Youth Girls Crowned Best in the Land

Posted on 6 August 2009

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Girls Youth Team who picked up the Top Girl’s Club award at the British Gas ASA Nation­al Youth Cham­pi­onships in Sheffield. 

Report: ASA National Age Groups

Posted on 6 August 2009

Well done to all the swim­mers that com­pet­ed at the ASA Nation­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships. This time it was the boys that propped the team up with a 6th place fin­ish in the Top Men’s Club stand­ings help­ing us to 6th place in the over­all Top Club.

There was lots of tough rac­ing from our swim­mers, and the vast major­i­ty of swims result­ed in life­time best times. It’s also worth not­ing that the chap­er­ones were very pleased with the swim­mers’ con­duct and in par­tic­u­lar with how tidy their rooms were kept! You could teach some of the old­er swim­mers a thing or two…

Keep it up guys!

Dai­ly Highlights

Wednes­day 22/7

Girls 1500m freestyle

  • Nico­la Gra­ham GOLD 12yrs 18:24.83

Boys 400m freestyle

  • Dou­glas Walk­er 4th 11yrs 4:45.98

Boys 200m breaststroke

  • Jacob Sed­don 7th 11yrs 3:02.41
  • James Thomp­son SIL­VER 12yrs 2:43.55
  • Matthew Gra­ham 4th 14yrs 2:32.89

Girls 200m backstroke

  • Anna Ward 4th 12yrs 2:28.74

Boys 4 x 100m freestyle relay

  • 7th 3:50.52 (M Gra­ham, P Faw­cett, J Mor­ris, R Newsome)

Thurs­day 23/7

Boys 1500m freestyle

  • Dominic Beech 5th 12yrs 18:13.97
  • Ryan New­some 4th 14yrs 16:29.10

Boys 200m butterfly

  • Blake Ben­nett 6th 11yrs 2:36.44

Girls 200m breaststroke

  • Freya Resendez 9th 13yrs 2:45.04

Girls 200m butterfly

  • Anna Ward 4th 12yrs 2:30.85

Boys 200m indi­vid­ual medley

  • Dou­glas Walk­er BRONZE 11yrs 2:36.78

Fri­day 24/7

Girls 800m freestyle

  • Nico­la Gra­ham 5th 12yrs 9:37.73

Boys 200m backstroke

  • Matthew Gra­ham 8th 14yrs 2:15.66

Sat­ur­day 25/7

Boys 800m freestyle

  • Dominic Beech 7th 12yrs 9:33.52
  • Ryan New­some 8th 14yrs 8:41.87

Boys 200m freestyle

  • Dou­glas Walk­er 4th 11yrs 2:17.41

Girls 100m backstroke

  • Anna Ward 5th 12yrs 1:10.02

Boys 100m breaststroke

  • Jacob Sed­don BRONZE 11yrs 1:23.34
  • James Thomp­son SIL­VER 12yrs 1:15.53

Girls 100m butterfly

  • Freya Resendez 10th 13yrs 1:17.12

Girls 4 x 200m freestyle relay

  • 8th 9:01.71 (N Gra­ham, J Simp­son, A Ward, F Resendez)

Sun­day 26/7

Boys 400m indi­vid­ual medley

  • Blake Ben­nett 5th 11yrs 5:30.92

Live Results – British Gas ASA Nation­al Age Group Championships

Bochmann and Graham Strike Gold on Penultimate Day

Posted on 13 July 2009

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Anne Bochmann and Emma Gra­ham on win­ning gold medals in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay at the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships in Prague on Saturday.

Along with team mates, Eleanor Faulkn­er (Co Sheffield) and Danielle Stir­ratt (Co Cardiff), they also set a new Euro­pean Junior Record for the event. The team clocked 8:08.31 to break the record held by last years GB team by just over half a sec­ond. The team’s splits were as follows:

  • STIR­RAT Danielle 2:02.97
  • FAULKN­ER Eleanor 2:02.31
  • GRA­HAM Emma 2:02.24
  • BOCHMANN Anne 2:00.79

Spe­cial men­tion to a fan­tas­tic anchor leg by Anne, who took over in sec­ond place but soon over­hauled the team from Swe­den to win by over 2 sec­onds, and give Team GB its first of two gold medals at the meet.Well Done Girls!

