The first weekend in April saw 15 of our squad members travel to Harrogate Spa for an exciting A & B grade meet where there were 2 opportunities in each event for swimmers to get a medal. If anyone swam faster than the B grade cut off times they were automatically put into the A grade times. This made the competition more exciting with the whole squad involved in cheering on each other.
This gala also gave squad members opportunity to compete in the 200m and 400m events alongside the usual sprints.
Whilst there is no break from swimming the Easter holidays had treated all of our swimmers well with everyone achieving personal bests across the weekend, including a number of county and regional times.
In the first event of the day, 400m freestyle each swimmer achieved a PB of at least 10 seconds.
The girls had a successful 50m breaststroke with Corinne Hill, Emma Smith and Alanah Hill coming home with the top 3 B grade medals consecutively, whilst Georgia Hamblet (15) and Lucy Hatfield (14) achieved Bronze at A grade. Millie Hamby (13) and Georgia Clark (14) both achieved B grade silver in their 50m event. Nathan Billingham (14) also achieved B grade Gold in the same event.
In the boys 50m Freestyle Matthew Selous (12) achieved B grade Gold, followed swiftly by Nathan Billingham getting his second medal of the day - Bronze in A grade 200m freestyle, Georgia Clarke also came away with B grade silver and Georgia Hamblet (15) B grade gold in the same event.
In the 200m Backstroke Eleanor Valentine-Bull (10) achieved B grade Silver, this was promptly followed by a further medal for Matthew Selous in the 100m Breaststroke with B grade Silver.
The girls meanwhile also had a great run of success in the 100m breaststroke, Jessica Ford (12) picking up Bronze at B grade, Elizabeth Safonkina (14) also a gold at B grade. Corinne Hill, Georgia Hamblett and Emma Smith meanwhile came home in the top 3 positions respectively.
The evening session saw the first medal come from the 200IM with Georgia Hamblett (15) achieving B grade Gold and Elizabeth Safokina (14) A grade Bronze.
In the 50m butterfly Georgia Clarke came home with a B grade Silver, whilst Holly Milnes (17) and Corinne Hill (16) were successful at A grade winning Gold and Bronze respectively for over 15’s. Moving further into the evening saw Lewis Baker (11) achieve A grade Gold in the same event. Georgia Clarke then continued her medal success with a Bronze in 100m Freestyle(B grade), and Holly Milnes achieved the A grade Bronze and Emma Smith (16) the B grade bronze.
Alanah Hill came 2nd in the 200m Butterfly at A grade with the final event of the night fast approaching. It was now past 9pm and it was time for the 400m Individual Medlay Kalum Smart (13) came away with the Gold at B grade, as did Georgia Clarke and Georgia Hamblett. Corinne Hiill achieved silver at A grade.
The Sunday saw more great achievements, with Nathan Billingham and Millie Hamby starting the day with B Grade Gold in the 400m freestyle (13 and over) and Lucy Greatorex achieving PB.
In the 200m breaststroke Georgia Lee achieved A grade silver, followed by Elizabeth Safokina and Georgia Clarke gaining the A & B grade silvers respectively in 50m freestlye, whilst sisters Alanah (Bronze A grade) and Corinne Hill (Gold B Grade) had only 0.35 seconds between their times.
In the 50m backstroke Maea Hamby (10) gained the B grade gold, in the older aged girls 200m Backstroke Elizabeth continued her medal run with A grade Gold along with a B grade Bronze for Millie Hamby.
In the 100m fly the squad gained 4 more medals, Bronze A Grade for Jessica Richardson (13) who also successfully gained a number of Regional times across the day along with an A grade Silver in 50m Backstroke. On the 100 fly additional medals were B grade Bronze for Georgia Clark and A Grade Bronze for Alanah Hill.
In the 50m Breaststroke Jessica Ford achieved her second medal of the weekend with a B Grade Silver.
Rounding off with the last event of the day the 100m backstroke, Georgia Lee gained a B grade silver, whilst Emma Smith (16) came away with the B grade Gold.
Both Lucy Hatfield and Lucy Greatorex also competed across the weekend achieving personal bests
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