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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%.
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!
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
ASA South West Championships
This weekend saw a considerable team of Dinnaton swimmers attending the regional championships at Hutton Moor Leisure centre. The team were Tom Bromley Callum Clay Chris Farmer Josh Dunn Harriet Tuck Jasmine Dunn Jasmin Morgan Laura Lamb Charlotte Evans Sally Carter Megan Bowen The team was stronger than in previous years with a larger number of swimmers qualifying for the meet, including some younger swimmers. A number of the swimmers swam to the finish in impressive personal best times.
ASA south west championships results
BAGCATS AWARDS FOR DINNATON YOUNGSTERS The final day of the City of Plymouth Championship was held on Saturday 24 October at Central Park and once again saw Dinnaton younger swimmers hold centre stage. Swimmers taking part this weekend were: 9
Years Girls – Abigail Bartlett, Ella Windle, Ellie McCoy, Charlotte
Craigie The morning session saw senior swimmers Ryan & Laura Moreno-Chamorro competing for Dinnaton. Ryan won the 50m Breaststroke in a new City of Plymouth record time and claimed the bronze medal for the 50m Butterfly in the afternoon. Laura claimed bronze in the 50m Butterfly and 100m Breaststroke before claiming her first gold of the meet in the 400m Individual Medley. In the afternoon session it was time once again for the young swimmers of Dinnaton to take up the challenge and they did not disappoint with performances every bit as good as the first weekend. In the 11 year 100m Breaststroke Chloe Thompson swam magnificently to take the gold medal and her time meant that she was the youngest qualifier for the Championship final, where she swam admirably for 6th place. In addition to her breaststroke achievements, Chloe claimed silver in the 200m Freestyle. Dinnaton swimmers’ excelled in the 9 year old 200m Freestyle to take 5 of the first 8 places. Gold medal went to Eleanor McCoy, silver to Abigail Bartlett and bronze to Ella Windle. In the boys 9 year old 200m Individual Medley, Ben Gittens continued his performances from the first weekend taking the gold medal with a time just outside a championship record. Jack Northmore matched his team-mate in the 10 year old age group with another gold medal to add to his collection. At the end of the gala it was time to see who had swam consistently well across both weekends to win BAGCAT awards. Dinnaton swimmers dominated the younger age group.
Dinnaton claimed 4 of the first 5 positions in the 9 year old girls BAGCAT. First place was won by Abigail Bartlett with team-mate Eleanor McCoy close behind in the second place. Ella Windle swam well throughout to claim 4th as did Emilia Long for 5th position.
Not to be outdone, it was the same story for the 9 year old boys BAGCAT where Dinnaton once again took 4 of the first 5 places. Ben Gittens, who dominated the gala for 9 year olds, was confirmed in a well deserved first place, confirming his reputation as one of the leading 9 year old swimmers in the county.
second place for James Senior, 4th place to Quinn Jones and 5th place to Harry Tebbet. Jack Northmore showed plenty of determination and lots of swimming talent to hold off some talented local opposition to take first place in the 10 year old boys BAGCAT. In a very tough and tight competition, Chloe Thompson claimed joint second place in the 11 year old girls BAGCAT, only 12 points behind the winner. In the 13 year old boys BAGCAT Elliot Millington took 6th place. Congratulations must be given to all Dinnaton swimmers who performed superbly across both weekends of the City of Plymouth gala, with many personal best times achieved (see attached Dinnaton swimmer results from Day 3). Dinnaton’s overall tally included 28 gold medals, 17 silver medals and 9 bronze medals as well as 5 championship record times.
Thanks to Development Coach John Wright, Carolyn Northmore and all of young assistant coaches whose efforts are helping the young Dinnaton swimmers realize their potential.
Thanks to Mike Moreno-Chamorro for this great report.
