Droitwich Dolphins - Competitive Swimming Club.
Crystal Open Report |
| Posted by Steve Redfern (ddsc admin) on Jan 12 2010 |
Report from SUE MARSH
Despite the uncertainty of whether snow would descend on the region again, 8 DDSC swimmers (Ben Gallant, Anthony Redfern, Ruth Hadley, Aaron Biddle, Sam Cave, Sophie Groves, Sam Gearey and Tim Quiney travelled to Wolverhampton for the Stourbridge Crystal Open Meet on Sunday 10th Jan.
With approximately 30 clubs competing, some travelling from as far as Carlisle, our swimmers did tremendously well and did DDSC proud. In fact we finished as 3rd overall best performing club!
Our swimmers achieved this by clocking up 28 top three placings (out of a total of 43 swims), 20 PBs were smashed in doing so, 4 more county times gained, and Sam Cave achieved a qualification time for the Midland Regional Age Group Championships in the 200IM event.
Ruth and Sam managed 12 first places between them of which 6 were overall 1st placings (Sam 4, Ruth 2), so more display cabinets are needed to put the crystal goblets on show at their homes! Sophie and Aaron weren't far behind them with 4 and 5 top three placings respectively in their age group and Sam G not far behind them with 2 top five placings. In the 11yr Girls 50FS, Ruth, Sophie & Sam G were placed 1st, 2nd, and 4th!!
Anthony and Ben had 5 top three placings between them although 1st place was just out of reach by finger tips. Anthony knocked a humungous 8 seconds off his 200BK time, only then to be criticised by Sue for not putting more effort in!
Proof that size doesn't matter, it's how the swimmer makes the stroke effective (though totally legal of course), resulted in Tim achieving 3 top six placings (3rd, 5th, 6th) sometimes against swimmers almost twice his size.
All in all, it was a fantastic performance by these 8 swimmers, and they did their club proud!
Fully detailed results of the day can be found on the Stourbridge Website.
Results specific to DDSC swimmers are listed below, and can be downloaded here.
Swimmer
Event
Time
Age Group Place
Comment
Sam Gearey
200 IM
03:12.45
50 Back
00:40.12
50 Breast
00:45.32
50 Free
00:33.12
Sophie Groves
200 IM
03:01.15
3rd
50 Back
00:37.36
2nd
200 Back
02:52.77
50 Fly
00:37.02
2nd
50 Free
00:32.84
3rd
200 Free
DNS
Ruth Hadley
200 IM
02:49.16
1st
50 Back
00:34.57
1st
Goblet Winner (11/12)
200 Breast
03:11.29
1st
50 Breast
00:39.97
1st
Goblet Winner (11/12)
200 Back
02:47.80
1st
50 Fly
00:34.00
1st
50 Free
00:32.04
1st
200 Free
02:33.10
2nd
Tim Quiney
50 Free
00:37.99
50 Fly
00:40.73
3rd
100 IM
01:31.66
50 Back
00:41.87
Aaron Biddle
200 IM
02:56.99
2nd
50 Back
00:37.67
200 Back
02:50.65
3rd
50 Fly
00:36.75
3rd
50 Free
00:32.75
3rd
200 Free
02:38.53
2nd
Sam Cave
200 IM
02:43.21
1st
Goblet Winner (11/12)
50 Back
00:33.88
1st
Goblet Winner (11/12)
50 Breast
00:40.74
1st
50 Fly
00:33.09
1st
Goblet Winner (11/12)
50 Free
00:29.60
1st
Goblet Winner (11/12)
Anthony Redfern
100 Fly
01:16.46
3rd
200 Breast
03:13.70
100 Free
01:03.05
2nd
200 Back
02:42.42
200 IM
02:43.13
100 Breast
01:31.47
100 Back
01:14.54
3rd
200 Free
02:24.73
Ben Gallant
100 Free
01:01.73
3rd
200 IM
02:39.57
100 Back
01:14.10
3rd
Last changed: Jan 12 2010 at 3:08 PM
Back| Jo McConnell | By Unknown on Jan 12 2010 at 5:10 PM |
| Thats a great start to the swimming year, fantastic results, again just want to say how lucky we are to have such talented swimmers who are in our little club.Well done all of you. can you drink out of the crystal goblets??? | |
| By Unknown on Jan 12 2010 at 10:13 PM | |
| Yes you can drink out of the goblets !!!!! As Sam won four it means we can all have a glass of wine!!!! |
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| By Unknown on Jan 23 2010 at 3:45 PM | |
| Well done Sue, your hard work and effort is paying off. | |
