Orion News - 28th April 2013

Team photos

Send your 'team photos' to Loz please. A couple have already been emailed to club members

Swimathon

We had 30 swimmers complete various distances on Friday, with every swimmer achieving new personal best distances, despite the crowded lanes and palpable parental anxiety! All results here. A big thanks to all poolside help especially Katy Buxton for sorting out the many badges and again my apologies to those who did not receive the right information prior to the event.

Funathon

This is only six weeks away and we are keen to have you all involved and to get the entry forms in asap.

Rachel B says:

ONLY SIX WEEKS OF TRAINING TIME LEFT ! On June 9th we're holding our first Family Funathon! Which means swimming and then straight out of the pool for a bit of running. All ages and abilities welcome, parents and grandparents included. So come on dust down your trainers, download, print and fill out the entry forms and then either hand it in to a Committe member on a Thursday evening, or post them to me, Rachel Bowering at 113 Queens Park Rd, Harborne, B32 2LB.

BBC Midlands Today presenter Mary Rhodes has not only agreed to hand out the prizes but also compete, so come and meet Mary and check out her front crawl.

There will be a T shirt for every competitor and prizes for the category winners.

All you need to do is fill in the entry form and email it back to me Rachel.bowering@bbc.co.uk

It's £5 to enter which you can pay on the day. Oh and maybe do a bit of training.

Cheers - Rachel

Mercian League

Well done to our Mercian League swimmers on Saturday many of whom had not swum for the club for a while or who had to swim in older age groups.

BBQ training

Please do not confuse our other social event the annual BBQ (July 12th) with the funathon. The only training for the BBQ is trying to eat a burger with one hand whilst holding a plate and a drink in other whilst trying to convince your child to eat some salad... which is actually far harder than funathon training now I think about it.

The AGM will follow the BBQ and we are hoping to then have a live band...

Loz - Chair Orion SC