This weekend saw the annual residential 3 day event at Scarborough where our squad compete in long distance and sprint races at short course. This is such a good team building event whilst being great competition and lots of fun for all swimmers involved. The atmosphere left our swimmers coming away with numerous speeding tickets, medals and personal bests whilst also having 3 people in the swim off for skins.
All events on Saturday and Sunday were categorised A and B grade with appropriate cut off times for both, seeing many of the squad members achieve Speeding Tickets (TF) where they go too quick for a medal.
Friday night started fantastically well with the 200m & 400m freestyle events for girls and boys, with the team picking up a good number of medals:-
200m Free Lewis Baker (11) Gold, Kalum Smart (12) Silver & Roman Wallace (12) Bronze, Nathan Billingham (14) Bronze and Thomas Speed (17) Silver). For the Girls in the same event Molly Baker achieved her first (9) Gold in her first competition for the club.
In the 400m Lewis came away with his second gold of the weekend, whilst Roman achieved his first Gold. Whilst for the girls, Megan Sharp and Eleanor Valentine-Bull (both 10) successfully gained Gold and Silver both with strong personal bests. Jessica Richardson (13) gained the Gold and Harriett Ostrowski-Jones came away with Bronze concluding the first days racing.
Saturday morning was an early start for the 200IM event, Lewis Baker being first off the blocks swimming quicker than the cut off time gaining a speeding ticket, whilst Alexander Tikhonov came away with Gold in the 11 year boys. Kalum Smart and Roman Wallace (12) also swam quicker showing the great progress made in the last few months, likewise for Molly Baker she achieved a quicker time than the B grade medals.
Megan Sharp (10) achieved Gold with Georgia Lee (11) and Elizabeth Safonkina (14) gaining Bronze in the 200IM at A grade, whilst Georgia Clarke (14) gained Silver at B Grade.
Session 3 saw the start of the 50m and 100m races, the first being 50m Backstroke for 13 and over, William Kenny (13) gained the first ST of the session, whilst Nathan Billingham, Bronze and Thomas Speed, Gold achieve A grade medals. In the 50m Breaststroke William Kenny gained a Silver B grade.
In the girls 50m 13over Breaststroke, Jessica Richardson (13) achieved Bronze A grade and Elizabeth Safonkina Gold A grade, with both swimmers being successful also in the 50m Backstroke, Jess with a silver and Elizabeth Gold at A grade, whilst Georgia Clark came away with a Gold at B grade.
In the Boys 50m Butterfly Cody Ingram achieved Silver B grade as did Jonathan Wightman, whilst Alexander Tikhonov Gold, Lewis Baker and Kalum Smart gained Silver at A grade. In the girls 50m freestyle Jasmine Ball & Molly Baker were Gold and Silver respectively for A grade 9 year olds with Megan Sharp also gaining Gold for the A 10’s, Lucy Wainright coming in with a speeding ticket for B grade as did Lucy Redfern (12).
The Boys 100 Freestyle saw Cody gaining his second medal of the weekend with a Bronze B grade, Alexander Tikhonov and Myles Tupman gaining Gold and Bronze respectively in the A grade 11 year olds and Roman Wallace gaining a ST for 12year B grade. Meanwhile in the Girls 100 butterfly, Molly clocked up a gold at A grade and Megan Sharp gained her first speeding ticket at A grade.
Cody Ingram continued his medal haul with a bronze B grade in the 50m Breaststroke whilst Alexander Tikhonov gained an A grade Gold. In the girls 50m Backstroke Jasmine Ball (9) gained Silver with Megan Sharp (10) achieving Gold both at A grade whilst Lucy Wainwright (10) Silver, Lucy Redfern (12) ST and Lucy Gray (12) Bronze at B Grade.
