We have rescheduled the final Swimming Challenge Award.  The Honours Award will take place over two weeks on Saturday June 11th & 18th 6:00pm at All Seasons. This will give time to practice and complete the requirements of the award.

Swimming Challenge Awards – Honours

By completing this Award, you will have shown your ability to complete each of the following sections in the order listed without pause:

Section A

1. Make a straddle entry into water of at least full reach depth*, swim 5 metres into a piked surface dive to retrieve an object weighing approximately 2kg from water of full reach depth*; carry the object using a backstroke or sidestroke for a distance of 20 metres, to place it on the poolside.
2. Scull 10 metres head first on the back; complete a back somersault finishing in a back layout position; perform a roll to take up a front layout position; carry out a front somersault finishing in a front layout position; tuck and rotate backwards into a back layout position and continue to scull feet first for 15 metres. Throughout all sculling and layout positions, the hands must remain close to the hips and the feet must be kept together on or near the surface of the water.

Section B
Complete the following in a total time of 20 minutes without a pause:

1. Swim 200 metres front crawl, 200 metres backstroke and either 100 metres breaststroke or 50 metres butterfly. A change of stroke may only occur every 100 metres (except for butterfly).
2. Swim 500 metres freestyle during which surface dive twice head first and twice feet first; on each surface dive, swim through two hoops 4 metres apart without surfacing. The tops of the hoops are to be at least 1 metre below the surface of the water.

* Full reach depth is the distance from feet to finger tips of hands reaching above the head.

The award is open to swimmers from Improvers Squad and above. The cost is £5.00.

Please register your interest in the comments section below.

A reminder that there will be no training Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June due to the extended Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend. This includes no Mini Marlins on Saturday 4th. 

​Training will resume as normal on Monday 6th. 

What ever you are doing, we hope you all have a great weekend. 

There will be an additional training session for the Improvers Squad on Saturday. The session will take place on Saturday 28th, 6:00 - 7:00pm at Chorley.

The recent training cancellations due to technical problems at All Seasons demonstrated how important it is that members receive emails the Club sends out. We are aware that some people are not always receiving them due to going into Spam or the Promotions tab. 

We would like to encourage you to download the Swim Manager app and enable push notifications. For urgent messages we send out a Swim Manager Alert which will appear on your phone as a notification. You can also view previous messages within Swim Manager.

To make sure that Chorley Marlins emails reliably land in your inbox and don’t get junked, you can whitelist our email addresses. To whitelist an email address just means you add them to your approved senders list. This tells your email client that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from Chorley Marlins at the top of your inbox and out of the junk folder.

Whitelisting is a quick, one-time-only task to add our email address to your address book or safe senders list. Usually, all you need to do is open an email message and verify the sender can be trusted. 

These are the main email addresses we use:

[email protected]
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Here are simple instructions on how to ensure that future emails get delivered straight to the inbox, in some of the most popular email clients:

How to Whitelist an Email in Gmail

If you’re using Gmail as your email provider, it’s easy to set things up so that a given sender is whitelisted for all future communications. The Gmail whitelist process can be done quickly through the web client:

1. Click the settings button (in the top-right corner of the screen), then select “Settings” from the resulting drop-down menu.
2. Navigate to the tab labeled “Filtered and Blocked Addresses” to access information about your existing filters.
3. Select “Create a new filter” and enter the emails or domains you want to whitelist. To whitelist a single email address, for example, type the entire address. On the other hand, if you’re trying to whitelist every sender from a certain domain, type the domain alone, such as @chorleymarlins.org.uk and @clubs.swimmanager.co.uk. This will tell Gmail to approve every message from a Chorley Marlins sender.
4. Click “Create filter” to approve the new filter, then mark “Never send to Spam” to whitelist every email within the filter. You can also choose to Star these emails, apply a given label, or mark them as important.

Whitelisting in Gmail mobile app

1. Open the Gmail application.
2. Navigate to Spam or Junk Folder.
3. Click on the message you wish to view.
4. Select the option "Report not spam".
5. You will now receive messages from this sender as normal.

How to Whitelist an Email in Outlook

Whitelisting a domain or specific email address in Outlook.com is just as easy and works by adding the address or domain in question to a group called “safe senders”. An address that has been added to safe senders will be pushed to your inbox regardless of your spam filters. To add an address or domain to safe senders:

1. Click on “Settings”, then “View all Outlook settings”.
2. Go to “Junk email”, then choose “Safe senders and domains” or “Safe mailing lists” to select the domain or email you want to whitelist.
3. Enter the domain name or email address you wish to add to Safe senders. Make sure to include the @ character for domain names in order to only whitelist emails with the exact string of characters you entered (and nothing more). @chorleymarlins.org.uk and @clubs.swimmanager.co.uk.

Alternatively, you can simply add an individual email address that has sent you a message to your Outlook Contacts. Though they lead to the same result, this method is quicker and more efficient than manually entering information.

Whitelisting in Outlook mobile app
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1. Open Outlook Mobile App.
2. Click on the message that you want to whitelist.
3. Click on the three dots in the top right corner.
4. Click "Move to focused inbox".
5. When the pop up screen comes up, click "Move this and all future messages".

