St Edmundsbury Life Saving Club - Competitions and Trophies

Competitions

Rookie Challenge

New for 2010, the Rookie Challenge was held in June as a prequel to the Suffolk heats of the RLSS National Life Saving Championships, held at the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook. Only four pairs were entered due to the short notice, three from our club and one from Ipswich Life Saving Club. The World Cup football match between England and Algeria on the same day may also have influenced numbers!

The challenge, set to be an annual event, involves the pairs of Rookies testing their lifesaving skills in three events:

The Incident – Pairs face an unknown incident with five casualties and various aids with only 90 seconds to save them all.

The Rope Throw – Both members of each pair take it in turn to coil and throw a rope over 7 metres and pull in their casualty as fast as possible.

Body Board Relay – Each partner has to body board one length of the pool (47 yards!) in a relay race against the clock.

The winners are presented with the Rookie Challenge Shield.

Christmas Cracker

In December we hold our annual Christmas Cracker Competition. This is a team event for all the club members, who battle it out answering quiz questions (on assorted topics including Life Saving) and then jump in the pool to compete in a variety of relay races, diving, and other water skills.

Trophies

Each year the club awards trophies to one Rookie (Junior Shield) and one adult (Breseus Cup) for their effort, enthusiasm and commitment to lifesaving and the club.

Recent winners of these trophies are:

	Junior Shield	Breseus Cup
1991		W Hawkins
1992		R Archer
1993	Julie Coppock	J Green
1994	Natalie Parrett	M Plummer
1995	Ross Sanderson	Paul Jackson
1996		Claire Jones
1997	Rebecca Miller	Sarah Pawsey
1998	Tom Laflin	Roxanne McNaughton
1999	Steven Edwards	Sarah Prunier
2000	Kelly Newsom	Emma Roland
2001	Becky Grant	Sue Laflin & Jackie Keegan
2002	Hannah Dunnett	Richard Heap
2003	Amy Frewer	Rachel Porter
2004	Aaron Steggles	Freja Dunnett
2005		Julian Loader
2006	Simon Heap	Katie Bramwell
2007	Olivia Steggles	Neil Hamilton
2008	Rowanne Bramwell	Lauren Saggers
2009
2010	Lucy Clark	Darren Maguire

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