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May 2007
29th May 2007 - Reports for the Ridings Premier and two friendly (1) (2) league galas can be found at the links indicated. For your diary, The next gala in the Ridings Premier League is at Thirsk on July 7th.
20th May 2007 - Ridings Premier Division Result - Scarborough Indoor Pool 19th May 2007 (Full report Here)
Scarborough SC win first Ridings Premier League gala in some style!
Kingfishers hosted the first-ever Ridings Premier League gala on Saturday Evening. The area's leading swimming league has now been formed into a Premiership League made up of 4 clubs with a further three divisions also supported by 4 clubs each.
What a gala it turned out to be for Scarborough Swimming Club! A packed balcony supporting both local clubs and with many visitors from South Holderness and Thirsk, were provided with a near perfect performance from the young team members. After a number of very close Ridings galas over the past two or three years,where only a point or two separated the leading clubs, this year saw a near record of 28 points separating 1st and 2nd place. The gala also saw the Town's oldest club get one over it's neighbour, Kingfishers, by a whopping 34 point difference. Out of the 48 events that took place, Scarborough claimed 23 1st places and 16 2nds and 39 PB's were also achieved by team members. A full report appears below. The result of the gala is as follows:
Premier Division Gala Pts League Pts 1st Scarborough 2nd South Holderness 3rd Kingfishers 4th Thirsk White Horse SCARBOROUGH RECORD BREAKERS WIN FIRST LEAGUE GALA.
Scarborough Indoor Pool - 19th May 2007
The Premier division of the Ridings league finally got underway last Saturday at the indoor pool when Kingfishers hosted the first gala in this years competition. The league has been expanded this year into four divisions with Scarborough, Kingfishers, Thirsk White Horse and South Holderness, the most successful clubs and all previous winners of this league competing against each other four times during the year in the top division.The gala had been eagerly anticipated because of the rivalry between the two local clubs and the very close contests last year when three of the four galas were determined by a single point. Scarborough swimming club had enjoyed a successful start to the year in other competitions and were in a confident mood and took an early lead in the gala winning four of the early medley relays. This success continued in the individual events and the freestyle relays with the club ending the evening as convincing winners from South Holderness who narrowly beat Kingfishers into second.
A total of six league records were broken on the night with five of these records going to Scarborough swimmers. Paul Hargreaves improved the Open Breaststroke record to 30.25, - an event where he has lowered the record each time during the past 3 years - and Gareth Mills improved the boys' 14/u fly record to 29.52, breaking the record set by former Scarborough swimmer Neil Parcel set back in 1994. The Scarborough girls relay team of Emily Lucas, Sarah Roberts, Julie Owen and Emma Couch improved the Open freestyle record to 1.56.67 nearly 2 seconds inside the previous best. The 14/u boys team of Gareth Mills, Robert Harvey, David Mort and Jack Colley had a double team success taking two league records which had stood since 1998, the medley was won in 2.08.64 and the freestyle in 1.54.73 both well inside previous league bests. The final record was taken by the South Holderness 10/u girls who were successful in the freestyle team event setting a new best time of 1.08.79 - a record set by Bishop Auckland, way back in 1990.
Other Individual wins for Scarborough came across all the age groups. At 10/u Sam Broadley was a double winner at freestyle and backstroke, Callum Moverley won the Breaststroke. In the same age group for the girls Chloe Pattison who swam impressively all evening was a winner in the freestyle. At 12/u Ben Moverley was another double winner at backstroke and fly with David Couch winning the Breaststroke. Cana Machen who travels from Bridlington to train with Scarborough was another impressive winner in the fly event. The 14/u age group saw Gareth Mills winning the freestyle in addition to the fly and Hannah Broadley took 1st place in the girls fly. In the Open age group Laurence Mills swam a tremendous race in the fly winning against strong competition. Julie Owen was a double winner at fly and freestyle and Sarah Roberts was a confident winner of the Breaststroke.
There was plenty of team success too, the 12/u boys of Ben Moverley, David Couch, Michael Fardoe and Sam Broadley won both medley and freestyle, the Open boys' team of Paul Hargreaves, Laurence Mills, Ross Glegg and Adam Broadley won both of their team races, and the girls Open record breaking quartet also won their medley relay.
Overall gala result - 1) Scarborough 154pts, 2) South Holderness 126pts, 3) Kingfishers 120pts, 4)Thirsk 81pts.
As promised, the results of two friendly league galas swam earlier this month are:
Scarborough Indoor Pool - 5th May 2007
Scarborough hosted their own friendly gala with a modified program in which older swimmers could compete over longer distances. As well as the host club, New Earswick, Bridlington and Driffield sent teams to the Indoor Pool on the Yorkshire Coast. Scarborough had a large number of swimmers at the pool, so had a second team, Scarborough Storm was added to allow the kids to have more swims and get more times.
The gala got off to a winning start with the Boys 13&U Medley Team leading the way with an impressive 1.19.54. This was closely followed by the Girls 9years Medley Team setting the pace in 1.37.98. There were another 14 1st places in the gala which helped to secure points for the home club.
