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Exeter Long Course Level 1 Meet
The first meet of the new year saw Dinnaton swimmers at Millfield 50m pool swimming with confidence and promise for the county championships ahead. The medallists during the meet were a deservedly proud Faye Hammond whose strong swim in the 800m freestyle earned her the bronze medal. David Hammond also achieved well in the 800m freestyle (silver), as well as the 200m backstroke (bronze).
Harriet Tuck swimming in the endurance events of the 1500m freestyle and 400m freestyle gained two bronze medals, Jasmin Morgan took medals in both distance and sprint events of 400m freestyle (bronze) and 50 backstroke (silver). Megan Bowen celebrated her wins in the 400m freestyle, 200m freestyle and 100m butterfly, as well as taking a close second place in the 200m IM, 400m IM and 100m freestyle. Jack Northmore showed his developing talent touching first in the 200IM and 100m freestyle as well as medalling in the 100m butterfly (silver).Chris Farmer completed this wealth of success with a bronze medal in the 200m freestyle in a new PB of 2.06.61.
With many new talents attending their first long course Level 1 meet it was a weekend of firsts in many different ways and Rebecca Johns, Tait Marles and Chloe Thompson all achieved some excellent personal best times.
Many other swimmers competed for Dinnaton at Millfield and showed improving technique and determination these included Callum Clay, William Potter, Josh Dunn, Sally Carter and Roisin Vosper.
Bath Swim Camp
A swim camp at Bath University has been arranged for swimmers at Dinnaton Swimming Club and this trip has being offered to all swimmers in A and B1 squads. It takes place during February half term on Wednesday 17 February and Thursday 18 February 2010. Team Bath based at Bath University has a 50m pool and this offers an excellent training opportunity for swimmers. Swimmers will be expected to work hard, and the programme is designed to give swimmers a unique experience. On the first day there will be some free time for swimmers in the city of Bath but overall the programme is designed to enhance swimmers current training at Dinnaton and swimmers will be expected to give 100%.
Important Please note that the Dinnaton Presentation Evening will be held this year on 13th March. Keep the date free, it will be quite a night!
Scottish National Short Course Championships 2010 Laura Lamb travelled up to Glasgow to take part in the Scottish National Short Course Competition. As this was an open competition against mainly older swimmers Laura was aiming for personal best times and to broaden her experience of swimming at national level. Her first swim was 50m backstroke and she achieved a good personal best time of 32.45 coming 23rd overall and 3rd fastest of the 14 year olds, she also achieved a personal best time in her 200m backstroke and swam well in her freestyle and IM. Her best swim was on the last day when she achieved a personal best time of 1.08.65 for her 100m backstroke, again 23rd overall out of 80 and 4th in her age group. The star of the competition was Hannah Miley who achieved 10 national golds and is now preparing for the Commonwealth games. It was a great experience for Laura to be swimming in the same events as such exciting british talent and to achieve such good times. Thanks to Sue Albutt for this report!
DEVON COUNTY
COMPETITION PROGRAMME 2010
Results of time trials for B1, B2 and C available here
Criteria for squad movement now available on squads page.
Plymouth Leander Level 1 Long Course Meet Two swimmers attended the Plymouth Leander Level 1 Long Course Christmas meet at Millfields (not club supported) looking for improved times. The meet kicked off on the Friday evening with the mixed 1500m free with Megan (Bowen) swimming an absolutely amazing race where she came in 10 secs under the national time for the 800m at the split (improving on her national time achieved at Cardiff) and stormed home in an incredible time of 18:36:37 - a huge 35 seconds inside the 12yr old national time and some 20 seconds inside the 13yr old national time! This performance, taking Gold and a new Meet record, prompted comments by the announcers at the high standard of coaching at Dinnaton
producing results like this! A very proud moment!! On the Saturday Megan competed in the 200m free - a huge task to switch from 1500 to 200 but she attacked it with real spirit and determination taking Gold in a time of 2:18:26 just 0.78secs outside the national time! David Hammond then swam a fantastic 200m Back storming home with a great 4 second PB of 2;47:75 only 4 secs off his national time! The two Dinnaton swimmers did the club proud at a really well attended meet up against really tough competition from all over the UK and even including swimmers from Dubai!
