SCOTTISH SCHOOLS
Six Inverleith swimmers qualified for the finals for the Scottish Schools competition at Aberdeen Sports Village in January. We had Angus Allison in 50 breast, Cameron Alexander in 50 fly, Carla Lovell in 50 breast, Joe Penman in 100 and 200 back, Felix Hale in 50 free and Cameron Alexander and Adele McDaid in school freestyle relay teams. Angus, Cameron and Felix all made it into the finals for their events.
Angus was placed 3
rd and brought home a bronze for Broughton Primary.
Carla was placed 14
th for Leith Walk Primary.
Cameron was placed 10
th for Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools.
Felix was placed 10
th for Wardie Primary.
Joe came 12
th in 200 back and 13
th in 100 back for Broughton High School.
Cameron’s relay team came 4
th overall for Erskine Stewart Melville’s Schools.
Adele’s relay team came 4
th overall for Erskine Stewart Melville’s Schools.
These were all excellent results for a tough competition. Thanks are due to Lana Borwick, ex-Inverleith coach for keeping our swimmers right on when to marshall. Well done everyone!
EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUPS – Round 3
We had a good number of swimmers who took part in the Long Course round of the East District Age Groups at the RCP.
We managed to swim 34 PB’s which was fantastic. Joe Penman made the 100B/C final with a new PB & came in 4
TH & Angus Allison PB’d to get into the 100 BR final coming 7
TH & did another PB in the final. Angus Skakle did two 8sec PB’s in his 100BR & 200IM which was fantastic.
We also had boys & girls 10 – 12 year old relays for both Medley & freestyle which is a first. Our boys Medley relay consisting of Felix Hale, Angus Allison, Cameron Alexander & Danny Penman came 4
TH & their Freestyle relay came in 8
TH. The girls, Adele McDaid, Adelade Walker, Carla Lovell & Faye Fulton came in 13
TH in the Medley & 12
TH in the Freestyle.
Great swimming from everyone. The RCP is such a great venue, as a coach you don’t get soaked every time someone dives in!! It is great for the swimming as well.
CARNEGIE GRADED MEET – 17TH & 18TH January
We had 18 swimmers in total taking part in the above meet which was a good number. We managed 23 PB’s on the Saturday & 23 on the Sunday.
We had lots of swimmers placed which was brilliant.
Saturday
Gold – Adele McDaid – 100Fly
Silver – Cameron Alexander – 200IM
4
TH – Angus Skakle – 200IM
Stuart Crawford – 200IM
Joe Penman – 100BR
5
TH – Felix Hale – 200IM
6
TH – Stuart Crawford – 100Fly
Felix Hale – 100Fly
Sunday
Gold – Felix Hale – 200F/C
Joe Penman – 400F/C
Joe Penman – 100F/C
Emily Mander – 100B/C
Silver – Cameron Alexander – 100B/C
Bronze – Rebecca O’Donnell – 100F/C
4
TH – Danny Penman – 100B/C
Charlotte Drainer – 100BR
Angus Skakle – 100BR
Cameron Alexander – 200F/C
5
TH – Danny Penman – 200F/C
Well done to all the swimmers who took part.
LDD DEVELOPMENT GALA – 18.01.15
This competition was a first external gala for a lot of the swimmers & is a good leaning experience for them. Before each stroke we were given a demonstration swim by a senior swimmer.
Our swimmers did extremely well. The six swimmers in the morning session produced 24 PB’s which was for the younger swimmers & 12 in the afternoon when we only had three older swimmers taking part.
There are no individual placings in this competition but all swimmers got a momento for taking part. While there were no awards for places our swimmers were frequently in the top six which was fantastic.
1
ST – Sasha Hale – 50B/C
Angus O’Connor – 50B/C
2
ND – Isabella Black – 25Fly
Sasha Hale – 50BR
Isabelle Roe – 50B/C
Isabella Black – 50F/C
Rachel MacLeod – 50Fly
Rachel MacLeod – 50B/C
3
RD – Isabelle Roe – 25Fly
Morgan Reid – 50B/C
Sasha Hale – 50F/C
4
TH – Sasha Hale – 25Fly
Angus O’Connor – 25Fly
Angus O’Connor – 50BR
Isabella Black – 50B/C
5
TH – Rachel MacLeod – 50BR
6
TH – Frank Gray – 25Fly
Well done everyone, I hope you all enjoyed your swims.
ELST MEET – 1.02.15
This was a two day meet which was condensed into one day as the entries were very poor. It made life very complicated but did mean we got loads of swims but had some very tired swimmers.
Our swimmers managed 24PB’s in the morning session & 33 in the afternoon which is fantastic. Some of our senior swimmers did 50m swims for the first time in ages & did some incredible PB’s. We came away with lots of medals.
Gold – Danny Penman – 200B/C