Haringey AQUATICs welcomes you to its website
We are Haringey's competitive and friendly swimming club, providing quality swimming teaching and coaching. The club offers a pathway for development in swimming from its 'Learn to swim programme' to its competitive squads.
You can join our teaching and coaching sessions at Tottenham Green and Park Road Leisure Centres.
Our mission is to develop competitive swimming within Haringey Borough by providing opportunity, through training, for each member to achieve their full potential
The club is affiliated to the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) through the London region.
Browse our website to find out more about us.
Haringey Aquatics was formerly Haringey Borough Swimming Club.
Latest News
Website updated 27th January 2012
Next Time Trials:
Squad Time Trials (added 26th Jan 2012)
The next time Squad trials will take place at Park Road
on Friday February 17th 2012 @ 7pm. 100m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke. Lets
make sure the yellow highlighter is used!
Development Squad Time Trials (added 27th Jan 2012)
Development squa time tirals wil take place on Wednesday 29th February, at Park Road, strtring at 6pm and finishing at 8pm. he TTs will be 25m all strokes. All development squad swimmers are invited.
Wednesday 29th February 2012: Changes to Park Road squad sessions(addedd 27th Jan 2012)
The developmment squad time trials means that there will be no squad sessions at Park Road on Wednesday 29th February .The Park Road squad swimmers are invited to swim at Tottenham Green Pool instead .Park Road Lanes 2,3,4 and 5 will swim from 6-7pm. Park Road Lane 1 will swim from 7-9pm.
REMINDER: Haringey Aquatics Presentation Disco, 28th January 2012 (update 11th Jan 2012)
Following our successful Club Championships all swimmers and their families are invited to the Presentation Disco:
Date: Saturday 28th January 2012
Venue: Sheridan Hall, Scout Park, Gordon Road, London N112PB (there is parking and Scout Park is in walking distance of Bounds Green tube and buses 221, 102, 299, 184 all stop near by)
Time: 7pm - 10.30pm.
Presentation of trophies/medals/ribbons: 8.30pm
Please bring a donation of food for the buffet table.
Tickets are £5 for adults and £2.50 for swimmers/children and can be purchased from Carol or Linda at Tottenham Green or Sharon at Park Road, or on the door.
Development Squad Assessment Day: 6pm Friday January 27th @Park Road Pool (added 17th Jan 2012)
All swimmers that have passed Stage 7 NPTS are invited to try out for the Development Squad at Park Road. The trial is 6pm on January 27th @ Park Road and will take 1 hour. Just turn up on poolside ready to go!
Time Trials: Results (added 24th January 2012)
Click here for results of January 2012 TTsJanuary 2012 Time Trials results.Those times highlighted in yellow are PBs and those highlighted in blue are new times. An updated squad ladder has been added to Club Records section - why don't go and see where you are?
Haringey Aquatics swimmer to represent Great Britain (added 15th January 2012)
Haringey Aquatics swimmer Albie Duffy has been selected to
represent Great Britain in the 96-born Men's International Water Polo Tournament in Lviv, Ukraine in May 2012. This is a fantastic achievement -congratulations Albie!
ASA membership 2012 : payment due by 29th January 2012(update 11th Jan)
It is the time of year when the ASA (Amateur Swimming Association) Registration Fee is due for all swimmers and an email has been sent to all swimmers.
2012 ASA Registration costs are:
- Category 1 £10.40 Learn2Swim and Development Squad (Levels 8 )
- Category 2 £27.20 Level 9 &10 Developemnt Squad, Squad, Performance Squad
- Category 3 £4.20 Officials and Poolside Helpers
This amount is to cover the club/swimmers for insurance purposes, all clubs have to pay or their affiliation to the ASA will cease. This must be paid by 29th January 2012
Linda, Carol & Sharon will be collecting the payments (cash/cheques) and cheques should be made payable to 'Haringey Aquatics'. If parents wish to make payment by bank transfer (bank details as for Standing Orders) they must email Linda lindas_hbsc@hotmail.com to let the club they are making payment this way.
