News - Index 2011 to Aug

Elgin Mini Meet 2011
North District Open 2011
Westhill Invitational 2011
Buckie Age Group
Bridge Of Don April Showers
SNAGS
Hunting Trophy
Aberdeenshire Council Sports Awards
British Gas Championships
ND Age Group Chmpionships
Club Championships
Edinburgh InternationalAge Group
Peterhead Graded

 Elgin Mini Meet 2011

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The younger swimmers from Garioch Amateur Swimming Club travelled to Buckie to compete at the Elgin Mini Meet held on 11th June. They achieved a plethora of medals whilst swimming against some fierce competition. The medal winners were:

  • Rebecca Eggeling (10): gold 50freestyle, 50butterfly, 50backstroke
  • Stuart Seymour (10): gold 50breaststroke, 50freestyle, 50butterfly, 50backstroke
  • Louis Zeegers (11): silver 50butterfly, 50backstroke, 50breaststroke; bronze 50freestyle
  • Chloe Grant (10): silver 50butterfly, 50backstroke; bronze 50freestyle
  • Megan Brown (10): bronze 50backstroke

In addition to the medals, which included a spectacular clean sweep in the backstroke 1st, 2nd, 3rd, there were a total of 24 personal best times gained by the swimmers which included Avery Collins (10) getting an 11 and 9 second pb in the 50backstroke and 50freestyle with Megan Brown getting a 7second pb in the 50 breaststroke. Heather McIntosh (11) and Lauren McPhee (10) also gained personal best times in their events which added to the excitement during the day.
The swimmers then went on to battle it out in the Mixed Team Freestyle Relay where they deservedly won a silver medal and continued to do so in the Mixed Team Medley Relay where they won a bronze medal.
The final accolade was that Stuart Seymour was awarded ‘best 10 year old boy’ and Louis Zeegers was awarded ‘best 11 year old boy’ which is a great achievement for one club.
Dave Seymour and Alison Grant, poolside officials for the meet, said “It really was a great day and all the swimmers did themselves and the GASC proud in the way they all performed and behaved....”

 North District Open 2011

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A small but strong team of swimmers from Garioch Amateur Swimming Club competed at the 2 day North District Open Championships 4th June-5th June 2011.
During the Saturday session David Smith (18) qualified 5th in the 400free heat and stormed through to take a bronze medal in the final. David then went on to qualify for the 200fly final where he got a much deserved silver medal. The Sunday session saw Sarah Smith (16) qualify for the 200fly final where she got a 4th place whilst her brother David Smith swam the 1500free with such sheer determination to take a further silver medal. As if that wasn’t enough, David had energy left to qualify for the 400IM final by creeping up on the breaststrokers and going on to take a bronze medal. Robert Bryce (16) qualified 3rd in the 200free heat and swam a terrific final to take a bronze medal. Ruth Bryce (15) swam with such gusto in the 200backstroke that she managed to gain a qualifying time for the Scottish National Open event in June along with Sarah Smith in the 100backstroke.
There were some incredible personal best times achieved during the meet with Ruth and Jessica Thomson (12) getting an 11 and 7 second pb in the 400free and Thomas Holmes (15) getting a 4 second pb in the 100fly. Shannon Crawford (12) gradually crept up on her opponents in the backstroke events and got a pb in the 100. Jemma Grant, Jessica, Sarah and Ruth swam a fantastic Freestyle relay getting an overall personal best time collectively as did Ruth, Jessica, Sarah and Molly Carlier in the Medley relay event.
Carol Holmes, coach for the meet, commented that the swimmers present were a credit to Garioch as they encouragingly cheered for their team members and maintained superb poolside etiquette throughout the meet. Continued thanks go to the parent helpers who participated at the meet and those who took on additional duties, in particular Anne Smith who offered valuable support.

 Westhill Invitational 2011

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Garioch Amateur Swimming Club competed at the 2 day Westhill Invitational Meet 7th and 8th May. Emily Jones (15) triumphed in all 9 of her events to take gold in 200freestyle, 100breaststroke, 100freestyle, 400freestyle, 100butterfly, 200IM, 100IM, 200butterfly and 400IM. Emily also attained a new Scottish Age Group record in the 100breaststroke by getting a time of 1:10:35.
The following swimmers also won medals:
Age 16 & over years:

  • Orla Adams (16) gold 100breaststroke, 200breaststroke, 200backstroke and 200IM, silver 100backstroke, bronze 50breaststroke and 400IM
  • Sarah Smith (16) gold 200butterfly, silver 100butterfly
  • David Smith (18) silver 200butterfly

Age 12-13 years:

  • Joseph Miley (13) gold 200breaststroke and 200butterfly, silver 200freestyle, 200IM, 200backstroke and 100backstroke, bronze 100breaststroke
  • Jemma Grant (13) bronze 100freestyle, 100butterfly, 200IM and 200butterfly

Emily, David, Joseph and Jemma also reached the Russian Roulette Medley Final where they came 3rd
Ruth Bryce, Molly Carlier, Shannon Crawford, Findlay Douglas, Abbey Freer, Peter Holmes, Hazel Johnston, Josephine Laing, Nicole Mowat, Jessica Thomson continued to improve on their personal best times making the meet an overall success.
Thanks go to everybody who helped out on the day.

