Club News

They did it!

This fundraising finale of 2023 started at midday on the 21st and finished at midday on the 22nd, lots of updates were posted across our social platforms throughout the swimathon. In total they swam a staggering 103,250m the equivalent of swimming the English Channel 3 times! And, to date, have raised over £1800. An amazing achievement. Thank you for taking the time and effort to support this great cause and we will, of course, keep you updated on purchases made with the donations.

As part of Senior, National and Masters fundraising initiative, they are running a ‘wear a fun swim hat’, in exchange for a donation to Atlantis, over this coming weekend 15-17th December at the Pavilions. Squad reps will be able to collect any donations poolside throughout all squad sessions. Thank you for your continued support.

AND IN OTHER NEWS…………………………………..

This is the biggest initiative of the year

** a 24 hour swimathon **

This has been a long process to ensure the correct procedures are in place – risk assessments and safeguarding issues have been carried out. We have permission from the Pavilions and lifeguards and duty managers that are willing to work through the night, giving up their time for free to help us.

The swim will start at 12noon on the 21st December and end at 12noon on the 22nd.

Swims will be in 20 minute blocks.

Fun and games throughout with treats/forfeits where supporters can donate an amount for a forfeit eg. wear fins for a small amount of time, or swim an 800 IM etc (worse things come at a higher cost!).

We are looking at the best way to collect sponsorship, possibly Crowdfunder, this will be confirmed later this week.

Please see attached for upcoming closing dates.

Awards Ceremony:

We are delighted to share that we will be holding an Awards Evening straight after the final Club Championships event on Saturday 16th September

Date: 16th September
Time: From apprx. 7.30pm straight after the racing ends. Time will be confirmed once entries have been processed
Venue: The Pavilions in the Park.
Price: family ticket £5 (includes welcome drink for all attending).

All are welcome – swimmer and families – all swimmers u18 must be accompanied by an adult. Food is available to pre-order if you wish to purchase, via copying and pasting this link to your browser: https://forms.gle/RMQ3D1v6DeM8ZzZz8

Invoices will be generated for the tickets and meal order through Swim Manager and can be paid via BACS or credit card (as you would for a swim meet). Invoices will be posted from the 5th August and must be paid by 1st September.

Points will be awarded in each event and will be accumulated over the whole of the championships. Awards will be presented to 1st , 2nd and 3rd in each age group (9/under, 10,11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16+).

Awards will be presented by our very own Kate Lafferty (Sussex ASA President).

Strict deadlines of 31 August for RSVP ticket entry and pre food order. (In line with club champs entry deadline)

Summer break will be from the 5th – 20th August.

Alex & Sarah Harvey of Alex Harvey Estate Agents are celebrating their 5th anniversary. They marked this with a party. To support the club they have donated 50% of the evenings proceeds to Atlantis SC an amazing total of £500.

As many of you are aware they already support the club by donating 10% of any selling fee that comes as a direct recommendation from anyone associated with Atlantis. So please do offer their contact details to friends, family and associates asking them to quote ‘Atlantis’ and they will do the rest! T&C’s apply. You can find them at: www.alexharveyestateagents.co.uk. Tel: 01403 784110

Please attached for an outline on this years Club Championships. For full details log in at atlantis.swimmanager.co.uk – meets.
Venue: The Pavilions in the Park, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 2DF
Awards Ceremony: To take place after racing on Saturday 16th September. Final details will be sent out shortly.
Spectator Entry: will be free for all Sessions, Programmes will be sold for £1.00.
Entry Fee: £21.00 per swimmer.
Age: The meet will be run as “age on the 31 st December 2023” for competitive swimmers registered with the club at the date of the swim.
KEY: ALL SQUADS ARE TO COMPETE IN THE 100M IM
C/R/I/M/N/S – Country / Regional / Intermediates / Masters / National / Senior – are invited to enter a maximum of 7 events from the 100’s AND 200’s one of which must be 100IM (for clarity the coaches expect every swimmer to enter 100IM then choose up to 6 other events to enter. F1/F2/Dev./Junior – to enter the 100m IM + 6 further choices from 50 and 100m events.

What a fabulous bunch of swimmers!

Thank you to all those who took part in our ‘fun-sponsored-5k-run’ today. It was SO hot and each and every one of you absolutely smashed it! See attached photo of some of the participants (unfortunately we did not get everyone in the photo).

Another thank you to all the family and friends who supported their swimmers (either sponsoring, bringing them or running along side them) – it means a lot seeing their faces at the end, knowing they’ve completed this challenge!

We can also confirm that we hit the £400 fundraising target!

We are so proud of you all for getting involved and the great team spirit, and to those who still ran with their former squad buddies – #swimfamily

Huge thank you to our amazing Squad Reps Lorraine, Ed and Anna for all their hard work so far! And to our fabulous coaches, Coach Andrew for running with the swimmers, Head Coach Andy and coach Jane for cheering and supporting during the race and giving super advice to those who swam before-hand!

We hope your swimmers enjoyed the run. They were so impressive and focused and it was lovely to see them being recognised and welcomed so nicely by the Park Run Team

We hope you have had a lovely restful afternoon with plenty of water to keep you hydrated after your morning run! We look forward to seeing you poolside at your next session.

#proudclub #thefutureisblackandyellow #swimfamily

Intermediate and Junior Squad will be running a second hand kit stall over the weekend of the 10th June. Please see attached flier for details. Many thanks.