City of Plymouth Championship Report First Weekend
2009 was an amazing 48; comprising 21 Gold, 15 Silver and 12 Bronze which has given a real lift to the young squad who have been training together under Development Coach John Wright, ably assisted by
Carolyn Northmore and a team of young assistant coaches. and
Emilia Long
the coaches have worked very hard to develop the latent talent which is undoubtedly at Dinnaton.
their birthday’s in the last couple of months and after this first outing to display their ability, the coaching staff and all who observed their efforts were well impressed.
and District Clubs by winning three events: 200 Butterfly, 200 Back Stroke and 200 Individual Medley. Two unfortunate DQ’s where she was the fastest competitor prevented her from doing a clean sweep but the writing is on the wall for a very good future and she is learning fast.
Medal Tally. Ellie McCoy was first in 200 Breaststroke and 100 Individual Medley. Ella Windle won Silver in 200 Individual Medley, 200 Butterfly, 200 Individual Medley and Bronze in 100 Individual Medley. Milly Long was 3rd in 200 Breaststroke and well placed in her other events.
Breaststroke in a Cities Competition Record, 200 Butterfly, and 200 Freestyle in another Competition Record. To top this off he won the 100 Individual Medley in yet another, leaving just the 200 Individual Medley in the next round. Who can stop this prodigious talent?
James Senior in an early heat broke the existing 200 Breaststroke record but had to settle for silver after Ben’s swim. Still he swam beautifully and there is so much to come over the next year and beyond as he proved with a third place in 200 Freestyle. Quinn Jones won silver in 200 Freestyle and Harry Tebbet silver in 200 Breaststroke – our 9 years boys and girls were AWESOME............
terms this weekend as he won all but one of his races, 100 Individual Medley, 200 Butterfly and 200 Back Stroke. He had to be satisfied with 3rd in 200 Breaststroke but I am sure he went home well chuffed with himself after a fantastic weekend. Roll on the Devon Championships when we will be looking for great things.
recently promoted to “A” squad status was magnificent in a very strong age-group and she was first in 100 Front Crawl, 100 Individual Medley, 100 Butterfly, and 200 Individual Medley. She was 2nd in 200 Breaststroke and 400 Freestyle and 3rd in 100 Butterfly Championship.
between them with Laura winning three silvers in 400m Freestyle, 100 Back Stroke and 200 Individual Medley. She won bronze in 200 Breaststroke and 100 Individual Medley. Ryan won gold in 100 Breaststroke, 100 Breaststroke Championship and 200 Breaststroke.
He also won silver in 100 Back Stroke and bronze in 100 IM swam really well and all achieved very good PB’s
Thanks to John Wright for this fabulous report.
Results
for Dinnaton here
The future looks golden for dinnaton! Carn Brea Open Meet at Penzance Leisure Centre began with the toughest event of the meet, the 200m Butterfly. Megan Bowen got the competition and her birthday off to a tremendous start winning it with ease. She then went on to win four more gold medals in the 200m freestyle, 200 IM, 100 butterfly and 100m Freestyle. In addition to this she achieved three championship records to complete a very successful day for the young swimmer.
Charlotte Evans also won gold at the 200m Butterfly in a new championship record, she went on to achieve second place in the 100m breaststroke event as well. Laura Lamb smashed the championship record in the 100m Backstroke winning gold in a time of 1.12.60, she also finished in first place in the 200m IM and took a silver and bronze in the 200m freestyle and 100m breaststroke respectively.
Callum Clay swam a terrific 100m backstroke taking gold in a time of 1.03.00 this was a new championship record for Carn Brea and a excellent personal best time for Callum. David Hammond achieved a championsip record in the 200m Freestyle taking yet another gold at this middle distance event, even more impressively he gained the meet record and gold in the 200 backstroke which was a 12 second personal best time and a qualifying time for the year above at the Western Counties.
The success was continued by Sally Carter who won four golds in the following events,100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly and 200m Backstroke,she also took a silver in the 100m Backstroke, another considerable achievement by a Dinnaton swimmer.
