Affiliation
The Scottish Amateur Swimming Association Limited.
Stranraer Stingrays Swimming Club is based in Stranraer in South West Scotland. The original swimming club, pre September 1998, was nameless, just “The Swimming Club”, until in 1998 Evelyn Lithgow took over and the swimmers who joined then got together and named it “The Stingrays”. To begin with it was a slow process to recruit members, but gradually over the years numbers have increased from 8 to a maximum of 30, current membership is 32. Members range from 8 years to 17 years old, coming from primary schools throughout the area and the local secondary school.
Our Mission Statement is for the swimming club to provide children in the local and surrounding areas the opportunity to develop and progress their swimming further from the initial skills learned in the local swim scheme. To encourage children to participate in a sport which maximizes their physical acitivity, develop commitment and confidence to go forward within the sport.
Within the structure of the Club and the Council compete locally and further afield as much as possible to provide any swimmer with the potential or ability to find a pathway to a higher level of swimming be this with a Regional or National Squad.
We will also endeavour to educate our swimmers in key social skills through meeting friends of a similar age which will benefit them in other aspects of life as they enter adulthood.
The club’s aim is to maintain and increase it’s membership to give children in the area the opportunity to participate in swimming and gain the benefits the sport/club brings.