15th May more water polo tickets will be going on sale for those who never got any tickets in the first round. Any tickets which are unsold will be rolled forward into the next day’s sales. Applicants can only apply for one session and once they are successful will be unable to buy any more tickets during this sales period.
The deadline to get your black tie night tickets is this Friday! It’s being held at Heysham Golf club from 7.30pm with a three course meal starting at 8.00pm.
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British water polo players learned their Olympic fate as the draw for the group stages of the competition were made.
The men’s GB squad face a difficult opening week with their Group B competition in the form of Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, USA and Serbia.
The British women fared better with the luck of their draw. They will face Italy, Russia and Australia in group B. Group A will be Hungary, Spain, China and the USA.
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The British Gas GBR Women’s Water Polo team lost out in the bronze medal match but left the VISA International with their heads held high.
Competing against familiar foes Hungary – who defeated them 19-9 en route to bronze at January’s European Championships – the Brits slipped to a 11-4 defeat in their last match at the Olympic Water Polo Arena before the Games themselves.
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Lancaster youth have become the 2012 National Water Polo Champions for the second consecutive yuear after beat City of Manchester 5 – 4.Lancaster’s victorious team was.
Dominic Lock in goal, he made crucial saves throughout the game. Sebastian Reichel, he worked tirelessly and covered a lot of water harassing the Manchester attack. Zak Lamb showed great polo awareness, worked intelligently for 4 quarters.
Joe Barker protected the pit defender with great skill and composure, and supported the attackers. Dean Akister defended admirably throughout keeping Manchester forwards under constant pressure. James Pratt starred defensively as he kept the shackles on the Manchester pit forward. Josh Barret worked hard as he covered more water to offer a real threat down the right hand side of the play.
Andy Robinson supported the forward play with his countless attacking breaks, causing Manchester to defend at times desperately. Sam Routledge was the real thorn in Manchester’s side. He was voted the Matches Most Valuable Player producing a threat every time he got the ball in the attacking half of the pitch. Sam scored all Lancaster’s goals and with a bit more luck could have scored more. Thomas Prayle, Jordan Titley ,Fen Bleasdale and Aaron Mason ,although they did not get much time in the water during the final had produce enormous contributions to the team during the preliminary and qualifying rounds.
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Lancaster juniors have become the 2012 National Water Polo Champions for the third consecutive yuear after beat City of Sheffield 12 – 7.
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Great Britain and Australia will resume their fierce sporting rivalry in the form of water polo at London’s Olympic Park on Thursday. The two old foes will join women’s squads from the USA and Hungary in a four-team test event over four days at the 5,000-seat arena. Around 4,000 tickets have been sold for each day as water polo makes its Olympic Park debut.
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Due to the Easter Weekend, we have seen a low number of responses to the Development day ,which was to be held at Lancaster University on Saturday. We have therefore postponed the day and will move it to another date in the next couple of months.
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London 2012 Water Polo Arena construction complete as test event tickets go on sale.
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Scott reports on how things are going down under and about the Australia all stars team.
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Lancaster City members have been offered the opportunity to apply for tickets to watch the Water Polo in London later this year at the Olympic Games.
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The pool is now re-open and training will commence tonight as normal!
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Salt Ayre is still closed today (Thursday) and we will here more about tomorrows training around 9am tomorrow morning. Keep coming back tomorrow to see the update on the pool.
Over 18′s put this date in your diary! Saturday 19th May 2012. We are running our first club Black Tie night at Heysham golf club for current swimming and water polo members, coaches, parents as well as past members.
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Lancaster RTC has been granted some money from Swim North West to run a water polo development day. The development day is for academy (born 1998 & 1999) as well as cadets (2000, 2001). The invite is to all Lancashire and Cumbria clubs.
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As per previous e-mails and posters, we have unfortunately had to increase monthly swimming fees from March 2012. Could all club members who have yet to alter the fees, please change standing orders accordingly and pay March fees at the desk or via the standing order account.
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Lancaster Water Polo players Glen Robinson and Alex Parsonage both put away goals at Tuesday nights Great Britain V Russia game.
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Three of Lancaster long serving members were presented by Irene Smith and Ray Holmes, who are both part of the life members group, on Wednesday at the Annual General meeting to become a life member of the club. Lancaster Water Polo Coach Ron Winn, President and ex polo player Ron Flude and treasurer and also ex water polo player Geoff Shingler were all presented their certificate.
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IMPORTANT: On Sunday 25th March there will be a North Lancs home Gala at Salt Ayre starting at 5pm. Normal training will be cancelled after 5pm. The first session (4-5pm) will take place as normal.
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Yesterday (16th March) we confirmed the first North West 1995 and younger trials for the Inter Regions. The first session is a week today, Saturday 24th March at Manchester Aquatic Centre from 6.00pm – 9.00pm.
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The British Gas GBR Men’s Water Polo team continued their build up to London 2012 with a FINA World League preliminary at World Champions Italy.
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The British Gas GBR Men’s Water Polo team face their latest FINA World League test against world champions Italy on Tuesday night.
The Visa Water Polo International comes to the Water Polo Arena on the Olympic Park from 3–6 May 2012 and we’re offering you a chance to purchase tickets 48 hours in advance of general release.
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Six Lancaster players represented North West in the 2012 Academy boys Inter-Regional Championship last weekend at Gloucester and Newport.
Lancaster City Juniors took on three hard teams in the preliminary round of the National Junior Championships at Loughborough this weekend.
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The Lancaster junior water polo team take on Invicta and City of Shefiled today at Loughborough as the team start their journey to retain their title of the Junior National Champions.
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Renewal forms and cheques are due by tomorrow (Tuesday 28 Feb 2012) and the monthly fees change from the 1st March – see below.
