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RATS Win Big!
Congratulations to all those who swam in the second round of he Rother League on Saturday 6th June at Fareham Leisure Centre.
All of the swimmers swam very well with only three DQ’s throughout the whole evening.
At the start of the gala Paul had said that we should have had anticipations of coming in the middle, like we did in the first round (4th place). Unfortunately the speaker system was not very loud and was receiving lots of background interference so the scores weren’t very easy to understand but it was just possible to tell that we weren’t in last place.
As the gala went on the events were passing by extraordinarily quickly so in what seemed like five minutes the scores were announced with only two events before the squadron.
As the scores were being read out the tension was building, 6th went by, 3rd went by. By this point it was unbelievable to think that we might be in 3rd place. As it turned out the other teams had fallen behind meaning that we had powered our way into joint 1st with I.O.W sc.
The scores depended on the final event, the squadron. The swimmers were set, all 10 people lined up behind their allocated starting block. The starting signal went and we were started off by our 8 year old girls.
As the last swimmers were coming in we could see that we might have a chance of winning the squadron, something that I personally can’t ever remember doing. However our fate wasn’t to be, we were beaten at the post, we rounded off the gala with a 2nd place finish in the squadron.
Even though we were beaten we accomplished our goal, we beat I.O.W sc, we still had a chance of winning round 2 of the Rother League. All the swimmers were waiting on pool deck in a tight group waiting for the final announcement, waiting and waiting forever there was a rumble and the speakers spluttered into life the scores were here.
The final scores of round 2 of the Rother league were:
6th Ringwood
5th Eastleigh and Oakland’s
4th Gosport
3rd Andover
2nd Istle of Wight
1st Romsey and Totton
As a whole the gala was a huge success and has hopefully been a morale lift for all our swimmers and will hopefully encourage the people who don’t swim very often to swim and the others to train harder in the future.
SMiles.
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Novice Champs 2010
The Annual Championships forNovice swimmers in the Club were recently held at Totton Leisure Centre. The purpose of this event has 2 main aims. Firstly to give those swimmers who have yet to reach “Club level” or who are still taking lessons, an opportunity tocompete against similar ability swimmers and gaining a taste of what it is like to compete in a swimming event. Secondly, the event is run, timed & judgedby those swimmers who are at “Club level”, giving them some experience & understanding of how similar events they compete in are run, and maybe giving them an appetite to go on to do courses in the future with a view to becoming a fully qualified ASA Official.
There were 4 age categories forboth boys & girls – U9, 9-10, 11-12 & 13+, and 4 events in each agegroup, Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly, all being of 50mexcept the U9 Butterfly which was only 25m. The top 3 swimmers in each eventall received medals.
Whilst it is not possible to listall those swimmers who took part, the results did produce some note-worthyachievements.
For the girls, Alexandra Walker in the 11-12 years agecategory produced a clean sweep, taking all 4 gold medals. In the 9-10 age group, Cerys Ralph took gold in Freestyle & Backstroke, with Hannah Brackley taking the Freestyle & Breaststroke in the 13+ group.
In the boy’s section, Harry Cooper equalled Alexandra Walker’s achievement in the U9 age group with another clean sweep. Honours wereeven in the 9-10 group with Freddie Ide claiminggold in the Freestyle & Backstroke, whilst Adam Bowen took Breaststroke & Butterfly. Zayd Neseyif’s domination of the 11-12 boys was only held in checkby Luke Ralph who took the gold forButterfly. To finish off, the boy’s 13+ events were hotly contested between Steven Simpson & Rob Murphy, with Rob emanatingAlexandra & Harry’s feat of taking all 4 gold medals.
The Club Officials would like to thank ALL the swimmers who took part for making the whole event worthwhile. Without you all, we wouldn’thave a club. Thanks must go also to the Club swimmers who did an excellent job in running the event, with a particular mention for Gemma Boyes – Girl’s Vice Captain 2010, for organising the “Officials” for the competition.And on a final note a thank you to all the Qualified Judges,Referees, Time keepers for their supervisory roles during the event .
12th May 2010
This years Tony Weston Memorial Gala is this coming Saturday evening , please make sure your there on time to cheer the teams on , lets make it a really good night , Also, all the procedes from the raffle will be going to Southampton Eye Unit so please give generously , there are some great prizes this year so dig deep if you can .
Doors Open 5.30 , Warm up 5.45
Teas and coffees will be available upstairs from 6.30 onwards as well as another desk selling programmes for those wishing to watch from the upper gallery :o)
I look forward to seeing you all
Cheers
Paul ( FIX IT MAN )
