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This page is for our Communications Officer, Sue Forbes, to keep everyone up to date with the latest information.

IMPORTANT: No dryland training on Friday 10th September.

Autumn 1 Classes

All divers should have already booked into the relevant squads for Autumn 1. Any diver not yet booked-in will have to book and pay before they will be coached!

General stuff

• Well to everyone who took part in the Levels in Ayr at the weekend.
• There will be a Sponsored Walk over the Forth Road Bridge on Saturday 11 September at 10am. Please see the Fundraising page for full details and sponsorship form.
• The Prizegiving and party night will be on Saturday 20th November at Baberton Golf Club, details to follow. Put this in your diary NOW.
• Return of the Black & Blue. This is planned for Newbattle at the end of January. Dads, dust off your Speedos, and Mums, stretch your daughter's lucky swimsuit!!!

World Junior Diving Championships, Tucson, Arizona, 1-6 September

Grace Reid has been selected for the GB team in this event and is expected to dive in the Group B 3m and the A+B 3m synchro events. The synchro is on Saturday 4th and the individual 3m is on Monday 6th. Good luck Grace.

Commonwealth Games, Scottish Diving Team

Congratulations to Grace Reid, Carol Galashan and Helen Galashan on their selection for the Scottish Team for the Games in Delhi. The dates of the diving events are 10-13 October 2010. We wish these divers all the very best in their events and will be keeping an eye out for their results.

The Scottish Team has 108 men and 83 women competitors, of whom Grace is the youngest. The diving entries are:

• Grace Reid, Springboard Individual.
• Carol Galashan, Platform Synchro
• Helen Galashan, Platform Synchro and Platform Individual

Blast from the past

Caroline Hardy (nee Millar), one of the original club divers, has emailed as follows:

"I have only just spotted the Edinburgh Diving Club’s website and was very sad to hear about the death of Bill Law only a few months ago.  He was a lovely man with a great sense of humour and a brilliant coach.  Unfortunately despite his best efforts, and despite my enthusiasm, I never had much natural diving talent.  Meanwhile my contemporaries, Lesley Ogden and Fiona Hotson, just got better and better.   I was one of the first members of the Club (membership number 8 I think) and did my first dive off 10m before the pool was officially open.  We were so lucky to have such brilliant facilities at that time.   Having left Edinburgh to join the Royal Navy, my only claim to fame was winning the Inter Services Diving Championships in 1976.     I visited Edinburgh one day recently and had time to kill so thought I’d call in at the pool to see if any diving was going on, only to find it was closed for refurbishment!   Please could you pass on my best wishes to Malcolm Taylor and Linda Lockerbie, and anyone else from that era that might know me.   Kind regards "

Chaperoning

Will anyone interested in chaperoning please contact the CPO, Karen Foster. (posted: 18 January 2010)

Email news flashes

Sue says "I have been given the role of Communication Officer so if all parents could email me their email address I can keep everyone up to date with all impotant info". Send an email to Sue

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