Report: City of Leeds Summer B Grade Meet 2009

Posted on 12 July 2009

First­ly, the club would like to thank all par­ents who helped with time­keep­ing over the week­end. Your help was great­ly appre­ci­at­ed. Next, con­grat­u­la­tions to the City of Leeds medal winners.

Gold

Ben Young (5), Jor­dan Hilliard (2), Thomas Mack­rell (2), Kiya Gill (2), Lucy Ful­ton (2), Lau­ra Pur­cell (2), Lau­ren Croft (2), Rebec­ca Toul­son (2), Guneet Bachra (2), Iso­bel West, Emi­ly Gor­don, Elliott Holt, Jack McAu­li­ffe, Phebe Robin­son, Megan Davies, Con­nor Rough­ley, Lau­ra Smith, Jes­si­ca Lew­ing­ton, Lucy Jen­nings, Alice Fish­er, Rebec­ca Dick­in­son, Daniel Paget, Jake Green, Lin­da Shaw (2), Rebec­ca Hay, Sam Law­man , Ryan Mor­timer, Ais­ling Mad­den, Fin­lay Law­less-Coombes, James Bla­by, Han­nah Thomp­son, Sophie Hussain.

Sil­ver

Daniel Paget (2), Lau­ra New­some (2), Alice Fish­er (2), David Keigh­ley (2), Matthew White­head (2), Ben Tay­lor-Walsh, Rebec­ca Dick­in­son, Paul Sharples, Jes­si­ca Nunn, Guneet Bachra (2), Lin­da Shaw, William Steven­son, Christo­pher Williams, Rebec­ca Toul­son, Emi­ly Gor­don, Thomas Mack­rell, Lucy Jen­nings, Han­nah Senior, James Water­worth, Adam Smith, Hay­ley Maud, Ben Bloom, James Bla­by, Rebec­ca Davies, Jor­dan Thomp­son, Fabio Lare­do, Jor­dan Hilliard (2), Jake Green, Sam Law­man (2), Angus Hall, Ruby Hud­son, Francesca Wright, Ash­ley Woell­ner, Ben Tay­lor-Walsh, Chloe Wan, Ryan Mor­timer, Ais­ling Madden.

Bronze

Paul Sharples (4), Eliz­a­beth Lowe (2), Con­nor Rough­ley (2), Ker­ry Goldthor­pe (2), Phebe Robin­son, Ash­ley Woell­ner, Hay­ley Maud, Chelsea Lit­tle­wood, Ruby Hud­son, Antho­ny Pfirsch, Kiya Gill, David Keigh­ley, Francesca Wright, Mil­lie Brown, Angus Hall, Lucy Ful­ton, Elliott Holt, Iso­bel Rycroft, Rebec­ca Toul­son, Emi­ly Gor­don, Jor­dan Hon­ey­wood, Han­nah Thomp­son, Kristy Davis, Franch­esca Fletch­er, Luke Shilli­to, Martha Sav­ille, Lau­ra Smith, Ash­ley Woell­ner , Samuel Gautry, Adam Smith, Kim­ber­ley East­wood, Ben Tay­lor-Walsh, Jor­dan Hilliard, Han­nah Senior, Lau­ra Pur­cell, Stephen Clark-Web­ster , Chris Ozy­er, Geor­gia Coates, Fabio Lare­do, Ker­rie Goldthor­pe, Lau­ren Croft.

Speed­ing Tickets

Lucy Jen­nings (5), Sophie Hus­sain (3), Jes­si­ca Lew­ing­ton, Jas­mine Han­son, Ben Bloom, Eddis­son Munoz (3), Jor­dan Hon­ey­wood, Geor­gia Coates (2), Megan Ban­non, Jes­si­ca Lew­ing­ton, Ben Young, Isobal Rycroft, Kiani Camp­bell-Grady (2), Rebec­ca Dickinson.

And final­ly, a video of some sat­ur­day night dancing:

Open Water Success For Waterhouse

Posted on 11 July 2009

Stephen Water­house, no stranger to the cold harsh real­i­ties of open water swim­ming hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly rep­re­sent­ed GB in the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships, took part in the French Cup last week as a mem­ber of the Scot­tish Gas Open Water Squad.

