Well done to all the swimmers who over the weekend competed at this year’s Boldmere Water Carnival.

First day – Saturday – Massive shout out to Harvey Higgins and Lewis Carless.  Harvey was 4th on the 50 Back and 5th on the 200 Free, and alongside a huge PB Lewis won a silver medal in the 200 Free. Brilliant swimming from everyone. Other notables on the day were: Lewis who was 4th on the 50 fly;  Tom Reader who won a bronze on the 100 fly and fourth on the 50 fly.; Jess Deans also came 4th in the 50 fly too.

Second day – Sunday – In the boys 50 free Harvey Higgins came 4th and Lewis Carless 6th – and in the girls 50 free Sophia Deans won a silver medal, and her sister Jessica came 4th in the 11 year age group. In the girls 400 Free Jessica Jones managed a 3.5 second PB.  In the boys 200 Butterfly Coach Tom Reader swam a very creditable PB and managed 7th place overall – cheered on for the whole race by his swimmers in the stands! In the boys 50 Breast Lewis Carless came 5th in his age group. In the girls 50 breast, Sophia Deans came 6th in her age group. In the boys 200 Breast, Alfie Williams won a bronze medal in the 9 year category. In the 100 Free, Jessica Deans got a 5th place in her age group. And to finish off the day, Harvey Higgins came 4th and Lewis 5th in the 100 IM.

Other swimmers competing over the weekend were Jamie Keyte, Jessica Jones, Dominic Blackwell, Katie Gulliver, Andrew Gulliver, James Bodenham and Dominique Gomez.

A big well done to all of the swimmers – brilliant swimming by all. Link to the Boldmere results here.

That time of year is almost upon us again!

PBSSS’s AGM will be held at Beeches pool on Wednesday 16th July at 19:00.

We need your help! The club is run entirely by volunteers – if you can spare some of your valuable time to help us to run this club, please can you let Elaine Gale and Jenny Powell (Workforce coordinators) know via volunteer@perrybeechesswimming.co.uk.

We would like nominations for the following roles for this year’s AGM – please send any nominations through to secretary@perrybeechesswimming no later than 19:00 Monday 14th July.

The main committee roles available are as follows:

None Committee Posts

Merchandise Manager

Assistant Treasurer

Admin (Registers / Payments)

Officials

Volunteers (various)

Assistant Welfare

Instruction Admin

Team Managers

Records / Performance Tracking

Fixtures

Club Captains

Social Events

Web Manager

Photographer

Plus many other exciting roles. Any queries please email secretary@perrybeechesswimming.co.uk – all nominations to be sent through by Friday 11th July – Thank you.