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Prescot SC's Boy's Captain Alex Dunk was selected to
represent the North West at the ESSA National Championships last weekend.
ESSA is the English Schools Swimming Association.
He was selected to be Senior Boys Captain and competed to claim a Gold, Silver and Bronze medals from his events. The North West team did really well, winning 4 out of 6 age group trophies ( and finishing 2nd and 3rd out of 8 in the other 2 ). The North West also won the overall trophy too. Well Done to Alex and the rest of the North West team |
Prescot's younger swimmers took part in the annual Minnows gala, this gala is designed for swimmers from the small pool who can swim 25m and swimmers in the first couple of lanes who have not yet swum in any of the league galas yet.
The swimmers were divided into 4 age groups, 7 & under, 8 & 9, 10 & 11, 12 and over. The medal winners were as follows.
| 5 Gold - (also Girls and Boys Trophy winners) | Annie Ruddock, Zachary Edmondson, Joshua Clarke |
| 4 Gold | Ella Roberts, Mark McCabe |
| 3 Gold, 2 Silver | Grace Waring, Joshua Hawes |
| 2 Gold, 1 Bronze | Agustin Montemurro |
| 1 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze | Jessica Waring |
| 1 Gold, 2 Silver | Katie Rawnsley, Ellis Kenny |
| 1 Gold, 1 Bronze | Rachael McCabe |
| 3 Silver, 2 Bronze | Jade Thorold, Zac Daly, Adam Caldwell |
| 2 Silver, 2 Bronze | Philipa Jackson |
| 2 Silver, 1 Bronze | Imogen Dunn, Max Basinger, Michael Brussels |
| 1 Silver, 2 Bronze | Jessica Tarrington |
| 1 Silver, 1 Bronze | Aaron Kenton |
| 2 Bronze | Georgia Twiss, Laurence Dudley |
| 1 Bronze | Lily Dunn, Emily Hobson, Campbell Hampson |
However the event was not all about the medal winners, nearly all of the swimmers did Personal Bests and several of them have been promoted to higher lanes or from the small pool to Lane 1. Congratulations to you all.
Prescot SC rounded off their M&D campaign for the 2012-2013 with a solid 3rd place at Knowsley Leisure & Culture Park on Saturday afternoon. This cements a 3rd place finish for Prescot in the championship - the best finish for several years.
There were individual wins for Daniel Cheshire (2), Cameron Dunk (2), Tom Hughes as well as wins for the Girls 13 & Under relay team in both Medley and Freestyle events , Open Girls relay team in both Medley and Freestyle events, Boys 15 & Under relay team in both Medley and Freestyle events and Boys 13 & under Freestyle relay team.
A very special mention to the old man of the team Tony Wylie who filled in for team captain Alex Dunk. He swam the fastest leg in both of the Open relays, swam in the Cannon and 2 individual events - all after completing the Sefton triathlon in the morning. Hope you had a lie in on Sunday Tony.
Final Result: 1st Everton (202 points), 2nd Crosby (175), 3rd Prescot (158), 4th Garston (147), 5th Halton (112)
A Baker's Dozen of Prescot's swimmers spent a long weekend at Liverpool Aquatic Centre for the City of Liverpool Summer Sprints - a chance to swim in a Long Course (50m) event.
5 of them ended the weekend with medals
Neil Wylie (13) - 1Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze
Katherine Cheshire (12) - 3 Silver and 1 Bronze.
Charlotte Dodson (12) - 1 Silver and 2 Bronze
Daniel Cheshire (15) - 2 Bronze
And last but not least 10 year old Emma Farrugia who won her first major medals
for Prescot taking a Silver and a Bronze.
Neil and Daniel also took 3rd place in the Fina Points competition for all-round swimmers in their age groups - so many congratulations to them.
Everybody got at least 2 Long Course PBs in a total of 59 swum by the 13 swimmers over the weekend. So well done to everyone.
Mat Twiss finished 263rd in his age group in a pretty respectable time of 38:41 - apparently doing breaststroke since he could not get his arms over his head in his wet suit after eating too many bacon butties beforehand,
He has already dropped off £257 in sponsorship money and still has a little more to collect. Could all those kind folks who sponsored Mat please get their money to him as soon as possible please
Prescot's swimmers had a busy weekend at Knowsley Leisure & Culture Park. First off on Saturday was Everton's Faye Lafferty Memorial gala, followed on Sunday by Liverpool Penguin's MacMillan gala.
