GARIOCH AMATEUR SWIMMING CLUB News

Scottish Schools Time Trials

Garioch swimmers took part in the Scottish Schools Time Trials at Westhill pool on 9/11/04.

12 PBs were attained by the girls out of 19 total swims - well done the girls!

2 PBs were attained by the boys out of 6 total swims - girls win hands down!

No doubt some of our swimmers will be seen at the Scottish Schools Championships in January 2005

Well done to all

Message from down-under

North District Junior Development Meet

GASC entered a team of swimmers to compete in the North District Junior Development Meet on Saturday & Sunday 30/31st October.

Our swimmers did us all proud at this fast & prestigious meet.

37 PB's were attained out of 51 swims. Jenny Sangster broke the 10Yrs club record for 200m breaststroke and Mark Adam regained his 11Yrs 100m fly record from Robert Hayes who had taken Mark's existing record in an earlier heat.

A great meet overall & well done to everyone.

Hannah Miley trains with British Olympic Swimmer - Rebecca Cooke - Click here to read Hannah's Story

TIMEBAND MEET

Our own TimeBand Meet was held at Inverurie on 19 September.  A great day and some super swims.  Ythan were the winners of the Garioch-Gordon challenge trophy.

Medal winners were as follows

Gold

Rachel Pirie - 200 freestyle

Lucy Skitmore - 200 breaststroke

Christopher Walster - 200 breaststroke

Garioch 13 and under Girls 4 x 50 medley relay team (Rachael Adam, Emma Weir, Lucy Skitmore and Kimberley Murray) and 4 x 50 freestyle relay team (Rachael, Emma, Kimberley and Eva Leonard)

Silver

Sidney Wright - 200 backstroke

Kimberley Murray - 200 butterfly

Kieran Alderton - 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke

Emma Weir - 200 backstroke

Drew Bond - 200 backstroke

Bronze

Christopher Walster - 200 butterfly

Rachael Adam - 200 breaststroke

Kimberley Murray - 200 backstroke

Chloe Adam - 200 freestyle

Garioch 13 and under Boys 4 x 50 medley relay team (Sidney Wright, Kieran Alderton, Stephen Andrew and David Smith)

Garioch 14 and over Boys 4 x 50 freestyle relay team (Drew Bond, David Rennie, Christopher Walster and Gordon Esslemont)

Times from this event are on the TimeBand Page

BRIDGE OF DON SEPTEMBER SPLASH

At Bridge of Don on 11 September there were personal bests galore but medals were hard to come by for Garioch swimmers.

Robert Hayes won Gold in boys 11/12 years 100m freestyle and Imogen Jones also won gold in the girls 10 years and under 100m backstroke.  Imogen's time of 1:41.42 gave her a new club record in the girls 9 years age group.

Also swimming in the 10 years age group was Jenny Sangster, who won a silver medal in the breaststroke event when she took 16 seconds off her personal best time.  In the same age group for boys, Alastair Miley just missed out on the medals but in improving his personal best time in the 100 freestyle by 15 seconds, he too set a new club record for 9 year old boys.

Other medals for Garioch went to Kimberley Murray who, in the 13/14 girls, won Bronze in the 100m freestyle, Emma weir who in the same age group won bronze in the 100m butterfly and Rachel Pirie who also won bronze in the 11/12  girls 100m breaststroke.

Times here

NATIONAL SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Hannah Miley travelled down to Manchester at the end of August with a very small team from SAS comprising Hannah, Chris Chasser, Kerry Buchan.

It was PBs all round for Hannah as she set new marks in every event she swam in.  Not only were these club records but many were also     North District Records.  In the 200m fly she swam 2m 16.63secs a new Scottish Junior and Senior record and in the 400m IM her final swim of 4m 47.33secs was also a Junior and Senior record.  In finishing 6th in the final behind only 3 Britons Hannah gained a nomination for selection for the Youth Commonwealth Games.  At Garioch we are all looking forward to see if her nomination results in selection when the team is announced in September.

Full set of times for Hannah here, full results on the ASA website. 

ASA YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS

Hannah Miley went to Ponds Forge for the ASA Youth Championships with SAS.  Report awaits but to see all SAS swimmers achieving qualifying times, record breakers and finalists (including those from BAGCATS) see here.  Full results can be found on ASA website.

FEES NOW DUE

Here is a reminder that if you do not pay by direct debit that this term's fees are now due (1 August).

Cheques please to be sent to

Anita Weir, 23 Cuninghill Avenue, Inverurie, AB51 3TZ

 SCOTTISH NATIONAL OPEN AND AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS

Hannah Miley, Collin Smith, Chloe Adam, Jill Taylor, Claire Brownie and Jonas Whitehead, Chris Walster and Emma Weir were part of the SAS team that went down to Tolcross for the Scottish National Open and Age Group Championships.

Hannah won 7 gold medals , 2 silver and 2 bronze. Probably her biggest success was in both the women's and the age group 200m fly events, winning gold medals in both and winning the butterfly trophies. Her other golds were in the 200m free, 800m free, 200m IM, 200m back, and 100m fly.

The table of teams was close with SAS finishing in 6th place.

