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Lifesaving
Lifesaving
Club takes place on Wednesday evenings from 8th June to 27th
July.
Junior
Lifesaving (Rookie Lifeguard)
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6.00pm
– 7.00pm and 7.00pm
– 8.00pm
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£25.00
to be paid in advance (includes award and progress book)
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age
8 to 12 years
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must
be able to swim 50m (2 lengths)
Senior
Lifesaving (Bronze Medallion, Award of Merit, Life Support
Awards)
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7.30pm
– 9.00pm
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£30.00
to be paid in advance
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Exam
date will be 3rd or 31st August
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age
13 and over
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must
be able to swim 100m (4 lengths)
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exam
fee : approx £20 per award
Application
forms can be downloaded
from this website
or are available from
the Pool Kiosk during normal opening times.
Completed application forms must be returned to the Pool.
Places are limited and allocated on a first come, first
served basis.
Click
here to see a recent article in Lifesavers about this
club
Bovey Tracey Lifesaving Club enhanced their ever growing
reputation by grabbing a haul of medals at the National
Lifesaving Championships held in Sheffield last weekend.
First up were the Club's U17 team competing in the first ever
National SERC competition run by the Royal Lifesaving Society.
The team led by captain Seb Lancaster had to perform a variety
of
rescues in an incident that was not known to them beforehand.
Under
Seb's instructions team members Rachel Twose, Holly Willing and
Lee
Willing, competed against Clubs from all over the Country, and
came
away with the Gold Medal. The Clubs adult teams Sue Hutchings,
Alice
James, Jen Huntington, Chantelle Jessop, Nikki Hutchings, Laura
Glover and Jake Crosby came 8th and 15th in their event.
The following day was the Great Britain National
Lifesaving event held at International Swimming Pool, Ponds
Forge. The competition comprises of an unknown aquatic
incident, followed by a life support initiative test, a timed
rope throw, and a timed swim and tow. Having won their
respective Devon and South West regional rounds the team took on
the best of the Country's rest. The South West team comprising
Ian Hutchings, Nikki Hutchings, Sally Kingdon and Seb
Lancaster, won the silver medal in the National SERC
competition, only 2 points behind
the West Midlands, but 33 points ahead of Ireland.
Senior Girls
Laura Glover and Holly Willing won gold in the life support test
and
finished 8th overall. Seb Lancaster and Jake Crosby in the
senior boys
won silver in the Aquatic incident, silver in the rope
throw and
finished 2nd overall. Ladies Individual Nikki Hutchings a bronze
in
the aquatic incident and 7th overall. Masters Sally Kingdon
silver in
the swim and tow, bronze in the aquatic and life support, and
3rd
overall, Sue Hutchings won gold in the aquatic incident,
gold in the
rope throw and 2nd overall.
But the best was yet to come, Bovey Coach Ian Hutchings who is
also the Great Britain U19 Lifesaving coach, was next up. An
expected buzz went around the Pool and the balcony was packed to
watch Ian who has won the National title on no fewer than 15
occasions. He was not to disappoint. His aquatic incident was
the stuff of legends and Ian scored more points than any other
competitor in any category to once again claim the Great Britain
title.
The results are a testament to the dedication of the Club and
the Pool committee and are made even more special by the fact
that the pool is only open for 5 months of the year, and leading
up to the Championships the team trained at Middlemoor, Exeter
and Finlake.
The South West SERC team, Ian, Nikki, Sally and Seb
Bovey
Clubs U17 National SERC Champions Lee, Rachel, Holly and Seb
All the competitiors
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