They were fast out of the blocks on Saturday winning 3 out of the first 5 races and (the girls in particular) kept up the pressure on a strong Everton squad throughout finally taking 2nd place overall. Final result was 1st Everton (349 points), 2nd Prescot (304), 3rd Halton (273), 4th Bridgefield (235), 5th Crosby (185), 6th & North Liverpool (171), 7th Birkenhead (170), 8th Runcorn (145).
It was going to be a hard job to bounce back for a second time and Sunday's gala indeed proved to be a bit tougher. Wins which had come thick and fast on the Saturday were few and far between but the kids swam their hearts out and finished in a solid 4th place. Final result 1st Garston (230 points), 2nd Halton (221), 3rd Ormskirk Otters (188), 4th Prescot (174), 5th Liverpool Penguin (162), 6th Bootle & North Liverpool (75)
The swimmers did 69 PBs (including split times) on the Saturday and another 30 on the Sunday. Good swimming indeed.
Well done to Grace Waring, Jessica Tarrington, Ciara Owens, Hannah Stock, Isobel Murphy, Mark McCabe and Joe Burns who were representing Prescot Swimming Club for the first time.
Finally, many congratulations to Charlotte Dodson who won 9 out of her 10 races over the weekend, only missing out on 1st place in her final event, the Girls Cannon, by a fingernail to the Garston team.
(Plymouth 14th - 16th June 2013, Long Course (50m))
Mark Jones aka "The Man in Lane 8" was in Plymouth for the British Gas Masters Championships. Having entered 10 events he set himself a personal target of 6 medals. He is pleased to have met this target with 2 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals in the 50 to 54 years age group.
| 800m Freestyle | 1st | 10:16.06 |
| 400m IM | 1st | 5:52.70 |
| 200m Breaststroke | 2nd | 3:06.00 |
| 1500m Freestyle | 3rd | 19:28.01 |
| 400m Freestyle | 3rd | 4:57.72 |
| 200m Butterfly | 3rd | 2:52.31 |
| 200m Freestyle | 4th | 2:22.52 |
| 100m Butterfly | 4th | 1:16.75 |
| 200m Backstroke | 5th | 2:53.46 |
| 200m IM | 5th | 2:47.33 |
As the competition was open to all FINA members he had a couple of very good Irish swimmers in his age group to contend with. If they had not entered he would have collected a further 3 bronze medals!!!
This is his 4th year in the 50-54 years age group and a summary of his results is:-
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||
| 2010 | Glasgow | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | Leeds | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | Sheffield | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | Plymouth | 2 | 1 | 3 |
His next major competition will be the ASA Masters short course championships in Sheffield at the end of October.
Mark would like to thank both the Everton SA and Prescot SC coaches for enabling him to have such a successful weekend.
Day One of the North West Championships saw Cameron Dunk take 3rd place in the 13yo 1500m Freestyle. Elizabeth Hurst make the final of 13yo 100m Backstroke.
Day Two was the Sunday - Cameron went sub 1 minute for 100m for the 1st time I believe in the last leg of the Boys 4 x 100m Medley Relay.
The following Saturday saw Charlotte Dodson make the final in the 12yo 200m Butterfly and Cameron tie for 3rd place in the final of the 13yo 200m Freestyle.
The final Sunday saw Elizabeth make the final and then take the bronze in the 13yo 200m Backstroke.
During the 2 weekends Alice Harrison did 2 PBs, Charlotte Dodson did 3, Cameron Dunk did 3 (plus his relay split), Daniel Clark managed 3 PBs, Neil Wylie got 2 and Finley Hampson and Elizabeth Hurst got 1 each.
Many congratulations to all the Prescot Swimmers who competed , those who are named above and also Matthew Lamb and Emily Lowrie who also made it to the Championships.
Poppy & Georgia Twiss's dad Mathew is doing the Great Northern Swim on the 16th June in aid of additional pool time and equipment for us at Prescot Swimming Club.
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The swim itself is round a mile-long course in Lake Windermere and is the UK's biggest mass participation swim. Good luck to you Mat and rather you than me!
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Mat's sponsorship Form is available here |
A small band of Prescot swimmers headed down the M62 for the City of Manchester Open last weekend.
