Gala Reports 2006
latest report: 28th January 2007 - Club Championships
Yorkshire overseas training camp - Palacio de San Miguel Olympic 50 meter indoor pool Torremolinos, Costa del Sol, Spain
“I was well pleased to receive the news of my selection back in November to join the Yorkshire squad “
I was sent a log book to record the training sessions before I left for camp. It made me think about what I wanted to achieve. My log book explained the focus of the camp would be on aerobic maintenance, pacing, stroke rate, skills and technique and attention to detail such as turns, streamlining and dolphin kicks out of the starts and turns.
I was most looking forward to working on my butterfly as 200 Fly is my favourite event and the first event I would face at the Yorkshire Championships in Leeds the weekend I got back.
I worked really hard in training over Christmas and leading up to the camp. Sam was really pleased with my effort and assured me I could handle what ever they gave me to do. The time passed really quickly and before I realised it was time for me to go to Leeds to meet the squad. There were 16 of us altogether, Andrew Burns of York City Baths and James Morren on Leeds were the other two my age. I had raced against them before and was looking forward to training with them.
I had four training days at a Palacio de San Miguel Olympic 50 meter indoor pool in Torremolinos. I trained twice a day in the heated indoor pool. Steve Cox of the City of Sheffield was the head coach for the camp. Diane Binns, the Harrogate coach was his Assistant. The training was quite intensive and aerobic based, very similar to Sam’s program (he was right, I managed just fine) I led my lane during some of the sessions. I did lots of fun exercised my favourite was the quick reaction game and the rockets. During training they were strict about fluid intake we had to down one and a half litres a session. I was bursting for the loo all the way back to the hotel.
In between the training sessions we completed our log books, rested, ate and prepared for the next session. During the free time I lived in the games room and played pool with the rest of the squad. We had 4 meeting times through out the day to report for training or meals Vicki and Ophelia, our team managers made sure we were on time to training
We were all encouraged to keep our diet healthy but that wasn't easy with the food served up at the hotel. To begin with we were living of chips, bread and yogurts our team managers tried to encourage us to try some of the Spanish food, the meat looked really dodgy but after trying some I decided it tasted quite good.
click on for a bigger picture. Gareth is bottom right.
The camp went really quickly I was looking forward to getting back to Leeds. We didn't arrive there until 12.30 in the morning. The warm up for the Yorkshires was only 7 hours away. I had to get some sleep before the busy weekend ahead. It was a good Yorkshire Champs for me. Gold in the 800 Free. Silver in the 200 Fly, Bronze in the 100 Fly, 200 I.M, and 200 Back
It was fun and interesting travelling and training with different coaches and swimmers. It was a great experience for me to be part of the Yorkshire Squad in Spain.
Gareth Mills
Kingfishers B & C Grade Gala Saturday 11th March 2006
Scarborough Swimming club had 14 swimmers aged from 9 - 14 years competing at the Kingfishers B & C graded meet recently held at the indoor pool. It proved to be a very well supported and highly organised gala, greatly enjoyed by all the Scarborough swimmers. Congratulations go the host club and its success should ensure it becoming a regular date in the local swimming calendar.
Whilst many of the Scarborough swimmers were very inexperienced they all acquitted themselves extremely well and enjoyed considerable success winning a total of 13 Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, 17 speeding tickets, and achieving between them a total of 31 personal best swims.
Best club performances came from three swimmers in particular. The very inexperienced AARON PATTISON produced some outstanding swims to earn himself speeding tickets at 50 Free (39.76), 50 Back (48.61) and 100 Individual Medley (1.39.29), on each swim making huge improvements on previous attempts at these events.
Another youngster to have an outstanding day was 9 year old BEN ORCHARD who was the Gold medal winner at 50 Breast (57.39), bronze medal winner at both 50 free (46.84) and 50 back (51.57) and swam to speeding tickets at 50 Fly and the 100 Individual Medley.
The top girl was 9 year old GEORGINA RHODES who was in excellent form and became another Gold medal winner in the 50 free (42.91) and took speeding certificates at 50 Fly, 50 Back, and 100 Individual Medley.
Overall, it was of huge satisfaction to the club that all of the 14 swimmers competing at the gala achieved awards, speeding tickets or achieved personal best times. Other swimmers for the club were Liam Thraves, Marc Slack, Alistair Jones, Catherine Orchard, Chloe Pattison, Fiona Bird, Charlotte Campbell, Hannah Thraves, Hannah Couch, Hayley Stubbings and Sophie Shepherd.
[courtesy of John Hargreaves]
'AQUAFORCE' National Award - John Steed & Bert Slater - 9th March 2006
The club recently celebrated when two of its most loyal and longest serving members were presented with the Nationally Recognised 'Aquaforce' Certificate Award.