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The ASA is currently completing further research into the behaviour of young people with regards to swimming. We are asking young people of secondary school age to complete a short survey with questions relating to how often they swim, why they swim and what would make swimming more appealing. The survey is anonymous and you will find a link to this below.
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Lancaster City Amateur Swimming & Water Polo Club notice of Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting of Lancaster City Amateur Swimming and Water Polo Club will take place at 7.30pm on Wednesday 21 March 2012 at the George Hotel, Torrisholme Road, Morecambe.
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Lancaster City girls Eve Simpson and Ellie Muncaster helped out the North West B team to success in the 2012 Inter Regional Academy Girl’s’ Water Polo Championships
GB Men’s team are playing in the FINA World League against Russia on Tuesday 20th March at 20:00 at Manchester Aquatics Centre.
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The Lancaster City senior team went to Manchester Aquatic Centre last week to compete in the 2012 British Championships. Just two weeks prior to that the Lancaster City team were crowned the 2011-2012 British Water Polo League Champions.
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Six Lancaster players, Dean Akister, Jordon Titley, Owain Llewellyn, Stefano Cossutti, Nathen Chettenham and Hary Palin along with Lancaster coach, Zak Sly, helped their school Ripley St Thomas to the next round of the English Schools under 14′s (Year 9 and under).
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As some of you may be aware I have recently been appointed to the ASA National Youth Forum. The ASA are encouraging more participation in Aquatic sports by younger people, with this in mind I am looking for swimmers and polo players to join a club committee. Laura C
Not only have Lancaster City won the British Water Polo League title, but Lancaster player Tom Curwen got the highest goal scorer with 35 goals in the Super 5′s. This seems much lower then previous years, but with the new layout of the league all goals reset after phase one.
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It’s exactly six months to go till the London Olympics. That means in six months time five of Lancaster Water Polo players; Ciaran James, glen Robinson, Alex Parsongae, Alex Rutledge and Beckie Kershaw could be at the opening ceremony representing Great Britain in the men’s and women water polo team.
After winning the National Title this week Lancaster now set forward for the future and to battle it out in the British Championships which start in two weeks time (4th & 5th February).
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A new venture this year. An informal Gala for Competitve Development & Squad 1 Swimmers only – check your email for details or see Laura for an entry form.
New fixtures are out now – please keep checking the board as they keep changing…
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Lancaster City’s senior mens water polo team claimed their 12th British League Title in the last 15 years after a thrilling weekend of action in front of the SKY cameras at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.
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Lancaster City are ready to battle it out this year in the youth and junior National Water Polo Championships. Lancaster will be looking to retain both of their titles
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45 boys , born 1997 and younger, from all over the North West trialled for the North West Tigers and North West Raven team which will take part in the 2012 Inter Regional Academy Boys’ Water Polo Championships.
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Lancaster City Senior Water Polo Team could be crowned BWPL champions in a couple of weeks on Sky Sports!
BWPL will achieve an exciting and historic landmark when Sky TV screens action from men’s and women’s Super 5s matches at Manchester Aquatics Centre!
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After the three day Triangle tournament Team Ron came first, even with two losses on the last day of games! Team Zak game second one point behind and Team Gary came third two points behind Team Ron after winning their last two games.
Looking forward to seeing all swimmers back at training tonight. Don’t forget session 1 starts at 7.30 prompt and those attending session 2 should arrive for 8pm to stretch and warm up before the 8.30 start.
Wow! What a great gala, fast and furious with records dropping everywhere.
Quick highlights: 10 CBPs set – 3 by Ellie Muncaster, 3 by Shea, 1 by Adam Leech, 1 by Olivia Robinson, 1 by Bethany Fletcher and 1 by Grace NB. More details to follow soon.
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Over the last three weeks members of Lancaster City swimming club have taken part in the annual Winter Distance Championship Galas. In the 400 IM swimmers compete over 100m of each stroke. Eighteen year old Adam Bateson won the gentleman’s championships with a time of 5:09.73, a new personal best. Andrew Burch (5:35.13) and Harry Sykes (5:43.92) took the silver and bronze positions respectively.
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Last night saw the second night on the clubs Triangle tournament which left Team Ron still ahead but by just one point. 
Hi Zak. Good luck for the weekend, hopefully we can keep up the good start to the Super 5s. It has been 30 degrees every day here this week so my skin has taken a beating.
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Although Lancaster suffered a last minute defeat against Cheltenham on Saturday, Lancaster remain top of the men’s Super 5s, with a two points lead.
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The long awaited Triangle Tournament is back for three days!
Tuesday 13th , Thursday 15th and Friday 16th Decmeber. All starting at 9.30pm.
The teams:
Team Ron
Marc Robinson
Sam Smith
Scott Sharpe
Sam Routledge
James Alker
Zak Lamb
Thomas Prayle
Laura Hesketh
Beth Richards
Eve Simpson
Team Zak
Dominic Lock
Decland Ellwood
Elliot Trafford
Ben Walker
Lewis Peach
Josh Barrett
Jordon Titley
Kathryn Routledge
Rachel Murby
Molly Dixon
Team Gary
Louise Murby
Michael Brown
Robert Simpson
Noel Howson
Luke Saul
Dean Akister
Fen Bleasdale
Katie Hesketh
Beth Bell
Aaron Mason
Check out the poster for full details.
Lancaster City seniors this weekend travelled down to Crystal Palace, London, for the second weekend of the Super 5′s. They had two hard games to win and winning them both would mean putting them at the top of the league with a two point margin.
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On Friday the 25th November Lancaster water polo player and swimmer Katie Hesketh attended the Lancashire Sports Awards 2011 at the Blackpool Hilton Hotel. Katie, who was nominated for the Lancashire award because she had won the Lancaster City Council rising star award, was one of 12 nominees from local authority areas all over Lancashire.
