News - Index
2012
Elgin Spring Meet
PASC Graded Age Group
Meet
2012 West District Grand Prix
- East Kilbride
SAS Junior Meet - Westhill
2011
Scottish Gas National
Short Course Open Championships
UK School Games
Westhill Minnows
Commonwealth Youth Games
Garioch Scotframe 200 2011
Elgin Spring Meet
A small group of swimmers travelled to Buckie Leisure Centre to
compete at the Elgin Spring Meet Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th
February. As temperatures plummeted outside, the temperature was equally
cold inside the pool as a result of an unfortunate heating malfunction.
However, the swimmers managed to brave it and came away with the
following medals in their respective age groups:
Thomas Holmes (16) silver 200butterfly, 200freestyle, bronze 200backstroke
Ruth Bryce (15) bronze 200backstroke
Jessica Thomson (13) silver 400freestyle
In addition, there were some personal best times achieved during the meet with Hazel Johnston (14) getting an impressive 6 second personal best in the 400IM Open event. Spencer O’Grady
(12) improved the time on all his events, particularly in the
200breaststroke and 200freestyle where he took a total of 5 and 3
seconds off. Jessica Thomson (13) and Shannon Crawford (12) swam exceedingly well in the 200fly gaining a further 2 seconds personal best whilst Peter Holmes (14) continued to make progress in the 200breaststroke by also reducing his time.
Thanks go to the Garioch timekeepers and Coaches Mandi Crawford and Mary Bryce who, despite the circumstances, kept the swimmers spirits up in order to make this a successful meet.
PASC Graded Age Group Meet Feb 11
Garioch swimmers travelled to Peterhead on Saturday to compete at the PASC Graded Age Group Meet. Coaches Carol Holmes and Courtney O’Grady were proud of the swimmers achievements with them all gaining fantastic personal best times throughout the meet in conjunction with an abundance of speeding tickets and medals.
The medals/certificates were awarded to the following swimmers:
Female 14&over/open:
Ruth Bryce (15) Speeding Ticket
100mfree, silver 100mbreast and 200mback, bronze 200mfly; Hazel Johnston (14) gold 100mback; Clara Douglas (16) bronze 100mbreast.
Male 14&over: Peter Holmes (14) Speeding Ticket 100mbreast, gold 100mfree, silver 100mfly; Findlay Douglas (14) gold 100mbreast and 100mfly.
Male 12-13 years: Spencer O’Grady (12) gold 100mfree
Female 12-13 years: Sophie McPhee (12) silver 100mfree.
Female 10-11 years: Heather McIntosh (11) Speeding Ticket 100mback, 100mfree, 100mbreast; Megan Brown (11) Speeding Ticket 100mfree, bronze 100mbreast.
Male 10-11 years: Stuart Seymour (11) Speeding Ticket 100mfree, silver 100mfly; Louis Zeegers (11) gold 100mbreast, silver 100mfree.
Daniel McNally (12) and Daniel McKenzie (11) gained 13 and
12 second personal best times in the 100mfly and 100mfree events
whilst Christy Johnston (12), Caitlin O’Shaughnessy (12), Sophie Stewart (12), Lauren McPhee (10) also improved on
their times thus contributing to making this an extremely successful
team event.
2012 West District Grand Prix - East Kilbride
SAS Junior Meet - Westhill
Garioch Amateur Swimming Club had a competitive weekend’s swimming
across the country. The senior swimmers namely Emily Jones, Orla Adams, Alastair Miley and Robert Bryce together with their
coaches Gitte and Carmel travelled to East Kilbride
where they were benefiting from Long Course competition at the 2012 West District Grand Prix.
At the younger end Joseph Miley,
Jessica Thomson and Shannon Crawford were improving on
their personal best times, particularly Shannon getting an impressive 12 and
10 second personal best time in the 200back and 100fly.
Gitte commented “I could not have wished for a better team, fellow
coach, my swimmers were a total pleasure and the best advert for the
club we could ever wish for”
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13 swimmers travelled closer to home where they competed at the SAS Junior Meet held at Westhill
Swimming Pool. Jemma Grant
(14) showed clear signs of regaining her form by winning 5 gold medals
in 800free, 400free, 200back, 400IM, 200fly, a silver medal in 200IM,
and 2 bronze medals in 200breast, 200free. Rebecca Eggeling
(11) deservedly won a gold medal in 200fly getting a 6 second personal
best improvement, a silver medal in 200IM and a bronze medal in
200free. Heather McIntosh (11)
won a silver medal in 800free getting an astonishing 1:6.30 personal
best improvement. Findlay Douglas
(14) continued to make progress during his races by getting a 2:14.15
in his 200free alongside teammate Peter
Holmes (14) who improved his 200fly by 4 seconds. Megan Brown (11) gained a 5 second
personal best on her 200backstroke whilst Chloe Grant (11) swam with gusto to
take time off in all of her events. The 12 year olds Spencer O’Grady and Christy Johnston swam with great
determination in the 200backstroke along with Heather McIntosh, Hazel Johnston (14) and Sophie Stewart (12) in the 200IM and
Sophie McPhee (11) in the
200freestyle to gain personal best times.
The grand finale was watching Jemma
Grant swim
with steely determination to win the 100m medley ‘Challenge Event’
coming first in each of the three rounds. Jemma also picked up the
trophy for ‘Best overall 14 year old
girl’. Well done Jemma!
Thanks go to the coaches/poolside helpers Courtney, Mandi, Carol and Dave Johnston, Garioch officials,
and the supportive swimmers who made this such a successful team event.
