Arena Premier League 2024 - Round 2 Report
Another fantastic evening in Macclesfield with fast filled racing, lots of cheering and orange army everywhere! Amazing performance with good skills, determination and fire!
18 First Place Finishers! (WOW)
Male 13& Under Medley Relay- Gabe Holt, George Pearce, Gus Fraser and Jack Finkemeyer
Female 15& Under Free Relay- Kate Schillinger, Emily Lines, Isabelle Fletcher, Lily Owen
Female Open Medley Relay- Kate Schillinger, Lois Inch, Amy Kenworthy, Carys Roberts
Female 13& Under 100 Brst - Hattie Lawson
Male 13& Under 100 Brst - George Pearce
Female 15& Under 100 Back- Kate Schillinger
Male Open 100 Fly- Lewis Turner
Female Open 100 Back- Kate Schillinger
Female 11 & Under 50 Brst- Ruby Stonier
Male 13& Under 100 Fly- Gus Fraser
Female 15& Under 100 Free- Izzy Fletcher
Female 15 & Under 100 Brst- Emily Lines
Male 15 & Under 100 Brst- Jefferson Jones
Female Open 100 Free- Carys Roberts
Male 13& Under Free Relay- Gabe Holt, George Pearce, Gus Fraser and Jack Finkemeyer
Female 15& Under Medley Relay- Kate Schillinger, Emily Lines, Annabelle Chan, Lily Owen
Female Open Freestyle Relay- Carys Roberts, Amy Kenworthy, Kate Schillinger, Izzy Fletcher
Squad Relay- Kate Schillinger, Ciaran Turner, Ruby Stonier, Hattie Lawson, Ben Marshall, Gus Fraser, Carys Roberts, Lewis Turner
Next huge thank you to Lewis Turner, Ethan Wright, Jay Cushen & Carys Roberts for travelling back from University to swim the round for us & to Ethan Jones who swims with the RAF who also made a special effort to come!
Thank you to Jackie Schillinger and Stuart Fraser for officiating. To Andy for keeping the troops calm, collected & controlled behind the blocks, to Sue, Claire & John for TM’ing & once again Dani for TM and all her work behind the scenes doing this humungous job!
We now move our efforts onto the final where we need to be on our absolute best game, no room for error! Can everyone make the upmost effort to be at training continuously for the next 5 weeks- arena league practice every Wednesday night as normal, so please be there, not just for yourselves but for your whole team. We can’t make the improvements we want to without your regular attendance. Expect teams to up their games… it will happen, and we need to really do the same to stand a fighting chance!!
So… time to get our head down, focus and then let’s go to Blackpool and rock the place… the orange army will arrive in force with an opportunity of making history with potentially our highest placing ever. Top 2 teams make the National final in Cardiff next March and it’s all to play for!!
Molly & Andy