William Kenny and Nathan Billingham continued there medal spree with a Silver and Gold respectively at B Grade, and Thomas Stather (16) also Silver, whilst Thomas Speed comes away with the A Grade Gold. In the Girls 100m Freestyle Elizabeth Safonkina gained the A grade Bronze and Millie Hamby (14) the B Grade Gold.
In the Boys 100m Backstroke Alexander Tichonov achieved A Grade Bronze, whilst in 12 years Kalum Smart came away with a speeding ticket and Roman Wallace the Gold.
For the 100m Breaststroke Molly Barker gained 9 yr gold with Eleanor Valentine-Bull and Megan Sharp getting 10yr Silver and Bronze respectively, whilst Georgial Lee (11) achieved Gold all at A grade.
In the Girls 50m Fly Jessica Richardson (13) raced to end for an A grade Gold and Georgia Hamblett had a close competition for B Grade Bronze.
Sunday brought another early start with the 100IM events with the boys having a great run of success, Lewis Baker, ST and Alexander Tikhonov Gold at A grade with Myles Tupman topped the table with a ST for B grade, Kalum Smart and Roman Wallace went on to get B grade ST as did William Kenny with Nathan Billingham (14) A Grade Silver.
For the Girls Jasmine Ball gained an A grade gold while Molly Baker achieved a B Grade ST, for the 10 years group Megan Sharp gained another Gold at A grade and Eleanor VB achieved a ST for B grade, Georgia Lee and Maea Hamby both 11 achieved the A and B grade silvers respectively. Jessica Richardson & Elizabeth Safonkina added to their medals with another A Gold as Millie Hamby (14) achieved the A Grade Silver. Alanna Sidebottom (13) and Georgia Clarke (14) gained a Silver and ST respectively.
Anya Yates (12) won a B Grade Bronze which secured her position in the skins relay competition which she went on to win.
Lewis Baker was back in the water for the boys 100m fly securing ‘A’ gold and Alexander Tikhonov ‘A’ Silver whilst Kalum Smart (12) ‘B’ Bronze. In the girls 100m freestyle Molly Baker secured Gold Megan and Eleanor (10) again secured Gold and Silver all A grade, whilst Anya Yates gained the Bronze B grade spot.
Thomas Stather continued with his medals in the 50m Backstroke with a Silver medal whilst for the girls 50m breaststroke Elizabeth Safonkina achieved A grade Silver and Georgia Hamblett A Grade Bronze.
Lewis Baker and Alex Tikhonov again returned to the fore for the 50m freestyle gaining ‘A’ gold and bronze respectively, whilst for the girls 50m fly Megan Sharp exceeded ‘A’ medals picking up a speeding ticket and Lily Martin (12) picked up her first medal with a Silver B grade.
The 100m backstroke saw Jessica Richardson increase her medals with a Silver ‘A’ as did Elizabeth Safonkina with a Gold ‘A’ and Georgia Clark with a Bronze ‘B’.
In the final session of the day William Kenny picked up a ‘B’ bronze in the 50m Fly, whilst for the girls Georgia Clarke 50m Freetyle ‘B’ Bronze. With the younger end back in the water Alex and Myles gained Gold and Bronze ‘A’ in the 100m Breaststoke with Roman Wallace again picking up a speeding ticket.
For the Girls in 100m Backstroke Molly Baker and Megan Sharp picked up Golds in their age groups
Returning to 100m fly Jessica Richardson achieved Gold ‘A’ and Georgia Clarke Gold ‘B’. The penultimate event of the day was the Bous 50m Backstroke seeing Alex with a further ‘A’ silver and Kalum Smart with Roman Wallace pick up the Silver and Bronze ‘B’.
The medals continued in the final event of the day with Jasmine Ball and Molly Baker achieving Gold and Bronze respectively in 50m Breaststroke, followed by Megan Sharp and Lucy Wainwright atchiving the same whilst Georgia Lee gained the Silver, all at ‘A’ grade.
Also swimming were Rebecca Sanderson, Megan Lee, Lucy Wightman.
