Gloucester City Swimming Club
Gloucester City Swimming Club is a swimming club based in Gloucester, United Kingdom, which was founded in 1910. Its home pool is GL1. It is one of the most sucsessful clubs in the United Kingdom. Evidence to back this claim is...
G.C.S.C is made up of several group levels starting with the Purple Squad, Yellow Squad, Blue Squad and Blue +, Red Squad and Red +, and Finally Green Squad.
2009 - More Sucsess
The club launch there new logo entitled "Simply Better" made by the club's coaches Andrew Osbourne and Graham Brookhouse . The club also release the location for there annual Warm Weather Traning camp which for the year 2009 will be in Spain. The official website for the club launches and the club top the GCASA championships. Gloucester City topped the County Medal table with 186 Medals. These included 71 Gold,63 Silver and 52 Bronze. This was a fantastic club achievement leaving Thornbury SC in 2nd place with 117 medals. Many swimmers achieved AGBT , National QT and District times.
At the South West District Championships the club also achieved many national times, especially Alex Matthews, a club veteran who achieved times in the 100 and 200m Butterfly. The event which was at Millfield School, was the best participated in the clubs history.
GCSC Coaches
- Andrew Osbourne: Fitness Development Coach
- Graham Brookhouse: Head Coach
Green Squad
Green squad is the hardest squad. Only the mentally and physically able ones make it this far with hard sprint and distance sets and even Land training. Meterage can reach up to 6000m. There are 4 Lanes. All of the swimmers in the green squad have already made the counties, and from then on you can qualify for the District Counties (South West), and then finally the nationals (England).
Red Squad
Swimmers selected to swim in this squad will have 4 evening sessions and at the discretion of the coach 1 early morning.swimmers will have shown commitment and ability.
Training in this squad will consist of stroke technique and low intensity base aerobic work and race preparation. Swimmers will be expected to attend all the sessions. Meterage will be around 4000m