COSSS Tea Spoon Meet 20th September 2015

 

 

Barnsley swimmers continued with their run of medals and team spirit this weekend.  The City of Sheffield Swim Club Tea Spoon gala is always an exciting event with all swimmers competing in heats and the top 10 getting through to a final, the top 3 receive the traditional Sheffield Steel Tea Spoon.  The event was well attended with clubs from across the UK.

 

This weekend was no exception with 15 Barnsley swimmers attending the event,  9 of whom made it through to 1 or more finals putting BOBSC into 17 of the 50m finals in age groups for all 4 strokes, excitement reigned as the team supported each other in all of the events.

 

Abigail Miles (11) and Libby Turner (14) were successful in making it through to all 4 finals in their age groups.  Libby came away with Silver in Breaststroke and Freestyle with a 4^th placing for both Backstroke and Buttterfly, Megan Lee competing in the same age group came 8^th in the Breaststroke final.  Whilst Abigail who has been selected for this weekends’ North East Regional Training Camp came away with Bronze in Backstroke and Breaststroke with 5^th and 7^th in Free and Fly respectively.  This regional event is run by the England Talent Team a significant achievement with swimmers being selected by the ASA, We wish Abigail every success for the weekend.

 

Gold was achieved by Thomas Speed in the 15+ age group with a time of 31.03 and competed in the final in Butterfly (6^th) and Backstroke (7^th).

 

Success continued in the breaststroke, Lucy Hatfield achieved a Bronze medal with Georgia Lee (5^th), Megan Firth (9^th), William Kenny (9^th) competed in the final of their age groups.  Last but not least Jessica Richardson competed in the 50m Butterfly final (9^th).

 

Other swimmers from the day were Jessica Ford, Isabelle Speed, Lucy Bratley, Megan Sharp, Georgia Clark, Robyn Sykes.

 

Barnsley are promoted to Division 1

 

Last weekend saw Barnsley Swimmers compete in 3 galas, the first being our own club championship on Friday 11^th, events across 50m and 200m where a number of Club Records were broken, some of these having been held for a number of years, this was the initial round of Club Champs with 2 further events to come in October.

 

On Saturday the squad competed alongside BPL lesson swimmers in the annual Mayors Gala at the Metrodome, this is a great opportunity for the BPL swimmers to experience the competition environment, using blocks and timers for their 25m events in Breaststroke, Backstroke and Freestyle, whilst all BOBSC swimmers undertake 50m events in all 4 strokes.  The event was attended by the Mayor and Lady Mayor of Barnsley who presented the awards to the successful top 3 swimmers in each event.

 

The climax of the weekend was Sunday’s Barnsley Minors League competition swum at Chapletown Baths, seeing Barnsley, Wakefield, Chapeltown and Sheffield go head to head in the last round of the season.  Barnsley were going into the event 12 points ahead and looking for promotion to Division 1.   

 

Team work is key in this event with both individual and relay events which saw every member of the team give 110% with fantastic support between each other.  The atmosphere was electric with all swimmers and parents from each club cheering and supporting their own swimmers, in what was to be a very close competition, and whilst Barnsley were piped to the post on the days event, it was so close that Barnsley achieved the points to move into Division 1 next year.  A great achievement for the club which has seen many of the swimmers compete over the 4 rounds.

 

 

Attached are photos from 

Mayors Gala,    Mayor and Lady Mayor with Craig Lee, Team Manager and Daniel Miles (9)

Barnsley Minors League Team of 13.09.15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worksop Dolphins Long Course meet 5th September

 

The Annual long course Dukeries meet was held on 5^th September with the club being represented by 24 swimmers across all age groups.  The meet was focussed around 50m and 100m swims and attracted clubs from across Yorkshire and the Midlands with over 200 people entering some events.

Despite the event continuing into the eventing the squad pulled out over 50 persoonal best times and achieved some great results in tough competition, given the number of swimmers medals were awarded to 6^th place.

Finley McNicholas(9) who was competing in his first long course gala achieved a bronze trophy in the 50m Breast Stroke.

Megan Sharp (9) came away with a silver medal in 50 Fly and placings in both 50m Backstroke and Freestyle.

Greg Lugton competing in the Boys age 14 group, was 3^rd in his age category across the meet, whilst also winning gold in the 50m fly and 6ht in 100m Fly.

 

In the age 13/14, Lucy Hatfield achieved 5^th in the 100m Breast Stroke, winning the bronze medal in the 50m event (41.50), and Georgia Hamblet picking up 5^th with a time 41.78.  Other top 6 placing were achieved by Curtis Harper, Elliot Robinson Macy Yoxall, Holly Milnes, and Thomas Stather.

 

The club also enjoyed participating in some very close 200m freestyle and medlay relays  bringing great excitement to the poolside, not to mention noise and encouragement.

Swimmers competing for Barnsley on the day achieving a range of personal bests both overall and long course were Nathan Billingham, Lucy Bratley, Sam Charlesworth, Maea Hamby, Millie Hamby, Lucy Hatfield, Phoebe McNicholas, Lauren Sharp, Eleanor Valentine-Bull, Ella Waller, Feya Waller, Anya Yates, Lola Yoxall.

 

Barnsley Swimmers have a great 1st meet of the season 29th August 2015

 

 

After a fantastic end to the season with Libby Turner Competing in the ASA Summer Nationals at Ponds Forge in the  200 Individual Medley and 100m Freestyle events. Achieving  6^th place in the final for the 200IM for the girls Age 14 group, with only 1 other swimmer from our Region making it to the final. In the 100m freestyle event Libby narrowly missed out on the final after a great swim.