 Buckie Age Group 2011

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A strong team of 18 swimmers from the Garioch Amateur swimming club competed at the 2 day Buckie Age Group meet 23rd – 24th April. Although the weather was warm outside the temperature inside the pool was even hotter with temperatures rising. This did not deter the team. The following swimmers won medals:

  • Jessica Thomson(12) gold 400free and 200fly
  • Shannon Crawford(11) gold 100back and 200back
  • Peter Holmes (13)gold 400IM, silver 200fly and 400free
  • Findlay Douglas(13) silver 100back and 200IM, bronze 400IM and 200free
  • Rebecca Eggeling(10) silver 100fly, bronze 200IM
  • Clara Douglas (15)bronze 200breast and 400IM
  • Ruth Bryce (14)bronze 400free

It was evident that the swims of the meet were in the 200fly and 200/400IM with Nicole and Findlay getting a 21 and 15 second personal best time in the 200fly. The 200IM saw Rebecca getting a 13 second personal best time along with Spencer O’Grady (11) and Sophie McPhee (11) also getting a 10 and 8 second pb. The 400IM saw Clara getting an impressive 27 second personal best time with Nicole and Peter getting an 18 and 10 second pb respectively. In addition, Rebecca also managed to get a 10 second pb in the 200back. Findlay managed to chalk up points for the club in all but one of his swims also getting a further 16 second pb in the 400free with Shannon, Jessica and Peter managing to get points in all but 2 of their swims. The team members, which included Ruth Bryce, Abbey Freer, Chloe Grant, Hazel Johnston, Heather McIntosh, Marc Mowat, Caitlin O’Shaughnessy, Sophie Stewart and Molly Carlier, all put in maximum effort with many more pb’s gained in the process enabling Garioch to come 5th out of 19 competing clubs. They all contributed to a great team spirit and, with having such a large team, hearing comments from some of the judges saying how “well behaved” our club was only added to our success.
Thanks go to the Garioch timekeepers, Carol Holmes and especially to Mandi Crawford who did a great job poolside organising the swimmers.

 Bridge Of Don April Shower 2011

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Five enthusiastic young members of the Garioch Amateur Swimming Club participated in the April Showers meet which took place at the Bridge of Don Swimming Pool on Saturday, 16th April.  
Representing the club were Spencer O'Grady (11), Lauren McPhee (10), Callum Ross (10), Louis Zeegers (10), and Andrew Boddie (9).  Spencer came away with a gold medal in 50fly, a bronze in 50freestyle, and a bronze in 50breaststroke.  Andrew took home a silver medal in 50freestyle and a bronze in 50backstroke.  Everyone put in a lot of effort and walked away with some good individual PBs.  The competition included a medley and a freestyle relay, which gave the junior members a chance to swim as a team.  
Special thanks to Rob McPhee for representing the club on the day.

 Scottish National Age Groups

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Garioch Amateur Swimming Club competed at the Scottish National Age Group Championships which were held over 4 days in Glasgow 7th April to 10th April. The top swimmers flocked from their respective Clubs in Scotland in order to compete at this highly acclaimed meet where Garioch’s spirits remained high despite the long journey the individual families had to make. With 71 clubs competing at this meet Garioch managed to pull off an extremely high ‘strike rate’ for finals in comparison to some of the composite teams. Needless to say their hard work paid off as a result of the intense training programmes undertaken throughout the year in preparation for this meet.
Throughout the course of the meet the crowd watched as Emily Jones (15) pick up a staggering 8 gold medals in 100brst, 200brst, 200IM, 100fly, 200fly, 100free, 200free, 400IM, whilst also finishing 1st in all the qualifying heats. Emily’s achievements continued to flourish by getting a Scottish Age Group record in the 100brst and 5 North District Age Group and Junior records in 100/200fly, 100brst and 200/400IM. Emily also got 6 qualification times for the Commonwealth Youth Games to be held in the Isle of Man, September 2011 in 100/200free, 100/200brst, 100/200fly with the possibility of the 200/400IM as well.
Orla Adams (16) made 8 finals and as a result picked up 2 silver medals for 200back and 400IM. However, Orla is now the Scottish National Age Group Champion in these events and received 2 further gold medals in recognition.  She also won a bronze medal for 200brst.
Jemma Grant (13) and Joseph Miley(13) both made 4 finals, Jemma winning a bronze in the 200fly;  a bronze medal was also achieved in the 400IM where Jemma was third fastest, whilst Joseph achieved the same position in the 800 free getting a tremendous 38 second pb along the way.
Other swimmers making finals were Alastair Miley (16) in the 400IM and 200back, Thomas Holmes (15) in the 200brst and 100brst and first time finalist Jessica Thomson(12) in the 200 free getting a 14 second pb to her credit.  Jessica attained incredible personal best times in all of her races along with Shannon Crawford (11) in the 200back and Alastair in the 1500free where he got a further 21 second pb.
All the swimmers, including David Smith, Sarah Smith, Ruth Bryce, and Abbey Freer, improved on their times and still managed to psyche themselves up to take part in the Relay events during the evening sessions along with their fellow team mates which included Robert Bryce and Nicole Mowat. These proved to be great finales.
This event was enhanced by Gitte Whitehead and Dave Adams who gave up their free time to coordinate the event along with Phoebe and Carmel, so ‘thanks’ go to them.

