A big well done to all who took part in this year’s Christmas gala. There were bucket loads of personal best times, and some very good swims. The times can be seen in the Members section on the Christmas Galas page. Seventeen Meet Best Times were broken this year, including the 9 year old girls’ Butterfly – Becky Gulliver broke Caitlin Horsley’s record from 2004, and Harvey Higgins who broke Joe Plimmer’s 9 year old boys’ Butterfly record from 2001!

Winners on the day were as follows:

Event 1 Becky Gulliver Girls 9 Years 50m Free; Sophia Deans Girls 10 Years 50m Free; Shontrez Lecky Girls 11 Years 50m Free; Jessica Deans Girls 12/13 Years 50m Free; Jessica Jones Girls 14/15 Years 50m Free; Katie Gulliver Girls 16/over 50m Free

Event 2 Lewis Carless Boys 9 Years 50m Free; Dylan Langston Boys 10 Years 50m Free; Ravaell Bailey Boys 11 Years 50m Free; Kenny Byrne Boys 12/13 Years 50m Free; Jack Byrne Boys 14/15 Years 50m Free; Dan Smith Boys 16/overs 50m Free

Event 3 Khadejah Cox Girls 8 Years 25m Free; Event 4 Daniel Charles Boys 8 Years 25m Free

Event 5 Carys Higgins Girls 7/under 25m Free; Event 6 Mason Carless Boys 7/under 25m Free

Event 7 Trearna Hart Girls 9 years 50m Breast; Sophia Deans Girls 10 Years 50m Breast; Raeanne Davidson Girls 11 Years 50m Breast; Danya Gaddu Girls 12/13 Years 50m Breast; Maisy Brennan Girls 14/15 Years 50m Breast; Sareena Gaddu Girls 16/overs 50m Breast

Event 8 Lewis Carless Boys 9 years 50m Breast; Dylan Langston Boys 10 Years 50m Breast; Thanh Nguyen Boys 11 Years 50m Breast; Kenny Byrne Boys 12/13 Years 50m Breast; Daniel Smith Boys 16/overs 50m Breast

Event 9 Danielle Siviter Girls 8 years 25m Breast; Event 10 Jack Robins Boys 8 years 25m Breast

Event 11 Carys Higgins Girls 7/under 25m Breast; Event 12 Mason Carless Boys 7/under 25m Breast

Event 13 Catrise Hart Girls 9 Years 50m Back; Ella Payne Girls 10 Years 50m Back; Shontrez Lecky Girls 11 Years 50m Back; Danya Gaddu Girls 12/13 Years 50m Back; Jessica Jones Girls 14/15 Years 50m Back; Penny Whittingham Girls 16/overs 50m Back

Event 14 Ellison Hart Boys 9 Years 50m Back; Dylan Langston Boys 10 Years 50m Back; Dilshan Bamanuvitharana Boys 11 Years 50m Back; Kenny Byrne Boys 12/13 Years 50m Back; Jack Byrne Boys 14/15 Years 50m Back; Dan Smith Boys 16/over Years 50m Back

Event 15 Charlotte Coley Girls 8 Years 25m Back; Event 16 David Coleman Boys 8 Years 25m Back

Event 17 Carys Higgins Girls 7/under 25m Back; Event 18 Mason Carless Boys 7/under 25m Back

Event 19 Ella Payne Girls 10 Years 50m Butterfly; Raeanne Davidson Girls 11 Years 50m Butterfly; Danya Gaddu Girls 12/13 Years 50m Butterfly; Jessica Jones Girls 14/15 Years 50m Butterfly; Katie Gulliver Girls 16/overs Butterfly

Event 20 Daniel Job Boys 10 Years 50m Butterfly; Ravaell Bailey Boys 11 Years 50m Butterfly; Viraj Patel Boys 12/13 Years 50m Butterfly; Dan Smith Boys 16/overs 50m Butterfly

Event 21 Becky Gulliver Girls 9 Years 25m Butterfly; Event 22 Harvey Higgins Boys 9 Years 25m Butterfly

Event 23 Kelishay Thomas Girls 8 Years 25m Butterfly;

Event 25 Penny Whittingham All Girls 100 I.M.; Event 26 Dan Smith All Boys 100 I.M.

Many thanks to all of the volunteers who helped make this gala possible, including the visiting officials Angie Miller, Carl Chatfield and Ian Lamb.

Good luck to all the swimmers taking part in today’s Beeches Christmas Gala.

Many thanks to all of the volunteers who have put their time and effort into making this possible.

Please remember that there are NO LENGTHS LESSONS today due to the gala taking place.

Widths lessons (in the small pool) continue as normal. This includes Brian’s lessons, Tiddlers and Babes.

Hope you all have lots of FUN!!!!

Well done to all the swimmers who took part in last night’s National Arena League.

Fab finish to the night again winning both of the Open Freestyle relays 🙂

Full report to follow…….

We are looking for a Club Treasurer – Roy Smith will be retiring from his post on 31 December. It is important for the club that we fill this post very quickly. If you feel you could help and would like further information  please contact our Workforce Officer on volunteer@perrybeechesswimmingclub.co.uk 

Please take a moment to check through the accepped entries for the Beeches Christmas gala – if you spot anything not quite correct please let us know 🙂 Thank you:

Accepted Entries2014

The Perry Beeches SC Masters Team  joined  Swimmers from all around the UK who converged on Queen’s Street, Derby for a special Etwall Eagles 10th Anniversary Masters Meet.

The event is  one the  best attended Masters Swimming  Meets in the UK, was full to capacity with 200 individuals representing 49 clubs , ensuring  it would be a very competitive day .

The Beeches Team took 6 swimmers to Derby ,  Angelika McDonald, Steve Dunn, Ross Emery, Charlie Wheadon, Andrew Gulliver and Paul Bates.

Over the day the team competed  in no less than 30 races , which resulted in a fantastic  4 gold, 9 silver , 4 bronze   and  27 top 5 placing .

The Gold winners for the team were  Andrew Gulliver in 100m freestyle and in both 25m backstroke and butterfly  (18- 24 age group ) and Gold also went to Ross Emery in the25m freestyle (34-39 age group), with the help and support of on poolside coaches   Mandy Blizard and Helen Pordage, the beeches 6 managed ( with only a small team ) to get placed 8^th  in the  team event out of 49 teams..a superb all round team effort .

Next up for the  Masters Team is Staffordshire county championships in 2015. If you fancy getting back into the pool , then come and try us out a Masters only session more contact Mandy Blizard on 07793 560698.