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2010 North West Region Age Group Championships
Preston Swimming Club put in a marvellous performance at this year’s North West Regional Age Group Championships. The club took 15 swimmers and came away with 23 medals – 9 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze, as well as recording 22 national qualifying times.
The event held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre sees swimmers from across Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and the North Midlands compete to be the best in their age group.
A contented Head Coach, Steve Heaps, said “Overall I was very pleased indeed with the swimmers at this year's Regional Championships. The teachers and coaches have done an excellent job in getting the swimmers ready for this competition and I thank them all for their sterling work.
The skill and stroke development are improving all the time and the swimmers are learning how to swim events for heats and finals. We had some excellent performances in the pool, the national qualifying time count is again on the increase and the personal best rate was very good for a double weekend competition. I am very proud of all the swimmers.
The swimmers have one meet remaining now before the summer break and we will continue to work hard on improving stroke and skill development".
Star performances were put in by brother and sister Shauntelle and Cameron Austin. 12 year old Shauntelle took an amazing 6 gold medals, 2 silver and 3 bronze – recording 9 national qualifying times - on the way to taking overall top place in her age group. The gold medals came in the 200m and 400m individual medley (IM), 100m and 200m backstroke, 100m and 200m butterfly. Austin’s all round dominance showed clearly in the 400m IM where she cruised home 18 seconds ahead of her nearest rival.
Cameron (14) came away with gold medals in the 100m and 200m butterfly, silver in the 200m IM, 400m IM and 200m freestyle with a bronze in the 400m freestyle as well as recording six national qualifying times and coming third place overall in the age group.
A determined Dominic Walker (12) powered home in the 100m backstroke to take gold in a national qualifying time and was just pipped to a medal in the 200m event, where he came fourth.
The 11 year old boys proved a successful age group for Preston. Andrew Davison produced an amazing swim to take silver in the 200m breaststroke as well as taking a top six position in the 100m event. Brandon Kinder also took a silver in the breaststroke – his came from another excellent performance in the 100m event. Kinder also came 5th in the 200m. In a strong age group, Robert Hamer missed out on the medals – coming 5th in the 400m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m butterfly despite recording three national qualifying times. Patrick Hill and Ben Riding also represented Preston in this age group.
The cruellest result came in the boys 12 year old 200m butterfly event where Lee Reeder put in a massive personal best time but just missed out on a national qualifying time by a mere 0.01 second and a medal, coming fourth. Reeder did not come home empty handed as he took silver in the 100m butterfly. Kathryn Greenslade competed in the girls events with Abbie Kitcher and Ashleigh Wareing representing the club as 13 year olds.
14 year old Jack Smith was another swimmer in fine form as he recorded two national qualifying times on the way to taking two bronze medals in the 800m freestyle and 100m breaststroke, coming fourth in the 400m IM and taking 5th position overall in the age group. Matthew Greenslade took 6th in the 100m breaststroke.
Myles Kitcher
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