March 2007
last update : 30th March 2007 (click on link to take you to the latest news)
8th March 2007 - Well folks, it would now appear that the club's website is back with us. I have had quite a few discussions with 'Orange' who now assure me that they have fixed the problem (Just when I was going to move to someone else!)
The entries for the A & B gala in June has been taking entries, and if there is any club out there that still wishes to get into our gala they will have to get a move on as entries are now limited and the closing date is getting closed - 30th April - although I do believe that we will be full with the next few weeks.
27th March 2007 - The club has won its first Pocklington times gala back in February, and competed in the first friendly league gala of the season. Read how we did below:
Pocklington Times Division 1 Gala - Scarborough Indoor Pool - 10th February 2007
Scarborough Swimming Club began their 2007 season of team galas with two highly successful outings. The first home gala for Scarborough was part of the Pocklington Times League, which is seen as the premier team event. Now in Division 1 Scarborough are competing against teams from Hull, Wakefield, Askern Spa (Doncaster) and South Holderness. Our younger swimmers began well in the Medley team relays, as they picked up four 2nd places. This set up the 15 & under boys along with the boys and girls Open teams to claim the top spot. The individual races provided very close competition, with the teams recording victories. Double wins for Jack Colley, David Couch, Ross Glegg and Julie Owen helped contribute to the 12 individual wins Scarborough managed to secure. This meant that at the start of the final Freestyle relays, Scarborough were just 1 point behind the gala leaders Askern Spa. These relays provided rich pickings for the home team, as they provided four 1st places and four 2nd places. This outstanding team performance, along with a lot of encouragement both from swimmers and the large crowd of supporters, helped to secure overall victory for the Scarborough side by 8 points.
Final Gala Result: 1st Scarborough 138pts, 2nd Askern Spa 130pts, 3rd Wakefield- 119pts, 4th Hull 77pts.
Other team members were: Sam Broadley, Michael Hernandez-Fardoe, Callum Moverley, Ben Moverley, Robert Harvey, Gareth Mills, Liam Thraves, James Sowersby, Paul Hargreaves, Adam Harvey, Laurence Mills, Sophie Shepherd, Hayley Goodall, Samantha Gibson, Chloe Pattison, Rebecca Cox, Cana Machen, Hannah Thraves, Hannah Couch, Hannah Broadley, Emily Lucas, Sarah Roberts and Emma Couch.
(report courtesy of Sarah Roberts)
Friendly League Gala - Bridlington Pool - 17th February 2007
The following weekend Scarborough travelled down the coast to Bridlington, to compete in their first Friendly League Gala of the season. These galas are aimed at the younger age groups and are intended to help develop valuable experience of competitions. The gala got off to an excellent start, with wins for both the Boys and Girls 9 years Medley Relay Team. Ben Hoggarth, Will Gibson, James Thompson and Luke Goodall all managed to achieve Personal Best times in their first swim in a team gala. The Girls team of Yuko Crawford, Imogen Kinrade, Jace Cappleman and Melissa Cooper all put in strong performances to come away with top spot. The first set of relays produced 23 PB's from 28 swims, which set the scene for the performances to follow. This saw a large number of PB's fall for our swimmers across their individual swims, along with a number of 1st places in a surprisingly competitive gala. Those who finished in front of the rest were Yuko Crawford, Jace Cappleman, Robert Mort and Aaron Pattison. The final set of Freestyle Relays, saw 12 of our swimmers claim personal best times, with the 9yrs girls doing the double to take spot again. The gala had an exciting finish with all the teams and the crowd getting behind the swimmers in the final boys, girls and mixed cannons, with which Scarborough took two 2nd places.
Other swimmers who put in good performances were: Michael Mort, Jordan Doubtfire, Thomas Cooper, Aaron Pattison, Robert Mort, Jordan Dargue, Josh Hoggarth, Charlotte Deller, Lauren Squires, Hannah Brierley, Alicia Halliday, Hayley Goodall, Georgina Rhodes, Hannah Thraves and Fiona Bird.
(report courtesy of Sarah Roberts)
Open Water News - Melbourne Australia - 22nd March 2007
For those of you who are interested in Open Water, you may like to know the results of the British swimmers who many of our swimmers who are more senior swimmers will know.
It looks like there were no male or female swimmers taking part in the 5Km championships, while only three swam in the 10Km event, Wednesday, March 21 2007 where Alan Bircher came 8th with a time of 1:55.53.91, some 21 seconds behind the winner, however a silver medal was secured in the ladies event when 20 year old Cassandra Patten was only a second behind the winner to finish in 2:03.58.9, and with Kerianne Payne, 20, finishing in 11th place in 2:04:37.5.
