SENW Swimming Skills Session – (Butterfly & Breaststroke) – Darwen

Swim England North West are pleased to inform our members that the second of our long awaited Regional ‘Skills Sessions’ is now available for booking.  Skills Sessions were previously delivered at various locations around the Region prior to Covid, however due to various reasons, we have been unable to offer them again until now.

A series of different Skills Sessions will take place around the Region throughout 2025, the first took place in Kendal back in January and was very successful – the next will be taking place at Darwen Leisure Centre on Sunday 11th May 2025.

Please note, further Skills Sessions will become available as soon as they have been organised, these will be at different venues around the Region.

This next session will focus on ‘Butterfly & Breaststroke‘ and will be open to any Swim England North West athlete who is:

• Registered as a ‘Club Compete’ member
• Aged 12 or 13 years on the day of the session
• Within the qualifying time for at least 1 event at a County Championships within the Region (Cheshire, Cumbria or Lancashire) and is able to provide details of at least 1 x qualifying event/s during the booking process

The session itself will last 3 hours 30 minutes in total and will consist of the following:

• 12:30pm – arrival
• 12:30pm – 12:45pm – Registration/Introduction
• 12:45pm – 1:45pm – Land Training/Studio
• 1:45pm – 3:45pm – Pool Session
• 3:45pm – 4:00pm – Debrief/Athlete Collection

Important Information:

• Where possible, athletes are requested to bring their own Yoga Mat for use during the Land Training Session, as the venue has a very limited number of them available.
• An Athlete Health Form must be completed for each Athlete registered to attend  – failure to do so will result in the Athlete being unable to take part in the session, please only complete this Health Form once you have a confirmed place.
• During the booking, you will be required to confirm you or the athlete are aware of the ‘SENW Code of Conduct‘ and ‘SENW Terms and Conditions‘, we would therefore request that you read these prior to completing the booking process, these are applicable for all SENW Events and Courses.

Any coaches from around the Region who would like to get involved in the delivery of the session, or attend as volunteer coaches in order improve or pass on their knowledge and experience, are requested to contact the SENW Regional Office via clubdevelopment@swimnorthwest.org.

Deadline for all bookings and Athlete Health Forms will be 9am on Tuesday 6th May 2025 or as soon as the session is fully booked.