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A group of Lancaster City Swimming and Water Polo players; Zak Lamb, Molly Dixon, Dean Akister, Fen Bleasdale, Eve Simpson, Jordon Titley, Alex Bradley, Nathan Cheetenham and Harry Palin along with Lancaster coach Zak Sly, will be all heading to Manchester today to take part in the first round of the English Schools Water Polo Tournament.
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Laura and Katie Hesekth, who played for City of Liverpool in the Preliminary Round matches of the Women´s European Champions Cup in Belgrade, Serbia, have made it to the quarter finals!
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After yesterdays unexpected win for Laura and Katie Hesketh who are playing for Liverpool in the Preliminary Round matches of the Women´s European Champions Cup in Belgrade, Serbia,the sisters win another game.
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Hesketh sisters, Laura and Katie, who are away with Liverpool at the Preliminary Round matches of the Women´s European Champions Cup in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Just a reminder that Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings now start 15 minutes earlier at 6.45am till 7.45am.
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Lancaster City are looking to make this year their twelfth national title as they win their first two games of the new Super 5′s league, at local pool Salt Ayre.
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A new year and what a better way to start it with a Lancaster City Swimming and Water Polo Club PARTY!
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Manchester Aquatic Center will host the Great Britain Menes FINA World League preliminary in December.
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I’m sure most of you have seen this floating around on Facebook the last couple of days, but according to bleacherreport.com Water Polo ranks the toughest sport in the world, tougher then boxing, Ice hockey and even Rugby.
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Team Manager and Committee member Duncan Holmes and vice president Mike Hesketh have both been selected as technical officials for the London 2012 Olympics.
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Lancaster member Katie Hesketh has recently been selected asthe districts “Rising Sports Star” selected by Lancaster City Council.
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Lancaster Coach Zak Sly and player Scott Sharpe have been offered a one in a life time opportunity to be part of the London Olympic 2012 Games Makers Program. they will be joined by four other North West members James Salt (City of Manchester), Tom Grieve (Carlisle), Lewis Peach (Blackpool) and Anthony McGuinness (Bridgefield).
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Lancaster City seniors make Super 5′s in the British Water Polo League after Bristol Central were defeated by City of Manchester at Loughborough.
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The entry site for Winter Gala and distance championship events is now live and can be found using this link >
We have secured two of Britains finest – Mathew Bowe & Joe Roebuck to deliver a butterfly based swimming clinic at the university pool on Saturday the 29th of October 2011. There are limited places so if you are interested contact Andi on info@swimcity.org.uk NOW… The cost is £45 and the clinic will run from 2.45pm to 6.15pm. It will include a Land Training session, information on nutrition and 90 minutes pool time. For more information, contact Andi and see the poster>>
THE BIG SWIM: Saturday 8th OCTOBER 2011
This event will take place at the Salt Ayre pool this Saturday from 1pm to 4pm.
The idea is to swim between 1 and 12 lengths in order to help our local swim reach 2012 lengths as quickly as possible.
It’s open to anyone – Not only would I like to encourage as many swimming club members to attend as possible…
but get Mums, Dads, friends and family to turn up as well.
If you wish to participate you need to sign-up on the LCC website >> Anyone who swims will get a free swim.
ALSO – Help is needed to monitor the lanes and count lengths, so let me know if you can help. ANDI
After the weekend catch up in the BWPL, division one, Lancaster still sit 3rd whilst City of Manchester move down to second and Cheltenham jump up to first place.
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We have been away to Bogliasco, Italy for the first round of the first-round matches of the Euro Cup, formerly known as Men´s LEN Trophy. There are four groups and we was in group C. The top four teams in each group go forward to the next round in two weeks time.
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News just in… Mary Hodgson has taken second place in her age group at the World Biathle Champs in Sofia, Bulgaria. She called in to let us know this morning. The other entrants are still to finish competing so hopefully more news later. Well done Mary!
The GBR women’s water polo team have qualified for the European A’s after beating Ukraine 21 – 8 today at Manchester Aquatic Centre.
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Lancaster City Water Polo seniors took full points in their second weekend of the British Water Polo League when they took on Rotherham and Portobello at home pool Salt Ayre . This moved them up from fourth to third in the table.
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Lancaster beat Rotherham today in the BWPL which was held at the home pool Salt Ayre. Lancaster stop Rotherham getting away from their minus two points after beating them 13 – 11.
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World Championship runners-up China came out on top of a physical battle with the British Gas GBR Women’s Water Polo team in the opening round of the Four Nation Invitational in Manchester.
Lancaster City thrashed Preston in the North Lancashire League 22 – 2 last night at Salt Ayre. Lancaster fielded a young team which included 14 year old Dean Akister when they beat Preston.
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The battle for places in the inaugural men’s Super Fives event has taken a dramatic turn, with Rotherham, winners of two of their three matches during the opening Division One week at Bath University, suffering a deduction of six points for including an unregistered player in their first three matches. This moves Lancaster from 5th place to 4th place. continue to read
Lancaster are fighting to make this their twelfth tile this year and they made it hard by losing two games in the opening weekend at Bath.
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Keep up with the Lancaster City Water Polo scores this weekend from Bath as Lancaster take on City of Manchester, Invicta and Cheltenham in the British Water Polo League.
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Great Britain have finished in ninth place after beating France 14 – 3 in the U17 European Junior Championships.
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After today’s win against Slovakia, the women’s Junior team are still fighting for ninth place in the European Junior Championships in Madrid, Spain.
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Hi all,
I have signed a contract for SV Wurzburg 05 in Germany for their Natioal Water Polo Leageu Session. I move out there on the 31st of august and will be training with them for 3 weeks before going to Italy to play in the Len trophy, which we are in group C (You can find the results on the LEN website).
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With GBR yesterday losing 20 – 4 to Greece but today winning 14 – 7 to Sweden, puts them in a good position to come out with 9th place.