William Potter took the fourth gold for a Dinnaton swimmer at the 200m Freestyle event as well as first place in the 200m Backstroke with an excellent new championship record. He went on to win gold in the 200m IM, 100m backstroke and 100m Freestyle showing tremendous promise for the future. Harriet Tuck swam with power to take the gold in the 200m backstroke smashing an incredible 9 seconds off her personal best time. She went on to take silver in the 100m backstroke and bronze in the 100m freestyle.
Another success story was the performance given by Jasmin Morgan in the 200m backstroke where she took gold in a time of 2.33.80. Chris Farmer achieved some great personal best times swimming in the highly competitive 16 and over category, he took the silver medal in the 200m Freestyle and the bronze in the 200m IM. He and Callum Clay entertained the crowd in the 50m freestyle engaging in a battle of will and strength that resulted in identical times of 26.81 for them both!
Josie Bray, Tait Marles and Faye Hammond showed impressive improvements in personal best times, narrowly missing out on the medals.
Results of Carn Brea Open
Dinnaton are in the zone! Bring it on!
In a friendly gala at Exeter Pyramids, Dinnaton demonstrated that they were more than ready for the first round of the National Swimming league. The 11 and under girls showed great promise for the future of the club and the boys from this age group took their place at the top of the leaderboard. The 13 and under girls showed the breadth of their talents, the boys were small in number but great in strength.
In the 15 year old category Brad and the 'borrowed boys' made good of a tricky situation with a particularly exceptional swim in the breaststroke event. The girls were full of pace and determination and were close behind Exeter City in most of the events.
In the open category the men were very competitive and keen to keep ahead of their Exeter rivals, with many swimmers swimming up in the women's events it was a tough challenge but one which all the girls rose to admirably. This was a great show from Dinnaton and one which signalled their readiness for the competition ahead.
End of season celebration at Plymouth Leander Open Meet
The final event of the Dinnaton season took place on July 18th and 19th at Central Park pool. Team spirit was terrific as they were motivated and inspired to achieve by Head Coach Alan Rooker. The small team made an impact on the meet and many swimmers won their heats with confidence.
David Hammond finished in second place in the 100m butterfly event and was the only Dinnaton swimmer to medal in this stroke. The backstroke events demonstrated the improved technique of many of the swimmers in this stroke. Laura Lamb swam an incredible time of 2.30 to take the gold medal in the 200m distance. Laura went on to take the bronze award in both the 50m and 100m backstroke. Callum Clay missed out on gold by 0.02 in the open sprint event he took silver in 100m and bronze in the 200m event. In the 100m backstroke David Hammond finished in 3rd position but improved this place by one in the longer distance taking the silver medal. Charlotte Evans completed this impressive show by taking the bronze medal in the 15 and over 200m backstroke.
breaststroke, beating her competitor from Milton Keynes in an exciting and close event. Ben Gittens finished in first place in the same event and Roisin Vosper gave a determined performance to improve her personal best time by a number of seconds. Ben Douglass took 2 seconds off his 50m breaststroke time which will surely impact on his performance in the longer distances of this stroke. Faye Hammond improved her personal best times at 50m breaststroke and backstroke by over a second in each event.
included a silver medal for Ben Gittens in the 200m event. Sally Carter took the bronze medal in both the 100m and 400m and also shaved just over 5 seconds off her 200m personal best time. Harriet Tuck swam with tenacity to improve her personal best times in a number of freestyle events, having done much open water training recently it is clear that she is leading the way in endurance swimming at Dinnaton. David Hammond fought through to take third place in 100m freestyle. Andrew Kett swam some strong and confident 200m and 400m freestyle swims and helped keep team spirit high. Success in the Individual Medley came with Ben Gittens taking second in the 200m IM.
Dinnaton swimmers return triumphant from the toughest race of the year!
