City of Glasgow Graded Meet
Perth City swimmers produced some excellent pb's over the weekend of 6/7th February at the City of Glasgow Graded Meet. This competition is an excellent chance to gain experience in the Olympic pool at Tollcross, and is the only graded long course (50m) meet in the Scottish calendar. Although the gala is always very oversubscribed, 10 girls and 8 boys from Perth had the chance to take part, and made the most of the opportunity. There were some great swims across the two days, with Erin Cummins putting in particularly impressive performances in all her events. Congratulations too to Freya Thomson, our youngest competitor, for her excellent result in the butterfly, and to Kirsty Pitts for producing the only Too Fast award of the weekend in the 100m backstroke.
Medal winners were Erin Cummins 3rd 200m IM, 4th 100m free, 2nd 100m fly ; Catriona MacIntosh 5th 400 free, 5th 200m IM, 4th 100m fly; Kirsty Pitts 5th 50m free, 5th 100m free, 3rd 100m fly, TF 100m back ; Ellen Davie 5th 50 breaststroke, 4th 100m breaststroke; Reagan Doig 4th 100m fly; Struan Hattersley 5th 400m free, 6th 100m back, ; Hamish Milne 6th 100m back
Well done to all who took part, and to club officials who generously gave up their time to help
Scottish Schools Swimming Championships
Above are the medal winners from the Scottish Schools Swimming Championships. Eamon Rivers (left) won a Gold for the 100m Fly and a Silver. Camilla Hattersley (centre) won Bronze in the 400m Freestyle and Steven Milne (right) won Gold in both the 100m and 200m Backcrawl.
Stirling Junior Meet
12 swimmers from Perth City Swim Club took part in the annual Stirling Junior Open Meet held at the superb new Stirling Peak Sports Centre on January 23rd/24th 2010. Over the course of the weekend there were 30 new personal best times, with particularly impressive improvements by Regan Doig, Emily Horne and Tobermory Mackay-Champion. The team collected a total of 22 medals, their success being led by Camilla Hattersley who achieved Gold in all but one of her events and scooped the Cup for Best Girl in the 14 years age group. Podium places were also achieved by Emily and Roddy Horne, Tobermory Mackay-Champion, Laura Muncey and Sandie Smillie.
Scottish National Short Course Championships
13 Perth City swimmers took part in the Scottish National Short Course Championships in Glasgow on 15-17th January 2010 putting in a superb performance that brought 32 new personal best times, including a memorable 33.85s improvement on his previous personal best in the 1500m freestyle by Roddy Horne. Camilla Hattersley achieved podium success in the age group events, winning silver in the 800 free and 400IM , and bronze in the 400 freestyle, while Stephen Milne took gold in the 400 free and 1500 free, bronze in the 100IM and 400IM, and was Scottish Junior Champion in the 200m freestyle. Well done to all swimmers who took part, and a vote of thanks to the Club officials who helped make the meet a success.
Steven & Camilla with medal haul.
Steven Swimming at the Nationals. Image by Ian macnicol images
Welsh Dragon New Years Meet
Camilla Hattersley and Stephen Milne travelled to Swansea on 8th January for the British Gas Swim Wales New Year Dragon Open Meet, held at the Wales National Pool. Although they were faced with strong competition from swimmer from clubs across England and Wales, Camilla came second overall in the 400m IM taking the Youth gold, and went on to claim bronze in the 1500m freestyle. Stephen won gold in the 1500m free and 200m backstroke, silver in the 800m and 400m freestyle events, and bronze in the 100m backstroke Youth section. Both achieved qualifying times for the ASA Youth Championships this summer. |
