. Click here to view the results.
Congratulations to all the swimmers who took part in this event and thanks to all the helpers on poolside.
Report produced by Steve Turrell with the assistance of Sharon Warr.
Kent Selection
Freddie Mawhood and Ross Fisher have both been selected to represent Kent in Darmstadt, Germany from 9th - 13th July. Whilst Ross is unable to attend, every one at the club would like to wish Freddie our very best wishes for this event.
Well done the pair of you; this is just reward for the hard work you put into your swimming.
Club Championships
The second Club Championships gala of the year will be held on Wednesday 17th June @ WOLC. The entry fee for this event is £1-50 per race. All swimmers in Bronze squad and above should definately be entering events in their age group. If you have not entered and would like to please see the committee members in the Cafeteria on a Wednesday night. Please note that Wednesday 10th June is the last night for entering this event. Late entries will not be accepted as programs etc will have been produced. Any parents who are available to help with time keeping, Marshalling the swimmers, drinks etc please see Sarah Baxter ASAP.Support WOSC and it’s swimmers.
Annual General Meeting
We will be holding our AGM on Thursday 18th June, just 2 weeks away.
It will be in the Old Bar at White Oak Leisure Centre at 7.30 pm (past Treasure Island, round the corner and it's on your left).
The club is run by volunteers alone, being swimmer's or past swimmer's parents.
(The ONLY people who are paid are SOME of the coaches, and then only at a non-commercial rate.)
All parents are busy people, but just a few hours a month keeps the club running.
PLEASE consider completing a Nomination form for a committee member.
Even if you can't spare the time to be a committee member we are in real need of volunteers for various small jobs, which individually are possible, but left to one or two people are a burden.PLEASE come to the AGM to air your views, make suggestions, offer your help with a small job, or indeed to agree to be nominated for committee or as an officer.
The AGM is an informal meeting and it would be good to see as many parents as possible show an interest in the club.
South East Regional Championships
Congratulations to all those swimmers that swam at Aldershot in the South East Regional Championships at the weekend. (results to follow)
Club Shop
A lot of you will have used the club shop to purchase anything from goggles to club bags, but unfortunately this arrangement doesn't happen without a bit of organisation.
Frances has been superbly running the 'shop' for quite some time but now works at a full-time job as well.
If we are to continue having this 'shop' facility each Wednesday evening, Frances needs someone ideally to take it over, or at least to job-share initially please.
The club uses Warmlake Sports which is at 4 Town Square in Erith, so it would be easier if you were someone living/working in that direction, in order to collect and order goods.
Other than that all you need is to be at White Oak most Wednesdays, which quite a few of you are anyway, and be interested in supporting your club a bit!
Please come and talk to Frances or any of the committee in the cafe next Wednesday or sometime soon so we can keep the shop open.
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Club Championships
The first of this year's Club Championships was held on Wednesday 11th March.
Congratulations to all those swimmers taht swam and especially to those that achieved PBs.
Millenium League
Congratulations to all those swimmers that swam in the third Millenium League Gala. There were once again many PBs set. Click here to see the results.
Kent County Championships
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Congratulations to all those that swam in the Kent County Championships. A special mention is deserved by our new Kent Champions Adam Freundlich, Freddie Mawhood, Harrison Cornwell and Ross Fisher along with Danica Ebers, Ellie Kane, Maia Ward, Megan Stewart, Adam Fisher, and Rhys Nolan who all made finals in their events. Click here to view all our results. Good luck to all swimmers competing in the remaining
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Millenium League
Congratulations to all those swimmers that swam in the first of this year's Millenium League Galas. There were a few time faults which only go to show that swimmers are improving quicker than the Team Managers expected. Well done. Click here to see the results.
Presentation Evening
The 2008 presentations were made at the Annual Presentation Evening on
Friday 23rd January at The Swanley Working Men's Club. Congratulations to all swimmers that received awards..
Saturday Time Trials
The next time trials at WOLC will be on 7th February for White, Green, Bronze and Silver squads. Click
here to see which strokes we will be swimming. To run these efficiently
we require twelve volenteers/parents to assist with time keeping.
Please offer to help if you can.
National Swimming League
Congratulations to all members of the victorious team that managed to win the final gala in the National League. Dartford and Beckenham had been joint leaders of Division Two East going into this gala but we came out on top. Click here to check out the National League website.
Club Championships
Congratulations to all swimmers that swam in the final Club Championships of the year. There were some excellent swims including Ross Fisher's new Club record for 4 x 1 IM of 1:30.
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Osteopath for all your sporting injuries. Ex-WhiteOak swimmer Graham Smith BSc (Hons)Ost.D.O.
Squad Movements Congratulations to the
following swimmers who achieved the required times to move squads
recently: Lea Melvin
Swimmers of the month:
Bronze Squad: Luke Baxter. Silver Squad: Kane Boorman. Well done and keep up the good work!
Club Shop
The Club shop sells a wide range of swimming equipment:-
Club T bags,hats, trunks, costumes, goggles, fins, kickboards, pullbuoys.
It is run by Francess in the caffeteria area on Wednesday evenings.
There are also, often, second hand fins, kickboards, pullbuoys etc
available.
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Anybody with any of the above items that are no longer required and
would like to donate them to the club please see Francess.
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