Harriet Tuck and James Flanagan made their club proud by taking the two of the top three places at the prestigious Plymouth Breakwater race. James Flanagan took an impressive lead and despite challenges from the leading pack reached the finish well ahead.
Harriet Tuck in her first open water event, delighted the Dinnaton crowd assembled by the quay, by coming in a close third with a great time of 34 minutes. This success was well deserved and down to her dedication and training in all weather! Thank goodness that today there was not a jellyfish in sight!!
Margaret Gardner Open The Margaret Gardner Open which was held over the weekend 25-26th July was attended by 21 Dinnaton swimmers and as usual it was a great pleasure to spend a couple of days with our younger swimmers and observe how they have developed over the last 12 months. This year 7 of our 8 year old swimmers had entered the event and they made up a large proportion of the 17 swimmers taking part in this age group. Most
had never competed before. Swimmers" all under the age of thirteen who came away with lots of honours but I can honestly say that everyone without exception came
away with the intense satisfaction of doing their absolute best. Hammond who won 10 first places between them but the highlight of the two days competition was for me the enthusiasm shown by all especially in the 200 freestyle where everyone took part even our 8 year olds
with huge PBs. Hammond, Maisie Marles, Ella Windle, Taylor Wynn, Quinn Jones, Emilia Long, Ellie McCoy, James Senior, Charlotte Craigie, Ben Gittins, Travis Bramley, William Austin, David Hammond, Jack Northmore, Tait Marles, Ben Douglass, Rebecca Johns, Faye Hammond, Luke Honey.
By John Wright Success at Tiverton Sprint Meet A small team of developing swimmers aged between 9 and 11 years attended the Tiverton sprint meet on Sunday 12th July. Ben Gittens swam with pace and consistency and took gold in all five events finishing top in his age group.
David Hammond touched in third place in both the 50m back stroke and 100m IM and went on to take silver in the 50m freestyle.
James Senior finished in second place in the 50m breast stroke after a terrific swim. Quinn Jones and Ben Douglass reached several finals after some terrific personal best times.
Both Tait Marles and Faye Hammond swam with developing technique and style in their respective age groups. Another great effort from the Dinnaton team!
A tense night! A great result!
Dinnaton finish third in Cornwall and West Devon League The final of the Cornwall and West Devon league took place at Bodmin Dragon leisure centre on Saturday 11th July to a packed crowd of supporters. It was an eventful night for the Dinnaton team,with some of the team getting lost and the lights blowing out during the meet. After challenging the leaders during the competition Dinnaton finished an impressive third place. It was a great team effort and one that demonstrated the strength of this small squad of talented swimmers.
Cardiff Open Meet 2009
Four swimmers attended the Cardiff Open meet, they were magnificent, they all got into their finals, and there were swimmers on the podium regularly. Megan Bowen came back with 4 gold’s and a silver and William Potter took 2 bronze with fantastic personal best times. Callum Clay reached his first Championship final, and David Hammond swam extremely well and qualified for several finals, before having to withdraw due to illness. The meet was very well organised, and the level of competition was high, with 4 British and Welsh records falling during the meet. There were teams from 57 clubs from the UK and Ireland. Dinnaton were the loudest supporters there – small in number but big in voice!
Successful young swimmers at Devon development
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.
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.
with style and determination, making significant progress in their own age groups. Congratulations to everyone who competed and good luck for this weekend!
The second weekend of the championships was equally impressive for the Dinnaton team and saw successes for Chloe Thompson taking the gold in 100m backstroke and 100m breaststroke, silver in 200 IM and 100 IM and bronze in 400m freestyle. Ben Gittens took gold in 200m freestyle and the 100m IM. Andrew Kett achieved the best time for his age group in the 1500m time trial. All the swimmers demonstrated their developing technique and pace and showed that these younger swimmers have a promising future.