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Lancaster City water polo team traveled a short distance to sunny Blackpool for their second North Lancashire League game. Lancaster set a storm on Blackpool as they beat them 21 – 3.
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GBR third game was against Turkey which GBR smashed some goals away, beating them 24 – 3.
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GBR second game in the 2011 European Junior Championships in Madrid was against Czech Republic. GBR lost 10 – 12, with captain and Lancaster player Katie Hesketh scoring three goals, one being a penalty. Kathryn Routledge scored one.
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The first game of the women’s under 17 European Championships which Lancaster player Katie Hesketh is Captaining were taken down by Italy 19 – 4.
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Lancaster referee Tad Detko is heading out to City of Treste (Italy) on the 9th September to be a FINA neutral referee at the 9th FINA World Women’s Junior Water Polo Championships.
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GB juniors last game today was against South Africa which they won 23 – 4. This was a great finish to the Eger camp.
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Lancaster players Elliot Trafford, Decland Ellwood and Noel Howson along with the other GBR players played against Eger in an outdoor pool with a a couple of 100 people watching.
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The ASA North West Region were given the opportunity to purchase London 2012 Olympic Tickets for all aquatic disciplines.
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Lancaster player, Katie Hesketh will be joining ten other North West girls and two more from the UK to for the Great Britain team, who have been selected to represent Great Britain in the European Youth Women’s Championships next week in Madrid.
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The British Gas GBR Women’s Water Polo team emerged with their heads held high after a dramatic defeat to World Championship silver medalists China at the World University Games.
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The British Gas GBR Women’s Water Polo team kicked off their World University Games campaign with an 8-8 draw against a strong Canadian team.
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The Lancaster seniors took a young team to Scotland for a pre BWPL season warm up games. They played against a select Scotland team, division three BWPL team Caledonia and division one BWPL team Portobello.
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Lancaster parent and England Talent team manager Jill Trafford keeps us u to date with how the juniors are doing out in Eger.
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With the British Water Polo League only three weeks away, the Lancaster seniors are heading to Stirling, Scotland this weekend to play some pre season warm up games.
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The GB junior players who are out in Eger are enjoying sun before there game today against Egar . They have been training hard for the start of the preparation for the European Qualifiers 2012.
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The Lancaster Regional Training Centre (RTC)is opening up trials for anyone in the North West Region. The trials will be held at Salt Ayre on Friday 16th September from 20.00 – 22.00 for any boys and girls born 1997, 1998 and 1999. To register your interest please email our RTC administration Lesley Barrett at Lesley@forever-living.uk.com
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The GB girls look to book their spot at next year’s European Championships as they take on Ukraine in their penultimate qualification match tight here in England at Manchester Aquatic Centre.
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The Great Britain Girls will be hosting a four-Nation International Tournament at Manchester Aquatic Centre on Friday 16th – Sunday 18th September. Th Gb girls will take on China, Canada and Germany.
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The GB born 93 players along with Lancaster players Elliot Trafford, Decland Ellwood and Noel Howson are in Egar, Hungary at their first preparation camp for the 2012 European Qualifiers.
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Lancaster City Swimming and Water Polo coach Zak Sly has won for the second consecutive year, North West Young Coach of the year.
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Lancaster water polo player Katie Hesketh assist Great Britain in winning Future Olympians Tournament held from 21-24 July 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.
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A handful of Lancaster born 1996 & 1997 Water Polo players are attending the National Water Polo Academy at Millfield School, Somerset from Sunday 24th to Friday 29th July.
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Please note the below changed due to Water Polo Coaches being away at a National Camp.
Sun 26th July No Water Polo training
Mon 25th July Morning session as normal
Tue 26th July No morning session
No Water Polo (9.30 – 10.30pm)
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Salt Ayre have advised us that they are carrying out urgent repairs to the tank,therefore there will be no morning Water polo training.
A fantastic junior gala, with records falling all over the place. Well done to all who swam and a massive thank you to all the people who helped organise and run the event on the day.
See the presentation pictures here >>>
We advice all our website user to avoid our sister club website (sedgefieldwaterpolo.com) until further notice.
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The top water polo teams in the world take on one another in the World Water Polo Championships in Shanghai. They will be showing who are the medal favorites for next year’s London Olympics. The competition runs from the 17th July to the 20th July and can be watched live on the web!
Zak and Gary took a mixed age group to the born 1997 festival in Manchester where the players, some who have never played in a game before, game a respectful third place after beating Manchester in the 3rd & 4th play off, after penalties.
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View the gallery from the gala here >>> Well done to all the swimmers at last nights senior gala – especially all the young swimmers who braved those big races and to all the swimmers who added endurance to their sprinting ability by swimming so many events. See the presentation pictures here>
Due to the Club Championship swimming gala on Friday 8th July from 7.00pm till 9.15/9.30pm. This means there is no swimming or water polo and RTC will be moved to Sunday 10th July from 5.30 – 7.30.
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The GB men’s water polo team beat Georgia in their last game in the LEN European Water Polo Championships Qualification Tournament. continue to read
Brutal, fierce, heart-pumping, punishing – water polo matches can be an exhilarating spectacle at the best of times….
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Swim North West took two teams down to Basildon, Essex this weekend to compete in the 2011 ASA Academy Boys Inter Regional Championships.
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Great Britain Men take on Georgia for their final game in the LEN European Water Polo Championships Qualification tournament, right here i the UK at Manchester Aquatic Center on Saturday 2nd July, 2011.
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The British Gas GBR Men’s Water Polo team, were in action in their European Championships qualification match in Athens last night fresh from successful games in Holland and more recently Dublin.
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The British Gas GBR Junior Women’s Water Polo team continued their build-up to this summer’s European Championships with silver at the 4 Nations competition in Angers.
