The Gala on Saturday 9th November at Rugby proved to be an eventful evening. With 25 personal best times, and 12 unofficial times swimmers spirits were high. Although Perry Beeches came a rather unimpressive last it must be said, that as a club we had very few swimmers and were forced to pull out of races. Had we swam in each of these races even if we had come last in all 11 of them, we would have beaten Solihull and would have come 6th our best performance of the season so far.
Big congratulations must go out to Dominic Blackwell for his PB smashing win, in his 15/u 100m freestyle, with a time of 58.17. Our other winner was Katie Gulliver who won her open ladies 100m freestyle by just an arm-length in a time of 1:05.09, it was a tough race but a well deserved win and PB. A huge well done must go out to all the swimmers, who were buzzing as a team this is the best we have performed both in terms of being united and swimming.
Finally a huge thanks must be said to all our volunteers. Including: Head coach Dave Marsh, team manager, Mandy Blizard, Judge Lucy Gale, Time keepers, Cher Jones and Mark Blackwell and our chaperones, Michelle Robbins and Karen Westwood.A special thanks to Kal Gaddu and Tracy Blackwell who were volunteered on the night to do splits. We’re very grateful to all who swam and helped out. We hope to see you again.
Report by Lucy Gale