The 12 to 14 year olds were not to be outclassed however and many more gutsy performances led to Roisin Vosper taking bronze in the 200 IM, Tom Carter gaining silver in the 100 breaststroke and bronze in both the 200 free and 200m IM. Nicholas Hosgood went on to finish in the following positions in his smaller age group, gold in 200m IM and 100m breaststroke, silver in the 200m freestyle and bronze in the 100m IM. Josie Bray finished a close second in the 100m freestyle, 200m backstroke and took the bronze in the 100IM.
In the bagcats competition the following Dinnaton swimmers finished in the top three, Ben Gittens 1st, Chloe Thompson 2nd and Tom Carter and Roisin Vosper 3rd. This was a terrific achievement
and one of which the club can be proud.
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. 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 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.
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.
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. Massive victory for Dinnaton in Cornwall! A wonderful team effort from Dinnaton swimmers made for an impressive performance in Round 2 of the Cornwall and West Devon League. Everyone gave their best but particular credit should go to the under 13 and 15 boys teams who were small in number but produced some incredible results!
Dinnaton won 35 of the 51 events and finished with a team total of 179 points. In second place were St Austell with 114 points, third were Newquay with 108 and in fourth position were Penzance who finished with 103 points.
Dinnaton look ready to take on the top six in the league at the Final on Saturday July 11th. Come along and support your team!
One of the Top 3 in Devon!
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Exeter City SC ..................................493 to take the third place in the prestigious Devon Interclub Gala.
It was down to the very last competitor in the very last event and Josh did the club proud swimming 50m in just 25.17 seconds!!! See if you can spot him in all the splash! The swimmers were fast off the blocks!
Dinnaton prove themselves to be The Best Small Club in Devon!!
The team that Dinnaton took to the interclub gala was one of the best in the small club's history. All the competitors gave their very best and the relay teams were awesome!
More Photos from Interclub on Swimmers page.
Dinnaton Dominate
in Round 1 Devon League, the Dinnaton team began their campaign at Newton Abbot. Their opposition was Kingsbridge Kingfishers, Newton Abbot and Tavistock.
They left the opposition on the blocks and won the first three events of the night. This convincing start began a terrific performance by the Ivybridge based club, who won nearly half of the fifty one events and came a close second in many more. Everyone in the team made their contribution to the success. The 11 and under boys and the 13 and under girls relay teams won both their medley and freestyle events.
Chris Farmer competing in the Men’s Open 100 freestyle knocked several seconds off his personal best time finishing in just 56 seconds.
Josh Dunn returned from injury to swim a convincing butterfly leg in the successful Men’s open medley relay.
Full Results Cornwall and West Devon League
Incredible haul of medals at Easter Meet
The Weston Super Mare meet over the Easter weekend has always been popular with the Dinnaton swimmers and this year was no exception. Adam Farmer came home laden with nine awards, four golds, two silvers and three bronze. He took the golds in 100 IM, 200 IM, 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle, an incredible achievement in one weekend. Megan Bowen also made a significant impact taking three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Megan’s golds were in 50m butterfly, 50m freestyle and 200m butterfly. Another up and coming young swimmer Ben Gittens brought home five awards, one first place in 100m freestyle, two second and two third place trophies. Chris Farmer added considerably to the Farmer haul by taking gold in the gruelling 400m IM event, along with a silver and two bronze awards.
of medals in the backstroke and IM events, William taking top honours in the 100m backstroke. Laura Lamb took another four awards showing her strength particularly in 200m Freestyle where she finished first. Brad Mullarkey literally flew across the pool to take silver in the 50m butterfly. Tom Bromley was third in the 100m breaststroke and Tom Carter took the same award in the 200m event.
many swimmers gaining qualifying times for regional events. Many returned to Devon with improved times and confidence in readiness for the busy summer season ahead, these included Katy McCreery, Stephanie Bennett, Roisin Vosper, Harriet Tuck, Grace Cunningham, Callum Clay, Jasmin Morgan, Jasmine Dunn, Charlotte Evans, Sam Carter and Ben Douglass.
See
Results page for more....
