Blyth Lifeguard & Swimming Club

Day 1 – Saturday 19th May 2012

An excellent days swimming which started off with personal bests for Beth Hutchinson, Holly Mitchell and Chelsea Whyman (200 free) and Dan Murray (50 fly). Mitchell McCallum was desperately unlucky with his 50 fly when he slipped on the blocks and was disqualified for a false start. Bethany Milne and Holly Mitchell achieved personal bests in the 50 back followed by Jessica Parker in the 100 breast (and a bronze medal) and then Mitchell McCallum bounced back from his dissapointment in the fly with a personal best and a gold medal in the 100 back. Bethany Milne and Chelsea Whyman finished off a terrific morning with personal bests in the 100IM.

The afternnon started with 8 consecutive persoanl best swims, Chelsea Whyman (200 back), Dan Murray (50 breast) Bethany Milne ,Beth Hutchinson, Holly Mitchell and Jessica Parker (50 free) Callum Gilroy (200 breast) and Bethany Milne (100 fly). Holly Mitchell was unable to improve on her 100 fly time but swimming with an injury at the end of a long day she showed determination and narrowly missed out. Chelsea Whyman (100 fly) and Callum Gilroy (100 free) then added to the persoanl best tally. In the last race of the day Mitchell McCallum slipped on the blocks at the start but still managed a personal best under 1 minute for the first time at 100 free and won the gold medal.

An excellent days swimming and the behaviour of the swimmers was also first class. I cannot praise them highly enough for their efforts. Suffice it to say that Carol Barker who was coaching with me at her firts competitive gala said that she was very proud of them.

Thanks to the team and to carol for her help.

Brian

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The Coaching Team

Congratulations to Charley Gourley and Jake Power who took part in the championships at Sunderland over the weekend of the 5th and 6th of May 2012.

This was a very high standard of competition reflected by the appearance many top swimmers from the North East including Olympic hopeful Aimee Wilmott. Combine that with the fact that it was in a 50 metre pool where Blyth swimmers rarely have the chance to compete and they can and should be very proud of their performances.

On the Saturday and despite being unwell Charley swam a very good 50m freestyle and just missed out on a personal best and Jake just mised out on a personal best in to 50 breaststroke.

Charley was not well enough to compete on the Sunday but Jake refused to be overawed by the competition and swam an excellent 50 freestyle in a new personal best time of 27.20.

Well done to both of you for qualifing for this competition we are very proud of your efforts.

The Coaching Team

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Here are the results from the recent time trials.

The Coaching TeamTime Trials April 2012

The date for the time trials in April has been changed to Tuesday the 17th of April 2012 and the session will start as normal at 730pm.

The events will be 100IM, 100 back, 100 fly, 100 breast, 100free and 200IM

Please see your coach to decide which events you will be entering

The Coaching Team

THE COMPETITIVE SECTION WILL BE TAKING A BREAK FROM TRAINING WITH THE LAST SESSION BEING SATURDAY 28TH JULY 2012 AND WE WILL RETURN TO THE POOL ON TUESDAY THE 21ST OF AUGUST 2012

In what was a very busy weekend for the club the Masters team travelled to Darlington for a competition and had some good results and first class swims.

Full results are here :-DARLINGTON MASTERS 25th March 2012

Sunday 25th march

A group of fifteen swimmers went to Stanley to compete in the north tyneside gala.
Charley Gourley, Lauren Carroll, Rachel Carroll, Chelsea Whyman, Bethany Milne, Sam Carpenter, Beth Hutchinson Emma Wilkinson, Elli Munday, Sophie Butler, Laura Cook, Callum Gilroy, Tyler McKeown, Daniel Murray and Jack Gourley all represented Blyth and did a fantasic job.

Every swimmer swam their heart out and got a least 1 P.B. A total of 31 personal bests were achieved over the day which is a great! Not to stop at personal bests but lots of medals were also won through out the day a total of three golds seven silvers and seven bronzes.

The team spirit was excellent which really spurred the swimmers on when the were racing especially in the team events. The 12-14 mixed medley team gained a bronze medal jack gourley on the bc, Chelsea Whyman on the br, Rachel Carroll on the fly and dan Murray on the fc. It was a fantastic race and a well deserved victory. However the race of the day had to be the over 13 years cannon. Although the other teams dropped out the swimmers decided they still wanted to swim. This alone made me extremely proud as a coach. With all eyes on Blyth at the diving end with the swimmers and at the shallow end with the rest of the team supporting it was a fantatic race. I would like to say a huge thank you to, Rachel Carroll, Bethany Milne, Dan Murray, Chelsea Whyman, Sam Carpenter, Jack Gourley, Lauren Carroll and Charley Gourley for swimming your hearts out and giving it your all. I would also like to thank, Laura Cook, Emma Wilkinson, Elli Munday, Beth Hutchinson, Sophie Butler, Callum Gillroy and Tyler McKeown for supporting the team whilst they swam. You all showed everyone how good it is to be a part of Blyth Lifeguard and Swimming Club.

Amy Wilkinson
Coach

See here for the full results :-NORTH TYNE SPRINTS 25th March 2012

Saturday 17th march

Although we only had one swimmer we had a fantastic day with lots of success. Emily Price managed to achieve two N and D age group qualifying times in her 100m freestyle and 100m back crawl.

The first swim was 100m bc where Emily was entered in a 1.20.09. She had a fantastic race from start to finish. And smashed her P.B by 3 seconds just missing out on her NER time by 0.31! Emily finished 13th.

The second swim for Emily was the 100m freestyle were she did another brilliant race. Emily managed to get another P.B knocking off 1 second to make her new P.B 1.08.65 finishing in 20th place.

Emily had a fantastic meet and not only done herself proud but did Blyth Lifeguard and Swimming club proud. Well done Emily!

Sunday 18th march

Again although we only had one swimmer it was another brilliant day. Mitchell McCallum had four races and here is how he got on …

We started off with abit of a knock back as Mitchell got DQ in his 100m freestyle however he was not going to let that spoil the rest of his day. Mitchell’s second race was his 200m backstroke and he really attacked it! Smashing his P.B by 4 seconds and achieving a time of 2.35.81 and finishing 14th just missing out on his NER time.

In the afternoon Mitchells first race was his 200m fc were he just missed out on his P.B and finished 21st. His second race was his 100m bc where Mitchell finished 13th with a time of 1.12.23.

Well done Mitchell you did yourself and the club proud!

Amy wilkinson
Coach 
Full results are here http://www.asaner.org.uk/rgordon//ndsa/2012/agegroup/index.htm