Ashdown District held a Swimming Gala in Tunbridge Well pool on the 8 March 2008 between 6.00 and 9.00pm.
The response to the revised swimming gala was exceptional and every one from Beaver Scouts to Fellowship were
involved in the evening. Several members of 1st Ticehurst decided to go all Caribbean but it added to the fun of the event.
The evening started with games for the Beavers and after a few heats the Cubs joined in and swam several of
their events. The Beavers finish off their part of the evening by swimming their finals of the heats and then took part in a floats
collection from the middle of the pool and swimming to the side, dumping them and then at the end counting up the floats to increase their
score. The cubs finished their part of the evening by swimming their finals of the heats and then took part in a "Transport " game that
involved moving floats of all different shapes and sizes to the other side of the pool. Again the amount transported added to their scores.
With the change round of the pool to swimming lengths the Scouts competed in a number of different heats using
the well known strokes of swimming. This concluded with finals of the heats and the start of the obstacle races that included swimming down
the pool with dives to go through hoops that had been place at the bottom of the pool. Not to be out done the Explorers, that had been
helping out all through the evening, swam several events including swimming in pyjamas.
The underwater swim brought the evening to a close with the winning swimmer completing over 2 lengths of the
pool.
The Fellowship had been selling raffle tickets all evening and with 17 prizes brought in by different people and
Units it proved to be a very successful raffle. Very many thanks to the Fellowship.
The Results.
Beavers 1st 1st Crowborough Arapaho 54 pts
2nd 1st Hartfield 42 pts
3rd 1st Wadhurst 26 pts
1st Crowborough Cheyenne 26 pts
5th 1st Ticehurst 14 pts
6th 4th Uckfield Saskatoon 12 pts.
Cubs 1st 1st Crowborough Beacon 52 pts
2nd 1st Crowborough Warren 40 pts
3rd 1st Hartfield 18 pts
4th 1st Ticehurst 12 pts
4th Uckfield Mafeking 12 pts.
Scouts 1st 1st Crowborough Southon 64 pts.
2nd 1st Hartfield 36 pts.
3rd 1st Ticehurst 34 pts
4th 1st Crowborough Chapman 32 pts
5th 1st Wadhurst 16 pts.
Explorers Tullis 12 pts
Avery 8 pts.
The Underwater Swim Francesca Evans 1st Ticehurst
To finish may I thank everyone for attending the Gala and enjoying themselves. My particular thanks goes to Tony
Thompson for organising the event and all the Leaders that came along and joined in the fun.
Regards
Brian
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Event location:
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Tunbridge Wells Sports Centre 1892 540744
St Johns Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent, TN4 9TX
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Time Joining instructions
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18:00 Saturday 8 thMarch 2008finishing by 21:00
Helpers and scorers please arrive at the centre by 17:45 latest for briefing and job allocation. Swimming teams to arrive by 6:00pm.
Unaccompanied teams will not be able to take part so ensure that you have your leaders with your team. If you have additional helpers
that can act as marshals it will help the proceedings. Swimmers will be using the normal changing rooms before assembling in the junior
pool area. Leaders must report to scorers desk to check in and collect the team score sheets. The score sheets should record the name
and emergency contact detail for each of the entrants and the event(s) that they are entering.
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Programme of events
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Every member of the team will get to swim but may not join in all eRacing will be in heats according to the number of
teams. This will
determine the progress of the event. le.
1: Beavers width race heats free style.
2: Cubs width race heats frees
3: Beavers island floats grab.
4: Cubs transport items marathon.
5: Beavers final from race 1 heat
6: Cubs final from race 2 heats. stroke, breaststroke and crawl
7: Scouts relay race back
8: Scouts freestyle race
9: Scouts obstacle challenge (in pyjamas?)
10: Explorers obstacle
11. Explorers freestyle
12. Underwater swim
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Raffle
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13. Leader medley race with cub and scout The fellowship will be running a raffle please bring a prize.
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