Bury and Elton ASC News

This event is arranged through the “twin town” agreement between Bury and Schorndorf, Germany. Also involved were teams from Dueville in Italy, Lousada in Portugal, Renteria in Spain and Tulle in France.

From the heats through to the finals and the canon relay events it was full of excitement. Bury had a megaphone which the swimmers put to MAXIMUM use.

B&E was represented by David Cahill who gained three medals. Certificates were also presented for year groups. David received First Place for 200m individual medley, First Place for 100m backstroke, Third Place for 100m breaststroke, Third Place for 100m freestyle, Third Place for 50m backstroke, Fourth Place for 50m breaststroke and alongside his team mates gained First Place for 8x50m individual medley mix.

The six national teams fielded 32 male swimmers with points ranging from 577 to 149. David gained 431 points and was rated 7^th overall.

Each year we have the opportunity to experience a truly international sporting event. If the coaches approach you to invite your child to take part we can only advise one response …..YES…..

CENTRAL LANCS PRELIMS GALA

Well it's the start of a new year and the start of 2008 sees the Central Lancs Prelims and Age Group Galas held over 2 weekends at Broughton Pool. We had a large number of entries covering a wide variety of events from the short 50m sprints to the longer 400m stamina stuff over all four strokes.

All of our swimmers did fabulous, earning themselves some fantastic personal best times and knocking up to 30sec off some of them, so it was a great gala overall for oue swimmers.

Our medal tally clocked up at 8 GOLD MEDALS

20 SILVER MEDALS

14 BRONZE MEDALS

with a staggering 105 PB's. Many congratulations go to;

JAMIE POPELIER.....BRONZE IN THE 50 BREAST,100 BREAST, 200 BREAST & 100 FREE

SILVER IN THE 200 I.M & 100 BACK

GOLD IN THE 50 FREE, 50 FLY, 100 FLY, 200 FLY & THE 400 I.M

PETER GARNETT...........SILVER IN THE 400 FREE, 100 BREAST & 200 BREAST.

MATTHEW FINNERTY.............BRONZE IN THE 100 FREE & 100 BREAST

JACK BREARLEY..................SILVER IN THE 50 BREAST & 200 BREAST

TOM SPENCER.................BRONZE IN THE 50 BACK

TOM BARLING...................BRONZE IN THE 100 BACK

ASHLEY HIGHAM..............BRONZE IN THE 50 BACK

GOLD IN THE 200 BACK

DAVID CAHILL...................BRONZE IN THE 50 BREAST & 50 FREE

SILVER IN THE 50 BACK, 100 FREE & 200 I.M

JOSH GALLAGHER............BRONZE IN THE 200 FREE & 400 FREE

SILVER IN THE 100 FLY, 200 BACK, 200 I.M & THE 400 I.M

Personal best times went to DANIEL KINSELLA, JOSHUA FLETCHER & JORDAN HULME.

REBECCA DRIVER.............SILVER IN THE 50 BREAST, 100 BREAST & 200 BREAST

GOLD FOR THE 50 FREE.

MOLLY ORMROD...............SILVER IN THE 400 FREE

GOLD IN THE 50 BACK.

EMILY KINSELLA...............BRONZE IN THE 200 BREAST

SILVER IN THE 50 BREAST.

LOIS ENTWISTLE..............SILVER IN THE 200 BREAST.

Personal best times went to KIERA McCORMICK, SALLY HADLEY, GEMMA LAWLER, ISABELLE CHATTERTON, LAUREN BREARLEY, NATASHA HIGHAM, ROBYN WHALLEY & KATIE CLURE.

A HUGE THANKS TO JOHN, HELEN & STEVE FOR WORKING POOLSIDE.

WELL DONE SWIMMERS

During the course of 3 consecutive Sundays in October, a large number of our swimmers took part in the Central Lancs Age Group Galas held at Castle Leisure Centre. We had 29 swimmers competing in various events; 50mtr and 100mtr of each of the 4 strokes; the 100mtr and 200mtr I.M and there were 164 entries in all.

All our swimmers did very well with the majority earning excellent pb's-117 in all- and knocking several seconds off their submitted times.

We also had a few medals won too with JAMIE POPELIER winning 4 Bronze Medals in the 50m Breast;100m Breast;100m Fly & 200m I.M and 2 Silver Medals in the 50m Fly and the 50m Free.

MOLLY ORMROD earned herself a Bronze in the 50m Fly and 2 Silver Medals in the 50m & 100m Back.

And sister MEGAN ORMROD took Bronze in the 200m I.M; Silver in the 50m Back and 1st place to take Gold in the 50m Breast.

Also the girls did particularly well in the relay team events with the 9-10yrs consisting of KIERA McCORMICK, MOLLIE LEACH, ROBYN WHALLEY AND LOIS ENTWISTLE taking an impressive Gold Medal in the Freestyle Relay and Bronze in the Medlay Relay; and our 11-12yrs namely EMILY KINSELLA, ISABELLE CHATTERTON, REBECCA DRIVER and MOLLY ORMROD taking home Bronze Medals in the Medley Relay and Silvers in the Freestyle.

GEMMA LAWLER, NATASHA HIGHAM, REBECCA DRIVER, MOLLY ORMROD, SARAH HISKEY, LEA TAYLOR, MEGAN ORMROD, SOPHIE FOREMAN, KIERA McCORMICK, LOIS ENTWISTLE, MOLLIE LEACH, ROBYN WHALLEY, LAUREN BREARLEY, EMILY KINSELLA, SALLY HADLEY, KATIE CLURE, EMMA TAYLOR, ISABELLE CHATTERTON.