Friday Training Sessions

ORCA have been looking into options to increase training / pool time for the swimmers.

Please could I ask you if you could complete the survey below to let us know if you would be interested in doing a Friday session 8:00 to 9:00 PM in the Oldham area.

Introducing GROUP 3 Training

ORCA are pleased to announce the introduction of Group 3 Training.

Group 3 will start in October and introuduces 2 hour training sessions on Monday and / or Saturday.

Moving to Group 3 is open to all existing Group 2 members, with the agreement of the Head Coach only – due to limitation in the numbers that we can open this up to.

WE WILL NOT BE OFFERING GROUP 3 SESSIONS ON A THURSDAY – yet.

If you wish to take up Group 3 training sessions you will need to :

>> AGREE a slot with the Head Coach

>> Modify your Standing Orders – each session will cost an additional £4.50 per month (i.e. Mondays OR Saturdays will increase monthly fees by £4.50 – addinb BOTH sessions will be an additional £9.00 per month)

>> Trainin sessions will be

>>>> MONDAY : 7:00PM to 9:00PM

>>>> SATURDAY : 3:15PM to 5:15PM

This now allows ORCA to offer up to 5 hours of training per week to competitive swimmers.

Group 1 and Group 2 sessions are unaffected, MONTHLY fees will be as below :

Group 1 and Group 2

>> £15 : Advance Trainers

>> £25 : One session per week

>> £30 : Two session per week

>> £35 : Three session per week

Group 3 – One Group 3 Session per week

>> £19.50 : Advance Trainers

>> £29.50 : One session per week

>> £34.50 : Two session per week

>> £39.50 : Three session per week

Group 3 – Both Group 3 Session per week

>> N/A Advance Trainers (Advance Traininers only allowed to train one session per week)

>> N/A : One session per week

>> £39 : Two session per week

>> £44 : Three session per week

Wigan Gala

The programme for the Wigan gala will not be a paper copy this year. It is available on the BCM website here.

http://bcmswpa.org.uk/

Navigate to Open Meets and you will see the programme on the website.

Warm up times Saturday
Session 1
8.15-8.29am – Girls & Boys age 9-10
8.29-8.43am – Girls age 11-12
8.43-8.57am – Girls age 13+ & Boys age 14+
8.57-9.11am – Boys age 11-13
Racing from 9.15am


Session 2
1.00-1.14pm – Girls age 9-12
1.14-1.28pm – Girls age 13-14
1.28-1.42pm – Girls age 15+ & Boys age 14+
1.42-1.56pm – Boys age 9-13
Racing from 2.00pm The last 5 mins of each warm up
will have dive lanes in 1-3 & 6-8


Warm up times Sunday
Session 3
8.15-8.29am – Girls age 11-12
8.29-8.43am – Girls age 13+
8.43-8.57am – Girls & Boys age 9-10
8.57-9.11am – Boys age 11+
Racing from 9.15am

Session 4
1.00-1.14pm – Boys age 9-12
1.14-1.28pm – Boys age 13+
1.28-1.42pm – Girls age 9-12
1.42-1.56pm – Girls age 13+
Racing from 2.00pm The last 5 mins of each warm up
will have dive lanes in 1-3 & 6-8

Swim Sessions

We are looking to introduce a change to our training sessions which will increase our offering of pool time to all Group 2 swimmers on a Monday OR a Saturday. We are looking initially to offer a lane that runs from 7-9pm (Monday) OR 3:15-5:15pm (Saturday). We are obviously limited by pool space so I’m trying to gauge the level of interest in this.

Please could anyone interested in this email me on headcoach.teamorca@gmail.com
indicating whether they would prefer this on a Monday or on a Saturday. If there is sufficient take up then we could roll it out eventually on both days.

I am happy to trial it before we break for summer on 14th August but then there would be a £5 supplement in monthly fees for anyone who signs up from September onwards.

Dave