COACHES at a swimming team are celebrating a hat-trick of awards achieved in just a few months.
The Thirsk White Horse Swim Team is the first Hambleton-based team to get Swim21 accreditation at teaching, foundation and skill development levels.
This allows it to offer professional coaching to a higher level of competition to swimmers who want to dedicate to long term training to achieve their aims.
It received all three levels of the national award within the last two months.
Jo Sherwood, club chairman, said: "We now have a club which can teach people to swim from scratch.
"With skill development accreditation we can take them through local competitions up to county level.
"Foundation accreditation allows us to take on masters swimmers from the age of 19 plus. All this has been made possible through the dedication and hard work of its members."
Thirsk White Horse Swim Team train daily at Thirsk and Sowerby Leisure Centre with details from 0797-4058-409 or www.twhst.co.uk.
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