Welcome

To our swimming club

Hamilton Baths Amateur Swimming Club was founded in 1912 and is now based in Hamilton Water Palace, Almada Street, Hamilton. The club has a membership of over 150 with ages ranging from 6 to over 70. The Water Palace facilities include a 25m pool, a flume, rapids and outdoor lagoon together with a health club and gym. It is operated by South Lanarkshire Council.

Our Aims

The Club's aim is to train and coach swimmers, of all abilities, so that they can reach their full potential as competitive swimmers. The club is therefore engaged regularly in galas and competitions throughout west central Scotland, and sometimes further afield.

Latest Update Events Calendar

The calendar showing the events the club is planning on attending over the next few months can be found under Gala then Documents.

URGENT WEST DISTRICT 1 ENTRIES

We have had a few issues with the website and accessing the West District entry file.  An email has been sent out to you with the file of swims entries. Can you please 'REFRESH' your screen for Hamilton Baths website and then accept via your noticeboard if  you can AND send an email to Colin Ferguson with your chosen entries asap.  Sorry for any inconvenience. 

Bowling night 13th Feb

A reminder to all secondary school swimmers that the bowling night is NOT this Friday 20th January.  The revised date of Monday 13th February.  A few still have not accepted the invite.  Please do asap so we can confirm numbers and arrange teams. Thanks

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR HOLIDAY BREAK

Monday & Thursday morning sessions will end on Thursday 8th December.  Otherwise,  the Club will operate sessions as normal until Sunday 18th December which will be the last session.

The Club will resume all sessions as normal from Tuesday 10th January, apart from Monday & Thursday mornings which will resume as follows:-

Sunday mornings    - resume 15th January

Thursday mornings - resume 19th January

Monday mornings - resume 23rd January  

 

Mini League 6 results

Results for Mini League 6  can be found in GALA then RESULTS. Well done to all swimmers who took part.

*Kirsty Griffiths 1st  200m Free  & 2nd 100m Breast

* Sophie Newberry 2nd 50m Breast

* Fraser King 2nd  50m Breast

* Sophie Shields 1st 100m Breast

* Jenna Wrisberg 2nd 100m  Breast

* Michael Troy  1st 200m Free

* Jon Cerrada 2nd 200m Free

* Alice Nicol 2nd 200m Free

* Lucy Duncan 3rd 200m Free

 

Thanks to timekeepers Lorraine King and Angela Miller and Philip Griffiths for helping on poolside (again!)

Swimmers' PBs

Anyone looking for their PB times can be found on our website under GALA then TEAM MANAGER DATA.

* hit the clock and it will take you into the hytek sports system

* select Athletes

* select letter of surname eg M for Miller

* go to swimmer's name and hit TIMES

* at Course - select SCM for short course meet ie 25m pool (or  also LCM for long course meet ie 50m pool eg Tollcross/EK   )

* Times for all events will be listed

* Hit print results

2011 Club Championship Winners

Overall champion for 2011 - this is awarded for each age group for PBs achieved during 2011 and is calculated using GB points.

*15 yrs & over Danielle McGinnes and Connor Hughes

* 13-14yrs  Lyndsay Ferguson and Matthew Fenwick

* 11-12yrs Alice Nicol and Michael Troy

* 10 yrs & under Kirsty Griffiths and Fraser King

Congratulations to all swimmers 

Website - iphone users

Please be aware if you have loaded the new iphone IOS5 upgrade, the club website drop down menu tabs are no longer accessible on iphones. Unfortunately nothing currently can be done to resolve this.

Reminder re HBASC Pool Time

Swimmers should not be in the pool until the Club session commences unless they have paid for general swimming at the front desk.  Otherwise, swimmers must wait on poolside until their session commences.

Club Records

HBASC Club records have been updated for period of 2005 - 2011. Check it out under RECORDS then CLUB RECORDS for Top Overall and Top 5. Well done to all.