Sat­ur­day saw Stephen take to the water in the 10km event in Le Lac de Vas­siviere. He fin­ished sec­ond, and was the high­est placed scot, los­ing out in a sprint fin­ish by just 0.5 seconds.

Rac­ing on Sun­day took place at Lac Saint Par­doux, close to the city of Limo­ges and Stephen was again in good form. This time rac­ing the short­er 5km dis­tance, Stephen was able to pace with the lead­ing pack. How­ev­er, he was out-sprint­ed in the final straight and had to set­tle for bronze.

After a much need­ed rest day, Stephen was once again in action on Tues­day when he com­pet­ed in the 5km event in Car­cans Maubuis­son near Bor­deaux. In a close race, Stephen was touched out for the vic­to­ry for the third time in four days to fin­ish in 2nd place. Stephen did how­ev­er have the con­so­la­tion of win­ning the 18 – 19 years age cat­e­go­ry for the event.

Stephen would like to point out that he lost to the World Cham­pi­on each and every time. Excuses…

Well done Stephen. Let’s work on those sprint finishes!!

Aireborough Crowned Development Meet Champs

Posted on 29 June 2009

Aire­bor­ough E Group fought off strong com­pe­ti­tion from a wealth of tal­ent­ed young­sters in our D and E Groups to become the new Devel­op­ment Meet Champions.

Top Boys

  • 8 Years: Euan Cow­an – Dev Central
  • 9 Years: Flint Ave­yard – Smeaton E
  • 10 Years: Callan Jack – Dev Central

Top Girls

  • 8 Years: Ellie Jones – Dev Central
  • 9 Years: Amelia Clynes – Aire E
  • 10 Years: Abi­gail Pear­son – Wether­by E

Report: NERASA BAGCAT Championships 2009

Posted on 11 June 2009

Con­grat­u­la­tions to all swim­mers who com­pet­ed at the first week­end of the 2009 North East Region­al Championships. 

Medal tal­ly after Week­end 1 (6/7 June): 

  • 7 gold
  • 10 sil­ver
  • 12 bronze
  • 76 final­ists
  • 53 final placings

Good luck to all swim­mers next week­end. Give every effort to increase the medal tal­ly for the team. 

Live Results – ASAN­ER BAG­CAT Cham­pi­onships

Report: SportsAid Meet 2009

Posted on 13 May 2009

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the fol­low­ing swim­mers who medalled at the above meet held at the Aquat­ics Cen­tre, JCCS.

Gold

Dou­glas Walk­er (4), Jacob Sed­don (3), Rosie West (2), Ryan New­some (2), Richard Thomp­son (2), Sam Bloom, Alais Ricard, Emi­ly Fisher.

Sil­ver

William Steven­son (4), Rebekah Bir­rell (2), Emi­ly Jones (2), Luke Mor­ris (2), Emma Hild­yard (2), Jake Rylatt (2), Kather­ine Fish­er (2), Alais Ricard (2), Adam Davis, Olivia Fer­ri­day, Dou­glas Walk­er, Ben Holdsworth, Sam Bloom, Joe Mor­ris, Kristy Davis, Christo­pher Williams.

Bronze

Rebekah Bir­rell (5), William Steven­son (5), Adam Davis (3), Peter Faw­cett, Cleo Gor­ringe, Adam Smith, Emi­ly Jones, Alais Ricard, Johan­na Wilton, Emma Hild­yard, Olivia White, James Thomp­son, Richard Fry­er, Olivia Fer­ri­day, James Towler, Matthew Gra­ham, Rebec­ca Mot­ter­shaw, Jacob Sed­don, Fred­dy Hoban, Joe Mor­ris, Angus Hall, Ryan Newsome.

It was dis­ap­point­ing how­ev­er, to note the num­ber of club swim­mers who did not go to the pre­sen­ta­tion cer­e­mo­ny for their event to col­lect their medal. This is not accept­able, you should be proud to swim for the City of Leeds Swim­ming Club.

Final­ly Sport­sAid would like to thank all the peo­ple who helped out at the week­end. With­out these unpaid vol­un­teers, there would be no swim meet.

John Cole
Club Manager

British Age Group Record for Hungry Harrison

Posted on 19 March 2009

Sprint­er James Har­ri­son is the high­light of the day after a record-break­ing dis­play earns him a tick­et to Prague.

