Yorkshire Counties weekend 3

Report - Yorkshire Age Groups - weekend 3 - 2010

Yorkshire S.A County Championships February/March 2010

Weekend 3 March 20^th/21^st

The final weekend of the county championships saw us return to Ponds Forge with 21 swimmers with some swimming at Ponds Forge for the first time. Lauren Gwynne and Yasmin Callaghan kicked off the events with the 50 freestyle. The boys 9/11 backstroke was the next event with 9 year olds William East, Travis Johnson and Ben Cantrill all achieving great times, Scott Zimmerman, Nahum Klos, Jack Newton, Finley Fox, Nathan East, Sven Schygiol and Jack Cowling all followed with some new P.B’s. Bryony Bower, Hannah Mayall, Molly Newton, Holly Williams, Melanie Calder and Caitlin Bower all competed in the next event the girls 50 back, this saw some massive improvements and Holly, Mel and Caitlin all achieving new club records. We were now back with the 9/11 year boys taking part in the 50 fly in which Travis Johnson had a great swim knocking a massive 3 seconds off his previous time Scott Zimmerman and Jack Newton both achieving new club records and for Scott swimming to his first of three finals. Caitlin and Holly were definitely on good form taking part in the 50 fly and both yet again smashing their previous club records achieved only a month ago. Melanie also had an impressive swim with a time of 35.91. The last event of the morning saw Kieran Skinner swimming a great 50 free in a time of 29.58. We then moved onto the finals and Scott Zimmerman taking part in the 50 fly. After been seeded first after a fantastic heat it was set to be a nail biting final and as Scott took to the water we could see it was to be a close race which came right down to the touch. Scott finished in 2^nd position by only 0.07 seconds and with less than a second between the top five it was a very exciting final.

We recommenced the afternoons events after a short break with the girls 9/10 backstroke, Lauren Gwynne and Amy Baker had great swims with Amy achieving a 3 second P.B in only six weeks. Scott swam another great race in the 50 breast achieving another final placing. Caitlin Bower swimming her number one breast then became our second finalist of the afternoon and a new P.B for her. Lauren Gwynne found that the 50 metre pool definitely suited her after swimming in it for the first time she finalled in the 50 fly after knocking a massive six seconds off her short course time. It seemed that the afternoon was bringing us finalists in every event as Kieran Skinner went through to the fly final and Scott the free final – a great day for him achieving three out of four finals. We also had a number of P.B’s in the 50 free with Ben, Travis, Finley, Jack Cowling, Jack Newton and Sven Schygiol. The 11/13 girls then finished their day with the 50 free and for Becci Foster, Caitlin, Mel and Holly all gaining new P.B’s.

We moved onto the afternoons finals and Caitlin finishing in 6^th position in the breaststroke final. Kieran then swam the butterfly final and he also achieved 6^th position and a new P.B. Lauren Gwynne was amazing after entering the final in 10^th position afer achieving a time of 44.34 she then swam the final in a fantastic time of 41.34 and finished in 6^th position. The penultimate final of the day for us was Scott who put everything into this event after pulling out of the breaststroke final he was seeded 5^th for the free final. Scott swam a brilliant race knocking nearly two seconds off his heat and finishing in 3^rd place only 0.10 off second so yet another nail biting finish. Kieran then completed his second final with the backstroke in which he finished in 9^th position and a new P.B

The following morning saw 9/10 year boys Travis, Nathan, Scott and Sam Legge and taking part in both the free and medley relays and achieving the final in both races which saw them earning themselves 2^nd and 4^th positions respectively in the final. The girls 11/12 teams consisting of Caitlin, Holly, Lauren Callaghan and Maisie Legge achieving the final in which they were seeded 10^th. After swimming a great race they were to move up two places in the final finishing in 8^th position. Kieran Skinner and Josh Jones formed part of the team in the boys medley and free team with Aisley Leeman stepping into the Open Team. A strong team was entered for the 15/16 girls with Jasmin Kirk, Rhiannon Haber, Lauren York and Ashleigh Fletcher seeing us through to two more finals which resulted in bronze medals for the free event. The afternoon session saw Yasmin Callaghan and Amy Baker swimming in the medley and free teams and were just pipped to the final by less than a second in the free relay. The boys 11/12 team consisting of Jack Newton, Sven Schygiol, Nathan and Kieran Sharman tried hard but were against the strong A team – James Burke, Oliver Webster, Tom Wells and Charlie Spencer who were a force to be reckoned with finishing with both silver and bronze medals. In the girls medley team we had Molly Newton and Melanie Calder competing from Scunthorpe and for the Freestyle relay Becci Foster also joined the teams they were up against some strong competition with Leeds entering a total of six teams but the girls swam well and even achieved P.Bs from the day before ! Tom Spencer joined the 15/16 year team and they reached both finals finishing 6^th in the medley and 7^th in the free.

That concluded a busy three weekends of the County Championships and we achieved some impressive results with amazing P.B’s and a total of 59 Club records been broken.

Overall CASA brought home 114 individual medals/pennants and were to finish in 5^th position as a club.

Well done to all swimmers who took part.

A massive 23 club records were achieved by the following swimmers: