News, October - December 2013

Arena Gala, Kendal, 14 Dec 2013

Prescot returned to Kendal for the final gala of the Arena season in determined mood after a difficult first round at the same pool in October.

Team Captains Chloe Middleham and Alex Dunk started off proceedings with a win apiece in the first 2 races - the 100m Individual Medleys and the team were never headed after that.

Alex got another brace of individual victories as did Charlotte Dodson and Neil Wylie. Courtney Dodson and Finley Hampson also recorded individual wins for the team.

The Men's Open Medley relay team (Jake Simm, Daniel Cheshire, Tom Hughes & Alex Dunk) won as did the 15 & under Girls Medley Relay team of Amy Johnson, Jessica Hardman, Alice Harrison and Emily Lowrie.

A massive 39 PBs were achieved  by the swimmers during the gala.

Final result:  Prescot 206 points, Leyland Barracudas 174, Preston "B" 171, Barrow 170, Wigan 169, City of Chester 151

A fantastic 7th place finish to the season cementing Prescot's position as one of the strongest teams in the Division.

League table UPDATED!

North West Region (Winter) Championships, 6/7 Dec 2013

A few of Prescot's elite swimmers attended the Winter Championships in Manchester last weekend. Many of them got PBs and all swam well.

Prescot highlights of the meet were

Also

Congratulations to them all.

Full Results

Prescot Top Visiting Club at Warrington Percy Mason, 30 Nov - 1st Dec 2013

A small but highly-tuned contingent of swimmers attended Warrior's Percy Mason Memorial event in Warrington over the weekend.

 

The  following swimmers won medals:

Finley Hampson  1st (x7)
Daniel Cheshire  1st (3)
Hannah Deeley 1st (2)
Ellena Daly 1st 3rd
Daniel Johnson 1st (2) 3rd (4)
Blythe Carter-Jones 1st 3rd
Katherine Cheshire 1st 2nd 3rd (3)
Amy Johnson 2nd 3rd
Jessica Hardman 1st 3rd (2)
Emma Farrugia 2nd (2) 3rd (2)
Georgia Simm 3rd (2)
Emily Lowrie 1st 2nd (3) 3rd (3)
James Savage 3rd
Joe Burns 1st 2nd
Tom Hughes 1st 2nd

We got the cup!
   

Emily Lowrie was 4th and Katherine Cheshire 6th in the Girls overall standings and Finley Hampson was 4th overall in the Boys competition despite swimming in Blackpool on the Saturday morning.

To top the weekend off Prescot won the best visiting club award for the most points gained by the swimmers - a massive 300.

Full Results  

Inter Association, Blackpool, 30 Nov - 1st Dec 2013

There were excellent results from the Inter Association meet in Blackpool – Elizabeth Hurst, Neil Wylie ,Cameron Dunk and Finley Hampson (plus Ryan Tarbuck representing St Helens) were selected to race for Liverpool & District. They all swan PB’s, helping Liverpool record a huge points victory over the other swimming associations. The poolside coach, Neil White, said: “All Prescot swimmers were impeccably behaved and swam fantastic. Mostly all PB's I believe. Also a couple of really strong back end swims.”

Final results

1. Liverpool & District 868
2. North Lancs 703
3. Manchester & District 471
4. Cumbria 423
5. Central Lancs 414
6. North Midlands 311

Jake wins at Stafford Apex

Congratulations to Jake Simm on winning gold in the 1500m Freestyle at the Stafford Apex meet and achieving a great PB.

Emma gets published in Aqua Zone

Emma Farrugia wrote to Aqua Zone (the ASA's magazine for all competition-registered swimmers under 17) to say how great Prescot Swimming Club was.

Her letter is published on p10 of December's copy of Aqua Zone.

We think Emma is pretty great too - for taking the trouble to tell everyone else all about us.

Emma's letter in full ...

Club Championships, 17 Nov 2013

More records broken and we managed to finish on time.

As well as the records another 225 PBs (that is 441 in total) were broken.

Full Club Championship details

Club Championships, 10 Nov 2013

A busy start to the club championships, more swimmers than ever, a few records broken and yes we overran (sorry!). We are not announcing the results until the Presentation Evening (get your tickets if you have not already done so) but the times have been loaded into Prescot Best (216 PBs so far!).

Next week the small pool races have been moved forward - so the children should not have to hang around for so long

Arena National League Round 2, 10 Nov 2013

After a hard Round One Prescot travelled to Leigh Sports Village knowing that only a cracking performance would see them navigate safely away from the relegation swim-off final gala.

