5th End of Season A/B Graded Meet Photographs
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5th End of Season A/B Graded Meet Report
Times tumble and PB’s galore are achieved during the two day City of Bradford end of season A & B Gala held at Shipley. Due to a mix up with the booking of the pool the sessions started at 1pm on Saturday with an evening session following, which was a new experience for our swimmers.
Isobel Metcalfe
As a newcomer to the Open Meet Squad Isobel Metcalfe was warmly welcomed by the Kingfishers Team for her races, namely the 100m freestyle and the 50m & 100m Breastroke. Isobel swam well and achieved PB’s in all her races. Isobel’s mission now (should she want to accept it) will be to tackle a full 2 days Open meet.
100m Free – B – 8th
50m Breast – B – 6th
100m Breast – B – 7th
Katie Golding
Katie went to Shipley with an aim to bag a Yorkshire time. After knocking over 4 seconds off both her 100m Free and 100m Back, 1.5 seconds off her 50m Free and a mammoth 11seconds off her 200m Freestyle, Katie achieved Yorkshire qualification in the 200IM
100m Free – B – 1st
100m Back – B – 7th
50m Free – A – 12th
200m Free – B – 1st
50m Fly – B – 3rd
Louise Scupham
Louise took the Squad through their warm up routine and marshalled the swim up/down pool to ensure that all the swimmers were ready to race.
In the pool, Louise PB’d in the 100m free and won 6 medals. What a haul!
100m Free – A – 2nd
50m Breast – A – 3rd
100m Back – B – 1st
50m Free – A – 2nd
100m breast – A – 3rd
200IM – A – 12th
100m Fly – B – 3rd
Chloe Simmons
Chloe had set herself a mission this weekend; she wanted to avenge her 200m Breastroke disqualification in the Harrogate Open in May which had given her an ’unofficial time’ of 3.14.00 but maintained her actual time at 3.24.00. Chloe swam a very tactical race and recorded a time of 3.10.75 – a PB of nearly 14 seconds and 1.5 seconds of a coveted NE time.
50m Breast – A – 6th
100m Back – B – 5th
50m Free – B – 6th
100m Breast – A – 4th
200IM – B – 3rd
50m Back – B – 4th
200m Breast – A – 4th
200m Back – B – 2nd
Emily Corcoran
This was only Emily’s 2nd Open Meet of this year following the Hull Open Meet at the start of the month. Starting at the evening session with the 50m Freestyle, followed later by the 200m Freestyle Emily PB’d in both events.
On Sunday Emily knocked a massive 23.84 seconds off her 200m backstroke, confirming a return to fitness.
50m Free – A – 4th
200m Free – A – 4th
200m Back – A – 10th
Amy Corcoran
Amy entered the same races as her sister, Emily. Her 50m Freestyle yielded a 3.5 second PB, with her 200m Freestyle taking a whopping 21 seconds off at 3.00.60 and finally a 3.14.00 in the 200 backstroke.
50m Free – A – 1st
200m Free – A – 3rd
200m Back – A – 2nd
Paige Cusworth
Paige was in Shipley for Saturday only and made the most of her time in the pool. In the 100m Freestyle a 3second PB of 1.11.54 was followed by a 4 second PB in the 100m Backstroke. This shows the value of carefully picking races to achieve times.
100m Free – B – 1st
100m Back – A – 4th
Euan Topley
Despite looking mightily unimpressed by being entered in the 200m Breastroke, Euan started his weekend with a near 8second PB. He then knocked a gargantuan 16 seconds of his 200IM with a time of 3.00.49. Euan continued to PB in the 200m Backstroke, 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 100m Breastroke before finishing the weekend with a 15 second PB in the 200m freestyle.
200m Breast – B – 2nd
200IM – A – 4th
200m Back – B – 1st
100m Free – A – 2nd
100m Back – B – 1st
100m Breast B – 4th
200M Free – A – 4th
Bandon Lino
Juan Carlos had once again ensured that ‘no race was left unswimmed’ for Brandon.
Brandon once again proved his ability with PB’s and medals. Amongst the times was an 18second PB in the 100m backstroke
100m Back – A – 3rd
200m IM – A – 3rd
200m Back – A – 4th
50m Fly – A – 4th
100m Free – A – 3rd
50m Breast – B – 3rd
100m Back – A – 2nd
50m Free – A – 6th
200m Free – A – 3rd