 

BOBSC were back in the pool this week for the first race of the season being Sheffield City Annual Sprint Meet, where we saw 22 of our swimmers competing in a wide range of 50m and 100m events on short course.

 

The team worked really hard with a total of 55 personal best times being recorded and a number of medals across the meet as follows:  Holly Milnes, Silver in 100M free, Jessica Richardson Silver 100m backstroke, Elizabeth Safonica Gold in 50m Breaststroke and 50m backstroke, Megan Sharp Silver in 50m Freestyle and 50m breast stroke, Finlay McNicholas Silver in 50m Breaststroke, Phoebe McNicholas Bronze in 100m Breast stroke, Lewis Baker Gold in 50m Backstroke, 100m backstroke, 100m Freestyle and 50m fly, silver in 100m Fly.

 

The swimmers excelled in the fly with the following achieving medals in their respective age groups for 50m Fly Megan Sharp, Gold, Elizabeth Safonica and Holly Milnes, Silver , for the boys both Lewis Baker Gold.  Alexander Tikhonov received 50m Gold and 100m Silver in Fly after earlier in the day becoming Yorkshire Age 10 Tennis champion. 

 

Speeding tickets were received by Lewis Baker, Elizabeth Safonica and Thomas Speed.

 

Other swimmers on the day achieving PB’s or competing in their first gala were Jasmine Ball, Curtis Harper, Lucy Hatfield, Lily Martin, Harriet Ostrowski-Jones, Isabelle Speed, Lauren Sharp, Eleanor Valentine-Bull, Lucy Wainwright, Neve Wilkie and Anya Yates. 

 

The squad are back in the pool on Saturday for the Workshop Dolphins Long Course meet.

 

ASA Summer Nationals - a fantastic end to our season...

 

Last week we saw Barnsley’s Libby Turner Competing in the ASA Summer Nationals at Ponds Forge.  Libby had qualified for the 200 Individual Medley and 100m Freestyle events.

 

On Tuesday Libby successfully made it through to the final with a fantastic 2:30:98 qualifying time for the 200M IM, beating this time in the final with 2:30:11 coming 6^th within the country for the girls Age 14 group, with only 1 other swimmer from our Region making it to the final.

 

The 100 freestyle event took place on Thursday and Libby narrowly missed out on the final after a great swim.

 

Head Coach Carly Herbert summarised the success of the club this season “What an amazing season it's been for the club! From life time bests, county, regional, national and British champ qualifiers, county and regional finalists and medals, this truly has been an amazing year for the club”

 

Bronze in the British Nationals for Barnsley Swimmer

Last week saw the British Summer Championships at Ponds Forge bringing
together the best aged 15+ swimmers from across the country together.

At Borough Of Barnsley Swimming Club we're proud to have seen Tom Speed
achieve the qualifying times for 3 events, 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke
and come away with a Bronze medal at National level.

The competition was spread across the week with heats in the morning and
finals in the evening.


The competition was strong and Tom made the final in two of the 3 events.

The 100m breaststroke saw a range of just 1 second between the top 8
finalists with Tom achieving 1:07:98 in the final.

In the 50m breaststroke Tom achieved not only a personal best of 30.52
seconds but the bronze medal in the final.

Carly Herbert, Head Coach commented "Toms performance this week was
fantastic, I am a very proud coach".

BOBSC swimmer Libby Turner is at Ponds Forge this week competing in the ASA
Summer Nationals.

2015 BOBSC Summer Sizzler Report

Fifty eight swimmers from Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club were joined by swimmers from other clubs at Armthorpe, Chapeltown, City of Bradford, Dronfield, East Leeds, Eckington, Edlington, Glossop, Hazel Grove, Huddersfield, Kippax, Knottingley, Rotherham Metro, Sheffield City, Sherwood, Spenborough and Stocksbridge at Borough of Barnsley's very own 8^th Summer Sizzler Short Course Gala held at Ponds Forge Sheffield on 5 July 2015.

Our swimmers put in some sizzling performances and were awarded 5 Speeding tickets, 17 Gold Medals, 15 Silver Medals and 19 Bronze Medals as well as securing 144 short course PB's.

Those taking part were as follows:

9 Years Sam Guettat, Cody Ingram, Daniel Miles, Amy Gaffney, Megan Sharp and Eleanor Valentine-Bull.

10 Years Lewis Baker, Myles Tupman, Lucy Hamblett, Maea Hamby, Georgia Lee, Phoebe McNicholas, Lucy Wainwright, Freya Waller Macy Yoxall and Lola Yoxall.

11 Years Sam Charlesworth, Kalum Smart, Roman Wallace, Jonathon Wightman, Lucy Bratley, Jessica Ford, Lucy Gray, Amy Guettat, Lily Martin, Abigail Miles, Lucy Redfern, Isabelle Speed, Lauren Sharp, Neve Wilkie and Anya Yates,

12 Years William Kenny, Matthew Selous, Megan Firth, Lucy Greatorex, Evie Gregory, Harriet Ostrowski-Jones, Jessica Richardson and Emily Yeates.

13 Years Gregory Lugton, Georgia Clarke, Millie Hamby, Lucy Hatfield, Ella Waller and Alanna Sidebottom.

14 Years Georgia Hamblett, Megan Lee and Charlotte Savage.

15 Years and over Steven Dallamore, Thomas Speed, Thomas Stather, Lauren Heywood, Alanah Hill, Corinne Hill, Rianna Hill, Holly Mawby, Holly Milnes and Emily Norton.

The full results sheets for 2015 are included elsewhere on our website.