Yorkshire Agegroup and Senior/Junior Championships February/March 2007
The 2007 Yorkshire age group championships took place over 3 weekends at Leeds international pool and ponds forge Sheffield. Scarborough Swimming Clubs 15 strong squad made a lasting impression on the bigger clubs resulting in 29 finals and 17 medals, making this one of the most successful championships for Scarborough swimming club for many years. Top of the tree was 13 year old Gareth Mills. His outstanding overall performance resulted in 12 finals, claiming 7 bronze medals in 1500m, 200m, 100m freestyle, 400m and 200m Individual Medley, 200m backstroke and 50m butterfly, silvers in 800m freestyle and 200m butterfly all in personal best times. .He finished off with a gold medal in 100m butterfly in an exciting neck and neck finish, where he nudged out rival Leeds swimmer Mitch Lavin to win in a long course personal best time of 1-06-05. Talented 14 year old Ross Glegg made 5 finals all in personal best times, turning out sterling performances to claim bronze in 400m freestyle, silvers in 200m freestyle and 200m backstroke, finally winning gold in 100m backstroke finishing well inside the national qualifying time with 1-04-82. The youngest medal winner in the club was 9 year old Sam Broadley entering seven events and finaled in four, he was placed 4th in 50m and 200m freestyle and went on to take silver medals in 50m and 200m backstroke in pb times of 39-19 and 3-03-60, proving he could hold his own against stiff competition from the big city clubs. 11 year old Ben Moverley had his most successful championships to date. Achieving personal best times and reaching the finals of 200m and 50m backstroke, 50m fly and 50m freestyle which proved to be his best swim when he won a well deserved bronze medal in a time of 31-55. Newcomer to the club 10 year old Samantha Gibson swimming for the first time at this level of competition, proved she was a force to be reckoned with knocking 17 seconds of her entry time of the 200m backstroke to finish in 3-06-26. She finaled in 2 events finishing 7th in 50m backstroke and 4th in 50m freestyle in a time of 32-46. Another first timer to the Yorkshire Championships was 9 year old Niamh Sweeney competing in 3 events she showed great determination by reaching the final of the 50m butterfly, displaying excellent style and technique she finished 7th in a time of 41-84. 12 year old Jack Colley enjoyed some excellent swims with personal best times and top 20 positions in 9 events. He shaved 18 seconds off his 400m freestyle to finish 9th in 5-02-16 and made the final of the 50m breaststroke finishing 8th in 38-65.
9 year old Callum Moverley another first timer at this level, entered 7 events with huge personal best times being achieved in 200m freestyle and the demanding 200m breaststroke, when he knocked 28 seconds of his entry time to finish in 3-50-91. Undoubtedly his strongest performance was reserved for the 200m Individual Medley when he finished 10th overall in 3-21-29. 11 year old David Couch had some impressive swims over his 8 events with an excellent swim in 200m Individual Medley resulting in a North Eastern District qualifying time of 3-04-67. He enjoyed other personal best swims in 400m, 200m and 50m freestyle and 200m backstroke and 50m breaststroke. Not to be out done, 12 year old Rebecca Cox and
13 Year old Hannah Broadley proved they could handle themselves against the cream of Yorkshire swimming qualifying for a dozen events between them. Rebecca’s solid performance recorded long course pb’s in 100m backstroke in a time of 1-24-77 as well as 200m, 100m and 50m freestyle, 200m and 50m backstroke. Hannah’s strongest swim came in her favoured event of 100m freestyle where she clocked a long course personal best of
1-09-78. 11year old Sophie Shepherd made her Yorkshire debut in fine style with a stylish swim in the 50m freestyle knocking 8/10ths of a second off her previous best taking it down to 34-74. 10 year olds Chloe Pattison, Georgina Rhodes and Hayley Goodall all had excellent swims with Georgie Rhodes bettering her entry time in the 50m freestyle by 1 second to finish in 37-23, Hayley competing in the same event enjoyed a personal best of
38-40, superb performances from both girls who were also first timers to the Yorkshire Championships. As well as competing in the individual 50m backstroke and butterfly, Chloe joined team mates Samantha, Georgina and Hayley, showing fantastic team spirit when they took on the swimming giants of Leeds and Sheffield, in the 200m Freestyle and Medley relay team events.. All girls excelled in their performance finishing 13th overall in both relays, wiping the floor with some of the more experienced professional clubs . Four older members of the club, Sarah Roberts 18, Emily Lucas 16, Emma Couch and Adam Broadley both 15 competed over 13 events in the Junior/Senior Yorkshire Championships in Leeds. All the swimmers recorded Long Course personal best times in various strokes and distances.Scarborough Swimming Club’s future looks golden with so much young talent rising up through the club it cannot fail to make a continued impression on Speed Swimming in the North East of England.
(Report Courtesy of Michelle Broadley)
Scarborough A&B Gala Scarborough Indoor Pool - 16/17th June 2007
Although entries finish officially on the 30th April for our A&B gala, it looks very likely that we will full up by then, and we look forward in receiving all our friends who will be attending the gala. All we need now is the great weather which we have enjoyed for the majority of the 13 years the gala has been in existence.
North Yorkshire League - Gala 1 - Thirsk Indoor Pool 10th March 2007
The younger club members did very well against a strong home team when they competed in the club's first ever North Yorkshire League gala held at Thirsk. The gala remained very competitive for the opening 8 events with the club only trailing by a few points. However, after some fine swims from the hosts saw the club settle into 2nd place. 2nd place was never in any doubt throughout the gala and it was at the halfway stage that saw Ryedale pull away from the bottom team, Derwent Valley.
Result: 1st Thirsk 163pts, 2nd Scarborough 127pts, 3rd Ryedale 110pts, 4th Derwent Valley 83pts