The two long time club stalwarts were awarded for their service and dedication to the sport of swimming, and received the recognition from the Chairman of the Scarborough & District Swimming Association, Chris Rhodes. Bert Slater, 74 and John Steed, 61, has clocked at least ninety years service between them. Both continue to teach in the club's learner pool where they concentrate on the younger element of the club. Bert also continues to Referee when necessary and is also kept very busy as the Secretary of the Scarborough & District Swimming Association. Well done to them both, and the club is very proud of their achievement.
3rd/4th & 10th/11th June 2006 - ASANER Agegroups Championships - Sheffield
Scarborough Swimming Club had a number of swimmers qualify for the ASANER Agegroup Championships held in Sheffield which were recently held over two weekends.. The club did exceptionally well where 13 year old Ross Glegg excelled to reach six finals and win two medals, a Gold and bronze medal and also achieve two National Qualifying times to add to the three he has already achieved in 2006. Gareth Mills, 13, also fought his way to four district finals but just missed out of a medal.
It was during the 100m Backstroke where he became both the Yorkshire and now the North-Eastern Champion for the event with an exceptional NQT time of 1:07.29 to secure the Gold medal fighting off the stiff challenge of James Harrison, Leeds, 1:07.46 and Lewis Dyson, Kirklees, 1:07:62 who settled for the silver and bronze medals.
During the 100m Freestyle in an impressive time of 59.96, again swim at a National Qualifying pace, he secured the Bronze medal with Gareth Mills 15th in the Freestyle heat finishing in 1:03.55. David Couch, 10, was 12th in his Agegroup in a time of 1:17.16. Both Ross and Gareth were outside the medals during the 200m IM, with Ross finishing in 2:33.02, 7th in the heat but made the final, where he came 10th in 2:36.29, where he shaved off a massive ten seconds from his PB, with Gareth recording 2:34.59, finishing 11th in the heat to make reserve for the final. Ross Glegg qualified for his 4th final of the champs when he came 6th in the heats in a time of 2:31.00 in the 200m Backstroke, and achieved a creditable 7th in the final coming home in 2:32.88. Other results were: Ross Glegg, 5th in the 400m Freestyle, 4:38.26, with Gareth Mills 8th in 4:45.36, a PB, both qualifying for the final in which Glegg just missed out of the medals in 4th recording 4:33.52, and Gareth in 4:39.41 in 6th place. Gareth took on the final of the 100m Butterfly and came home in 8th place in a very tight finish where 5th placed Christopher Dove, Middlesbrough recording 1:08.10 and Mills finishing in 1:08.56. Mills third final was the 200m Butterfly where he was placed 5th in a time of 2:31.97. He rounded off his excellent championships with another finalist slot during the 400m IM where he finished with an impressive 5:26.63 placed in 6th.
David Couch coming 11th in his Agegroup recording 5:55.51 for the 400m event, knocking 5 seconds off his PB. Couch also set another PB time during the Boys 200m Freestyle coming home in 2:42.47. Gareth also qualified for the 100m Butterfly final when he was 7th in the heat in 1:09.73. Glegg's 6th final was the Boys Open 200m Freestyle where he was placed 6th in 2:12.66.
Ben Moverley, 10, did very well in the Boys Open 100m Backstroke, where he came 4th in a PB time of 1:24.79, and he was also placed 11th in the Boys Open 200m Freestyle coming home in yet another PB time of 2:44.67
Scarborough A & B Grade Gala - Scarborough Indoor Pool - 17/18th June 2006
All the hard work and preparation finally paid off as Scarborough Swimming Club hosted it's Annual A & B Grade Gala at the Indoor pool where three hundred swimmers from sixteen clubs came together in the warm Scarborough sunshine.
The host club provided the biggest contingent of swimmers with thirty-five competing, with many more local swimmers coming from Scarborough Kingfishers. The club is indebted to Councillor Herbert Tindall, Mayor of the Borough of Scarborough, who came along and presented some of the medals during the event.There were many successes for the club during the gala, where many Gold, Silver and Bronze medals were won in both the 'A' and 'B' grades as well as 'Skins' competition winners, along with team relay wins and for all the swimmers taking part, personal best times, and in a number of instances, 'speeding tickets' were issued to swimmers swimming faster than the allotted cut off time for each grade.
The swimmers were well looked after with well stocked food and chilled drinks stalls along with ice cream and other goodies. A swim shop was also on hand to get that special pair of goggles or a new costume. The packed balcony containing the mums and dads provided the vocal support which was in evidence throughout the sixty four action packed events.
