North East Region Age Groups weekend 2

Elizabeth achieves her second final

 

 

Curtis Harper, Harriet Ostrowski-Jones, Jessica Richardson and Elizabeth Safonkina returned to Ponds Forge this weekend for ASA North East Regional Champs.

Jessica Richardson (13) competed in the 400m Freestyle, 200m Backstroke and 100m Butterfly gaining a PB in the 3 events whilst also swimming the 50m backstroke.

Elizabeth Safonkina (14) achieved her second final of the event on the 50m backstroke, qualifying  10^th and finishing 9^th in the final with a PB of 33.90, a great achievement.

Harriet Ostrowski-Jones competed in the 200m Breaststroke, whilst Curtis Harper competed in both the 100m and 400m Freestyle and narrowly missing out on a PB in the 50m Backstroke with 36.92.

 

North East Region Championship Week 1

 

This weekend saw 4 of our Age Group (11 – 14) swimmers compete in the North East Regional ASA Championship at Ponds Forge on long course, to enter regionals a higher qualification time needs to be gained.   The event is swum across 2 weekends and the swimmers will be back in the pool over the bank holiday weekend.   The age group is based on the swimmers age on 31^st December 2016.

 

Jessica Richardson (13) was first out in the 100m backstroke achieving a time of 1:16.97 beating her previous PB.  Elizabeth Safonkina (14) achieved 8^th in qualifying making it through to the final later in the day, a great achievement coming 9th.

 

Elizabeth later competed in the 50m breaststroke achieving a PB of 38:16.  Whilst Jessica competed in the 200m fly on the Sunday, narrowly missing out on a  PB with a great swim at 2:49.98.

 

Curtis Harper (11) who qualified for the regionals at Rotherham gained another PB with 1:19.89 and although was swimming in the 11/12 category came 2^nd in his age group. 

 

The last BoBSC event of the weekend was for Harriet Ostrowski-Jones in the 100m breaststroke gaining at time of 1:31.43.

 

 

The event continues on 28^th & 29^th May at Ponds Forge, Sheffield

 

Rotherham Metro Grade 1 Meet 7th & 8th May 2016

Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club report 7/5 & 8/5

BoBSC were in the pool again this weekend for the Rotherham Metro Level 1 Long Course meet, this was only open to individuals who had achieved qualifying time, but also falls the weekend before the age group North East Regional Meet.

This proved to be another successful meet for the team coming home with a good number of personal bests and medals, along with more Regional Qualifying times.  The 7 swimmers competing amassed 29 personal bests across 42 swims.

Megan Sharp (10) started the weekend as she intended to go on, gaining a 6 second PB on the 200m Butterfly with a 3:24:09 and the first gold of the event, she continued her morning with a Silver in the 50m Backstroke and a Bronze in the 100m Freestyle.   In the afternoon Megan took to the pool for Silvers in the 50m Freestyle and 100m backstroke.   To add to her success on the Sunday, Megan continued with a Silver in the 100m butterfly and 200m Freestyle and gold in the 50m Fly and 200m backstroke.

Meanwhile there were some strong performances from Millie Hamby (14), Elizabeth Safonkina (14) and Libby Turner (15), Elizabeth and Libby gaining 4^th and 5^th respectively in their age groups for the 200m Individual Medley.

Elizabeth achieved top 10 finishes the 50m & 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 50m Butterfly, and 50m Breaststroke with a 5^th in the 200m backstroke.  Whilst Libby maintained top 10 finishes in the 50m & 100m freestyle, 100m Breaststroke and 100m Backstroke alongside the 100m fly with a PB of 1:07.88..

Thomas Speed maintained his good form with a Silver in the 50m Breaststroke and a 4^th but new PB of 1:00:64 in the 100m Butterfly.   In the next session, Thomas gained a further Silver in the 100m Breaststroke and 6^th Place in 50m Butterfly with a further PB of 27.28  Tom gained a Silver in the 200m Breaststroke during day 2 of the competition.

Curtis Harper (11) started his campaign with the 200m freestyle achieving Silver with a 7 second PB of 2:33.04, continuing with the silver in 200m backstroke and another good PB for 2:55.04.  His strong performance continued on the Sunday with a Gold in the 50m & 100m Backstroke, 50m Freestyle and 100m freestyle and a bronze in 400m freestyle

Jessica Richardson took to the pool for the ladies long distance 800 event, achieving 4^th place.

Next weekend a number of our age group swimmers compete in the North East Region competition at Ponds Forge.

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North East Regional Youth and Senior Competition 2016

Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club report 30/4 and 1/5 2016

Last weekend saw 6 of our swimmers aged 15 and over compete in the North East Region Championships (LC)

The first session went well with Tom Speed (17) qualifying first in the 50m breaststroke breaking the 30 second barrier for the first time this year with a time of 27.98. 

In the following 100m breaststroke vent Libby Turner (15) one of the youngest competitors there achieved a mid table finish against individuals up to the age of 28.   Libby then competed in the 100m fly 2 events later coming home in 1:07.92.  With a busy morning schedule, Libby competed in the 200IM achieving 2:33.30, followed by the 50m Freestyle with a time of 28:93, whilst Holly Milnes (17) gained a strong time of 29.33.

Thomas Speed continued his meet with the 50m fly achieving 27:93 with Gregory Lugton competing in the same event finishing with a time of 29:02.

The afternoon session comprised of all the finals seeing Tom Speed gaining Gold in the 50m Breaststroke event after his qualification in first position in the morning.

 

Sunday saw Libby return to the pool competing in the 100m Freestlye with a time of 1:03:39, 50m Breaststroke at 37:37, 100m Backstroke 1:11:47.  Tom returned to the pool for the 100m fly with a time of 1:02:12.

Gregory Lugton (15) also returned to compete in the 50m Backstroke with a time of 31:88.

Sunday also saw Corine and Alanah Hiill qualify for the 200m Butterfly, and whilst Corine was unfortunately unable to compete, Alanah achieved a time of 2:43:08.

In Toms final event of the weekend the 200IM he gained a time of 2:26:95, whilst Libby and Holly concluded their weekend in the 50m Butterfly with times of 31:12 and 31:71 respectively.

The swimmers are now waiting to see if anyone has achieved times for The top 24 in each age group and event will be invited to compete at the Summer Championships in July. The qualifying window for the British Summer Championships is the 11th March-30th May.the British Nationals where the top 24 in each age group are invited to swim.   The end of May will see a number of our younger swimmers in the North East Regionals age group competition.