Scottish Gas
National Short Course Open Championships
Garioch Amateur Swimming Club competed at the Scottish Gas National Short Course Open Swimming Championships 15th – 18th December at Inverness Leisure Centre.
Much to the crowd’s delight, Hannah Miley took part in the Thursday evening session where she won a gold medal in the 800 freestyle gaining a personal best time and new Scottish National record. Hannah also retained 2 trophies, the PAISLEY 500 for best overall performance and ABERDEEN 200 for best single performance.
Emily Jones (16) gave an outstanding performance during the meet where she cruised comfortably in the preliminaries thus saving her fighting spirit for the finals. She won gold in 200fly, 200breast, 100free, 100 fly, 100breast, 100IM, 200IM, 400free and bronze in 50fly. In addition, Emily achieved the following records:
Scottish National SC records
- 200 Breast 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 200 Fly 16 Yr old
- 100 IM 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 200 IM 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
There were also the following North District age group and Junior records:
- 100 Free 16 Yr old
- 50 Breast 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 200 Breast 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 50 Fly 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 100 Fly 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 200 Fly 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 100 IM 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
- 200 IM 16 Yr old, and Junior Record
Emily’s final accolade was that she was awarded the CITRUS trophy for best junior performance.
Orla Adams (16) made the finals in 8 events taking silver medals and personal best times in 3 events; 400IM, 200breast and 100breast. Orla also became the Scottish Gas Junior Champion in the 400IM.
Robert Bryce (17) also made the finals in 200free, 100breast, 200breast, 200IM and 400free along with David Smith (18) in 200fly and 400IM.
Joseph Miley (14) swam spectacularly well in the Open 1500free and also the Age Group 800 and 400free gaining great personal best times along with Jessica Thomson (12) in the 800free.
The girls relay teams added to the excitement of the meet where they had impressive leads from Emily and Orla respectively.
Thomas Holmes, Ruth Bryce, Jemma Grant and Shannon Crawford all contributed to the team spirit enabling Garioch to finish 9th overall.
This event could not have taken place without the coaching/poolside supervision from Patrick, Gitte, Carol and Eavan so thanks to all.
UK School Games
Alastair Miley and Orla Adams went down to the Uk School Games in Sheffield 3rd/4th September. Both attained bronze in closely fought contests.
Orla
Adams Bronze 400IM - Result
Alastair Miley Bronze 400IM - Result
Alastair Miley Bronze 200BK - Result
Westhill Minnows 2011
Various results ... Westhill
Highlighted... Web
Westhill Minnows great success, Garioch has some rising superstars .
Having not been at a younger Gala for some time I (GITTE) can with
hand on my heart say , it was a total pleasure.
The swimmers were
polite responsive and happy ,it was hard to focus on some of the swims
,we had a handful of very supportive parents watching cheering all our
Garioch swimmers, that was super entertaining in itself .
It makes me very happy to have that
kind of support and help , the future looks SUNNY in Inverurie.
Big thanks to Mandi for helping poolside and to Cameron for turning
up early to swim in the relay.
Gitte Whitehead
Commonwealth Youth Games
Emily Jones has won 3 Bronze
medals in the Games
| Sport | Event | Medal |
|---|---|---|
| Swimming | Women's 100m Breaststroke |  Bronze
|
| Swimming | Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay | Bronze
|
| Swimming | Women's 400m Individual Medley | Bronze
|
Congratulations and well done
from the whole of Garioch Amateur Swimming Club!
More news to come
Garioch Scotframe 200 2011
Sep 10 & 11 - Results and more info
GARIOCH SWIMMERS TAKE 1ST PLACE
Garioch Amateur Swimming Club held their Garioch Scotframe Open 200 Meet on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September. Garioch gloriously reclaimed the trophy by coming 1st out of 20 competing clubs, obtaining a staggering 657 points.
The team stacked up a total of 15 gold medals, 13 silver medals and
16 bronze medals together with an array of excellent personal best
times which contributed to the victory. This was achieved through great
determination and support for each other further adding to the
excitement.
All the swimmers contributed to make this a successful team event to which this would not have been possible without the help from the pool staff, coaches, officials and parent volunteers who gave up their time.
Garioch Amateur Swimming Club would particularly like to thank our Principal Meet Sponsor: SCOTFRAME, and our 3 Other Sponsors: Central Investment, LFF Scotland and Enterprise Engineering Services for generously supporting such a successful event.
Thanks must also go to the parents who donated raffle prizes as
these donations helped raise much needed funds for the club.
Medal winners:
Orla Adams (16) gold 200
breaststroke, 50 backstroke, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200
butterfly, 50 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 50 breaststroke.
Robert Bryce (17): gold
200 breaststroke, 200 freestyle; silver 200 IM, 50 butterfly, 50
freestyle, 50 breaststroke.
Alastair Miley (16): gold 200
backstroke; silver 200 butterfly, 50 backstroke; bronze 200
IM, 50 butterfly, 200 freestyle
Joseph Miley (13): gold 200
backstroke; bronze 200 butterfly, 200 breaststroke, 200 freestyle
Shannon Crawford (12):
gold 200 backstroke
Abbey Freer (12):
gold 50 freestyle
Sarah Smith (16): silver 200
IM, 200 backstroke, 200 butterfly, 50 butterfly; bronze 200
breaststroke, 50 breaststroke
Jessica Thomson (12): silver
200 IM, 200 butterfly; bronze 50 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200
freestyle
Jemma Grant (14): silver 200
butterfly; bronze 50 freestyle
David Smith (18): bronze 200
butterfly, 200 backstroke
Thomas Holmes (16): bronze 200
breaststroke
Spencer O’Grady (12): bronze 50
backstroke