One swimmer to do well was 17 year old Paul Hargreaves who battled his way through four hard heats in the 'skins' event to win the cash award, and also set three personal best times in winning four gold medals, the 15+ yrs 100m Breaststroke in 1:05.60, along with the 15+ yrs 100m Butterfly in 1:00.42,adding the Boys 15+ yrs 100m Freestyle in an excellent 54.73, and rounded off the Gold medal feast with another personal best time during the 100m Backstroke in which he set 1:00.83. A bronze medal was also added to his tally when he received the bronze medal during the 15+ yrs 200m Individual Medley.
Seventeen year old Sarah Roberts had a most rewarding gala, where she too fought extremely hard during the last two heats of the 'Skins' to get to the final where she out shone old Rival Gemma Bell, Ryedale, by winning the final 50m Breaststroke in 38:01 with Bell coming in 41:37 to win the well deserved cash prize. Not content with the 'skins,' she produced four other personal best times when she added three Gold medals to her portfolio. The 15+ yrs 100m Breaststroke fell in 1:20.55, as did the 15+ yrs 200m Individual Medley in 2:34.94 and completed her winnings with the Gold in the 15+ yrs 100m Freestyle, winning in style in 1:04.12.
Thirteen year old Gareth Mills was also in the medals, winning the 13/14yrs 100m Butterfly in a personal best time of 1:07.41. It could have easily been another gold during the 13/14 yrs 100m Breaststroke where a speeding ticket was awarded for an excellent personal best time of 1:24.01. He was however, to add two silver medals to his collection. The 13/14 yrs 100m Backstroke silver came in 1:12.76, and his 1:03.66 was good enough for the silver medal during the 13/14 yrs 100m Freestyle. The 13/14 yrs 200m Individual Medley gave him his only bronze medal of the gala where a time of 2:39.02 sufficed.
Ross Glegg, 13, so nearly won four gold's but in the end had to settle for two. During the 13/14 yrs 100m Backstroke, he won in personal best time of 1:06.06, with the 13/14 yrs 200m Individual Medley providing the ideal event to slice off ten seconds from his old time to record 1:22.72 for the Gold medal. Both the 13/14yrs 100m Butterfly and the Boys 13/14 yrs 100m Freestyle resulted in speeding tickets with two massive personal best times to record 1:14.48 and 59:41 respectively.
Fifteen year old Laurence Mills produced four personal best times when he took gold during 15+ yrs 200m Individual Medley in a time of 2:19.13. A silver followed in the 15+ yrs 100m Breaststroke with 1:12.18, and for good measure added a further silver medal during the Boys 15 yrs 100m Backstroke in 1:03.90. During the extremely competitive 15+ yrs 100m Freestyle, his personal best time of 57:06 gave him 4th place but he was back on the medal trail during the 15+ yrs 100m Butterfly, where a bronze medal was secured with a personal best of 1:04.14.
David Couch, ten, swam very well to make personal best times during all his events, and was fortunate to receive the Gold medal during the 11yrs & u 100m Individual Medley, shaving off six seconds to record 1:29.01. Three bronze medals came during the 11 yrs & u 50m Freestyle, 34:18, the 50m Backstroke, 41:27, and again in the 50m Breaststroke swam in 48.26.
Eleven year old Jessica Couch won a wonderful 11 yrs & u 50m Breaststroke in 42:97 which was a personal best. Again, all her efforts throughout the gala were her best times. Two silver medals came along in the 11 yrs & u 50m Butterfly recording a 38:86 and in the 50m Backstroke with a time of 38:01. A speeding ticket followed during the 100m Individual Medley, knocking five seconds from her old time to 1:22.04. A gold medal and a speeding ticket was won by Robert Harvey, 13, during the 13/14 yrs 100m Backstroke, hacking off a full eight seconds from his previous marker to a new low of 1:16.91, and an equally impressive eight seconds was taken off his time during the 100m Freestyle finishing with a speeding ticket in 1:08.09.Another impressive portfolio of five personal best times were achieved by eleven year old Rebecca Cox. She was rewarded with the Gold medal in the 11 yrs & u 50m Butterfly with a time of 39:92. A bronze medal was to follow in the 'B' Graded 50m Breaststroke coming home in 50:66. For her efforts knocking five seconds from her personal best she received a speeding ticket in the 'B' Graded 100m Individual Medley in a great time of 1:28.24. She was just outside the medals too in the 50m Freestyle and again in the 50m Backstroke, both 'A' graded events, recording 34:34 and 39:12 respectively.
