Success and fun at the Salisbury Spring Meet
Sunday 22nd April saw the second time that the club has entered swimmers in the Salisbury Stingrays Spring Open Meet. A total of 38 swimmers took part and it would have been more but as the meet was oversubscribed we had a number of swimmers whose entries were rejected because the qualifying times were tightened. As a level 4 meet it is attractive to those younger swimmers who have either not competed before or those with little experience. There were however plenty of swimmers taking part from our top competitive squads. The ages of our swimmers ranged from 8 years up to 15 years and we had swimmers in every event.
As we had such a large contingency of swimmers we were lucky enough to have been allocated a good area on poolside where we had plenty of space. In common with many meets now the promoters were stopping swimmers from taking large kit bags onto poolside which did indeed help reduce the congestion.
All events were either 50 or 100 metres and as such the meet did not run BAGCATS. This meant that medals were being awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in every event. Having entries in every event does not guarantee success, but our swimmers excelled themselves and were able to achieve top 3 finishes in 17 events and a 4th in the other one of the total of 18 events at the meet, a truly remarkable performance.
The following club swimmers managed 13 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze medals with one swimmer getting a “speeding ticket”. At many meets if a swimmer exceeds the upper time limit in an event then they do not win a medal but get a “speeding ticket”.
Speeding ticket: Jessica Davies. Gold medals: Joshua Lees 4, Lara-May Barnet 3, Sebastian Williams 3, Jessica Davies 2 and Oliver Tubb 1. Silver medals: Joshua Lees 3, Lucy Moyse 2. Lara-May Barnet 1, Emily Blount 1, Jessica Davies 1, Rachel Matthews 1 and Sebastian Williams 1. Bronze Medals: Aaron Crockford 3, Claudia Lees 3, Emily Blount 1, Lara-May Barnet 1, Hannah Martin 1 and Rachel Matthews 1.
A special mention should also go to Jessica Churcher who although not finishing in the top 3 managed to knock 11 seconds off her best time for 100m butterfly.
As well as great results the swimmers (and the coaches Julie & Ken) also had great fun on poolside. The atmosphere was terrific and must have contributed significantly to the performances on the day. If you want to see how much fun look at the photos page.
Thank you for all the help we received from swimmers as we had a very busy day with so many swimmers on poolside. Thank you to Oliver Tubb, Joshua Lees, Rachel Matthew, Harriett Davies and Laura Kingshott who helped with taking splits and times. To those who took the young swimmers, some who had not entered an Open Meet before, and showed them where they had to go before their races. Thank you to the young swimmers who wrote the times for Julie and Ken. They were Aaron Crockford, Xanthe West, Joshua Lees, April Hernandez, Rebecca Young, Anna Ross and Minette Van Der Merwe with some timing too
Nomads Summer
Open Meet
21st-22nd July 2012
The Quays Southampton
Club noticeboard
Fareham Nomads Swimming Club (FNSC), uses reasonable efforts to include up-to-date and accurate information, but makes no representations, warranties, or assurances as to the information's accuracy, currency, or completeness. FNSC is not liable for any damages or injury resulting from a user's access to, or inability to access, this Internet site, or from reliance on the information the site provides. Where this Internet site provides links or references to other sites, FNSC has no responsibility for the content of such other sites and thus is not liable for damages or injury arising from that content.