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Great Britain took on Greece on their road to the 2012 European championships qualification tournament. Greece beat the Brits 14 4.
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The squad for the British Gas GBR Men’s Water Polo team has been announced for the penultimate European Championships qualification match.
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Three Lancaster players, Molly Dixon, Eve Simpson and Beth Bell have all been selected to represent North West in the Academy Girls Inter Regional which will take place next weekend (18th & 19th June) at Walsall Gala Baths.
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The Olympic Medalist, Nick Gillingham is holding a Starts and Turns course in Burnley on the 11th September. It costs £50 but promises to be very good. I will be on poolside with Nick for the morning based pool session. Anyone interested can get details and a booking form by email from info@swimcity.org.uk > Andi
Five of the Lancaster City National Water Polo winning youth team players plus six additional Lancaster players have made the selection for North West teams.
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The European Len – Final Four medal games can be watched tonight (4/6/11) via live web cast.
http://www.lenfinal4.com/Rome_2011/?pag=MULTIMEDIA
The bronze medal (Mladost Zagreb vs Budva Mtel) game starts at 7.30pm (6.30pm UK) and the final (Pro- Recco vs WPC Partizan) is on at 9.00pm (8.00pm UK).
Please remember that it is RTC tonight. There is no half term break due to not running the first session because of the royal wedding!
New club t-shirts and ‘zoodies’ are now availble toorder. First order closer is Friday June 3rd. Don’t be disappointed order yours now!
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This years summer galas will be held on Friday 8th July at 7pm (Club Championships) and Sunday 17th July at 4pm (Junior Gala) at the Salt Ayre Pool, Lancaster.
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Highlights of the Euro League Final 4 will be shown on British Eurosport 2 over the weekend 4th & 5th June, probably early in the morning.
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The Irish Water Polo Association are pleased to announce that the Hungarian Men’s squad have agreed to come to Ireland to hold a Training Camp as part of their preparation for this year’s World Championships in China. Hungary will arrive into Dublin on Sunday 5th June until Wednesday 8th June.
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The NLL fixture for the 9th July has been cancelled pending a new date.
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Please find about the 2011 Copeland Graded Gala event which is to be held at Whitehaven, Cumbria on Saturday 18th June 2011.
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You may of heard last week that RTC at Lancaster is not on this Friday (20th May). This is incorrect and RTC is on this Friday and will be on Friday evenings between 6th of May and the 1st of July, followed by one Sunday evening on the 10th of July. There will be no half term break.
The British Women’s Water Polo team, powered by British Gas, took a historic victory tonight in their first game of the FINA World League 2011 in Barcelona, beating 2004 Olympic silver medallists Greece 10 -9.
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Lancaster Girls ASA Youth Champions
Five Lancaster girls, Molly Dixon, Eve Simpson, Kathryn Routledge (Capt.), Beth Bell and Beth Richards made up the Liverpool team at the weekend. They went into the ASA Final at Manchester Aquatics Centre on 16th April determined to retain the cup.
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Water Polo coaches Zak and Gary went for a tour of the new university sports building today which will be finished in around two to three weeks. Then it will be passed over to the university who will move in, do checks and test everything. The official opining date looking to be around six to eight weeks.
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Looks like the swimmers had a great time at this years Griffin Gala in Whitehaven.
The Lancaster Youth team, just two weeks ago they won the National title and now they have just claimed the Regional title after beating Manchester in the final 13 – 9.
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The Summer Galas this year will be on the Friday the 8th of July (championships) and Sunday the 17th of July (Juniors) – so watch out for the entries opening soon.
For the first time the junior gala will feature an 18m race in the tank for our very youngest swimmers and as usual there will a relay event open to local primary schools – so keep checking the site for the entry forms going live!
Scott Carpenter has e-mailed his usual update on how things are going in Spain with CN Terrassa.
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Could you represent your region….. NORTH WEST ?
We are looking for two teams to represent North West in the Academy Inter Regional Championships on the 25th& 26thJune in Essex. The only way to find out if that person is you, is to come to trials. You are expected to attend both trials!!
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There is no swimming or water polo training on Sunday 8th May due to a swimming gala taking place at Salt Ayre.
The Lancaster team are travelling to the Griffin Gala next Saturday (7th May). The bus departs Salt Ayre 7am – so have an early night.
For programme details see: http://www.copelandasc.org.uk/griffin_gala_10.html Good Luck swimmer, sorry I can’t be there!
Swimming today at the Salford Meet Remi surprised himself with a regional qualifying time in the 400 IM. Wow! Well done Remi. Team mates at the Gala all got PBs in every swim, including some whoppers. The medal haul so far:
Harry Sykes –Bronze 100m Fly, Bronze 200m Breast, Silver 100m Breaststroke, Silver 200m Butterfly
Mary Hodgson – Bronze 200m Back
Elias Giles – Bronze 200m Butterfly
More details to follow…
All the results on: http://www.showtimekitchens.co.uk/results/Spring%20Meet%202011/index.htm
Well done to all the City Swimmers who made the 2011 Counties at Liverpool and Manchester.
15 members of Lancaster Amateur Swimming and Waterpolo Club recently travelled to Liverpool and Manchester over two weekends to compete in the Lancashire County Championships. All swimmers had achieved qualifying times between November 2010 and February in ASA swimming competitions. Many of the swimmers had never before qualified for County Level swimming. Some of the younger swimmers had not experienced swimming in a 50m pool, which compared with a 25m pool is more difficult because there are fewer turns and reduced push off advantage, with PBs harder to achieve.
Three swimmers competed in the first part of the Championships in Liverpool. 9 year old Grace Nolan Barnes and 11 year old Jessica Shatford, both had outstanding performances in the 200m breaststroke, Grace winning her heat and achieving a PB whilst Jessica achieved a PB and qualified for the NW regional finals. 12 year old Alex Bradley showed outstanding form achieving a PB in 200m backstroke.
