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Wrexham Spring Meet - 5th & 6th April 2025

Yesterday and today we had a small team of swimmers at the Wrexham Spring meet with 3 swimmers on Saturday (Harri, Henry & Isaac) and 4 swimmers on Sunday (Freya, Jake, Henry & Isaac). They all had excellent swims and won quite a few medals.

Harri - 1 gold (only swam 400IM) & pb

Henry - 5 gold, 1 silver & 2 pbs

Freya - 1 gold & 4 pbs

Jake - 1 silver & 2 bronze

Isaac - 5 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze, 1 x 4th & 7pbs

Isaac also won the Top 9 year old boy award.

Very well done to all our Dolphins you making your club and parents very proud.

Thank you to our officials without whom the swimmers couldn’t compete and lastly thanks to Bob & Alice.

Photos from the Wrexham Spring Meet

Easter and May Bank Holidays

There will be no swimming on the following dates:-

Friday 18th April

Saturday 19th April

Sunday 20th April

Monday 21st April

Sunday 4th May

Monday 5th May

Sunday 25th May

Monday 26th May

You are more than welcome to swim an alternative session during the week for sessions when we are closed.

Swim Conwy Spring Meet, Llandudno - 22 & 23rd March 2025

This weekend Mili, Henry H, Osian, Harri, Cooper, Tomos, Henry W and Amelia have had some amazing swims at the Spring Meet in Llandudno.

Results

Mili - 4 pbs

Henry H - 7 gold and 6 pbs

Osian - 1 gold, 1 bronze and 2pbs

Harri - 7 golds, 2 silers and 8 pbs

Cooper - 2 pbs

Tomos - 2 silver and 4 pbs

Henry - W - pb

Amelia - 2 silver, 2 bronze and 4 pbs

Congratulations to Henry H who won top boy in his age category.

Wrexham Crystal Meet

Bella, Heidi, Xander, Hugo, Tomos, Henry and Harri competed with some amazing swims.

PBs for Heidi, Bella, Xander, Henry, Tomos and Harri. Medals were awarded for the first 6 in each age group.

Xander - 2 silver, 1 bronze and 1 6th

Henry - 4 gold, 1 silver

Harri - 4 silver, 1 gold

Bella - 1 5th and 2 6th

Hugo - 1 6th

Henry won Top Boy in the 9 year old category and Harri won Top Boy in the 11 year old category. Rhyl finished 3rd out of all the teams competing today. Well done to our swimmers you have made your parents and club proud.

Menai AA & B Meet, Llandudno 2nd March 2025

What an amazing day our swimmers have had at the Menai AA & B Meet in Llandudno today.

Heidi Anderson-Evans

• 1 Speeding Ticket, 1 Silver

Freya Bowen

• 1 Speeding ticket

Eira Hatswell (1st Gala)

• 4 Gold, 1 silver

Bella Twist

• 1 Speeding ticket, 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

Amelia Woodbine

• 1 Speeding ticket, 1 Bronze medal

Jake Bowen

• 2 Speeding tickets, 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Harrison Chisholm

• 1 Gold

Ben Eastwell

• 1 Speeding ticket, 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 2 Bronze

Osian Milner

• 2 Speeding tickets, 1 Bronze

Cooper Pointon

• 1 Speeding ticket, 1 Gold, 1 Bronze

Henry Wolstenholme

• 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Our 8-10 freestyle relay and medley relay comprising of Jake, Harrison, Bella and Heidi won gold medals in both - a first relay in a competition for all the swimmers.

Total medal count -

9 individual and 2 relays

PBs - 27

Massive congratulations to all of you.

Many thanks to Cheryl for officiating and also Bethan and Greg (for stepping in at short notice) for being on poolside with the swimmers.

Swim Wales North Regional Long Course, Liverpool 7th, 8th & 9th November

Alex Young, Harri Nuttall, Amelia Woodbine and Freya Bowen took part in the Long Course meet at Liverpool with great

success. Alex swam on the Friday and won a gold medal in the 50 fly. The medals kept coming on Saturday and Sunday

with Harri winning a silver in the 200IM, gold in the 100 back, silver in the 100 free, silver in the 200 back, gold in the

100 fly, silver in the 200 free and lots of pbs. Amelia just missed out on a medal in the 200 breast finishing 4th but

came away with pbs in most of her races. Freya swam in the 100 back and had a pb also.

