Otters storm to victory at Salt Ayre
21 Apr 2013
League Otters Achieve 1stplace at Salt Ayre
Saturday 20th April was our second Swim
League meet of the season at Salt Ayre @ 5:15pm.
(Age groups in this competition are 12 and under, 14
and under and Opens.)
The girls had an absolutely fantastic day in the
individual swims where they got 9 first placed places out of 12 races, which is
amazing. Well done girls.
The boys also had a great day with 6 of 12 races seen
them being placed in first position.
A special mention to Richard McKinney who competed in 5
races in total .Richard achieved a first place in his own individual races and
played a key part in the 14 under and Cannon relay races. Each race that he
took part in Richard and team came first!
Also many
swimmers stepped up as we needed them to swim up and age group and they dug
deep and performed well. ( Lucy Boswell and Kathryn McEvilly especially)
This is
never easy as we had swimmers who should be swimming in 12 and under swimming
in Opens; this meant they were swimming against adults in some cases.
This was
planned to gain maximum points in the other age groups and worked out well as
swimmers are limited to a maximum of 2 individual swims each only .
Overall the individual races had 15 individual wins!!!
Girls: Anna Hulme
(13) winning her 50 meter Breast and Free , Kathryn McEvilly winning her 50
meter Back, Katelyn Quirk (11) winning her 50 meter Breast and 50 Fly, Eleanor Rea
(10) winning her 50 meter Free and Back, Rachel Turton (17) winning her 50 meter
Free and Fly.
= 9/12 first places.
Boys: Luke Chorley
(14) winning his 50 meter Back, Kieran Hennessy (13) winning his 50 meter Fly,Richard McKinney (13) winning his 50 meter Breast and 50 Free and Eoin
O'Connor (11) winning his 50 meters Free and 50 Fly.
= 6/12 first
places.
There were also 7 personal best times achieved in the
individual races!
The final victory of the day was in the cannon which
the swimmers put in an overwhelming performance yet again and came first place.
Well done to everyone who took part and we look
forward to the next gala in June at Leyland which is our home gala.
This is the second EVER victory since we have been
part of the league, congratulations!
Final Result 1st Ormskirk 148 points, 2ndplace Blackpool 131 points, 3rd place Carnforth 119 points, 4thGarstang 100 points. ( times updated, not members page though due to issues on
SwimClub)