Two weeks later in Manchester, 15 swimmers competed in the second part of the championships. Grace Nolan-Barnes swam in five events:- 50m freestyle, backstroke, breast-stroke and butterfly; and following an excellent performance achieved another PB in 200m freestyle. Grace completed the competition in sixth place overall in the 9 year old age group.
The youngest swimmer from Lancaster was 9 year old Marcus Robinson, competing in a 50m pool for the first time and achieving a PB in 50m backstroke. Also competing in the 50m backstroke were 10 year olds Alistair Edwards and Elias Giles. Both boys had outstanding performances with Alistair finishing fourth overall for his age group in this event.
In the 10 year old girls age group, Amy Shaw performed well in a strong field in the 50m breaststroke and Holly Salisbury continued to show her potential competing in the 50m freestyle and backstroke, achieving PBs in both. 11 year olds Jessica Shatford and Olivia Robinson had excellent performances:- Jessica in 50m and 100m breaststroke and 50m freestyle and Olivia in 100m, 200m and 400m Freestyle and 200m IM. Both girls achieved PBs in all their events. They also achieved qualifying times for the NW regional competitions, Jessica in 100m breaststroke and Olivia in 200m IM. An outstanding performance from 12 year old Izzy Maher in 50m freestyle achieved a PB. 16 year old Sarah Hodgson, true to form, gave outstanding performances in 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, with a PB in 100m freestyle.
11 year old Adam Leach achieved a PB in 50m freestyle. 12 year old Alex Bradley had great performances in 50m and 100m freestyle achieving PBs in both events. 13 year old Jordan Titley continued to impress with his performances in freestyle, gaining another PB in 100m freestyle. 16 year old Harry Sykes showed excellent form winning his heat in 50m freestyle adding to the list of PBs for
the Lancaster swimmers.
The North West regional championships will be held in June. Jessica and Olivia will be joined by Remi McVey, who achieved a regional qualifying time for 400m IM in a recent competition at Salford.
For further information about Lancaster City Swimming and Water Polo Club please contact Andrew Daykin on 07774 483595, email info@swimcity.org.uk or visit www.laswpc.com
The British Women’s Water Polo Team, powered by British Gas, were unable to maintain their unbeaten European run as they went down 14-9 to 2008 silver medallists Spain.
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A big “Well Done” to Olivia & Jess for their great performance at the counties where they both achieved regional qualifying times. Good luck at the regionals.
Don’t forget – training is cancelled on Friday 29th April due to the Royal Wedding – Salt Ayre is closed. Sorry!
The first ever water polo video game for the iPhone / iPod iOS platform has been released last week. H2O Polo is approved by Apple and can be downloaded in the iTunes App Store. Two Croats, Vibor Cilic and Srdjan Mihaljevic both living in New York, have developed their idea and saw a dream become reality last week.
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Lancaster’s fantastic run of success at the summit of the National Championships continued yet on Saturday as both the youth and junior boys regained and retained the 2011 National Water Polo Championship titles.
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GB v Spain LEN European Qualification Match. It’s being held on 30th April at Manchester Aquatics Centre.
Please can you send onto your contacts within your clubs and anyone you know who might be interested in watching this exciting match.
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Lancaster City youth and juniors are looking for two gold medals tomorrow at the finals of the 2011 National Water Polo Championships.
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There will be no training on Good Friday (22nd April), Easter Sunday (24th April) or Easter Monday (25th April). continue to read
The pool will also be closed on Friday 29th April (Royal Wedding Day).
As ever please can you forward this on to all your club members and friends to promote the water polo that will be shown by British Eurosport 2 this week on Thursday 14th April at 10:30am – 11:30am
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Thursday 7th April – Sunday 10th April 2011 held in Elektr?nai – Lithuania
Four players were selected for the European Great Britain team from Lancaster,Elliot Trafford, Sam Smith, Matthew Calvert & Sam Routledge. Elliot was chosen by Head Coach Csaba Rull to captain the team and all 4 boys were proud to represent and all scored for their country.
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GB last game of their fight for a place in the Junior Europeans was against group favorites Romania. GB went down 10 – 1 by half time, then put away four goals in the third quarter and another one in the final to make it 18 – 6.
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GB have just beaten Makedonia 13 7 which now means that GB are sat in fourth place.
GB take on Romania today who are at the moment group leaders.
The top three teams Romania, Slovenia and Turkey are all sat in the table with 9 points and will be fitting it out for a place in the European Junior Championships.
Progress points: Romania 9, Slovenia 9, Turkey 9, Great Britain 3, Lithuania 3, Macedonia
Russia, Ukraine and Germany have already qualified for 2011 European Junior Championships.
Great Britain lose their second game of the European Qualifiers against Slovenia 15 – 4 .
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GB Junior men have started their request to gain a place in the Europian Championships this week. They have heaed to Elektrenai, Lithuania.
Day one saw GB played their first game against Lithuania which they won 9 – 4 ?????????(1-4, 1-1, 2-1, 0-3)
Progress points for Day one: Romania 3, Great Britain 3, Turkey 3, Slovenia 0, Lithuania 0, Macedonia 0
Today, day two, GB played Turkey which they lost 17 – 1
GB also take on Slovenia later today.
Ripley under 14’s mixed water polo team which consists of 9 out of the 11 players from Lancaster City Swimming and Water Polo Club traveled to Burnley to take on Burnley Grammar School A & B and St Bede’s. Ripley only conceded one goal during the tournament and put away 24 goals.
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Training day for boys and girls born 96 and younger to be held at the Liverpool Aquatic Centre (Wellington Road, Liverpool, L15 4LE) on Thursday 14 April from 9.00 – 5.00pm in preparation for the forthcoming Academy Inter-Regional Championships
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Two matches down and the British Women’s Water Polo Team, powered by British Gas, are looking quietly confident in their LEN European qualification campaign, but they need your help.