Thanks to Sandy Bowen for this report!
Congratulations to the Dinnaton Team for a Fabulous Effort in the Final Round of the Arena National Swimming League!
The final round of the National swimming league was held at Riverside Leisure Centre in Exeter on Saturday 12th December. With fewer swimmers available than in previous rounds, it was a hard task before them, but one that the team rose to and showed their true colours!
A tense crowd watched the swimmers moving closer and closer towards the leading club only missing out on the top position by a small margin. The Open boys team took us home in style by winning the final event with ease.
Team points were
Clevedon - 187 Dinnaton - 183 Glamorgan Valleys - 147 Newton Abbot - 144 Stroud - 83
New B1 Squad Attendance record now on the squads page.
Welsh Capital Open Meet at Cardiff International Pool
The Welsh Capital open meet was held at the newly built Cardiff international pool, despite the weather the swimmers arrived full of enthusiasm and determination to achieve. The weekend started with a blaze of glory as Megan Bowen achieved her first national time in the 800m Freestyle and took the gold medal. The medal winners were
Megan Bowen - Gold 800m Freestyle, Silver 400m Freestyle, Bronze 200m Freestyle Sally Carter - Gold 100m Butterfly Harriet Tuck - Silver 800m Freestyle Laura Lamb - Bronze 200m Backstroke Callum Clay - Silver 100m Backstroke, Silver 50m Backstroke Ben Gittens - Silver 200m Freestyle, Silver 200m Breaststroke, Silver 100m Breaststroke Ryan Moreno-Chamorro - Bronze 50m Breaststroke, Silver 200m Breaststroke William Potter - Silver 200m Backstroke
Some exciting swims and personal best times were produced throughout the weekend by the team, in particular Roisin Vosper, Chris Farmer, Faye Hammond, David Hammond,Josie Bray and Brad Mullarkey. Special thanks to Alan Rooker who lead the team throughout the weekend so positively and made all the difference to their achievements.
Dinnaton Junior
Club Championships due to them having to be slotted in to suit the Club's busy program and by default this has set a trend that hopefully will be carried on in future years. The Junior Championships were held over Five sessions where 16 events were swum with only two exceptions from the full Olympic Program which were the 400 IM and 1500 freestyle. In excess of 45 swimmers took part and it would be accurate to say that we just comfortably achieved all swims within
the allocated time. to compete and achieve Devon Qualifying times for the coming Devon Championships which will be held in the first three months of 2010. I am sure that more Devon Times have been achieved by our juniors this year than ever before. The age group of the swimmers taking part was .7 - 13
years and it would be difficult to find a more keen group anywhere in
sport. for their friends and rivals in a sporting demonstration second to none and I was very proud of them to say the least. I commend this spirit to all parents who are wondering whether their children should be involved intensely in a sport as a terrific opportunity in positive mental and physical, child development. day finishing on Monday 30th where all 45 swimmers turned up for a grand
finale. Championships was on Sunday morning when we found that we had a spare hour and asked for volunteers from B2 for an extra event, the 800 freestyle for boys and girls. Twelve hands instantly shot up and it would be fair to say that if I could bottle their genuine enthusiasm I could make
millions. We also swam 5 full heats of the 200 butterfly. in age groups which will probably take a week but suffice it to say that the Club is extremely proud of their junior competitors, and if the seniors can demonstrate a fraction of their spirit, their championships too will be a resounding
success. officials and the coaching staff who together have produced a wonderful event. Arena National Swimming League results and league table
12 good reasons to join Dinnaton swimming club
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Outstanding coaching team
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Exeter Long Course Meet - Millfi
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