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Worcester Winter League Round 2 2017

The Worcester Winter League went swimmingly for Perry Beeches SSS swimming club on Saturday night, when they made the short journey to Bromsgrove for the second round gala.
12 wins on the night (Mixed 11/under Medley Relay Team – Catrise Hart, Lewis Carless, Trearna Hart, Ellison Hart, Becky Gulliver and Jacob Dunn; Becky Gulliver – 11/under freestyle and 11/under Butterfly; Ellison Hart – 11/under freestyle; Catrise Hart – 11/under Backstroke; Sophia Deans – 13/under Breaststroke; Lewis Carless – 11/under Butterfly and 11/under Breaststroke; 13/under Medley Relay Team – Catrise Hart, Lewis Carless, Sophia Deans, Harvey Higgins, Ella Davies and Vinaye Gaddu; Trearna Hart – 11/under Breast; Harvey Higgins – 13/under Freestyle; Open Medley Relay Team – Sareena Gaddu, Drew Rimmer, Jessica Jones, Harvey Higgins, Katie Gulliver and Jamie Keyte – made sure of second place for the band of Beeches swimmers on the night.

Other top three finishers on the night were: Catrise Hart (13/under Back), Trearna Hart (Open Butterfly), Drew Rimmer (Open Butterfly, 15/under Medley Relay Team (Vicky Cox, Lewis Carless, Sophia Deans, Harvey Higgins, Ella Davies and Vinaye Gaddu), Ella Payne (13/uder Butterfly), Harvey Higgins (13/under Butterfly), Jessica Jones (Open Backstroke), Jamie Keyte (Open Backstroke), Ellison Hart (11/under Backstroke), Open Medley Relay Team (Jessica Jones, Jamie Keyte, Sareena Gaddu, Drew Rimmer, Katie Gulliver and Harvey Higgins), Vicky Cox (15/under Breaststroke), Katie Gulliver (Open Freestyle), Drew Rimmer (Open Freestyle), Jamie Keyte (Open Breaststroke) and the 13/under Freestyle Relay Team (Sophia Deans,Harvey Higgins, Ella Payne, Lewis Carless, Becky Gulliver and Vinaye Gaddu).

A big thank you to those who came to support the teams in the relays – Jacob Dunn and Ella Davies; to the 11 and 13 year old boys and girls who had to swim up in many, many races. Head Coach Helen Pordage is very proud of every single member of the TEAM – together everyone achieves more 🙂

Results available in the members section on the perrybeechesswimming.co.uk website

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Midland Masters Swimming 2017

The Midland Masters Championships 2017 will be held on 13th and 14th May 2017 at Pingles Leisure Centre, Nuneaton.

Closing date for entries is the 1st May – for info on how to enter please see here.

Entrants to date for this as follows:

https://swimmingresults.org/events/midlandsmasters17/entryviewer.php

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Stourbridge Junior Sprint Meet Sunday June 11th 2017

Are you aged between 9 and 14 on June 11th? Then why not have a go at the STOURBRIDGE JUNIOR SPRINT MEET (formerly known as the Stourbridge B grade. (Please get your entry forms back to Helen Pordage by Sunday 19th March at the latest).

This meet is designed to give an introduction for less experienced swimmers to the world of open meets. There are no lower cut off times and the upper times are designed to stop A grade swimmers entering to give the average club swimmer a chance of coming away with a trophy or medal.

The trophies or medals are for the top six in each event and the top three in each age group in IM events and the winners of each event get a coveted Cut Glass Crystal Goblet. They are accepting on a first come basis so clubs and swimmers who get their entries in early will have no rejections. The only proviso is that they prefer all entries to have times if possible for ease of administration. Entries with no times will only be accepted if the meet is not full. Please note if the event is full and the number of swimmers exceeds the safe limit of the pool swimmers who have only entered one or possibly two events may have to be refused.