Holywell valentine meet 11-12th January 2025

What a fantastic start to the year from our Dolphins at Holywell this weekend.

Harrison took part in his first gala and we hope he enjoyed the experience. Cooper and Heidi were unlucky not to win medals but had some good swims with pbs.

32 gold, 16 silver, 14 bronze medals in total - absolutely amazing .

Isaac - 6G, 4S, 1B, Freya - 5G , 2S, Jake - 3G, 2S, 2B, Henry - 8G

Osian - 3G, 2S, 1B, Bella - 1G, 3B, Tomos - 1G, 3S, 3B, Amelia 5G, 5S, 1B

The swimmers also had many pbs, well done all of you .

Bob and Bethan would like to say thank you for the support and commitment to the swimmers. The swimmers gelled well as a team this weekend and their behaviour on poolside was a credit to the club. Thanks to Cheryl, Steve and Hayley our officials without whom our swimmers couldn’t compete. Lastly thanks to Bob and Bethan for supporting the swimmers on poolside.

wrexham bonfire meet - 24th november 2024

Our younger Dolphins have had an amazing day competing at Wrexham in the Bonfire Meet. Medals were awarded for the first 6 in each race.

Amelia, Bella, Ben, Cooper, Freya, Harri, Heidi, Henry, Isaac, Isla, Jake, Lucy, Mili, Osian and Tomos came away with 28 personal best times, 9 gold, 8 silver, 4 bronze, 8 fourth, 3 fifth and 5 sixth medals. Not only did they come away with all this but Rhyl finished 3rd overall from all the clubs who attended today. Fantastic achievement swimmers.

Swim Wales Regional Short Course, Llandudno - Nov 24

Congratulations to our swimmers this weekend - Mili, Isla, Amelia, Harri and Alex. They came away with pbs, a silver medal for Harri and 2 gold medals for Alex.

Swim Conwy Autumn Meet, Llandudno - Oct 24

A fantastic weekend at Llandudno for our swimmers: Isaac, Mili, Henry, Lewis, Osian, Harri, Isla, Amelia and Alex. A total of 37 personal best times (some of which were huge), 16 gold medals, 7 silver and 2 bronze were won over the weekend a massive achievement. Thanks to Bob and Alice on poolside (and the photos).

Swim Conwy Autumn Meet Oct 2024

Swim Wales North Development Meet, Llandudno - Oct 24

Today we had 8 swimmers competing at the Swim Wales Development Meet in Llandudno. Ben, Freya, Heidi, Henry, Isaac, Jake, Osian, Tomos had some amazing swims today with big pbs.

They also can away with the following medals:-

Isaac - Silver and bronze

Freya - Bronze

Jake - Gold, silver and bronze

Ben - Gold and bronze

Osian - 2 golds and a bronze

Tomos - 2 silvers and 2 bronze

Thanks to Amelia for volunteering for one of the sessions to help out. Also to our officials which we wouldn't be able to swim without.

Club Champs 2024

Congratulations to all those that took part in the Gez Hay Memorial club champs over the last couple of weekends. We have seen some long standing records broken over the two weekends by Henry Hall, Harri Nuttall, Amber Davies, Alex Young, Lesley Wilde and Hayley Baldwin.

Special trophies this year were won by:-

Junior Boy – Harri Nuttall

Senior Boy – Aidan Hall-Davies

Junior Girl – Heidi Anderson-Evans

Senior Girl – Amber Davies

Female Endeavour – Freya Bowen

Male Endeavour – Osian Milner

Junior Victrix – Heidi Anderson-Evans

Junior Victor – Harri Nuttall/Henry Hall

Jeuvenille Victrix – Freya Bowen

Jeuvenille Victor – Tomos Wilkinson-Spittle

Senior Victrix – Amelia Woodbine

Senior Victor – Osian Milner

Marian Jones Memorial Award – Isaac Garcia-Lucas

Gerald Hay Memorial Award – Fiona Meehan

Congratulations to everyone.

Harri & Amelia Harri and Henry H Henry W

These four swimmers have had an amazing day at the Cath Ankers Meet in Wrexham last weekend.