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The following paid Water Polo specific positions are now being advertised on the London 2012 website LOCOG jobs page with a closing date of 27 April see link below:
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The Lancaster youth team will be joining the Lancaster Junior team in the finals of the British Gas National Water Polo Championships 2011 after winning all three games this weekend at Walsall.
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Lancaster girls, Beth Richards, Kathryn Routledge and Molly Dixon were named top three goal scorers in the ASA Girls Youth tournament at Walsall at the weekend.
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Lancaster girls, Katie Hesketh, Molly Dixon, Beth Richards, Rachel Murby and Kathryn Routledge once again turned out in force to help Liverpool reach the finals of the Junior Knock out competition.
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Congratulations to Sam Smith, Elliot Trafford, Sam Routledge and Matthew Calvert who will represent Great Britain in the European Junior Men’s Water Polo Qualifiers in Elektrenai, next week (5th – 10th April 2011). The team will be competing against Turkey, Slovenia, Lithuania, Macedonia and Romania for a place in the European Championships in.
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Lancaster City Academy team (14 and younger), came second yesterday in the Swim North West Championships after City of Manchester took the title.
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With their place in London 2012 now confirmed the British Women’s Water Polo Team, powered by British Gas, are ready to focus their attention back on their European Championships campaign.
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Josh Barrett has scored six of Sedgefield goals in the first two games of the tournament. He scored two goals in the first game and Dean Akister scored one against City of Manchester which finished in a 5 -5 draw. Josh then scored 4 goals in a 8 – 2 Victory over Croydon.
Third game of the day was against Sheffield and Josh smashes another goal away. Sheffield lost 2 – 1. Sedgefieldnext took on Durham where Josh added another five goals to his tally with Dean adding two more and Zak Lamb adding his name to the score sheet with 1 goal. Sedgefield won 17 – 3
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Lancaster players Joshua Barrett, Dean Akister, Zak Lamb and Jordan Titley are helping out sister club Sedgefeild today in the acadmey boys water polo championships at Manchester.
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A world record breaking event is being held at Salt Ayre Sports centre on 21 May. The aim is for 1000 people to cover 200 metres on Space Hoppers without falling off!
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To all members of LAS&WPC. Mobile phones are not to be used in the changing rooms or poolside. This means texting, internet, taking photos, etc. If you need your phone on you then it must be kept in your bag and only used in the vending machine area!
The Lancaster junior team are heading to the National Water polo Junior Championship finals after finishing top of the league this weekend.
The 2010 Lancaster City Amateur Swimming and Water Polo Club AGM report
Within the AGM report there are two web links to the extended Water Polo report and Swimming report.
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Last night (Friday) at 11.00pm a new revised version of this weekends Junior National Water Polo Championships was sent out from a Liverpool coach. With the late withdrawals from both Carlisle girls and Carlisle boys, the format of this weekends games have changed.
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Swim NorthWest are hosting a team manager training program at Leigh Leisure Centre on 7 May. If any members of Lancaster City are interested in attending this course please contact the Swim North West Administrator Diane.Stafford@swimming.org
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With the news earlier today that both women and men will be going to the 2012 Olympics. Ex Lancaster player Alex Rutledge with three other GB team mates where on BBC news: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/swimming/9422389.stm
Both the women’s and men’s British water polo teams have today been assured of their place at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Lancaster will take on North West rivals Manchester in Lancaster’s opening game of the British Water polo League in September.
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The wait is almost over. Applications for London 2012 Olympic Games tickets open in just eight days’ time on Tuesday 15 March.
Here are a few of our top tips to make sure you are ready to apply for tickets for the greatest show on earth!
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Lancaster university have some up coming courses if you are interested then contact the Debbie Bell at Lancaster University for more details.
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Water polo will be back on TV!
The show will be highlights from one of the second round matches of the Euro League quarter finals. It will be on British Eurosport 2 Thursday 10th March at 10:15 – 11:00
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Lancaster went to Liverpool on 5th March to play in the preliminary rounds of the Junior National Water Polo Championships. Lancaster came up against some tuff competition and came out top of the group.
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Alex Parsonage’s double strike handed UZSC their fifth win of the season as they pulled clear of the bottom four in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.
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Lancaster City youth team qualified for this year National Water Polo Championships after winning all three games yesterday.
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??Good luck to Lancaster 95+ ASA team and they set out to take on the rest of the UK in the preliminary round at Liverpool today (Saturday 26th Feb). Lancaster have to come in the top two to qualify for the next round of the ASA Champs on Saturday 2 April or Sunday 3 April at Walsall.
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We have extended the deadline by ONE day for the 2011 ASA renewal membership forms. You have to of handed in your forms by Tuesday 1st March, 9.00pm at the latest! Please see Phil Maher or Zak Sly if you have not yet received your forms! continue to read 
North Lancs. Age Groups 2011.
Twenty one swimmers, aged between 9 and 17, from the Lancaster City Swimming Squad recently represented the club over two weekends in the North Lancashire British Age Group Categories (BAGCAT) gala in Blackpool. The swimmers swam a total of 97 events, achieved 68 personal best times (PBs) and 4 top three places.
Lancaster City are ready to battle it out this year in the academy, youth and junior National Water Polo Championships. Lancaster will be look to retain the Academy and Junior title and regain the youth.
Lancaster kicks of on the 26th February with their youth team. They will play City of Sheffield and Durham then either Watford, Castleford or City of Manchester. If Lancaster come in the top two then they will go through to the qualification round on the 2nd and/or 3rd April.