The gala continued with many impressive performances from the young swimmers and ten year old Hannah Thraves did not disappoint when she won the 'B' Grade 11yrs & u 50m Backstroke in a personal best of 45:37, and also produced two other personal bests. Eleven year old Cana Machen had a great gala, again all five of her events clocking up personal bests. Again, she took gold in the 'B' Graded 11 yrs & u 50m Breaststroke, won in 47:87 and two 'A' graded bronze medals were received during the 50m Butterfly, 39:70 and the 50m Freestyle, 34:33. She also collected a speeding ticket in the 100m Individual Medley, 1:29.25 - six seconds off her previous marker. Hannah Broadley, 12, did exceptional well to battle her way through the Junior 'skins' event to make the final and just lost out in the final to Tadcaster's Aimee Milner, 37:09, with Hannah recording 38:59. She did however, receive the runner's up cash award. Two 'A' graded silver medals came along, and as in previous swimmers, massive personal best times were recorded. A 1:19.20 was recorded for the 12yrs 100m Individual Medley, and during the 100m Butterfly she came home in 1:29.19. A full nine second improvement was reserved for the 'B' Graded 100m Breaststroke where she was timed in 1:35.53 to win the bronze medal. A silver medal came during the 'B' graded 100m Backstroke in 1:23.46.Emma Couch, 15, did well to set three personal bests and was rewarded with the 'B' Grade silver medal during the 15+ yrs 200m Individual Medley finishing in 2:48.39. She was just outside the medals in 4th during the 'A' Graded 15+ yrs 100m Butterfly set in 1:14.63.
Ten year old Ben Moverley was probably the unluckiest swimmer not to win a medal during three excellent swims which saw him awarded with three speeding tickets during the 11 yrs & u 50m Freestyle, 33:26, the
50m Backstroke, 37:64 and again in the 100m Individual Medley, 1:25.08. All in personal best times.Other swimmers to win medals at both 'A' and 'B' grade levels were fifteen year old Emily Lucas during the 15+ yrs 100m Breaststroke in 1:26.63 and the 100m Backstroke, 1:17.79.
Two 'A' Graded bronze medals cam the way of Adam Broadley; 13/14yrs 100m Butterfly, 1:11.58, the 100m Freestyle, 1:05.26, with a 'B' grade silver medal coming from a personal best of 1:13.21 for the 100m Backstroke.
Other 'B' Graded medal winners were eleven year old Aaron Pattison doing exceptionally well to win four silver and one bronze medal with three personal best achievements. Pattison's medals were 11 yrs & u 50m Butterfly in 49:34, the 50m Freestyle, 39:83, and the 50m Backstroke timed at 47:57 and the 100m Individual Medley, 1:37.44.
Thirteen year old Liam Thraves was another who won three 'B' graded silver medals - three in personal best times - the events were the 13/14 yrs 200m Individual Medley, 3:05.07, and the 100m Butterfly, 1:29.71 and again during the 100m Freestyle, 1:10.66.
Oliver Ritchie, 14, also won two silver medals during the 'B' graded 200m Individual Medley, 3:13.35 and the 100m Breaststroke, 1:31.29, which probably produced the biggest improvement of twelve seconds.
Marc Slack, 14, continued in winning ways with two 'B' Graded silver medals won in his best time during the 13/14yrs 100m Butterfly, 1:20.82 and again for the 100m Freestyle, in 1:09.45.
Thirteen year old Natasha Hunter was the welcome recipient of a 'B' Graded medal during the 13/14 yrs 100m Breaststroke, took in a personal best time of 1:32.19.
David Mort, 12, was unlucky not to win a medal when he was placed 4th during the 12 yrs 100m Freestyle in a new low time of 1:12.97. A speeding ticket followed during the 100m Backstroke when he again lowered his old time to 1:21.52 - a full seven seconds removed.
Scarborough also enjoyed both Freestyle and Medley team successes when their teams won the silver medal during the boys 4 x 50m Freestyle Team Relay in 1:54.56 and another silver followed in the x 50m Medley Team Relay in a time of 2:12.54. The girls relay teams picked up two bronze medals for their efforts; 4 x 50m Freestyle Team Relay, 2:06.59 and the 4 x 50m Medley Team Relay, 2:21.80.
Even though they were outside the medals, the following swimmers all achieved personal best times; Eleanor Eves, Aimee Haynes, Chelsey Glegg, Ben Orchard, Catherine Orchard, Harriet Ritchie, Connor Mainprize, Hayley Goodall, Fiona Bird, Georgina Rhodes, Hannah Couch,Gemma Hunter and James Sowersby.
British National Masters Championships - Manchester Aquatics Centre - 16/18th June 2006
Congratulations to Mark Hepples and Adam Harvey representing Scarborough Swimming Club, who returned from the British Swimming Masters Championships in Manchester holders of 3 gold and two bronze medals.
