Barnsley Minors & Yorkshire Champs Week 2

 

Yorkshire Championships 13^th / 14^th February

 

The second week of the Yorkshire Championships saw some more great swimming from the club with 5 medals being picked up by the squad along with further top 10 finishes.

In the Boys 400m Individual Medley, Lewis Baker (12) secured a top 5 finish whilst in the weekend also achieving  Silver in 100m Freestyle and Bronze in the 1500m freestyle, came 4^th in the 200m Breaststroke and competed in the 100m backstroke final.

 

Alexander Tikhonov (11) also achieved a 4^th place in the 200m Breaststroke.

 

Another good week for Curtis Harper with a 6^th place in the 100m freestyle final and after qualifying 2^nd fastest for the 100m Backstroke, finished 6^th in the final.

 

Abigail Miles (12) achieved Bronze in 200m Breaststroke whilst also coming 5 in the 400m individual medley.

 

Megan Sharp (10) achieved Bronze in 200m Butterfly, the only 10 year old in the 10/11 age group

 

Thomas Speed (17) achieved Silver in the 200m breaststroke.

 

Also swam Jessica Richardson, Libby Turner, Gregory Lugton, Corinne Hill, Alanah Hill, Sam Charlesworth, Nathan Billingham, Elliot Robinson, Lucy Greatorex

 

 

Barnsley Minors

 

This week saw the first round of the competition since the promotion to Division 1 last year.  For the minors league each club has a swimmer doing 50m of each stroke by age group and a relay team for both freestyle and individual medlay.    

 

 

It was an exciting weekend with second place being in grasp in the last 5 races, ultimately, Barnsley were 4^th with 109  points, behind Sheffield and Rotherham on 119 / 120 respectively and Adwick coming first with 140 points.