Rochelle and Bethany Hughes will be taking part in the 2010 Swimathon at Saltash Leisure Centre on 16-18th April. They are looking for sponsors so please click here for details. Thank you
Dan Crook had an amazing weekend at the Devon Championships held at Central Park last weekend. On the Saturday Dan achieved gold in the 100m freestyle, and on the Sunday gained silver in the 100m fly, whilst also beating his PB. Also swimming for the club that weekend were Rebecca Hingston and Victoria Philpot who got a new PB in the 100m free. Well done to you all.
IMPORTANT – Please remember there is no swimming on Friday 12th March as it will be the annual Club Gala Presentation Evening at Brookside Social Club, Honicknowle. Please be there early as the evening starts at 7pm prompt and all 118 trophies will be presented along with medals for the first three places.
A very big THANK YOU to all the officials, parents and swimmers who made the annual DRSA Schools Gala happen yesterday evening. Taking part were 192 Primary children representing 17 schools and 108 Senior students representing 14 schools from all around the city. This was DRSA’s biggest entry list to date and wihout the help of vounteers it could not have taken place. Please click here for results.
2nd Week Devon Champs and the medal success story continues.
DRSA presented 7 swimmers who had secured the challenging entry times for the county’s premier meet: Jordan Nicholson, Victoria Philpott, Rachel and Bethany Ward, Dan Crook, Finlay Bowden and Rhiannon Davies. All swimmers competed strongly with the majority enjoying personal best times.
Jordan, Dan, Finlay and Rhiannon also negotiated their way to the county age-group finals. The platinum performance surely goes to the men’s team captain Jordan. Not only has he led the club squad to league promotion as champions this season but on Sunday gained a well earned silver medal in the 16+over 200 Backstroke final.
Rhiannon ensured further DRSA success with a bronze in the 10 year old 200 backstroke. Dan Crook nearly doubled his personal medal tally when he came a close 4th in the 100 BRS. Finlay made his second county final but on this occasion had a technical glitch on a backstroke turn.
Also well done to our second claim swimmers: Connor Andrews and Sinead Davies who are currently in PL’s performance squads. They claimed gold in the 200BRS and 100BK respectively. This breadth of success is a real testament to Terry Mansell’s long-term commitment to high quality development coaching.
A sensational start for our DRSA swimmers. As the first day ends we bring back gold and bronze. Well done to all our swimmers for their gallant efforts: Sam and Finlay Bowden, Dan Crook, Rachel Ward, Brittany O’Reilly, Livvy Nel-Barker and Rhiannon Davies.
The highlight of the day was the Girls 10 years breaststroke race. All 3 of our swimmers stormed through to the 6 lane final. What a line up!!! Devonport Royal hosting 3 swimmers, the rest of Devon’s elite clubs only a further collective 3 swimmers. Dominating the race, Brittany brought home the gold with Rhiannon and Livvy smashing their personal bests to take 4th + 5th.
Dan Crook ensured that the boys also brought back a podium finish in the Boys 13years 100IM race. His bronze medal came courtesy of some superbly dynamic swimming in this medley event. Ten year old Finlay Bowden also gave everything in his highly competitive 100 IM race to finish a very creditable 4th in the final.
Another satisfying statistic to note was that all 5 of our finalists did personal bests under the cauldron of pressure associated with a county final race. Testimony to the hard work of all our coaching team. Well done folks and enjoy the rest of the championships.
Report – T.Davies
The Novice Gala scheduled for the 12th Feb has been moved to 9th July 2010.
This was due to a clash of training times and competition preperation. This new date will be an annual event in the DRSA calendar
Peter Boulton is looking for volunteers to train to become qualified swimming officials. Please click here for details.