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Stockport Level 1 Meet
Georgia Barton and Jessica Chadwick emerged as Preston Swimming Club’s top performers at a Level One meet staged at the 50-metre Grand Central Pool at Stockport.Preston took 18 swimmers to the event, which featured Olympic 10km medallists Cassie Patten and Keri-Anne Payne.Level One is the highest standard of competition licensed by the Amateur Swimming Association, which means that the qualifying times for entry are set high. But that didn’t stop 13-year-olds Barton and Chadwick coming home with medals in the 100m butterfly and 100m breaststroke respectively.Head coach Dave Fairhurst said: “The standard of swimming at this gala is of the highest quality, with swimmers from across the UK attending. I was extremely pleased with the number of swimmers we had enter, and to come away with two medals was fantastic. We also had six swimmers achieving 12 national qualifying times and an overall 50% personal best rate, which is a superb achievement this early in the season. On the basis of this performance, I am feeling confident we can go further and surpass the success we had last year.” The first session included the gruelling 800m and 1500m events, but 12-year-old Katie Mawdsley showed great stamina to cruise past the 1500m freestyle national qualifying time (NQT). Barton also registered a NQT in the 800m event in a time of 9.40.35,and then went on to take another NQT in the 200m freestyle and 100m butterfly, where she claimed her bronze medal in a time of 1.08.02. Chadwick, a breaststroke specialist, also achieved a NQT in the 200m event, as well as the 100m, where she won her bronze in a time of 1.17.37. Joanne Cutler, 14, achieved a NQT in the 100m freestyle, while the Austins, brother and sister Cameron, 13, and Shauntelle, 11, achieved five NQTs between them. Other Preston swimmers who qualified for the event were Dominic Walker, 10, 11-year-olds Alicia Finch and Abbie Kitcher, 13-year-olds Charlotte Sinclair and Oliver Walker, 14-year-olds Bethany Shaw, Jack Holden and Luke Pool, 15-year-old Mark Tootle, and 16-year-olds Laura Berry, John Rainford and Dean Heaps. |
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