Both swimmers fought to keep form in the heat of the Manchester Aquatics Centre the venue for this years British Championships making the medals hard fought for and well deserved. Harvey was first up to race taking part in the 1500m freestyle. Unable to hold the lead in the last 200m Harvey had to settle for 2nd place overall but earned gold in his age group. Adam went on to win bronze in the 200m Butterfly a couple of hours later. Saturday saw some improvement in the water temperature but not in the pool environs!! Although not medalling, Mark was well pleased with the times set for the 100 and 50m freestyle as they came off minimal training due to exams. Adam was equally pleased with the PB set in the same 100 freestyle. Adam fought a hard 800m in the afternoon taking the lead at 400m and holding on to it to take his second gold, winning both his age group and place first overall. Both swimmers were next in action on the Sunday in the 400m Freestyle. Mark taking a well deserved bronze and Adam his 3rd gold of the meet.
(Report courtesy of Cynthia Harvey)
AimeeRamm too has been in superb record-breaking form. Aimee, who is a member of both the Scarborough and Kingfishers swimming clubs, was in unbeatable form when she took part in the British Masters championships at Manchester last weekend. She won the 100m freestyle (58.10), 50m freestyle (27.10) and 50m butterfly (28.49), setting British Masters records in all three events. She was also a member of the relay teams which smashed the British records by 11 seconds in the medley and nine seconds in the freestyle. This takes the number of records held by Aimee to nine.
(Report courtesy of the Scarborough Evening News)
National Youth & Agegroup Championships - Sheffield August 2006
During the National Swimming and Agegroup Championships, although no medals were secured, it was achievement enough to achieve the qualifying times which took the youngsters to the Nationals in the first place.
Seventeen year old Paul Hargreaves and Fifteen Year old Laurence Mills competed in the National Youth Championships, where Hargreaves achieved a top fifty placing in the Men's Open 100m Breaststroke, placed 39th and finishing with a long course personal best time of 1:07.81. He also competed in the 200m Breaststroke, placed 52nd, and finishing in 2:33.12 and the 200m IM, finishing in 72nd place with a 2:16.60. Laurence Mills took on the Men's Open 800m Freestyle and finished in an excellent time of 8:59.67 to finish in 74th overall. Another good long course time of 2:02.91 followed in the Men's 200m Freestyle.
Thirteen year olds Ross Glegg and Gareth Mills were also in action during the National Indoor Agegroup championships, where they competed against the countries best swimmers. Both boys performed exceptionally well, and both finished in the Nation's best twenty swimmers for their events. Glegg swam in five events, and can feel very pleased for his 17th placing in the 100m Backstroke, where a personal best of 1:07.62 was produced. He was 20th in the 200m Freestyle coming home in 2:10.03. A time of 59.97 followed during the 100m Freestyle and the 200m Backstroke also produced another fine Personal best of 2:30.05. Mills was also pleased with his 20th placing during the 200m Butterfly, and showed it with a long course personal best time of 2:32.50.
Club Championships - September 2006 - December 2006
Scarborough Swimming Club members have recently completed their annual Swimming Championships, which has seen well over a hundred swimmers taking part, and for the first time, six, seven and eight year olds were competing in many of the events.
While there were only five records broken during the championships, there were over 276 personal best times achieved during the 58 events. There were a number of stars throughout, with many of the young swimmers dominating their Agegroups and also picking up medals during the open events too.The record breakers were Chloe Pattison, 9, who lowered the four year record of Natasha Hunter to 1:38.81 during the 100m Individual Medley, but more impressively, Chloe also took the seven year record of Chantelle Boulton set in 1999 when she swam a personal best time of 16.95 for the Girls 9yrs & under 25m Freestyle.
Niamh Sweeney, another nine year old, lowered her own record from last year during the Girls 9yrs & under 25m Butterfly to a new low of 19.92.Sam Broadley, nine, was another to shine when he won the Gold medal and seven year record of Laurence Mills and lowered it by nearly half a second to 22:20 in the Boys 9yrs & u 25 Breaststroke. He was also the beneficiary of another Mills's record, when he won the gold medal in the Boys 9yrs & u 25m Backstroke lowering the marker to a time of 19.13.
Other nine year old medal winners were Coral-Hannah Foster, Bronze medal during the 25m Backstroke, PB of 24.32, followed up with a bronze in the 25m Freestyle, 20.20. Niamh Sweeney, Silver medal in the 25m Breaststroke, PB time of 26.48, and silver during the 25m Backstroke, PB of 22.16, Charlotte Deller, picking up the Bronze medal in 30.761. Callum Moverley, Silver medal for the 100m Individual Medley, 1.34.72 PB, Jordan Doubtfire, Bronze medal in the same race, 1.42.86.
