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Seals Gala at Lancaster

DESPITE an improved performance, Preston Seals could only manage another third place in their latest Micro League gala. But coach Julie Jackson was satisfied with her team’s performance. She said: “We have improved our points score from last month and the amount of personal bests recorded have shown we are moving in the right direction”.
The gala began well for the Seals, with the girls' and boys' 12 and under medley relay teams performing well and recording six personal bests between them.
The girls team comprised Aimee Gallagher, Lena Tunbridge, Shannon McGinty and Nicole Graveson, and the latter three all recorded new best times as they finished second.
The boys team then won their race, with Liam Marrows getting them underway before Joe Wright, Freddie Carter and Ryan Pratt brought the team home in personal best times.
The gala continued in much the same fashion, with the girls posting a further 17 personal bests. Gallagher set a new PB in the 12 and under freestyle race, as did McGinty in the 12 and under 50m butterfly, Tunbridge in the 12 and under breaststroke and Hayley Graveson in the 10 years 50m backstroke.
Rachel Davis swam three personal bests. The first came in the nine years freestyle relay when competing with Charlotte Gornall, Lucy Worswick (who also achieved a PB) and Bethany McBride.
Davis’ second PB came in the nine years 25m butterfly and the third came in the nine years medley relay, which saw the same team except Charlotte Flynn, who swam a PB, replacing Lucy Worswick for the freestyle leg.
Sarah Buckley and Beth Hargreaves posted two PBs each. Buckley swam her first in the girls 11 and under Freestyle relay, alongside Hargreaves, Emma Keany, who also swam a personal best and Gemma Rennie. She then swam another in the 11 and under 50m freestyle.
Hargreaves set her first best when winning the 11 and under 50m butterfly, and then in the butterfly leg of the girls 11 and under medley relay, swimming with Rennie, Buckley and Chloe Brown, who also set a new personal best for her freestyle leg, for a second-placed finish.
There were also other personal bests for Olivia Baron, when winning the girls 10 years medley relay with Hayley Graveson, Keara Mulvaney-Slater and Ella Huskisson, who posted a PB in the freestyle leg. Hannah McGill also swam a new personal best to win the girls 10 years 50m breaststroke.
It was not just the girls who broke records as the boys also posted a number of personal best performances. Freddie Carter added to his personal best in the earlier relay with two more, one in the 12 and under 50m butterfly and the other in the final relay of the night, the cannon, alongside Toby Seers, Ben Conlan and Bill Cooper.
Seers’ PB earned a second place in the boys 25m freestyle and Conlan recorded a new personal best time in the 11 and under freestyle. Joseph Cunningham-Connolly also swam two personal best times – the first coming alongside Alex Brandwood, who also swam a PB, Ethan Fielding and Toby Seers in the 9 year 4x1 Freestyle relay, and then the other in nine years medley relay when Oliver Lucas (who also swam a PB) replaced Brandwood.
The boys also managed a second place in their 11 and under freestyle relay with a team comprising James Shuttleworth who posted a personal best time, Ben Conlan, Harry Holden and Jake Beatty. Holden also managed another PB in the boys 11 and under 50m butterfly. Nigel Standing and Bill Cooper swam PBs in the boys 10 years freestyle relay along with Joshua Rennie and Ethan Fielding. Matthew Baron’s PB helped his team-mates, Freddie Carter, Joe Wright and Ryan Pratt to win the boys 12 and under 4x1 freestyle relay.

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