All throughout the gala it was great to see support coming from the swimmers on poolside, and the packed balcony of spectators. This probably helped with the astonishing 90 personal best times which fell during the gala. These PB swims gave Scarborough valuable points to finish 2nd in the gala in the overall standings: 1st New Earswick 163pts, 2nd Scarborough 149pts, 3rd Bridlington 145pts, 4th Driffield 122pts, 5th Scarborough Storm 46pts.
Swimmers who achieved 1st place during the gala:
R. Scarborough, M. Smith, A. Pattison, T. Venner, D. Couch, L. Fuller, S. Greenwood-Wilson, J. Cappleman, Y. Crawford, I. Kinrade, M. Cooper, S. Shepherd, N. Sweeney, M.Ratcliffe, G. Rhodes, C. Deller, C. Hagan.I'd finally like to say well done to all swimmers that competed in the evening's gala and a huge thank you to everyone that helped make the gala the success it was.
1st New Earswick 163pts, 2nd Scarborough 149pts, 3rd Bridlington 145pts, 4th Driffield 122pts,5th Scarborough Storm 46pts
Whitby Pool - 12th May 2007
Scarborough had their second friendly gala in as many weeks as they travelled up the coast to Whitby. Although Scarborough had a relatively small team it gave the opportunity for plenty of swims which produced a good team performance.
This gala turned out to be one of the most competitive friendly gala of the year, with many races having very exciting finishes. The seaside club rose to the challenge though and produced 11 1st places and 37 Personal Best times.
Swimmers who achieved a 1st place:
L. Goodall, M. Fardoe, R. Scarborough, B. Hoggarth, M. Grunwell, J. Cappleman, I. Kinrade, C. Foster, C. Deller, M. Ratcliffe, H. Goodall, A. Haynes.
There were a good number of fine performances from our younger swimmers, with the vast majority of them being introduced to league gala swimming for the first time.
Result:
1st New Earswick 125pts, 2nd Scarborough 93pts, 3rd Bridlington 78pts, 4th Whitby 66pts
Open Water News - Wykeham Lakes - 16th May 2007
Scarborough Swimming Club took to the freezing waters of Wykeham lakes for the first time this year on Wednesday evening. With the drizzle coming down from the grey sky only 3 hardy souls managed to take to the water; Adam Harvey, Sarah Roberts and Marc Slack. Emma Couch made a brave attempt to get in but the numbing cold of the water was too much.
In 2007, Scarborough Swimming Club is going to miss two of its top open water swimmers. James Sowersby joined the Army at the end of April to begin his training as a Technical Engineer. Aaron Yeoman moved to London and is now employed by Virgin Trains in the Capital. They will be missed by all and everyone wishes them the best of luck for the future.
The club have many of its swimmers competing in different Open Water events throughout the country and will be competing from now up until the end of August, with the first event taking place this forthcoming weekend.
Training is currently taking place down at Wykeham Lakes on a Wednesday evening at 6.30pm so if your interested why not come down to see for yourself or for further information speak to the front desk on a Thursday night.
6th May 2007 - Many of our swimmers were taking part in the Designated meet and report the report below: (Report courtesy of Michelle Broadley)Kingston Upon Hull - Designated Open Meet
Scarborough Swimming Club’s swim development policy is coming to fruition. A 17 -strong squad competed at Kingston upon Hull’s annual designated open meet, with many of the younger swimmers reaching finals and recording personal best times. Ben Moverley had an outstanding weekend, achieving personal best times in all 6 of his events, reaching 4 finals winning 100m freestyle and backstroke in 1.09.57 and 1.19.19, 50m freestyle and silver in 100m fly. Along with his sterling performances in 200m free and 200m backstroke he notched up enough points to win Top Boy for the 11 year old age group . His 100m and 200m events were swum within North Eastern District qualifying times. Little brother Callum 9 was competing outside his age group in the 10yrs category, swimming over 5 events and reaching the final of 50m breaststroke finishing 8th in a PB of 48.02. Personal bests were also achieved in 50m free in 38.62 and 50m fly in 44.47. The youngest swimmer in the whole competition to win an event was 9 year old Sam Broadley who was also competing in the 10yrs age group. Sam made 3 finals winning gold in the 50m free in a pb of 33.57, bronze in 50m backstroke and 4th in 50m fly. He was also one of only two 9 year olds to tackle the 400m freestyle, finishing 15 seconds inside the District qualifying time with 5.47.62. Another North Eastern time was achieved in 200m Individual Medley, shaving 8 seconds off his entry time recording 3.11.82. Sam’s brother and sister both achieved senior/junior District times in 50m free, Adam 15, in 27.75 and Hannah 13 swam her way to a bronze with her time of 30.44. She also reached the final of the 100m free finishing 7th. Adam also had pb’s in 200m free with 2.17.86 and a 2.39.70 in the physically demanding 200m butterfly where he finished 8th overall.