After miss­ing out on qual­i­fi­ca­tion in the 50m freestyle ear­li­er in the week, a deter­mined James Har­ri­son set a British Age Group Record of 51.59 in the heats of the 100m freestyle, to qual­i­fy in style to swim the 100m freestyle and the 4 x 100m freestyle relay at the Euro­pean Juniors.

Join­ing James in Prague will be Han­nah War­dle, who clocked a per­son­al best of 2:37.54 in her favourite event, the 200m breast­stroke, to qual­i­fy in 11th for the semi-finals.

In the semi-final, Han­nah then improved her ear­li­er mark by over a sec­ond to set a new life­time best of 2:36.10 qual­i­fy­ing her in 3rd place on the Euro­pean Junior Squad.

Com­plet­ing her quest to qual­i­fy for Euro­pean Juniors in all the freestyle events was Emma Gra­ham, as she swam a time of 58.37. Emma was also in action in the finals ses­sion, com­pet­ing in the final of the 800m freestyle where she fin­ished 8th in a time of 8:53.23.

After an up-and-down 2008, Stephen Water­house came in to the 1500m freestyle today not know­ing what to expect. How­ev­er, any doubts proved unwar­rant­ed as he man­aged a 10 sec­ond improve­ment on his per­son­al best to clock 16:01.81.

Dip­ping under a minute for the first time in the 100m freestyle was Lucy Emer­son, who fin­ished strong­ly to clock 59.77.

Graham Adds 2 More Events to Her European Programme

Posted on 18 March 2009

Strong sec­ond and third days all round as Emma Gra­ham achieves Euro­pean Junior Qual­i­fi­ca­tion in two more events to take her total to four.

Day 2 of the British Gas Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships and Emma Gra­ham car­ried her good form into the 200m freestyle where she swam a per­son­al best time of 2:04.26. This earned her a third indi­vid­ual qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the Euro­pean Junior Championships.

Not con­tent with this, day 3 saw Emma make it 4 out of 4 as she qual­i­fied for the Euro­pean Juniors again, this time in the 800m freestyle. Her time of 8:47.82, a life­time best by near­ly 7 sec­onds, puts her in lane 1 for tomor­row’s final.

Danielle Hall-Jack­son also com­pet­ed in the 800m freestyle, dip­ping under 9 min­utes for the first time to touch home in 8:58.35, mak­ing her the fastest 1994-born swimmer.

back to day 2 and in her first of two swims this week, Han­nah War­dle was unlucky to miss out on qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships in the 100m breast­stroke. How­ev­er, Han­nah kept up the trend of per­son­al bests, clock­ing 1:13.15. Look out for Han­nah in the 200m on Thursday.

Also com­pet­ing in the 100m breast­stroke was Rebec­ca Davis. Rebec­ca, coached by Richard Deni­gan, touched home in 1:16.46 to take over a sec­ond off her pre­vi­ous best time.

Anoth­er swim­mer coached by Richard is 13 year old Lucy Emer­son, who had a busy cou­ple of days, nar­row­ly miss­ing her best times in the 200m and 800m freestyle to fin­ish in 2:08.68 and 9:16.86 respectively.

Great Graham Kick Starts The Team in Sheffield

Posted on 16 March 2009

Emma Gra­ham qual­i­fies to swim two events at the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships as the club get off to a fly­er on day one of the British Gas Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships in Sheffield.

Emma Gra­ham, coached by Dave Calle­ja, clocked a 6 sec­ond per­son­al best in the heats of the 400m freestyle, to fin­ish in 4:16.82. Good enough not only for a place in the final, but also a seat on the plane to Prague as the fastest qual­i­fi­er for the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships lat­er this year.

In the final, Emma was just touched out into 8th place but man­aged to set anoth­er per­son­al best clock­ing 4:15.46 in a world-record break­ing race!

Emma also com­pet­ed in the 50m freestyle, swim­ming a 26.88 to qual­i­fy in 16th for the semi-finals and for anoth­er swim at the Euro­pean Juniors.

Also swim­ming the 400m freestyle were young­sters Danielle Hall-Jack­son and Lucy Emer­son, post­ing times of 4:23.07 and 4:28.49 respectively.

Sprint­er James Har­ri­son com­pet­ed in the 50m freestyle and set a best time of 24.13 but was unlucky not to make the semi-final in a tough field.

Great Job Guys! Keep it up!!