Strong Performances in the Relay Gala
The Devon County relay gala at Central Park pool on Saturday 28th March saw a positive and ambitious Dinnaton squad begin their campaign. A strong team of 9 and 10 year old boys led the way. Ben Gittens, Jack Northmore, David Hammond and Travis Bramley showed their competitive edge to finish just behind the Leander team in the silver position for both the freestyle
and medley relays. Harriet Tuck and Grace Cunningham showed great style in the 15 – 16 years age group by winning the silver medal in the medley relay and taking a well-deserved bronze in the freestyle event. Callum Clay, Tom Bromley, Chris Farmer and Alex Pearce claimed the bronze medal after their successful performance in the medley event
in this age group. in their performances. The 13 and 14 years girl’s team finished in the unfortunate position of fourth in both their relay events and just missed out on the medals. These relay successes will enable the swimmers to have self-belief and to aim high in the upcoming Interclub and Cornwall and West Devon competitions. (See
results page for more!) Dinnaton take the Sprint Gala by Storm
The Dinnaton machine kicked into action at the Devon County Sprint Gala with swimmers from the club taking 9 top positions in the individual events. Ben Gittens and Josie Bray both took top place in their age group for points from the events. Ben had previously taken first place in the 9 years 50m butterfly, freestyle and backstroke, an incredible achievement and one of which both he and his coach can be proud. Josie Bray won both the freestyle and butterfly events in the 14 years girl’s category and also took the bronze position in the backstroke. Brad Mullarkey showed enormous potential in achieving much improved times in the sprint meet as well as taking top honours in the butterfly and backstroke 13 year old competition. He then went on to take the silver position in the freestyle.
Chloe Thompson finished in first place in the breaststroke race and also achieved second place in the butterfly, a promising start for a young swimmer. Both Quinn Jones and Tom Parry-Jones just missed out on gold when they touched in second position in the breaststroke and fly events. Jack Northmore made a significant impression finishing in third position in both the butterfly and freestyle events. This was a strong performance by the Ivybridge based squad and there were much improved performances by a number of other Dinnaton swimmers notably; Tait Marles, Amber Bartlett, Charlotte Stemp, Travis Bramley, Ben Douglass, Tom Boyne, Emilia Long, Holly Craig, Faye Hammond, Eliza Tilbury, Becci Winstone and Sam Carter. With so many younger swimmers showing promise the club must
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Last Day of the Devon County Championships
Victrix and Victor awards For more photos click on swimmers page on the menu
Dinnaton finish Strongly The final weekend of the counties was a tremendous success for the competing swimmers from Dinnaton. Many swimmers achieved new personal best times and surprised themselves with great performances and times that they had not expected. David Hammond was the young star of the Championships taking two gold medals in this final weekend in both 200 IM and 200 Freestyle. Laura Lamb finished in third place in the hotly contested 200 Freestyle to take a bronze medal, as did Callum Clay showing his strength in the 100m backstroke. There was a bronze medal for Charlotte Evans in the 200 Freestyle as well as being only the second Dinnaton swimmer to make a championship final, where she finished the 200m fly in fourth place, an impressive achievement!
Bennett, Grace Cunningham, Wenna Carlson, Adam Farmer, Callum Clay, Tom Bromley, Chris Farmer, Laura Lamb, Harriet Tuck, David Hammond, Jasmine Dunn, Megan Bowen and Hannah Kett. Well done to all these for their achievements.
outside the finals but with excellent times, Tom Carter, Ben Carter, Sally Carter, Brad Mullarkey, Ross Gittens, William Potter and Jasmin Morgan should all be proud of some fantastic swimming performances.
It just keeps on getting better!
