Swimmers back home
Date published: 04 March 2009
SWIMMERS: improperly dressed for Oldham's weather!
TWENTY-THREE members of the Oldham Aquatic swim team are back from a ground-breaking warm-weather training camp in the Canary Isles.
The youngsters spent a week at Fuerteventura where they trained in an open 50-metre pool.
Head coach John Wroe says the £14,000 trip for members of Oldham Community Leisure’s Advanced Training Scheme was a resounding success.
He explained: “The swimmers were in the pool four hours each day and it was an opportunity to increase the training of some of the members of the squad.
“They each averaged 60,000 metres during the week, which in some cases was two or three times the normal distance they swim in training.
“As members of the ATS there is a possibility they may one day represent England or Great Britain so it also gave them a grounding of what it is like to compete abroad.”
Wroe added the trip would not have been possible without the support of Sainsbury’s, who allowed the swimmers to make a bag-pack collection, Specsavers, Oldham Community Leisure and parent Rod Fullalove who was the main organiser.