PLEASE NOTE THE SWIMMER MUST NOT BE FASTER THAN THE FOLLOWING CUT-OFF TIMES:

Entry forms available from the Stourbridge website:

http://www.stourbridgeswimmingclub.com.gridhosted.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017-Individual-Entry-Form.pdf

 

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Warwickshire County Championships 11/12th February 2017

Warwickshire County Championships – week 2
Saturday (11/02) started with the boys 50 Back – Lewis, Ellison, Harvey, Drew and Jamie all taking part.
Then onto the girls with 100 backstroke swim – Trearna, Catrise Becky and Vicky all having good swims.
Just two in the 200 Breaststroke for Boys – Lewis and Harvey both taking part. 
Then onto the 10-12 girls Medley relay – Bronze medals to Catrise, Trearna, Becky and Carys 🙂
Our finalists on Saturday morning in the 50 back were Harvey (Silver medal) and Jamie (6th place) – well done lads 🙂

Lastly the 800 free! Becky and Lewis both swam, and achieved PBs – Lewis was crowned Warwickshire Champion for the boys, nd Becky finished 6th in the 12/13 category (and she was the only 12 year old girl competing!).
After lunch we started with the girls 50 Butterfly – good swims from Catrise, Trearna, Ella, Becky and Katie. Next onto the formidable 400 IM – Lewis was the only one from Beeches to enter, finishing 8th in his age group.
Followed closely by the girls 200 IM, with some good competition from Becky, Ella, Catrise and Trearna.
Next one of the show case events – the Boys 100 Free – great swims from Ellison, Lewis, Harvey, Jamie and Drew.
Finalists for the afternoon were Katie in the Open 50 Butterfly, finishing 5th; Catrise and Becky in the 12/under 100 Backstroke – finishing 3rd (Bronze medal) and 4th respectively; and the boys 100 Freestyke finals – Harvey winning the Gold medal in the 12/under category, and Jamie finishing 8th (in the unlucky lane 1!) – but he did achieve his Midland Qualifying time with ease earlier that day so wasn’t too upset ☺ Then 
Then onto Sunday – which started with the boys 50 Free – always a fun filled event! Swimming for Beeches were Jacob, Lewis, Ellison, Harvey, Drew and Jamie. Followed closely by the girls in the 100 Breaststroke – Kadijha, Carys, Sophia, Becky, Catrise, Trearna and Cathy all taking part.
Next up were Lewis, Ellison and Harvey in the 200 Backstroke – good swims in the 13/under category, plus Jamie in the open 200 Backstroke.
Next came the turn of the 10-12 girls freestyle relays with not one, not two, but three Beeches teams taking part.
Beeches Gold were Becky, Catrise, Trearna and Carys, finishing 6th place overall; Beeches Red were Aimee, Kianna, Abbie and Emma and Beeches Black were Isabel, Kadijha, Lottie and Libby – all gaining some valuable 50m race experience ☺
Following straight on with the girls 200 Butterfly – Becky being the only girl from Beeches to swim this one.
The morning finished with the boys 50 Free finals – Harvey finishing a close 2nd to gain the Silver medal, and Jamie gaining a place and finishing 6th.
The afternoon started with the girls 50 Breaststroke – Kadijha, Sophia, Becky, Catrise, Trearna, Ella and Cathy all taking part.
Next up the boys with the 400 Freestyle – Harvey (9th) and Lewis (14th).
The onto the 200 Freestyle for girls – Carys, Trearna, Ella and Becky all had some good swims.
The boys 100 Butterfly was next with Lewis Harvey and Drew all swimming.
Then – almost the end of the championships – the last of the finals took place.
50 Breaststroke for girls – Trearna finishing a rrspectable 5th place, and Sophia 7th (gaining a place on her heat placing).
Trearna also swam in the 100 Breaststroke final finishing 5th – gaining a place on her entry place too.
Lewis had a good swim in the 100 Butterfly finals finishing 6th, and Becky also finished 6th in the 200 Butterfly final.
With 26 finalists over the two weekends – and our number of Midland Qualifying Times achieved to date now up to 14 (between 5 swimmers) – this has to have been one of our most successful Warwickshire County Championships in recent years. Big Congrats to Head coach Helen Pordage on the successes over the two weekends.

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