Pick of the crop of eight year olds was Jace Cappleman, who soared to victory during the 25m Breaststroke winning Gold in 25.35, and did the same again during the 25m Freestyle in a time of 18.29, both in personal best times. Imogen Kinrade secured two bronze medals during the same two events coming home in 25.70 and 21.86 respectively. Luke Goodall won the Gold medal during the 100m Individual Medley coming home in a personal best time of 2:11.82, and also took a number of silver medals. Simon Stockdale piped Luke during the 25m Breaststroke event to achieve a personal best time of 26.90 and to take the Gold medal. He was also on song to secure the Gold medal in the 25m Backstroke in another personal best of 26.95. Ben Hoggarth won the bronze medal during the 25m Breaststroke in a personal best of 28.90
Notable Seven year olds were Anna Sweeney who took the Gold medal in the 25m Backstroke with a time of 24.89 (PB) and again in the 100m Individual Medley coming home in 1:50.40. She also excelled in the 25m Butterfly to win in 24.73. Charlie Cowan did well to win the bronze medal during the 25m Backstroke in a personal best time of 32.20.
A number of six year olds competed well and enjoyed their first taste of competitive swimming. Special mention goes to Nathan Kinrade and Liam Chaplin for all the effort they put into their events.
14 year old Ross Glegg was another who dominated his age group and was undoubtedly the star of the championships by winning six gold medals, four in his age group, and two at open level. He also won further silver and bronze open medals as well as silver in his age group.
The Open 100m backstroke event was won in a new PB time of 1.04.97, and another fine victory followed in the Open 100m Freestyle beating 22 year old Adam Harvey at the touch to win in 58.09, with Adam Harvey finishing a heartbeat away in 58.11, a personal best came his way when he won the silver medal in the Open 400m Freestyle in 4.36.09, with a bronze following in the open 200m Freestyle. Gold medals continued to come his way in the 14/15 years 200m IM,2.30.25, and the 100m Freestyle, 58.45, and followed up in the 100m backstroke, 1.06.26, and finally in the 100m breaststroke, 1.21.32. A bronze medal was secured during the Open 200m in 2.08.89.14 year old Adam Broadley also took his share of medals and won the boys 14/15 years 100m butterfly in a PB time of 1.09.28, with a silver coming during the 100m freestyle, 1.03.61, another PB, and a further silver medal following in the 100m backstroke, 1.13.82. A silver medal won in the 200m IM, 2.49.07. Adam also received five bronze medals in the Open age category, the 100m butterfly, 1.12.23, the 100m backstroke, 1.13.82, the 100m freestyle, 1.02.95, the 400m Freestyle open event, 5.16.28, and finally the 50m Freestyle coming home in 28.80.
Eighteen year old Sarah Roberts completely dominated the Girls Open events winning Gold in no fewer than seven events and a further two silver medals. The Girls Open 800m Freestyle was won in 10.16.64, followed by the Girls Open 100m Breaststroke, 1.22.08, then the Girls Open 100m Freestyle won in a personal best of 1.03.80. A sub-five minute finish came during the Girls Open 400m Freestyle, the Gold won in 4.57.93. A further personal best came during the Girls Open 100m Butterfly which she secured the silver medal in 1.13.95.
Her other wins were the Girls Open 200m I.M. , 2.35.86, Girls Open 50m Freestyle, 29.89, Girls Open 200m Freestyle, 2.21.48 and completing her medal haul with a silver medal in the Girls Open 100m Backstroke with a time of 1.21.22.Newcomer Nicholas Westerman, 18, won the 50m Open Freestyle in a PB time of 26.54. Nicholas also picked up a silver medal in the Open 100m Butterfly, 1.10.26.
Adam Harvey, 23, shared the Open 200m Freestyle title with James Sowersby, when both swimmers could not be separated at the finish, both producing PB times to won Gold in 2.05.99. Adam added the 100m Butterfly Gold medal in a PB of 1.02.92, and secured the 1500m Freestyle title winning the Gold medal in 17.48.51. The 400m Freestyle also went his way, again with a PB time of 4.23.72. An excellent Gold medal was won during the 200m I.M., with an exciting finish between Harvey and James Sowersby, with Harvey edging out Sowersby to win in 2.30.77, and Sowersby finishing in 2.30.83. Adam also picked up a further medal with a silver coming in the 100m Freestyle, 58.11 PB.
James Sowersby, 17, who will be leaving us to join the British Army later this year, suffered a bit of a disappointment this year, as an injury kept him out for the vast majority of the events. However, as well as winning the Gold medal in the 200m Freestyle, he won the silver medal in the Boys Open 100m Backstroke in a time of 1.07.39, and another silver in the Open 50m Freestyle, 26.86.
