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 5th 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
Please look at the competitions page for more details.
Peter Boulton is looking for volunteers to train to become qualified swimming officials. Please click here for details.
Thank you DRSA for supporting CHICKS, please click here for a few photos
To be held at Central Park pool on Monday 1st March at 8.30pm. To enter please click for either a SENIOR or PRIMARY schools entry form
Caroline has issued the swimmers logbook which can be found on this website on the COACH page (click here for a quick link). All squad swimmers MUST print off one copy and bring it along to their first swimming session in 2010 and Caroline has also requested that they must bring it along to the session on Wednesday 13th January.
Maximum Performance (run by double Olympians Ed Sinclair and Matt Kidd) are running a swim camp from 4th – 7th April at Millfields School, Somerset. Places are limited and are filling up fast! visit the website www.swimcamp.co.uk for more info and please speak to Caroline.
Selection of team captains for 2010 is now taking place, please click here for instructions for how to enter the selection process, good luck.
Please be aware that the password for the members pages will change on 1st Feb 2010 and will be issued with your renewed/new membership pack.