The third weekend of the county championships marked yet more success for the much improved Dinnaton athletes. The outstanding achievement was marked by gold medals for Ben Carter in the 50m backstroke and Laura Lamb in 100m freestyle. Silver medals were awarded for Jasmin Morgan in the 400m freestyle and Callum Clay for 50m backstroke. Ben Carter finished third in the 100m butterfly and gained a bronze medal as did Megan Bowen in 100m freestyle. Charlotte Evans made the significant achievement of bronze in both the 100m freestyle and 400m IM and Hannah Kett took a well-deserved bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke. In addition to these medals an incredible number of Dinnaton swimmers made the finals or top six in their age group, in the 50m backstroke Tom Bromley, Chris Farmer, Jasmin Dunn, Stephanie Bennett and Jasmin Morgan all reached the top six. In the 100m freestyle Ben Carter and Adam Farmer were both required to stay for the final session. The effect of the long course training at Yelverton, was to be seen in the 400m freestyle where 6 more swimmers from Dinnaton, made the age group finals, they were Adam Farmer, Chris Farmer, Megan Bowen, Laura Lamb, Sally Carter and Harriet Tuck.
The breaststroke event this weekend saw Charlotte Evans, Laura Lamb and Stephanie Bennett race 100m in the finals. Often the most important goal in entering the county championships is in achieving improved personal best times in order to gain qualifying times for other events in a competitively charged atmosphere. Much credit should be given therefore to Grace Cunningham, Wenna Carlson, Brad Mullarkey, Alysha Prowse, Roisin Vosper, William Potter and Tom Carter who smashed their previous best times.
Josh Dunn was unable to compete this weekend due to injury, he was much missed and we wish him a speedy recovery. For results from the county championships this weekend please click here.
Dinnaton take
on the countY's best! on a well prepared Dinnaton team. With excitement and trepidation the athletes began their campaign with the 800m freestyle event. Megan Bowen started with a fantastic swim of 10.54.08 which earned her a silver medal. Sally Carter was next on the blocks and showed grit and determination to achieve an impressive time despite losing her hat during the race! Jasmin Morgan stunned the crowd by completing the 32 lengths in just 10 minutes and took the club's first gold medal.The 15 years age group in this event was hotly contested by four Dinnaton swimmers, Hannah Kett and Harriet Tuck showed their strength in this event and achieved new personal best times. Stephanie Bennett and Grace Cunningham both gave braveperformances of which they should be proud.
and Brad Mullarkey achieved excellent times and narrowly missed the finals, Dinnaton began a comprehensive attack on the medals with David Hammond taking gold in the 200 backstroke in a western counties qualifying time of 3.05.92. Silvers were to be won by Adam Farmer and Tom Bromley in the 100m breaststroke and Jasmine Dunn took the 100m butterfly bronze medal with an impressive swim. There were a number of swimmers who just missed out on the medals coming in fourth or fifth place in the finals. Congratulations to Laura Lamb,Stephanie Bennett, Hannah Kett and Chris Farmer for their achievements in the finals.
the men’s 1500m freestyle, the only Dinnaton entrant was Brad Mullarkey who swam with determination to achieve a time of 20:20.35 and take fourth place. The next event was the girls 100 IM, in the 13 years age group Laura Lamb reached the finals and finished in fifth place, Sally Carter achieved an excellent personal best time of 1.17.54. Charlotte Evans just missed the medals finishing in fourth place. In the 15 years age group, Stephanie Bennett showed her true colours taking the bronze medal in a time of 1.13.96, Jasmine Dunn just missed out on the medals with another impressive time.
fourth place, Adam Farmer reached the finals and came fifth in a fast time of 2.51.85 and Tom Bromley took the gold medal in his age group. Ross Gittins also achieved an excellent time in this event. The final event of this session was the girls 200m backstroke, in this both Laura Lamb and Sally Carter smashed their personal best times and Laura finished fifth in the final. The medals were to come in the 14 year old age group from Charlotte Evans and Jasmin Morgan taking the silver and bronze medals respectively. Jasmine Dunn swam with confidence to finish just outside the medals in fourth place.
the Gold medal, Chris Farmer and Josh Dunn both finished in a time of just 34 seconds. Laura Lamb followed these performances with a tremendous swim in the 100 backstroke final finishing in fourth place against strong opposition. Also in the 100 backstroke Charlotte Evans took a well earned bronze medal and Jasmin Morgan reached the final finishing in fifth place.
of 1.10.12, Tom Bromley took a very competent silver and Josh Dunn finished in bronze position in the 16 and over category.