Robert Harvey, 13, also performed well during the championships, again completely dominating his age group and with a number of significant victories in the open events. Gold medal wins were the 12/13 yrs 100m IM, 1.17.57, PB, the 100m Freestyle, 1.06.36, another PB in the 50m Butterfly, 35.26, 50m Backstroke, 34.95, and a fine silver medal for a gutsy swim in the Open 1500m Freestyle finishing in 21.08.86, some 3 minutes inside his personal best. Harvey also added the Boys Open 200m I.M. bronze medal finishing in 2.47.95, and the bronze medal during the 12/13yrs 50m Breaststroke, 45.54, PB.Liam Thraves, 14, enjoyed himself during the competition where he won a number of medals, The best result coming during the Open 100m Breaststroke, achieving a PB time of 1.35.45, with a bronze medal coming for his efforts during the Open 1500m Freestyle, 22.28.70, and another bronze medal coming in the Boys 14/15yrs 200m IM and again with a PB time of 2.56.83. Liam also claimed another Bronze during the 14/15yrs 100m Breaststroke, 1.35.01, PB.
13 year old William Rutter, a recent acquisition from Kingfisher Swimming club, soon showed his metal with a fine victory in the 12/13yrs 50m Breaststroke winning in 44.51, and two bronze medals during the 100m I.M, 1.30.95 and the 12/13yrs 50m Butterfly, 45.54.
13 year old David Mort pulled in 5 silver medals, all swam in PB time; Boys 12/13yrs 100m I.M, 1.20.58, 12/13yrs 100m Freestyle, 1.07.67, 12/13yrs 50m Butterfly, 39.76, 12/13yrs 50m Breaststroke, 44.82, 12/13yrs 50m Backstroke, 38.11.
Also enjoying success were 14 year old Marc Slack who won 3 bronze medals; 100m Freestyle 1,07.83 PB, 100m Backstroke 1.22.95 PB and the 100m Butterfly 1.23.67. Oliver Ritchie, 14, took the bronze medal during the 14/15 yrs 100m Breaststroke, 1.30.57. Tom Venner, 13, bagged two bronze medals during the Boys 12/13yrs 100m Freestyle recording a great personal best time of 1.15.54 and another personal best followed in the 50m Backstroke 41.13.Twelve year old Hannah Broadley had a great championship and almost took five Gold medals during her Agegroup events winning the Girls 12/13yrs 100m I.M. in 1.24.85, the 100m Freestyle 1.07.92, the 50m Butterfly 33.39 and the 50m Backstroke 39.61. The silver medal came with a personal best time of 44.64 in the 50m Breaststroke.
Hannah Couch, 13, also got amongst the medals and took the silver medal in the 100m IM event, 1.32.13, and the silver again during the 50m Backstroke 41.64, and then the bronze medal in the 100m Freestyle 1.18.39.
Natasha Hunter, 13, was also a Gold medal winner taking the Girls 12/13yrs 50m Breaststroke in 43.41 with the silver medal picked up during the 100m Freestyle 1.14.09, and the bronze medal during the 50m Backstroke 42.01.
Jessica Couch, 11, won two medals; the silver in the Girls 12/13yrs 50m Butterfly, 40.45 and the bronze medal in the 50m Breaststroke 44.67.David Couch, 10, picked up a nice collection of medals when he bagged six silver medals during the championships, and lowered his personal best time in no fewer than three of the events. The medals came in the: Boys 10/11yrs 100m I.M., 1.25.29, PB, Boys 10/11yrs 50m Butterfly 39.95, Boys 10/11yrs 50m Breaststroke 46.57, PB, Boys 10/11yrs 50m Backstroke 43.26, Boys 10/11yrs 50m Freestyle 34.13 PB, and finally the Boys Open 100m Breaststroke, 1.45.45.
Ten year old Ben Moverley made a clean sweep of the Gold medals in his age group where he held off the opposition to win five events; Boys 10/11yrs 100m I.M. 1.24.06, PB, Boys 10/11yrs 50m Butterfly, 38.22, another PB came in the Boys 10/11yrs 50m Breaststroke, 46.54, Boys 10/11yrs 50m Backstroke, 39.11, with the final Gold won in the Boys 10/11yrs 50m Freestyle, 32.77, PB.
Other ten year old boys to enjoy the medal winning frenzy were: Robert Mort, 2 Bronze, Robert Scarborough, 1 bronze, Jordan Dargue, bronze, with Aaron Pattison picking up a bronze medal in the open 100m Breaststroke, 1.47.72, a huge 11 seconds carved off his PB.
