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We Are Doncaster Dartes
We are Doncaster Dartes, the town's Elite Swimming Training Scheme and traditionally one of the top 4 squads in Yorkshire Swimming. In association with Doncaster's swimming clubs, we provide the high performance training and top class, professional swim coaching required to succeed at the very highest level.
Our objective is to provide Doncaster's ambitious swimmers with the Environment, the Skills, and the Coaching Support required to reach the top in British Swimming.
Headlines and Site Updates
Change of Leader
19 May:
We've kept her waiting long enough.
A month or so ago
Georgia Whetton (Arm)
smashed the P4 squad record for the 4x400m kick test.
7:14 average for 14 lengths of kick at St James (4 times) is the new standard for everyone else to beat.
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Weekend in Exotic Middlesbrough
18 May:
Our annual chaperoned meet is always a lot of fun, and usually delivers some fast swimming.
2013 was no different.
2 meet records for
Jarvis Parkinson (Arm)
and a Dartes age-group record for
Georgia Wright (Arm)
were among the highlights.
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Results Archive updated
18 May:
Last weekend's double meet results are now in the archive.
Despite an illness ravaged squad we returned from Middlesboro' with 2 meet records and
Bradley Hurdiss (Drn)
set a 10 year old Dartes record for 200m IM at Sportsaid.
Results Archive ...
Flash back to Premier Meet
28 Apr:
You know it's getting down to the business end of the season when the Sheffield Premier Meet spins around.
About a month ago a select group went to Ponds Forge with one thing on their minds.
Finals and medals are well and good, but they wanted
NQTs.
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Easter in Hull
27 Apr:
Here's a bit of a catch up from earlier this month at the Hull Easter meet.
Speeding tickets, medals by the truck load, and 18 stars with a full compliment of PBs.
A good start to the month.
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Busy Weekend, Busy Week
18 Apr:
The busy weekend of workshops continued through the week as well.
Thursday evening saw Andrew Shepherd of Absolute Sports Nutrition present a workshop on his specialist subject for athletes and parents alike.
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Busy Weekend: Part 2
14 Apr:
The busy weekend continued with Coach Russ Barber popping up the M18 to present a coaches clinic.
Long term swimmer development was topic 1, followed with pool work for P4/5 to develop catch and rotation for Freestyle.
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Busy Weekend: Part 1
13 Apr:
To start off our busy weekend, we were joined in land training this morning by Physio Vicky Chapman.
Topic of the day was scapular stability and shoulder injury prevention.
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Joe the Dominator!
3 Apr:
Something a little different to celebrate Yorkshire Sprints, courtesy of Martin Kliment.
A 10min video montage of some of the action, including
Joe Litchfield (Spa)
dominating the 14 year old sprints, and much more.
Watch Dartes TV ...
Olympic Full House for Max
31 Mar:
Last day of Premier meet action saw
Max Litchfield (Spa)
hit
NQT
on 100m Fly for a full house of Olympic events.
But not to be upstaged,
Jamie Clarke (Arm)
added another two events to his summer programme: 200m Bc and 400m Fc.
That's 5 in 3 days, and he's still shaking off illness!
National Squad ...
Announcements
B Grade - Thank You
Another massive thank you to the army of volunteers and officials who make our meets such a success.
Results will be available shortly, so please check back soon.
And don't forget our next meet in September.
View Results ...
Entries for Bradford EOS
28 May:
Entries for our taper meet, to finish the season with a bang, are needed before 28th May please.
As usual we'll be taking the
Bradford End of Season Meet by storm at the end of July (unless you've qualified for Nationals).
Get your entries in quickly please.
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Phase 4 Thursday Evenings
Everyone needs to vacate the Hall Cross building by 8.30pm on Thursday evenings.
Swimmers have 5mins to get changed, which should be more than adequate.
Those incapable of changing within 5mins will in future need to add an extra morning to replace Thursday evening.
Please make sure all Phase 4 swimmers are aware of this.
Recovery Snacks
Courtesy of USA Swimming here are their top 5 recovery snacks.
It's all about consuming protein quickly after training, ideally within 10-15mins but definitely within 1 hour.
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Life as a Swimmer
jessicalloyd308
quote of the day by my dad "if your pee is gold... your medal won't be." great hydration advice there Big G. #hydrationiskey
StephProud88
Volunteer timekeeping at the All Florida Invite today! My dad would be so proud -- #GoGators
MichaelPhelps
After stopping by the pool this afternoon man am I happy I'm not in the water right now...3x1000 for the younger kids today as a workout...
Karen_Pickering
There are a lot of poor female role models out there and then there are the chicks from #TeamGB. I want to be like them when I grow up
DaraTorres
They may become harder to achieve, but your dreams can't stop because you've hit a certain age or you've had a child.
Rowdy Gaines
Every single drug test from the US Olympic Swim Trials came back negative...USA!
BeckAdlington
oh my god, my pillow and kit bag take up one bag!!! Haha! Xx
Libby Trickett
All time mid season back end speed 50 PB!!
So happy.
Ps I'm amazed if anyone other than swimmers know what this means!!
Katherine Wyld
One skill I have learnt from training camps and will never forget:
smuggling vast quantities of food out of breakfast without detection.
RobbieRenwick
I keep getting asked, so when does the training for Olympics start?
Eh, since I was 8 years old mate.