Amelia had amazing pbs, 1 silver and 2 x 5th medals

Harri had excellent pbs, 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 x 4th medals along with a speeding tick in the 50 free. Harri also broke a meet record for his age group in the 50 free and 50 back

For Henry W it was his first gala outside of club and he came away with 2 silver medals.

Henry W was also swimming in a gala for the first time outside of club and came away with 5 gold medals, broke the meet record in his age group of 50 back and won Top Boy in his age group.

A Huge congratulations to them all. Hard work pays off.

Harri & Thomas

Harri,Thomas & Amelia

Freya & Amelia

Jake,Thomas & Harri

Wrexham Meet27th & 28th April 2024

Another fantastic gala this weekend for our Dolphins, albeit a very small team, the results were amazing with Rhyl finishing 5th out of 14 clubs. Thomas & Harri both finished with Top Boy awards in their respective age groups.

Results

Amelia - 2 bronze medals & 4 pbs

Freya - 3 pbs

Harri - 8 gold medals & 7 pbs

Jake - 3 gold medals & 3 pbs

Thomas - 8 gold medals & 7 pbs

Congratulations to all our swimmers.

Menai aa/b Meet

6th March 2022

Another fantastic gala this week for Rhyl Dolphins, with it being a first for Erin, Sofia and Thomas. That first gala can be scary, and all three preformed well and we hope they enjoyed it and continue to compete.

So this gala comes with medals and speeding tickets/bands. There are cut off times for each category (AA and B), meaning if a swimmer is faster than that time, they are issued with a speeding ticket for being too fast, resulting in a promotions to the next category. So receiving one of these bands is actually very impressive.

In total, the team came away with 12 speeding tickets as well as 2 gold medals, a silver and a bronze.

Great results guys.

We are very proud of you!

Mason, Freya and Thomas are some of our younger swimmers, looking very proud with their awards.

Will (14) displaying his medal, he also got a fair few speeding bands too!

Mason (11) was very happy with his gold and silver medals, plus a speeding band too.

Luke (13) just managing to keep hold of all his speeding bands, along with his medal. Da iawn.

Spring Conwy Meet

26th-27th Feb 2022

This weekend saw Katie, Kathryn and Mason, returning to the world of galas. Plus a first taste of galas for Ella, Freya, Thomas and Anton.

It was a tough competition, but all our swimmers represented us very well, had some great swims, with everyone getting new times and, more importantly, some new PBs.

Congratulations to Anton on gaining a bronze medal for 50m breast stroke.

Da iawn Dolphins.

Rememberance SuNDAY

14 NOVEMBER 2021
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old,Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We shall remember them"

A big thanks to Cheryl for organising a poppy wreath to be placed at the Cenotaph on behalf of Rhyl Dolphins this week.

Three of our swimmers went with Cheryl on Sunday to be part of the ceremony and to place the wreath. It was an emotional morning, but our swimmers did us proud.

Thank you Will, Mason and Freya.

The 125th Anniversary of Swim Wales

Head coach updaTE

15 JANUARY 2021

First a belated Happy New Year to you all and sincerely hope you had a very merry Christmas, unfortunately this year has started with yet another COVID-19 lockdown.

When will it end, hopefully given the National roll out of the coronavirus vaccination the future looks a little more promising for us of the older generation, however we can all contribute to the safety of our loved ones by observing the government’s guidelines.

Wash hands / wear face covering / respect social distancing.

As I write to all of you, there are no clear indications as to when we can safely return to the pool. I fully appreciate and understand it’s not easy to maintain reasonable levels of fitness given the local restrictions but essential for your wellbeing during lockdown and the return to the swimming program (more to follow).

WHO WOULD BE A COACH in these difficult times - it is extremely important that on our return we manage the situation carefully to avoid any possible injuries. All I can ask is you place your trust in the coaching staff and together we will return back to the good old days prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rhyl Dolphins will continue to operate by adhering to the Welsh government and Swim Wales guidelines.

Take care, keep safe and hope to see your all soon.

Bob

Membership 2021

Emails regarding Memberships of our current members have been sent out. Please remember to fill out your membership forms and get them back to our membership team. Please don’t forget to check your junk email.

If you still have not received any email please email membership@rhyldolphins.co.uk

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