Wednesday is official ‘club night’ when much of the routine business of running the club is carried out. Sessions run from 6.00pm to 9.00pm according to age and ability.
PASC have in place the Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) programme as recommended by Swim Ireland. What this means is swimmers are assigned to squads in accordance with their ability and swim times across the four key strokes: Breaststroke, Backstroke, Butterfly and Freestyle. Time trials are carried out throughout the season to review swimmers’ progress and squad numbers and swimmers are moved as appropriate.
Whilst this might mean changes to family arrangements throughout the season as swim times are changed. It is important for the development of individual swimmers and the effectiveness of the club’s competitive teams that swimmers swim in their designated squad times. Swimmers who turn up for other sessions will be turned away.
There are five competitive squads: Yellow, Green, Red, Blue and Silver. The squad times are usually published a year in advance. This may be subject to review and change dependent on the needs of the club always check club notice board for details.
The coaches allocate swimmers to a squad based on individual times, skill and stamina. The Squad system is not based on age. Swimmers transfer between Squads based on progress made and according to squad criteria. Time Trials are used to baseline a swimmers progress. The coaches’ decision is final as to which squad a swimmer is allocated to.
In addition to club night, PASC hire the pool for at least three other sessions per week to enable squads to access additional development sessions. All swimmers are expected to attend as many sessions as possible. Attendance not only increases skills but is crucial to PASC performance in competition.
The onus is on parents/guardians and swimmers to be aware of the additional sessions and to attend as many as possible. Attendance is monitored by coaches. Poor attendance may result in training being withdrawn and/ or swimmers not being selected for gala events.
Information or changes to squad training sessions are available on the PASC noticeboard in South Lake Leisure Centre (SLLC).
PASC has two competitive swim teams – ‘Aquasprint’ for younger swimmers up to age 12 and ‘Provincial Teams League’ (PTL).
The PASC coaches decide which swimmers make the team and their decision is final.
Swimmers are expected to be available and to swim the strokes allocated to them when selected. Failure to attend galas and/ or to notify coaches of non-attendance when selected can mean that a swimmer will not be chosen for future galas.
📣Aquasprint will be returning📣
For those new to the club, Aquasprint is a series of league galas where it’s one club against another and these galas are really exciting and fast paced and all events are 25m Male or 25m Female, with mixed 4 x 25m Medley Relay and Freestyle Relay events in each age group. The galas take a maximum of 90 mins to run and we aim to give as many swimmers as possible the chance to compete for PASC in a smaller setting than an open type gala (such as those detailed above).
We will be publishing lists of swimmers in the coming weeks and we need your commitment to attend so that we can work out the teams as best as possible. In the meantime keep up the hard work in training.
There will be 3 sessions for this gala covering age groups from 9 year olds (born 2013) and older with no upper age limit and there are medals for different age groups as detailed in the attached information form. More information about this gala will be found in your emails. The PASC closing date will be Wed 2nd Feb 2022 to allow us to collate all the entries and no entries will be accepted after training finishes on that night.
Unfortunately the section for Primary Schools had to be cancelled and there is only a section for Secondary Schools which is now on Saturday 5th February. Check your email for more information.
Good Luck to all school taking part 🏊🏻♀️🏊♂️🏆
Remember to check your email for details of the online meeting with Julia Knox from Banbridge who heads off to America on a swimming scholarship this week.
We’re going to chat about what it took to get to this level and what she’s looking forward to next.
Reply to the club email if you have any questions for Julia.
Tune in on Tue night at 7pm!
📣Portadown ASC Virtual Meet
Dates to be confirmed
❗️Please email entries to the club email address marking FAO Paula by Sunday 11 October 2020❗️
See below list of events!
#wearepasc #letsgoportadownletsgo
Following on from last years successful joint training session with Newry & Mourne Swimming and Waterpolo Club another one has been arranged for this year:-
Date: Saturday 14 March 2020
Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Newry Leisure Centre
This is open to all age groups and everyone is welcome. Last year proved to be great fun and a friendly game takes place at the end of session! Although it’s a friendly won’t it be great to show how far we have come from last year! If you are interested in attending please speak to Ian, email portadownasc@gmail.com or send a PM to our Facebook page! 🤽♀️🤽♂️
Aurora Aquatic & Leisure Centre, Bangor
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March 2020
To be eligible for this gala you must have achieved 3 times in a Level 2 Licensed Meet during the 12 months prior to the entry closing date. This gala takes place in the 50m pool and there are 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m events. Closing date Monday 2 March 2020. Please email portadownasc@gmail.com marking FAO Paula and include gala in subject title and ensure you state which events you are looking to enter.
01&02/02/20 Spring Qualifying Meet
09/02/20 Irish Minor Schools, Dublin
15/02/20 Aquasprint v Brefine – Away
16/02/20 Templemore Gala
16/02/20 Waterpolo Skills Camp
22/02/20 Armagh Championships
29/02/20 Development Gala 4 Lisnasharragh
07/03/20 PTL Area heats
08/03/20 Waterpolo U11 Competition
08/03/20 Skills Meet
14&15/03/20 Easter Qualifying Meet CANCELLED
21/03/20 Aquasprint v Leander – Away – CANCELLED
28/03/20 PTL Finals – CANCELLED
Check out the gala section of our website for full Swim Ulster Calendar.