Haringey Aquatics Annual General Meeting (update 11th Jan 2012)
The AGM will be held on Monday 20th Febuary 2012, Silver Room, Tottenham Green Pool, please arrive from 7pm for a 7.15 start, light refreshments will be available . Presentation of some trophies to swimmers will be made at 8.45pm.
Forthcoming galas (update 26th January 2012)
Gala calendar for 2012 (11 Jan 2012)
The gala calendar for 2012 is currently being finalised and will available shortly.
Eric Penwill Junior Relay Gala, 18th February 201, Southbury Road Pool: Team annoucement (26th Jan 2012)
Eric Penwill Junior Relay Gala will be held on 18th February 2012 @ Southbury Leisure Centre, Southbury Road, Enfield. Click her for the team Eric Penwill Junior Relay Gala 2012 team. Please be on poolside in good time : 6.30pm warm-up,
7pm start.
The age groups for the gala are 9yrs, U11, U12 and U13. This is a
fantastic warm-up opportunity for the M11 league which Haringey
Aquatics will be entering. Please email Joe teamharingey@gmail.com to
confirm.
Gordon Trophy Gala , Saturday 3rd March at Park Road Pool: Team announcement (26th Jan 2012)
Haringey Aquatics will be hosting the
Gordon Trophy Gal, Saturday 3rd March at Park Road Pol. Click here for the team GORDON TROPHY GALA 2012 team. Warm up is at 4.30pm for a 5pm start. Please email Joe teamharingey@gmail.com to confirm.
Graded Gala (Anaconda), 4th February 2012 @Park Road Pool: Team announcement (17th January)
The first Graded Gala of 2012 will take place at Park Road Pool, hosted by Anaconda. Click on the link to see the team Graded gala team 4th Feb 2012 please let Sharon, the Team Manager know whether you can swim or not.
Middlesex BAGCATS and Youth Competition February and March 2012 (update 24th Jan 2012)
Entry has now closed and Clare will be in touch by e mail about 10 days before the gala to confirm entries.
Results of recent galas (updated 15th January 2012)
Redbridge Winter Meet 7th and 8th January 2012 (report added 15th Jan 2011)
Haringey Aquatics sent a strong team of 23 to the Redbridge Winter
Open Meet and 27 personal best swims were achieved, click here to find out more in the gala report Redbridge Winter Open Meet 2012 report. Click here to see the results Redbridge Winter Meet Results 2012 (warning this a big document!).
Middlesex County Autumn Development Meet at Southbury Road Pool, Enfield, 3rd and 4th December 2011 (added 6th Dec 2011)
Fifteen HA swimmers took to the water and produced some excellent results. Twenty medals were won and six speeding tickets secured, with loads of finalist rosettes and some big PBs also achieved! The full results are avaiable via this link Middx Devt Autumn 2011 Final Results (warning - it is a big document).
The next Development Meet is on 15/21/22 April 2012. Qualifying standards for that one should be less demanding, and the coaches are hoping we can beat the entry of over 40 swimmers we had this year. So keep your diary clear!
Winter Club Championships Fri 25th and Saturday 26th November at Park Road Pool: Results updated 28th November 2011).
A busy weekend for Haringey Aquatics saw the development squad and squad swimmers competing in the Winter Club Championships. There were lots of greats swims, click here to see the results Results of Winter Club Championships 2011 (updated version 28th November - takes a while to scroll through!). Congratulations to all the medal and ribbon winners - these will be presented at the Club Presentation Disco in January (see above for details). Thank you to all the officials, time keepers and assorted helpers without which there would be no Club Championships.
Arena League 2011: Haringey Aquatics hit their target for 2011 (update 24th Jan 2012)
Haringey Aquatics set out to achieve 8th place in Division Two of the London Region and that is exactly what we did! - look in the Newsletter for more inforamtion and pictures of the galas.