All came away with PBs and in Neil Wylie's bag on the way home were 3 Gold Medals (12yo 100m Butterfly, 200m Freestyle & 400m Freestyle) and 2 Silver medals from the 200m Individual Medley and 200m Butterfly
In Elizabeth Hurst's bag was a Gold medal from the 50m Backstroke and 2 Silvers from the 100m & 200m Backstroke.
More importantly she also gained Qualifying Times for the National Age Groups for the 100m and 200m Backstroke. She becomes Prescot's first qualifier for the Nationals this year so many congratulations to her.
Qualifiers for Regional and National events
Saturday at Manchester was a busy one for Alex Dunk, he qualified for then won the 17/18yo 400m Freestyle in a time of 3:59.66. He then qualified fastest for the final of the 400m Individual Medley in a Personal Best & National Youth Qualifying Time. He then qualified and contested the finals of the 100m Backstroke and 100m Freestyle.
Meanwhile Courtney Dodson, Chloe Middleham and Jake Simm were putting in great swims - every one a PB - the highlight being Chloe's Sliver medal in the 15/16yo 800m Freestyle in 9:34.44.
Sunday was almost as busy - Alex taking the 200m Freestyle and 200m Backstroke titles (the Backstroke with another National Youth Qualifying Time), together with a 2nd place finish in the 200m Individual Medley as well as making the final of the 100m Butterfly with a PB. Chloe swam the heats of the 400m Freestyle and 400m Individual Medley just missing out on a place in the final of the IM. Courtney did the 50m Butterfly heat and Jake the 200m Backstroke with yet another PB.
Congratulations to all of the 4 swimmers who represented Prescot over the weekend - it is a huge achievement in just getting to the North-West championships.
An excellent weekends swimming from our Prescot Club swimmers with a total 47 PBs earning the swimmers 3 Golds, 9 Silver and 11 Bronze medals from a full weekends swimming.
Leading the way for Prescot was Emily Lowrie who achieved a fantastic 8 PBs from 8 swims closely followed by Kathrine Cheshire with 7 PBs from 10 swims and Hannah Deeley whose 7 PBs gave her a medal haul of 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze from her 11 swims.
The great results didn’t stop there with Finley Hampson, James Savage and Amy Johnson all securing 6 PBs from the weekends efforts with Amy coming away will a 100% record from all her 6 swims. Commendable results were also achieved by Georgia Simm (3 PBs) and Daniel Johnson (4PBs).
In the process Finley has become the first Prescot Swimmer to get the Maximum 101 points in the Prescot Best Total Points standings meaning that he has got ASA Performance Gold (or Platinum where possible) in every single one of the Short course events. Congratulations Finley.
Beth, Kathryn and Megan have all passed their Level 2 Teaching Aquatics certificate.
Many congratulations to them and hope it was worth all the weekends they had to give up to do it!
Results from the time trials held at Knowsley on Sunday can be found here.
The times have also been entered into the Prescot Best system
| Last weekend saw the annual Everton Easter course which took place at the fantastic Liverpool University sports complex in Liverpool. Prescot / Prescot squad had over 20 swimmers attending this year’s course with swimmers ranging in age from 8 to 16 years of age. The weekend saw the swimmers doing 2 pool and 2 gym sessions on Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday and a pool and Gym session on the Monday. The top swimmers did over 30km swimming training over the four days but all finished with a smile on their faces. | ||||
| Notable achievements over the weekend included Emma Farrugia who received the coaches endeavour award for best visiting swimmer for B squad and Emily Lowrie who received the same award for A squad plus the Dangerous Deeleys who came 2nd in the Family race with Jessica, Hannah and Simon competing in a relay event which narrowly saw them miss out on the gold. |
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The whole weekend is traditionally finished off
with a 3 team gala preceded with a fancy dress competition for each team
with a prize awarded for the best costume in each team. Finley Hampson won
the ‘best dressed’ for his Dentons Dancers’ team with what can only be
described as a rather dashing if not brave impersonation of a dancer
complete with high heel shoes. |
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In the curtain raiser to the gala the kicking competitions were won by Alice Harrison (defending her title from last year) and Jake Simm who just pipped Mathew Lamb to the title. The club would like to thank all the children and parents of those who took part as they were a credit to the Club and themselves. Well done to All. |
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