The final session of the weekend saw the women’s 200m breaststroke, Roisin Vosper began her county campaign with an outstanding personal best time of 3.10.29 and earned a place in the finals. Charlotte Evans swam smoothly into the final and collected the bronze medal in her age group. Both Stephanie Bennett and Grace Cunningham swam into the finals of the 15 year age group with Stephanie taking bronze. Hannah Kett made the significant step of reaching the championship final for the 200 breaststroke, the first Dinnaton swimmer this year. She gave a devastating performance and came in fourth place. Well done Hannah and all the swimmers who have strived to give their very best!
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great start to the new year categories and went on to finish in third place for the bronze medal in the 200m backstroke. Tom took silvers in the 50m breaststroke, 200m IM, 100m breaststroke, 50m Fly, a very consistent and impressive achievement! Adam Farmer continued the success of the boys team by winning the 13 and under 50m breaststroke event.
the silver medal. Hannah Kett shone in the 200m breaststroke to also take silver. Meg Bowen was impressive in the freestyle races, winning the 50m Free, finishing in second place in the 11 and under 400 freestyle, then coming third in 100 Freestyle. Laura Lamb won the 50m Freestyle event decisively in a time of 29.89, took the silver in the 100 freestyle and bronze in the 200 IM. Jasmin Morgan finished the weekend with a determined swim in the 200 backstroke which earned her a bronze medal. Brad Mullarkey, Andrew Kett, David Hammond, Stephanie Bennett, Sally Carter, Charlotte Evans and Faye Hammond achieved some excellent long course times in
preparation for the events in the coming year. Dinnaton's First World Champion Amy Croker, star of Dinnaton swimming won two bronze medals, a silver medal and a gold medal at the Down's Syndrome World Championships in Portugal. She took part in both individual and team events for Great Britain.
CLUB CAPTAIN ELECTION 2008 At the Club Captains election on Sunday 23rd November before the Club Championships Sprint Gala Jasmin Morgan was elected to the post of Girls Club Captain - Chris Farmer was re-elected to the post of Boys Club Captain - Well done to you both.
Western Counties Qualifying time for Harriet As a Swimming Coach - Occasionally one comes across a performance which gives you great pleasure. Harriet has been swimming at Dinnaton for around two years and in the main part without distinction. Both Chief Coach and Development Coach however agreed that one day soon Harriet would surprise the West Country with a stunning performance and so it happened on Sunday17th November when she took part in the Reverse Distance Events at Kingsbridge Swimming Pool. 15 Year Old Harriet was taking part in the 1500 metres for Ladies and achieved her first ever Western Counties Qualifying time- Who would have thought,you might say, but we were not surprised - "Well done Harriet - The first of many to come."
DINNATON CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS While Harriet was busy at Kingsbridge - the rest of the club were enjoying their first weekend of the Club Championships where they swim an Olympic program plus 50m events and the 100m Individual Memory. The highlight of the Sunday afternoon session was the 100 IM when no less than 100 swimmer took part in 25 heats. Considering that 40 of the swimmers had never ever swum in a competitive race before and that some of them were as young as 7, made this a remarkable event. Everyone started on the blocks and the turns were stunning. John our Development Coach assisted by his team, and all the junior swimmers had been working very hard on starts and turns and remarked that he was stunned with the outcome. Nobody could be singled out as everyone gave their all. Carrying on afterwards many of these youngsters went on to swim in the 200 Freestyle and 100 breaststroke with similar results. More to come when we have processed the results.
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