1 - City of Aberdeen - 799
2 - Warrender - 742.5
3 - City of Glasgow - 684
4 - Ren96 - 674
5 - Tayside District - 617
6 - South Aberdeenshire - 615.5
7 - West Lothian - 448
8 - City of Newcastle - 354
9 - Heart of Midlothian - 338.5
10 - Stirling - 285.5  

Times are here

 CHOCOLATE GALA AT INVERURIE

The Chocolate Gala on 3 July was won by the Yellow Submarines team comprising Ailsa Munro, Neil Slattery, Chloe Grant, James Warren, Jenny Sangster, Laura Jack, Victoria Allan, Oliver Coward, Elsa Bisset and Sarah Smith.

They were ably led by team leaders Mr Sangster and Mr Coward and won the final 12 x 1 length squadron relay to amass a grand total of 98 points and win the biggest bars of chocolates.  The Blue Fish, Red Rockers and Green Crocs all won smaller bars of chocolates and everyone had a loud and fun time.  Thanks to all the parents who helped in so many ways and to the pool staff for their tolerance!

Full results below and times can be found here

 NORTH DISTRICT SPRINTS AT INVERNESS

Only 7 Garioch swimmers travelled up to Inverness for the North District Sprints.  Gitte reported that -

Sidney Wright , Mark Adam , Jonas Whitehead , Chris Walster ,Claire Brownie ,Chloe Adam and Collin Smith went to Inverness for the championships.
Fab swims many PB`s with lots of swims in the finals (which is at the end ) but when you have swimmers like ours who become so good friends it was a joy.

The open 100M IM mens/boys record fell to Collin Smith and Claire Brownie and Chloe Adam both broke age group records in their swims.  Garioch times are here

Medals were won by Chris, Claire, Chloe and Collin.

TIME TRIALS AT GASC ON 26 JUNE

Friday/Saturday swimmers swam in time trials with squad 2 on Saturday 26 June 2004 where there was an opportunity to gain times for competitions and try new events and strokes.

A total of 91 new or personal best times were swum with times here.

There were also new club records for Alastair Skitmore in the 8 year old boys 100m breaststroke, Lorna Stewart in the 8 year old girls 100 breaststroke and Imogen Jones on the girls 9 year old 200m freestyle.

NEASCA CHAMPIONSHIPS

NEASCA championships were held at Peterhead on 19 June 2004.

There were a staggering 48 swimmers from Garioch competing with friends and rivals from Peterhead, Broch, Ythan, Huntly and Deveron.

Medals were as follows -

GOLD        Jill Taylor - breast, Claire Brownie - back, Kimberley Murray - IM.

SILVER      Sarah Rennie - back and IM, Kimberley Murray - fly, Lucy Skitmore - breast, Emma Weir - back, Jonas Whitehead - back, Duncan Maclellan - back, Girls 12 and under free relay and medley relay, Boys 12 and under free relay and medley relay, Girls 13 and over free relay and medley relay.

BRONZE     Jaimie Rees - back and breast, Claire Brownie - free and fly, Andrew Bryce - free and fly, Derek Stewart - breast, Mark Adam - free, Jonas Whitehead - IM, Duncan Maclellan - IM, Kimberley Murray - back, Eva Leonard - back, Emma Weir - fly, Lucy Skitmore - IM.

4th             Stephen Andrew - fly and IM, Duncan Maclellan - fly, Andrew Bryce - back, Mark Adam - IM, Sarah Rennie - fly, Lucy Skitmore - fly, Jill Taylor - IM, Chloe West - free.

5th             Derek Stewart - fly and IM, Eva Leonard - free, Katie Mahoney - breast, Phoebe Whitehead - IM, Jill Taylor - back, Chris Alderton - back, Chris Mahoney - breast, Mark Adam - fly, Gordon Esslemont - IM, Boys 13 and over free relay and medley relay.

6th             Scott Walker - breast, fly and IM, Alastair Miley - fly and IM, Elsa Bisset - breast, Imogen Jones - back, Emma Weir - IM, Stephen Andrew - free, Jonas Whitehead - free, Chris Alderton - IM, Adin Low - back, Chloe West - IM. 

There was also a club record broken - the second boys 11 years fly record to go in 2 days as on Friday Robert Hayes had broken the 200M record and at Peterhead the 50M record went to Mark Adam.

PRIMARY SCHOOLS' GALA REPORT

The annual Primary Schools' Gala took place at Inverurie Pool on Saturday 12 June.

With more teams and swimmers entered than ever before the atmosphere was electric and the noise incredible.  Approximately 180 children from 10 different schools took part, many had never swum in a competition before but everyone had a great time and gave their all.

This years gala took place with the assistance of a grant from Aberdeenshire Sports Council (see new link on links page) and sponsorship for the certificates from LogicaCMG.

Officials and helpers from Garioch and other swimming clubs helped on the night.

The eventual winners in a very close competition were Alford Primary School, closely followed by Kellands, Meldrum and Strathburn.  Participating schools included Daviot, Keithall, Kemnay, Kintore, Market Place and Oyne.

Full results are on way to schools.

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