YORKSHIRE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006
5th/6th February 2006 - Yorkshire Senior & Junior Championships, Leeds International Pool
Six Scarborough swimming club members made their way to the International Pool at Leeds over the weekend to compete in the Yorkshire Open Senior and Junior swimming Championships. Performances were in general, a little disappointing in comparison to recent years, but the swimmers did came away with one medal and a number of top twenty places throughout the two-day event.
Sixteen Year Old Paul Hargreaves won the club's only medal when he held firm to fight off the challenge of Max Partridge, 16, from the Sheffield club, to win the silver medal during the final of the Men's Open 50m Breaststroke where he finished with a time of 32.05, with Partridge content with the bronze in a time of 32.26.
Other noteworthy performances came during the Men's Open 1500m Freestyle event, where the club had two representatives, 21 year old Adam Harvey and James Sowersby, 16. Harvey finished in 18:10.57 to claim 6th place, with Sowersby coming home in 7th with a time of 18:16.19. Both Harvey and Sowersby went on to secure twenty places, with Harvey finishing in 11th place in a time of 2:23.35 for the 200m Butterfly, and Sowersby coming home in 18th during the 50m Backstroke with a time of 33.38.Fourteen year old Emma Couch did well to achieve personal best times for her efforts in the 200m Freestyle, 2:33.80, the 50m Freestyle, 31.73, the 100m Freestyle , 1:08.87 and the 100m Butterfly, 1:19.53.
Seventeen year old Sarah Roberts competed in five events, with a great swim coming during the 800m Freestyle, where she knocked off some twenty seconds from last year's time to finish in sixteenth place in a time of 10:18.35. Other good performances came during the 200m Individual Medley, 2:48.07 and the 400m Freestyle, 5.05.84.
Aimee Pettitt, also seventeen, beat her teammate Sarah Roberts during the 200m Freestyle, to finish in 2:25.32, and again to pip team mate Emma Couch during the 50m Freestyle, recording a time of 31.03 with Couch coming home in 31.73.
Yorkshire Agegroup Championships - Leeds & Sheffield - 25/26 Feb - 4/5 Mar and 18 Mar 2006
Scarborough Swimming Club has had its most successful and biggest haul of medals ever in this years Yorkshire Championships when its club members won their way through to Thirty finals, and where Eighteen medals were won. The Championships, which have taken place at Leeds and Sheffield, has shown without doubt that since the club's training has come under the ASA's 'Swim21' concept last year, the results speak for themselves, and the club has even surpassed the results of bigger clubs such as the City of Kingston-upon-Hull who could only muster ten medals in total. In total, five Gold, four Silver and nine bronze medals came home to Scarborough.
Fourteen year old Laurence Mills took two gold medals, winning the 800m Freestyle with a National Qualifying time of 9:10.13, which he followed up with the Gold in the 200m Individual Medley in a personal best time of 2:21.84. Another excellent time of 58.70 was good enough for the silver medal in the 100m Freestyle, and another Silver coming along during the 200m Backstroke in a personal best time of 2:22.47, with a pair of Bronze medals following in the 400m Individual Medley, in a time of 5:08.44 and the 1500m Freestyle coming home in 17:36.06. In the last session of the championships held at Sheffield, he was involved in no fewer than five finals, where he narrowly missed out on a medal each time, but can be happy in the knowledge that he was the highest achiever in the British Agegroup awards for 14 year olds, where he totaled 2580 points.
Brother Gareth Mills, twelve, produced some remarkable swims throughout the Championship as he had only just returned home in the early hours from Costa Del Sol Spain where he was swimming with the Yorkshire Junior Squad. After a few hour's sleep, he was soon in action in the 800m Freestyle, where he too took the Gold medal with a personal best time of 9:50.89. An excellent Gold medal followed in the 50m Butterfly won in a personal best of 31.21. He added two silvers in the 200m Butterfly, 2:31.74, PB, and the 100m Freestyle, 1:03.54. Five Bronze medals also went his way during the 100m Butterfly, 1:10.35, the 200m Individual Medley, 2:42.02, the 200m Backstroke, 2:39.04 and finally the 200m Freestyle with a time of 2:17.56. He achieved the last of his bronze medals during the 1500m Freestyle, coming home in 18:27.39. Gareth was to finish in 4th place in the Agegroup championship race.
Ross Glegg, thirteen, was also a Gold medalist when he just held off the attentions of Lewis Dyson, Borough of Kirklees, who finished with the silver medal in 1:08.79 during the 100m Backstroke, while Glegg sealed the Gold in a PB time of 1:08.71, and was unlucky during the final of the 100m Freestyle when he received the Bronze medal in a time 1:01.93 with less than a second between him and the winner. In a personal best time of 4:40.76 he again received the Bronze medal during the 400m Freestyle.
Ten year old Ben Moverley was 8th during the 400m Freestyle in 5:48.62, where a massive thirty seconds was carved off his personal best time, with David Couch, also ten, coming 12th in the same race with another PB time of 6:00.36. Moverley was again just outside the medals during the final of the 50m Freestyle where he finished home in 5th place with a personal best time of 34.33. Moverley again almost made it to the final of the 200m Freestyle where he finished 10th in a PB time of 2:44.81.. Couch also had a great finish, also in the 200m Free, producing a time of 2:50.37, to finished in 14th place.
Twelve year old Hannah Broadley swam personal best times during the 200m Freestyle, 2:40.06 and again in the 100m Freestyle , 1:13.43. Another twelve year old, Natasha Hunter has also shown great progress with spirited performances during the 200m Freestyle which she finished in 2:41.62 and again in the 100m Freestyle , 1:17.72, saving her best for the 100m Freestyle where she produced her best time of 1:39.48, and the 50m Breaststroke coming home in 41.95. Natasha followed this up with a solid performance in the 50m Freestyle in which she finished with a time of 34.47.
Hannah's brother, fourteen year old Adam Broadley was in the top twenty during the 100m butterfly and finished with a personal best of 1:13.83 and also the shorter 50m butterfly event, coming home in 33.31.
Rebecca Cox, eleven, was another young lady in only her second gala at this level, and came away with two personal best times of 2:52.41 in the 200m Freestyle and the 100m backstroke, 1:32.88.
