The third of four weekends of the Yorkshire Swimming Association Age Group / Open Championships 2015 took place at The John Charles Centre for Sports in Leeds on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th February 2015.
21 Swimmers from BOBSC achieved the qualification times to take part and claimed a medal haul of 1 Gold, 5 Silver and 2 Bronze medals together with 13 other top ten finishes, some near misses and 28 long course personal best times.
Many congratulations to all the swimmers concerned.
Our top medallist was again Abigail Miles 
competing in the 10 year girls age group emphatically winning Gold Medal in 200m backstroke, Silver Medals in 200m and 400m freestyle and a pennant for 4th place in 200m butterfly closely followed by Lewis Baker in the boys 10 year age group winning Silver Medal in 200m IM, Bronze Medal in 400 freestyle and a pennant for 7th place in 200m butterfly.
Macy Yoxall (9) also performed strongly winning Silver Medal in the 200m butterfly and just missing the top ten with 11th place in the 200m backstroke together with Maisie Inman making a welcome return to competition after a long absence with PB's in her three events, just missing out on the top ten with 11th place in the 10 year girls 400m freestyle and finishing 20th in 200m freestyle and 23rd in 200m backstroke.
Also finishing just outside the top ten in the 10 year girls 400m freestyle in 15th place with a PB was Phoebe McNicholas and in the same event for the 11 year boys Matthew Selous finished in 14th place again with a PB.
The 9 and 10 year events and the 400m freestyle were swum on a heat declared basis; and the 11 year and over 100m and 200m events were swum in heats with the top ten racing off in the finals.
As seems customary Thomas Speed again reached the finals of the 100m and 200m breaststroke in the 15/16 year category winning Silver and Bronze medals respectively as well as achieving "near misses" with 11th place finishes in the heats of both the 100m butterfly and 200m backstroke.
Also reaching the finals for the boys in the 11 year age group was Sam Charlesworth who qualified in 10th place for the final of the 100m breaststroke before increasing his pace to finish 8th in the final itself; whilst in the 13 year age group Greg Lugton again swam majestically with a series of PB's finishing in 7th place in the final of the 200m freestyle, 8th place in the final of the 100m butterfly, 8th place in the 400m freestyle and just missing out on the final of the 200m IM finishing in 14th place in the heats.
For the 13 year old girls Libby Turner reached the finals for all her events picking up four pennants with 6th place in 200m IM, 5th place in 100m freestyle, 7th place in 100m backstroke and 9th place in 200m backstroke; whilst for the 12 year old girls Elizabeth Safonkina reached the final of the 100m backstroke finishing in 9th place and the final of the 200m IM finishing in 10th place. Elizabeth also finished in 16th place after the heats of the 200m backstroke and 27 in 100m freestyle.
Also reaching the finals of the 100m backstroke were Harriet Ostrowski-Jones at 11 year age group who finished in 8th place and Claire Berry at the 14/15 year category. Unfortunately Claire was unable to take part in the final. Harriet also scored two near misses finishing in 12th place after the heats of the 200m IM and in 13th place after the heats of the 200m backstroke and finished 22nd in the 100m freestyle.
In other results Nathan Billingham (13) finished 24th in the 200m IM; Ben Nutt (16) finished 37th in 200m freestyle; Corinne Hill (15) finished in 24th place in 400m freestyle and in 45th place in 200m backstroke; whilst also in the girls 14/15 200m backstroke other finishes included Claire Berry in 28th, Emily Norton in 44th, Lauren Heywood in 48th and Alanah Hill in 50th. In the heats of the 16 years and over 100m freestyle Holly Milnes (16) finished in 20th place.
Alex Tikhonov was unable to take part due to illness.
All in all some fantastic swims!
After extremely long days, the swimmers maintained their morale and the atmosphere was amazing on poolside with swimmers cheering on their team mates at the end of the lanes.
Well done to all!
Carly Herbert
Head Coach
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