A Developing Dinnaton Team

An enthusiastic and committed team of Dinnaton swimmers

competed in the first weekend of the Development Gala

which was held at Exeter Pyramids Leisure Centre.

In the younger age group of 9 – 11 years the team was

Eleanor McCoy, Chloe Thompson, Tait Marles, Ben Gittens,

James Senior, Quinn Jones, Travis Bramley, Ben Douglass,

Ben Collins, Amber Bartlett and Charlotte Stemp.

All of the swimmers gave their best and were rewarded

with some excellent personal best times. Ben Gittens

showed his strength in the youngest age group and took

1st place in the 200m breaststroke, 200 IM and 200m

backstroke. Chloe Thompson was just pipped to the post

taking the silver in the 100m, 200m and 800m freestyle.

She also finished in second place in the 200m backstroke

and 100m butterfly, however she took over the lead in the

200m breaststroke bringing home gold in this event.

Tait Marles gave some great performances finishing in the

bronze medal position in both the 200m and 800m freestyle.

The older swimmers aged between 12 and 14 years

arrived for the second day of the Development Gala with

much to live up to. They took on the challenge and brought

home 5 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronze medals between them.

Tom Carter began by taking 1st place in the 200m

breaststroke with his brother Sam finishing 3rd in the same

event. Andrew Kett showed stamina and pace completing

the gruelling 200m butterfly in the bronze medal position.

Josie Bray dominated many of the events that she entered

finishing in first place in the 400m freestyle, 100m backstroke

and 100m butterfly, just missing out on gold in the 200m

freestyle finishing in second place. Roisin Vosper was the

champion in the 200m breaststroke event and finished in style

almost ten seconds ahead of the next competitor. She then

went on to take the silver medal in both the 200m and 400m

freestyle events.

Jack Edwards, Faye Hammond and Becci Winstone swam

with style and determination, making significant progress

in their own age groups. Congratulations to everyone who

competed and good luck for this weekend!

Dinnaton storm ahead at the ASA

South West Region Sprint Meet.

David Hammond, our youngest swimmer at the Regional

Sprint Gala this year swam some excellent personal best

times swimming the 50m freestyle in 34.43 and the butterfly

event in 39.28 and in this stroke finishing in 6th place.

Megan Bowen achieved two places at the top of the leader

board finishing the freestyle and IM events first. She achieved

the excellent time of 37.42 in the 50m Backstroke and just

missed out on first place in the butterfly sprint. She took the

gold medal overall finishing top in her age group.

Sally Carter swam with increased pace to take two second

places, in the freestyle event she went under 30 seconds

for the first time with 29.48 and also swam a good personal

best time of 32.50 in the 50m butterfly. She finished fourth

overall at the conclusion of the sprint meet.
Laura Lamb achieved two firsts in the freestyle and

backstroke as well as second in the 100m IM. Laura’s times

of 28.90 in freestyle and 33.18 in backstroke and 32.93 in

butterfly were great achievements and showed her strength

at Sprint events. Her consistency across the events was

awarded with the gold medal in the 13 years age group

See results page for more information

Dinnaton's regional champion!

ASA South West Championships at Millfield

An impressive number of swimmers from Dinnaton gained

qualifying times for the ASA south west championships

this year. The Youth Championships saw Jasmin Morgan

competing in the 400 IM, 50m Backstroke 200m

Backstroke, 100m Backstroke, 400m Freestyle and

1500m Freestyle. Hannah Kett demonstrated her

Breaststroke expertise in 100m Breaststroke, 200m

Breaststroke and 200 IM. Stephanie Bennett gave

some strong performances in the 100m Breaststroke

and 200 IM. Charlotte Evans achieved extremely well

in many events including the 200m Backstroke, 200m

Freestyle, 100m Backstroke, 100m Butterfly and 200m

Butterfly. Harriet Tuck qualifying for the first time at

these championships demonstrated her long distance

skills in the 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle and 1500m

Freestyle. Callum Clay took a break from his studies to

race to the finish in the 100m Backstroke, 50m

Backstroke.

Tom Bromley showed terrific spirit in his races of 100m

Backstroke 100m Breaststroke 200m IM and 200m

Breaststroke. Josh Dunn looked fully recovered from

injury and took on the South West swimmers in the 50m

Butterfly, 100m Butterfly, 50m Freestyle and 100m

Freestyle. Jasmin Morgan took third place in the 1500m

Freestyle and Harriet Tuck finished sixth in her age group

of this event.

In the age group championships, Megan Bowen was the

star of the show taking the gold medal for the 200m

Butterfly, this is an incredible achievement for a young

swimmer at regional level. Megan went on to swim very

competitively in the 100m and 200m Freestyle events and

came in fifth place for both. She continued to swim at her

best finishing fourth in the 400m Freestyle event. Megan

also reached the final of the 200 IM and narrowly missed

some national qualifying times.

Laura Lamb qualified for 100m Freestyle, 200m Backstroke,

400m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 200m IM and 100m

Backstroke, in a tough age group she achieved new

personal best long course times and finished high up in

the Bagcats category. David Hammond qualified for the

200m Backstroke and finished in ninth place, an excellent

long course performance. Sally Carter entered the 100m

Backstroke with her first qualifying time for Western

Counties and swam with determination. William Potter

swimming at the first time in a regional competition

achieved the impressive feat of qualifying for the final

in both of the 100m and 200m Backstroke events.

Dinnaton Clubshop has special offer swimsuits

for only £7.00, click on 'shop' for more!

(15% of the cost of every purchase is returned

to the club for us to reinvest in extra pool time and resources!)

Take a look!

Events page now has links to videos of many of the

olympic events.

Don't forget The Tuck Shop!

Now sells Dinnaton hats, swans goggles and sports bars

which have been recommended by the chief coach!

Come along and have a look next Thursday 5-8pm!