The weekend after (5th March) the youth prelimanray round sees the Junior team try to retain their title from last year, whci was the juniors first win in 19 years. they will also play at Liverpool against Welsh Wanderers, Dunfermline, Exeter and Sutton and Cheam. If Lancaster finish in the top two, then two weeks later (19th & 20th March) Lancaster will play the qualification round at Liverpool.
With lancaster holding two consecutive years winning the Academy title, this year will see a change. Lancaster will join up with their sister club Sedgefield and take on the UK together. With this being a one day event, Sedgfield will first take on, City of Sheifeld, Durham, Croydon Amphibians and City of Manchester. Then depending on the final positions, semi finals and finals will take place on the same day.
Yesterday after drawing with Lituainia Great Britain lost against Poland 13 4.
Today GB played Irland which should of been a easy win for Gb after watching Irland in the Inter Regions a couple of weeks ago! But GB made hard work about it and managed to get a draw (5 – 5).
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Day one saw Great Britain draw with Lithuania 4 – 4. This puts GB joint second in Group A.
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Today (Thursday 17th Feb) Lancaster players Elliot Trafford, Sam Smith, Scott Sharpe, Noel Howson and Sam Routledge with the rest of the Great Britian Water Polo team , fly to Poland for a born 1994 Water Polo tournament in Debica, Poland. They will but up against some tough competition, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Ireland, & Slovakia.
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Last years runners up of the Junior National Water Polo Championships, City of Birmingham, have pulled out of this years competition. We have heard the rumors for a while but today the new schedule came out, which showed them not being involved.
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How much would you pay to water water polo at London 2012? Well you could pay just £20, or if you want better seats then maybe £185?
The price are now out, check them here
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The Youth Girls Inter Regional Championship 2011 took place on the weekend of the 12th and 13th February in Liverpool Aquatic centre, hosted by Swim North West. The North West entered 2 teams that were selected on an equal basis and they were seeded 1 and 2. The other teams taking part were the North East, the South West and Scotland. Lancaster were represented by Kathryn Routledge and Bethany Bell in the NW A team and Rachel Murby, Katie Hesketh (captain), Beth Richards and Molly Dixon for the B team.
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Congratulations to the following Lancaster girls for their selection for the 1994+ASA inter-Regionals. These girls will compete for Swim North West on February 12, 13. Swim North West will be entering two teams in division one. Both teams will be at equal strength.
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There is just 18 days left to get your 2011 ASA renewal forms in. Please see Zak Sly or Phil Maher if you have not yet received your forms!
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We have had to change the Youth age group so it corresponds with the ASA laws on playing mixed teams. We continue to read
apologise for any issues this has caused but we hope you understand we need to follow these laws.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General Meeting of the Lancaster City Amateur Swimming and Water Polo Club will take place on Wednesday 23 March 2011 at Heaton Hall at 7.30pm.
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Lancaster finish top of their group in the British Championships after winning their final game 11 10 against hosts Manchester.
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Josh Barrett, Dean Akister, Zak Lamb and Thomas Prayle all traveled down to Cardiff yesterday for their second England Talent training session. They had two, two hour training sessions before being told that they have been selected to come back to the next England Talent session on the 12th March. Well done lads!
One team that we don’t want to see winning again is Rotherham and Lancaster just played them in the preliminary round! As always when it comes to Rotherham we like to make it hard for ourselves but still beat them 13 – 10
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Lancaster won their first game in the preliminary round of the British Championships against Portobello. Porotobello took an early lead of 2-1 but Lancaster didn’t let that last long and within 30 seconds equalized. By the end of the first quarter Lancaster were 7 – 3 up. Lancaster kept the lead for the rest of the game and by half time the score was 11 5, with the third period ending 16 – 8. Lancaster finished the game on 18 – 11.
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The British League will have an exciting new look in the 2011/12 season when the country’s top men’s and women’s teams battle for places in an elite competition – the Super 5s.
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Hi Zak, hope everyone is well?
We have the big 1st vs 2nd clash this Saturday against Barceloneta. they’ve only lost one league game in the past four years,
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This weekend sees Lancaster City Water Polo embark on the qualification round of the defence of their British Title at Manchester Aquatics Centre.
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The British Women’s Water Polo Team, powered by British Gas, got their European campaign off to a great start with a convincing 26-1 win over Israel.
Playing in front of a sell-out crowd at the Loughborough University pool, the 13-strong team impressed as they took their first step toward qualification for the 2012 European Championships.
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The 2010/2011 Swim North West Championships entry forms came out today. Lancaster will be entering in the Academy mixed boys & girls – Under 14s as at 31st December 2010 (96 and under) and Youth mixed boys & girls – Under 16s as at 31st December 2010 (94 and under).
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Welsh, Dunfermline, Exter and Sutton & Cheam are to take on Lancaster City at his years National Junior Championships.
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Term 2 of RTC starts back tonight at Lancaster, with week 1 1 out of 10 Half term falls on Friday 18th February 2011, were there will be NO RTC training but normal training on Friday night will still go ahead.
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The 2011 North Lancashire League dates have now been released. Although all dates are not completed, they are:
Saturday 12th March 2011 – Chorley @ 5.15pm
Sunday 8th May 2011 – Salt Ayre @ 4.00pm
Saturday TBA Mat – Burnley ST Peters W/up @ 4.30pm
Saturday 9th July 2011 – Hyndburn W/up @ 4.30pm
Please advise your coach if you cannot swim on any of these dates.
The 2011 Micro League dates have now been released. In 2010, in Division B Lancaster swam to 1st place in a tight contest with only 16 points separating the top three teams, which meant Lancaster have been promoted to the A team this year.
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Lancaster youth boys team will take on City of Sheffield and Durham Cobras in this years ‘National Youth Boys Water Polo Championships’, preliminary round. They will compete on Saturday 26th February at Liverpool Aquatic Center. Check out the full schedule (PDF)
