Sandycove Swimmers

Notice of AGM for Sandycove Island Swimming Club

Date: Thurs 15th June at 8pm. Online.

We will post a zoom link under this post closer to time.

All current paid up members for 2023 are invited to join the meeting. (Approx 60 people).

The current committee must stand down from officer positions as their term is up. Please contact any one of us if you wish to join the committee.

CHAIR: Carol Cashell

SECRETARY: Eoin O’Riordan

TREASURER: Riana Parsons

Membership: Aidan O’Herlihy

Website: Lisa Cummins

Committee: Donna Galvin, Angela Harris, Eleanor Courtney, David Merriman.

It’s that time of year again, time to look for nominations for the Mike Harris Trophy. This trophy is not for the fittest, fastest or furthest swimmer – instead it is awarded to the person who people feel has contributed to the spirit and ethos of open water swimming at Sandycove that year (more details here: https://sandycoveswimmers.com/achievements/#MikeHarris).

If you feel you know of someone who you think should win the trophy for 2022, please drop an email to us at mikeharrisaward@gmail.com by August 20th. In your email, please include the reasons why you feel that this person deserves the award (the selection committee will use these reasons to help in their decision).

The “summer” season is upon us and as the weather improves and more people return to the open water it is timely to remind everybody who swims at Sandycove Island to consider other visitors and the local permanent residents. A few things to remember:

• It is really important that cars are parked so as not to obstruct any traffic passing through the vicinity. Please remember that an ambulance should always be able to get through if necessary.
  
• It is really important to drive slowly as the access roads are narrow and winding – visitors and locals, including children, walk/play here.
  
• Particularly with the early morning (and later evening) swimmers, it is really important to be quiet, not honk car horns, slam car doors, shout to your friends, etc.
  
• Thank you for not littering – but also please pick up any litter you see. And please take your rubbish home if you can, particularly when the bin is nearly full.

Please consider the the other visitors and permanent residents so that everyone can enjoy this special place.

Thank you and enjoy your summer of open water swimming!

Due to COVID this website has had a long break! Although many things have been closed down over the past 18 months, sea swimming has not. For most of 2020, restrictions meant that only people within a small radius of Sandycove were able to swim there (lucky them!). So we decided that to be fair to everyone we wouldn’t award the Mike Harris trophy last year. But this summer has seen the return of all sea swimmers with both familiar and new faces enjoying the beautiful location, so we have decided that we need to get back to awarding the trophy again.

The Mike Harris trophy is awarded to the person who people feel has contributed to the spirit and ethos of open water swimming at Sandycove that year (more details here: https://sandycoveswimmers.com/achievements/#MikeHarris). The selection criteria may not just include swimming, but also other equally important swimming skills – culinary skills, amazing volunteering, endless kayaking or just being a friendly face and having a kind word for new swimmers…

We are now looking for nomiations for this year’s award. If you feel you know of someone who merits it for 2021, please drop an email to us at mikeharrisaward@gmail.com by Thursday, September 30th. In your email, please include the reasons why you feel that this person deserves the award (the selection committee will use these reasons to help in their decision).

Every year, an award is given after the Sandycove Challenge to the person who people feel has contributed to the spirit and ethos of open water swimming at Sandycove that year.

(more details here: https://sandycoveswimmers.com/achievements/#MikeHarris)

The selection criteria may not just include swimming, but also other equally important swimming skills – culinary skills, amazing volunteering, endless kayaking or just being a friendly face and having a kind word for new swimmers…

If you feel you know of someone who merits this award in 2019 please drop an email to the Sandycove membership secretary at membershipsandycove@gmail.com by Wednesday next, September 25th. In your email, please include the reasons why you feel that this person deserves the award (the selection committee will use these reasons to help in their decision).

This is the 2019 Open Water Calendar, the March edition, there will be more as the organisers open the events for entries, and confirm start times etc. some events are just a date for now, with more details to follow. I’ll publish another edition in April (around Easter) with any updated info I get. Any links that are live are included in the below PDF, just click on the Pre Entry Link to sign up.

One important thing to note, most events have a max capacity for entries, so if you think you want to swim an event, enter it, write it in your diary, and if you can’t make it closer to time, please email the organiser to say you are not swimming, in case they are holding a wait list and your spot can be used.

Please do not pester organisers if an event is full and you didn’t enter, ask if there is a wait list, that’s probably the best that can be offered. So remember, enter, if you think you want to swim it.

After that rant!, if you are at a loose end over a weekend and there is a swim on, please send an email and offer to help, there are so many hands needed to pull these events off, to make them look slick and organised. Check in, counters in and out, kayakers, boat personal, drivers, bag drop, all these positions need to be manned, please try to offer to help at at least one event during the summer, there are over 25 on the calendar.

Best of luck for the 2019 sea swim season, Enjoy. Carol.

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Link for the 2019 SISC Swim Ireland Membership below –  (if a new member, please read the rules to join in the Joining the Club section)

https://www.active.com/kinsale-cocork/water-sports/swimming/membership-sandycove-island-swim-club-9-season-2018?int=

Link to Order Club Gear:

https://www.active.com/kinsale-cork/sandycove-club-gear-2018?int=

Cowel Neck Tops, and Donna with the B&C Jacket. Thanks to Siobhan Russell for Photo at Sandycove Challenge in October.

It’s that time of year again, mark your Calendars for the Turkey Swim Dates 2018! Times, Locations & Dates below…

See link below to the 2018 Open Water Calendar for Events in Munster.

Organisers have sent on their top line detail of their event and I have put them all on one sheet to keep.

There may be updates throughout the summer, keep an eye on the Calendar page on the top menu.