How to Whitelist an Email in Yahoo Mail

If you want to move a sender or domain name to your whitelist Yahoo Mail, the process is even easier than it is in the other service providers mentioned above.

As long as you have already received at least one message from the address in question, all you have to do is highlight that message in the Bulk folder and mark it as Not Spam. Once you have identified a single message from a given sender, the Yahoo Mail spam filters will automatically allow future messages from the same address into your inbox.

On the other hand, if the person you’re attempting to whitelist hasn’t yet sent you a message, you’ll need to go through the following steps to whitelist the address:

1. Navigate to "Settings" icon, then click "More Settings" from the Yahoo Mail menu.
2. Select "Filters" and hit "Add" to enter information about the domain name or sender.
3. From here, you can enter any string of text you want to whitelist in future emails. This could be anything from an email address or domain name to something you expect to be in the body of the message.

Yahoo Mail makes it much easier to whitelist a domain name or email sender once they’ve already sent a message to you that’s located in your Bulk folder, so consider asking the person you’re trying to whitelist to send you a test email in advance.

Whitelisting in Yahoo Mail mobile app

1. Open Yahoo Mail Mobile App.
2. Click on the sidebar.
3. Click on the Spam folder.
4. Find the email you wish to whitelist.
5. Click "Move" and then click "Inbox".

How to Whitelist an Email Address in AOL

Many people looking for email whitelisting instructions for AOL are confused by the fact that AOL doesn’t have a traditional email whitelist. Instead, it considers all mail addresses a user has in his or her address book to be trustworthy. This means that the contact list in AOL essentially serves the same purpose as Gmail whitelist and Outlook whitelist.

Here are step-by-step instructions for whitelisting an email address in AOL:

1. Log in to your AOL account.
2. Open Contacts from the left navigation pane.
3. Click the New Contact icon and enter the required information.
4. Click the Add Contact button located at the bottom.

There will be an additional training session for members of the Intermediates Squad this Saturday, 21st. Training will be at Chorley 6:00 - 7:00pm.

Attached is a list of Marlins kit and swimwear orders received. 

Please check:

• The items ordered (e.g. correct type of hooded top - pullover / full zip / 1/4 zip)
• Sizes
• Spelling of the name / initials (names for back of tops, initials for shorts / tracksuit bottoms - there is no personalisation on the swimwear) 

Please be careful with the sizing as the kit is made to order so is not returnable. You can see the size guides here.

Hopefully I haven't missed any orders or entered any details incorrectly.

For some items we haven't reached the larger discounts quantity so there is a slight price increase, usually under 50p, but still significantly cheaper than the future single item price. Any problem let me know. 

Swimmers Short Sleeve Shirt - youth £16.66 adult £19.99
Hooded Training Top - Full Zip - youth £25.99 adult £31.19
Hooded Training Top - Pullover  - youth £24.59 adult £29.51
Hooded Training Top - 1/4 Zip  - youth £28.99 adult £34.79
​Tracksuit Jacket - youth £27.99 adult £33.59
Tracksuit bottoms - youth £18.39 adult £22.07
Shorts - youth £8.29 adult £9.95

Male Jammer £27.00
Female Openback £30
Female Lightback £32.00
Female X-back £34.00
Female Olympic Kneeskin £42.00
45L Large Backpack £48.00

Any questions or corrections please email [email protected] as soon as possible. We can take additional orders but they need to be received today or tomorrow.

The Club has been invited to take part in a Micro League fixture on Sunday as there is a spare lane. This gives the club the opportunity to give some more of our swimmers the experience of swimming in team events. The gala is in addition to our scheduled Micro League fixtures so we will not be awarded any points and does not affect our league position. 

Taking place on Sunday 22nd May at Padiham Leisure Centre BB12 8ED, warm up is 5:00pm. Please confirm availability in the comments section.

Members may be interested in enrolling for the SENW Young Volunteer Award. The Swim England North West Young Volunteer Award is designed to provide young people, between the ages of 14 and 17 at the start of the course in September, the opportunity to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to prepare them as Volunteers within Aquatic Sport. 

The SENW Young Volunteer Award aims to:

• Provide young individuals with an overview of the different volunteering pathways; coaching/teaching, events and officiating.
• Provide information about the different roles which volunteers undertake to continue the development of aquatic sports.
• Support and develop transferable skills, which can be used to enhance education and future job applications.
• Provide young individuals with volunteering experience which can be evidenced and utilised in conjunction with The Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

Young Volunteers must be available to attend the following 2 dates, 12th & 19th September 2022, 5.30 -8.30pm

​You can read more and signup here. 

​Please let the Club know if you have enrolled.

The Swimming Challenge Award - Honours will not be running this evening due to a training session for Junior Squad taking place. We will confirm the new date for the award shortly.

The closing date for Chorley Marlins Club Championships - Andrea Lawless Summer Meet has been extended by two weeks to Sunday 29th May. We would still encourage members to submit their entries as soon as possible through Swim Manager.