Another District qualifier in the 400m freestyle was David Couch 11, finishing in a pb time of 5.26.43. David also made 3 finals with 4th place in 100m breaststroke and silver medal positions in 50m and 100m free, which was achieved in another district time of 1.10.83. He had a strong swim in the 200m freestyle knocking off 6 seconds to finish in a time of 2.32.84. Sister Emma 15, had a great weekend making finals in 100m free and 100m butterfly where she finished 3rd with a very determined attitude and knocked 2 seconds off her entry time to finish in 1.11.96. Another set of siblings who swam their way to success were Aaron and Chloe Pattison. Every time achieved over their 10 events was a personal best. Aaron 12, reached the final of 100m breaststroke finishing 8th . He carved a huge 20 seconds off his 200m freestyle finishing in 2.49.79 and a further 23 seconds off a very impressively swum 200m Individual Medley in 3.06.63. Chloe 10, came 8th in the 50m backstroke final, and 6th in 50m free final with times of 43.00 and 36.01 respectively. She also had strong swims in 200m free and 200m IM, knocking 7 seconds off each to record 2.57.69 and 3.21.95. 12 year old Rebecca Cox swam strongly over her 6 events, achieving a pb of 1.12.75 in 100m free, while recording pb’s in 200m free and 100m backstroke. But a very determined performance in 50m freestyle took her through to the final, winning bronze in a superb 32.61. 16 year old Emily Lucas had a busy weekend with 8 events. A strong swim in the 200m breaststroke gained her a 5 second pb of 3.00.86, finishing 9th overall. She made 4 finals, placing 4th in 100m breaststroke, 8th in 100m freestyle, backstroke and 5th in 100m butterfly. Another finalist was 14 year old Robert Harvey, when a pb of 1.11.69 in the heats secured him a place in the backstroke final to finish in 7th position, and a creditable 8th in the final of the 100m freestyle. Michael Fardoe, 11 who was competing in his first open meet took on the demanding 200m breaststroke, clocking a superb time of 3.41.39 - a great result for a first timer. He also competed in 100m breaststroke and freestyle events, but it was in the 50m free where he showed his determination, winning a place in the final where he finished 8th in 36.73.
9 year old Niamh Sweeney, swimming out of age in the 10years category reached the final of the 50m butterfly, coming home in 8th place and bettering her entry time with 40.33, and also achieving another pb in 50m freestyle with 38.65. Samantha Gibson, 11 had a fantastic swim in the100m backstroke , knocking 4 seconds off her entry time to record a North Eastern qualifying time of 1.23.44 , finishing 9th as a reserve finalist. A great performance in the 200m Individual Medley secured a time of 3.07.00, a very good result as this was Samantha’s first attempt at this event. 10 year old Georgina Rhodes, in a strong performance successfully lowered her pb in the 50m freestyle by 2 seconds to finish 13th overall in 36.98. She also competed in 50m backstroke, and breaststroke where again a strong swim resulted in 11th place and a pb of 49.54. Team mate Hayley Goodall 10, competed over four events, when a gutsy performance in the 100m breaststroke resulted in 1.53.13. She knocked 2 seconds off her entry time in the 50m freestyle which turned out to be Hayley’s strongest swim of the weekend, finishing in 19th position with 38.44.
Five Scarborough Swimming Club swimmers who represented Hull in accordance with the Amateur Swimming Association’s Swim 21 development policy, were Paul Hargreaves 17, Laurence Mills 15 and Gareth Mills 14, Ross Glegg 14 and Jack Colley 12. All these swimmers turned out amazing performances over the weekend. Paul won the open 100m and 200m breaststroke and 200m Individual medley, and also achieved five national qualifying times. Laurence, achieved five pb’s, a silver and 3 bronze. His most outstanding swim was the difficult 400m Individual medley were he carved a massive 25 seconds off his entry time to finish 3rd in 4.49.67. Brother Gareth made 4 finals with an excellent pb of 1.04.68 in the 100m fly, finishing 2nd. He finished 3rd in the 200m fly and had a very strong swim in the 400m freestyle finishing 6th in 4.27.76, shaving 5 seconds of his entry time. Ross achieved four pb’s, with superb performances to win both finals of the 100m backstroke and 100m freestyle in National Qualifying times. Jack made 4 finals, achieving pb’s in all his swims with a 2nd place in 50m freestyle, and three, 3rd places in 100m backstroke, 100m freestyle and particularly the 100m breaststroke knocking 3 seconds of his entry time to record and 1.26.66. Huge congratulations to all the swimmers, for what turned out to be an exciting and successful weekend for Scarborough Swimming Club and its coaching staff.
6th May 2007 - Ridings League News
Our near neighbours, Kingfishers have continued with winning ways when their 2nd and 3rd teams won their most recent Ridings Division 2 and 3 galas. Results as follows:
Division 2
(at Filey) 1st Kingfishers S.C 2nds- 137pts, 2nd South Holderness - 123pts, 3rd Ryedale - 111pts, 4th Filey - 102pts(at Indoor Pool) 1st Kingfishers S.C 2nds - 132pts, 2nd South Holderness - 130pts, 3rd Ryedale - 114pts, 4th Filey - 92pts
Division 3
(at Driffield) 1st Kingfishers S.C Thirds - 141pts, 2nd Driffield -136pts, 3rd Pocklington - 101pts, 4th Derwent Valley - 76pts
