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Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Isle Of Man Swimming Club (IoMSC) will be held at the National Sports Centre, Meeting Room, Douglas on Monday, 15th June 2009 (immediately following the AGM of Isle of Man Swimming Association held at 6pm), to transact the following business:

• 9.2.1 - To receive the Chairman's report of the activities of the Club during the previous year;
• 9.2.2 - To receive and consider the accounts of the Club for the previous year and the report on the accounts of the independent examiner and the Treasurer's report as to the financial position of the Club;
• 9.2.3 - To remove and elect the independent examiner (who must not be a member of the Committee or a member of the family of a member of the Committee) or confirm that he remain in office;
• 9.2.4 - To elect the Welfare Officer.
• 9.2.5 - To elect the Officers and other members of the Committee;
• 9.2.6 - To decide on any resolution, which may be duly submitted in accordance with Rule 9.3.

The following nominations have been received:

• Chairman: Clive Parrish
• Vice Chairman: David Nash
• Treasurer: David Nash
• Secretary: Ann Isaac
• Welfare Officer: Joanne Teal

By order of
The Secretary IoMSC
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Isle of Man
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The Manx Tri Club is staging a Junior Triathlon event on Saturday 23rd May at the NSC, sponsored by Skandia International. The primary aim of the event is for the children to have fun, whilst having the opportunity to try a multi-sport event.

The Association is pleased to announce that the 11 swimmers who achieved consideration times for the 2009 Island Games in Åland have all been selected and will represent the Isle of Man in Åland in June. The team members are:

• Men's team:
  • Dane Harrop (Captain)
  • Tom Bielich
  • Grant Halsall
  • Philip Harrison
  • Jonathan Price
• Women's team:
  • Rachel Ganly (Captain)
  • Katie Blaker
  • Poppy Evans
  • Hannah Howitt
  • Heather Miller
  • Olivia Rawlinson

The team will be accompanied by:

• Sacha Djerfi (National Coach)
• Vicki Rawlinson (Team Manager)
• Ruth Cooil (Team Physio)

Congratulations to all of those selected and best of luck!

After years of neglect of this site by the swimming association, the association has created a new, "much improved website"! The new site is currently available at http://www.iomswim.net and will be available via http://www.iomsa.org.im shortly. The association hopes that you will agree that the new site is much better looking, and more importantly much easier to navigate than this site.

This website (iomsc.org.im) will be updated occasionally over the next few months, and will hopefully carry highlighted results of the 2009 British National Age Groups among others. I hope that this website has proved to be of some use to you over the years, and only wish that the association had been more willing to keep the site up-to-date in order to provide you with more information about swimming on the Island.

Adam Jackson

The membership of the International Island Games Association have unanimously chosen Bermuda as the host island for the Island Games in 2013. It will be the first time this growing event will take place on the other side of the Atlantic. Full article available from the IGA website.