 Hunting Trophy

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Garioch Amateur Swimming Club took part in the Hunting TrophyMeet on Saturday 26th March at Westhill Swimming Pool. Sarah Smith (16)competed at the senior end of the club and successfully came away with3 gold medals in 200IM, 100IM and 100breaststroke. Other swimmers whocontributed to the medals were Peter Holmes (13) gold 100fly; AbbeyFreer (12) gold 100fly; Findlay Douglas (13) bronze 100breaststroke;Nicole Mowat (13) 100breaststroke; Jessica Thomson (12) bronze 100fly;Sophie McPhee (11) bronze 100fly. Many of our lower squad members werepresent at the meet namely Rebecca Eggeling, Chloe Grant, ChristyJohnston, Marc Mowat, Spencer O’Grady, Stuart Seymour, Sophie Stewart,Louis Zeegers and all had great, feisty swims. Some impressive personalbest times were gained by Shannon Crawford (11) with a 19 second pb inthe 100breaststroke and Ciara Adams (11) with a 13 second pb in the100free. Molly Carlier, Clara Douglas, Hazel Johnston, Josephine Laingall swam with spirit to contribute to the team’s success.
Thanks go to Gitte and Gayle for making the meet run smoothly.

AberdeenshireCouncil Sports awards

Garioch AmateurSwimming club was nominated for "Clubof The Year" at the 2010Aberdeenshire council sports awards, but sadly missed out on winning.
Patrick Miley won the "coach of theyear" award at the same ceremony.
Readall about it.

  

             All "Club" nominees                                                "Patrick" Coach of the year

British Gas Championships

Hannah Miley, Emily Jones and Orla Adams had a busy time inManchester at the British Gas Long Course Championships. Hannah got 2Golds (200IM and 400 IM) and Emily got 3 North District records (tbc).Well done to everyone. (results)( BritishSwimming)

North District Age Group Championships(5-6th March)

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Agood trip for all with great performances, including podium positionsfor Orla Adams, Robert Bryce, Alistair Miley and the girls relay team.
Well done to everybody






Edinburgh InternationalAge Group (12-13th Feb 2011)

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HANNAH MILEY competed as part of Garioch Amateur Swimming Club attheEdinburgh International Age Group Championships 12th to 13th Feb inTollcross, Glasgow. Hannah stole the show by winning 5 gold medals in100free, 200back, 200IM, 100back, 200breast also demonstrating howsuperb turns and negative splits can win the race. Also swimming infine form was Emily Jones (15) who picked up a plethora of medals whichincluded gold 100breast, 200free, 200breast, silver 200fly, 100fly,100free and bronze 200back, 200IM. Orla Adams (16) made a valuablecontribution to the points by swimming an impressive 200backstroke totake gold, along with bronze in 200brst, 100brst. Alastair Miley (16)narrowly missed out on a gold medal by one 100th of a second to takesilver in the 200backstroke but was still extremely happy with theresult. Alastair also took bronze in 100back.
Robert Bryce (16) made the finals in the 100breast, 100free andobtained further consideration times for the SNAGS meet later on thisyear along with Ruth Bryce (14), Jemma Grant (13) and Jessica Thomson(12). David Smith, Thomas Holmes, Peter Holmes, Hamish Cooper, SarahSmith, Nicole Mowat, Abbey Freer, Shannon Crawford all contributed tothe team ethos.
Thanks go to Patrick, Gitte, Eavan and Anne for making the meet asuccess.

Peterhead Graded (12th Feb2011)

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The TeamAteam of Garioch swimmers were competing at the Peterhead Graded AgeGroup Meet 12th Feb. They certainly did not disappoint with the medalhaul:

  • Caitlin O’Shaughnessy (11) gold 100back
  • Rebecca Eggeling (10)gold 100free, 100fly
  • Stuart Seymour (10) gold 100back, silver100breast, bronze 100free
  • Findlay Douglas (13) silver 100breast,bronze 100back
  • Molly Carlier (14) bronze 100back

Other team members were getting some impressive personal best timesincluding Ciara Adams (11) and Sophie McPhee (11) who got an amazing 21and 14 second pb in the 100fly with Ciara also getting a 14 second pbin the 100breaststroke. Sophie Stuart (11) and Stuart Seymour both gotan 11 second pb in the 100backstroke with Molly Carlier (14) getting anincredible 18 second pb in the 200fly. Clara Douglas, Josephine Laingand Chloe Grant all got further pb’s making the team event a success asa whole.
Thanks go to Bethany Carlier and Dave Seymour for making the meet runsmoothly.

Congratulations Hannah! Commonwealth Champion 400m IM Hannah Mileyhad "a great race and finishing on such a high is a greatway to end theyear" and became the Commonwealth Record holder with a time of 4:38.83 Seeit as it happened on the BBC.