Note – First swim is June this year, no events in May planned (water temps still too low). Drop a note to the organisers if you have a question, or most of them have Facebook Event pages sets up too, you’ll find more info there.

SAVE THE DATES

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The ILDSA (Irish Long Distance Swimming Association), held their annual awards last week. The association asks for nominations and then sets up an expert panel to mull over the submissions.

This year we had MANY Cork swimmers (Cork based, or Cork by association!), who were either nominated or winners or acknowledged on the day.

WELL DONE TO ALL SWIMMERS for making it on the list, as a nominee or winner, you were in great company with other swimmers around the country.

Here’s to a great season of Open Water Swimming in 2018.

List from the ILDSA is below:

• Senior Best Newcomer Winner:  Brendan O’Brien
  Nominees: Donna Galvin, Lisa McDaniel, Elaine Burrows-Dillane

• Best Organised Open Water Swim Winner:  Rebel Plunge  (Liam Maher, Paschal Horgan, Carol Cashell)
  Nominees: Lee Swim, Grand Dublin Swim, Tralee Bay Swim, Lough Gill

• Munster Open Water Swimmer of the Year Winner:  Carol Cashell
  Nominees: Aidan O’Herlihy, Anthony Sloman, Carmel Collins, Elaine Burrows- Dillane, Maeve Ryan

• Sheena Patterson Spirit of Open Water Swimming Winner:  Ned Denison
  Nominees: Audrey Joyce

• Margaret Smith Award Winner:  Ned Denison
  Nominees: Fergal Somerville

•  Best Open Water Swim Performance of the Year Winner:  Ion Lazarenco Tiron
  Nominees: Carmel Collins, Carol Cashell, Tralee Bay Masters EC Relay Team

•  Male Swimmer of the Year Winner: Ion Lazarenco Tiron
  Nominees: Anthony Sloman, Christopher Judge, Ned Denison

•  Female Swimmer of the Year Winner:  Carol Cashell
  Nominees: Carmel Collins, Maeve Ryan, Roisin Kelly

Commemorative Medals were also awarded for all solo and relay North and English Channel swims from 2017.

North Channel Solo Swim 2017:  Carmel Collins

English Channel Solo Swim 2017:  Carol Cashell and Nathan Timmins

English Channel Relay Teams 2017:

Two Way Relay: Myrtle Selkies – Laurence Courtney, John Kiely, Harry Casey, Ann Smyth, Brenda Sisk, Marie Watson

 One way Relay: LastMinute.com (part of UK Team) – Audrey Burkley

Finally, a number of honour swimmers and contributors were inducted into the newly-formed Hall of Fame-Marathon Swimming Ireland.

Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland Inductees:  Lisa Cummins,  Eilis Burns

For those of you asking, this is the link to the 2018 Sandycove Island Club membership.

https://www.active.com/kinsale-cocork/water-sports/swimming-memberships/membership-sandycove-island-swim-club-8-season-2017

Full rules (T&Cs) are in the Membership tab up top of page.

ALSO:

our Annual AGM is on Sunday 10th December at 1.30pm in the Trident Hotel, Kinsale. All members welcome.

It’s that time of year again, mark your Calendars for the Turkey Swim Dates 2017! Times, Locations & Dates below…

We are receiving a large number of enquiries about this Saturday’s Sandycove Island Challenge. Please see the above message from the organisers of the swim, Cork Masters. The swim is full, entries are closed, and no amount of begging or pleading or knowing the right person will get you in at this stage. You need to enter early for these events, a couple of days before is not the time to be thinking about signing up.

If you are already registered and you have questions about the swim please direct them to Cork Masters on their Facebook page.

There are still some more events planned over the next few weeks, these have been listed on the calendar (Munster_Open_Water_Event_Calendar_V.9_September2017), but here is the quick links below:

Sat 9th Sept – Gouganne Barra – Cork – 2.5k/4k –  Entry LINK

Sun 10th Sept – Sean O’Sullivan Swim – Clare – 1.5k/3k/5k – Entry LINK

Sun 10th Sept – Blennerville to Fenit – Kerry – 3k/8k – Entry LINK

Sat 16th Sept – Sandycove Challenge – Cork – 1.8k – Entry LINK

Sat 30th Sept – Skerking to Baltimore – West Cork – 2k – Entry LINK

Sat 14th Oct – Spanish Island – West Cork

Sat 28th Oct – Vampire Swim – Myrtleville

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By the Way, YES, there will be Turkey Swims on each of the weekends in November and December, start practicing your Baking!! 🙂 Dates to follow soon…

Following on from my July post on upcoming swims, I have updated the calendar with entry links to some of the swim that I may have not had before.

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Open the Calendar link to check out all the details you need, but here is a snipit of some upcoming events in next few weeks:

Wed 9th Aug – 7pm – Deel Swim, Askeaton – 2.5k – Enter via email sec@askeaton-swim.ie

Sat 12th Aug – 6pm – GADD Glengarrif – 1/3/5/7k – Enter via website HERE 

Sat 12th or 19th Aug – Kilkee Bay Swim, Clare – 4pm – 2.5k – TBC

Sun 20th Aug – Malbay Swim, Clare – 10.30am – 1+2k – Enter HERE

Sat 2nd Sept – Saltees, Wexford – 12noon – 4k – Enter HERE

Sat 2nd Sept – Ardgroom, West Cork – 2pm – 4k – Enter via UPDATED LINK 

Check out the calendar for the rest of Sept and Oct events, still more to come!.

PS – if you have an event you want added to the calendar, please email me and I’ll add it for next issue (done monthly), carolcashell2@gmail.com Thanks. 🙂