And what a performance it was, 2nd place with 203 points sending us shooting up the League table and safely into the middle final.

Captain Alex Dunk led from the front winning his 3 individual events and there were also wins for Finley Hampson, Elizabeth Hurst, Neil Wylie (2) plus the Boys 13&u Medley Relay tem of Daniel Clark, Finley Hampson, Neil Wylie and Daniel Johnson (by a country mile!), the 13&u boys again in the Freestyle relay and the 15&u Girls Medley relay team of Elizabeth Hurst, Jessica Hardman, Alice Harrison and Emily Lowrie.

All of the swimmers swam out of their skins and got 33 PBs during the gala.

Final result:  Carnforth Otters 231 points, Prescot 203, Horwich LC 185, Preston "B" 171, Hoylake 163, Blackburn Centurians 97

Salford Potential Olympians, 2/3 Nov 2013

Congratulations to the 3 Prescot Swimmers who took part in the City of Salford Potential Olympians Meet.

Finley Hampson got a hatful of medals taking 1st place in the 13yo 50m Breaststroke, 100m Butterfly, 200m Breaststroke, 200m Individual Medley, 400m Individual Medley and 2nd place in the 50m Freestyle.

Jessica Deeley won the 9yo 50m Butterfly and 200m Individual Medley and took the silver in the 50m Breaststroke.

Finally Emily Lowrie took he sliver in the 14yo 50m Freestyle.

Full results for the meet

Arena National League Round 1, 12 Oct 2013

Last Saturday and the Arena team were off to the Lake District!

We knew it was going to be a tough gala with 2 teams having come down from the Premier League (Ulverston and Carnforth), the team who won Division 2 last year, Burnley Bobcats and local rivals Everton and Garston.

They all swam well and although there were no relay victories this time but Alex Dunk (2), Finley Hampson, Matthew Lamb and Neil Wylie won individual races for Prescot.

Prescot swimmers managed 27 PBs during the meet.

Final result:  Ulverston 209 points, Carnforth Otters 194, Burnley Bobcats 191, Everton 169, Prescot 154, Garston 129.

The draw appears to be more favourable next time so we will be looking to move up the table.

Wirral Metro October Meet, 5/6 Oct 2013

Fourteen intrepid Prescot swimmers remembered over breakfast not to head for Parr and Squad training but instead go to Birkenhead to compete in Wirral Metro's October Meet.

The guys did us proud bringing back a bunch of medals and a long list of PB's. Highlights below:

Joe Burns 2nd 10yo 50m Freestyle
1st 10yo 200m Freestyle
1st 10yo 200m Backstroke
2nd 10yo 50m Backstroke		 4 PBs
Hannah Deeley   1 PB
Jessica Deeley 1st 9yo 50m Butterfly
3rd 9yo 50m Backstroke
3rd 9yo 200m IM		 4 PBs
Charlotte Dodson   4 PBs
Courtney Dodson   3 PBS
Cameron Dunk 3rd 14yo 100m Backstroke
2nd 14yo 200m Freestyle
3rd 14yo 50m Butterfly
3rd 14yo 400m Freestyle		 7 PBs
Alice Harrison   4 PBs
Tom Hughes   4 PBs
Elizabeth Hurst 2nd 13yo 50m Backstroke
3rd 13yo 100m Butterfly
2nd 13yo 50m Freestyle		 2 PBs
Matthew Lamb 2nd 14yo 50m Breaststroke
1st 14yo 50m Freestyle
3rd 14yo 100m Freestyle
1st 14yo 50m Butterfly
1st 14yo 100m Breaststroke
1st 14yo 50m Backstroke
3rd 14yo 200m IM		 3 PBs
Georgia Simm 2nd 12yo 50m Breaststroke
2nd 12yo 200m Breaststroke		 1 PB
Jake Simm 1st 15&O 200m Backstroke 3 PBs
Neil Wylie 1st 13yo 100m Backstroke
3rd 13yo 50m Freestyle
2nd 13yo 100m Freestyle
3rd 13yo 200m Freestyle
1st 13yo 200m Backstroke
3rd 13yo 100m Breaststroke		 6 PBs

The girl's events were a lot more populated than the boys and thus, despite nearly all of them doing PB medals were hard to get hold of.

Still a promising start to the season with many of them gaining or improving on qualifying times for the Lancashire championships later in the year.