Eleven year old Rebecca Cox secured two Gold's, a silver and two bronze Agegroup medals, easily winning the Girls 10/11yrs 100m I.M. in a personal best of 1.26.45, followed by another best effort of 33.48 during the Girls 10/11yrs 50m Freestyle to take Gold, with the silver medal coming in the 10/11yrs 50m Backstroke, 39.98, and bronze medals taken in the 10/11yrs 50m Butterfly, 42.54, and the 10/11yrs 50m Breaststroke, 49.70, another personal best time.
Samantha Gibson, 11, was another great performer and won Gold during the 10/11yrs 50m Breaststroke setting a personal best time of 48.97. Samantha also went on to win further silver and two bronze medals during the championships.Cana Machen, another 11 year old, also won her fair share of medals namely the Gold medals during the 10/11yrs 50m Butterfly won with some style in 40.22 and winning another gold medal in the 10/11yrs 50m Backstroke setting a great personal best time of 39.82. Three more silver medals came her way during the 100m IM, 1.29.53, 50m Breaststroke 48.97 and the 50m Freestyle in another personal best of 33.58. Ten year old Georgina Rhodes took home the bronze medal for her fine swim during the 100m IM, a swim with a personal best time of 1.39.20.
Fifteen year old Emma Couch won a magnificent Girls Open 100m Butterfly to pip Sarah Roberts at the finish in a time of 1.13.61. Emma went on to win a host of other medals namely silver medals in the Girls 400m Freestyle, 5.38.45, the 50m Freestyle, 30.67, the 100m Freestyle, 1.05.19, and during the 800m Freestyle, 10.36.89, recording a personal best for the event. A bronze medal came her way in the 200m Freestyle again with a personal best time of 2.24.26.
Emily Lucas, 15, was also to enjoy a Gold medal when she won Gold during the Girls Open 100m Backstroke touching home in a personal best of 1.17.45, with Sarah Roberts in second and with twelve year old Hannah Broadley taking the bronze medal in 1.24.07. Hannah went on to secure the bronze medal during the 100m Freestyle in 1.07.82 and another was to follow in the 400m Freestyle event, 5.53.72, and again in the 100m Butterfly, 1.18.86, knocking off 2 seconds from her personal best. Hannah also took the bronze medal during the girls Open 100m Butterfly finishing in 1.20.19.Other swimmers competing and achieving personal best times were:
Fiona Bird, Jessica Bowman, Hannah Brierley, Scott Brierley, Loretta Briggs, Adam Broadley ,Hannah Broadley, Sam Broadley, Thomas Brooks, Stephanie Burrows, Olivia Butterworth, Jace Cappleman, Liam Chaplin, Thomas Clarke, Victoria Clarke, Melissa Cooper, Thomas Cooper, David Couch, Emma Couch, Hannah Couch, Jessica Couch, Charlie Cowan, James Cox, Rebecca Cox, Yuko Crawford, Jordan Dargue, Charlotte Deller ,Nicholas Deller, Jordan Doubtfire, Zak Doubtfire, Ellice Floyd, Coral-Hannah Foster, Deklan Foster, Emily Fuller, Luis Fuller, Samantha Gibson, William Gibson, Rachel Glass, Ross Glegg, Beth Goodall, Hayley Goodall, Luke Goodall, Ben Grayshan, Morgan Grunwell, Alicia Halliday, Laura Harness, Rachael Hartley, Adam Harvey, Robert Harvey, Aimee Haynes, Jacob Hird, Ben Hoggarth, Joshua Hoggarth, Amy Hovington, Natasha Hunter, Madeline Jepson, Tabitha Jepson, Leah Kerr, Imogen Kinrade, Nathan Kinrade, Alan Lewis, Katie Lewis, Emily Lucas, Cana Machen, Joe Marshall, Mary-Beth Miller, David Mort, Michael Mort, Robert Mort, Ben Moverley, Callum Moverley, Aaron Pattison, Aiden Pattison, Chloe Pattison, Savannah Petrie, Jianna-May Pickard, Lauren Squires, Maisey Ratcliffe, Georgina Rhodes, Harriet Ritchie, Oliver Ritchie, Sarah Roberts, William Rutter, Robert Scarborough, Abbie Senior, Emily Senior, Sophie Shepherd, Georgina Singleton, Marc Slack, Max Smith, Phoebe Smith, James Sowersby, Eleanor Stansfield, Simon Stockdale, Amy Stockill, Molly Stockill, Hayley Stubbings, Anna Sweeney, Niamh Sweeney, James Thompson, Hannah Thraves, Liam Thraves, Zoe Todd, Tom Venner, Nicholas Westerman, Taylor Wilkey and David Woolley.
up to date: 28th January 2007.
