Open water summer activities for juniors
Information for open water events for juniors over the summer months including: an introduction to open water swimming; stand up paddle boarding; Camlough Lake Water Festival; and organized club swims.
This summer we’re offering a range of activities based around the open water. They are aimed at our junior members from ages 11/12 up to 18.
Our goal is to build confidence in the open water and develop it as an offering within our club over the summer months.
You can sign up for one of the activities or all of them, although we recommend that everyone attends the opening two sessions - an introduction to open water swimming.
Planned activities
An introduction to open water swimming at Crawfordsburn (late June / early July)
Standup paddleboarding - 19 July
Club swims (throughout August)
Camlough Lake Water Festival (13 to 15 August)
A visit to the Let’s Go Hydro Waterpark (late August)
Introduction to open water swimming
We start off with two one hour sessions in late June / early July. These will be delivered by the team from wildswim.ie . They’ll provide relevant info prior to sessions including their leaflet for participants: “what to expect & what to bring”. The sessions will include briefing, mixed swim/ games session, exit and debrief delivered by the two coaches.
12 to 18 years old
2 x 1 hour sessions
Crawfordsburn Country Park Beach
Tuesday evening, first session late June and second session early July
£5 per person for both sessions
The details above are provisional and subject to change depending on weather, temperature and tides.
Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP)
Our SUP activity will take place on Monday 19 July at 6.30pm. It’s being delivered by SUP Hub NI who are based in Bangor. It will be a structured lesson with a bit it team building and completion thrown in. All equipment is provided, all you need is your togs, a towel and some sunscreen!
Interested?
If you’re interested in taking part we need to know by Tuesday 1 June.
If you have any questions then please give us a shout. You can contact us, email cuchulainn.waterpolo@gmail.com or drop Rónán or Joe a message.
When we have confirmed numbers we will be in touch with firm dates / times and ask people to commit to attending at that point.
What about the other activities?
We’re working to finalize details for the other activities. Some of this depends on government relaxing restrictions and some is dependent on events being organized (like the water festival at Camlough Lake).
If you want to stay informed, get in touch and we’ll make sure that the information gets to you when we have it!
Colly Watters second skins home in Island Dhu: Portrush two way 2015
The Island Dhu Sea Swim was held on Saturday 29th August. Colm Watters was second skins home.
The Island Dhu Sea Swim was held on Saturday 29th August. The swim has always been a 'traditional' swim, year the ILDSA decided to open a new class for wetsuit swimmers.
Collie Watters, a senior polo player for Setanta WPC, tri-athlete and former iron man, arrived home with a time of 25:14, behind Jon Glover (ILDSA) and ahead of Sean Campbell (ILDSA).
The entry this year was significantly larger than usual, with swimmers travelling from all of the province, and one swimmer made the trip from Dublin. A total of 57 swimmers competed.
Conditions on the day were good for the swim, with a strong southwest wind creating some chop on the way out, making the first leg of the swim more difficult, but giving the competitors a push back on the return leg.
Merman of Mullaghmore
Setanta's Ronan McClean was first home in the Merman and Mermaid of Mullaghmore race 2015.
McClean takes first in 2.5k skins race
Setanta's McClean was first home in the Merman and Mermaid of Mullaghmore 2015.
The Merman and Mermaid of Mullaghmore 2015 was a 2.5k skins only swim which took place between Mermaid's Cove and Mullaghmore Harbour in County Sligo on Saturday 2 August.
Four Setanta seniors traveled to Co. Sligo for the race: Conor McGowan, Cathal Fitzpatrick, Declan Neeson and McClean.
Conditions were good and at the end of a well organised and highly competitive race, McClean arrived home first in a time of 27 minutes and 22 seconds.
Full results available here.
Top 5 finishers