Winsford Swimming Club

Congratulations to all swimmers who raced in the Liverpool LC Spring Meet. Over the weekend we had 31 swimmers racing, ranging in ages and experience but as always we were looking to race with tremendous determination. This was our first LC meet of the season and the first in the National qualifying window. The results over the weekend were superb with many new LC PB's achieved and many medals won. Swimming of course is not just about winning medals but it is about learning from the races we do, there is no doubt we will all learn new things to execute in our next LC meet in a few weeks time. The results were extremely encouraging for us all especially with this being our first LC meet of 2017, the results achieved will give us a benchmark to build upon over the next two months. 

Medal Tally

Total: 44

Gold: 22

Silver: 11

Bronze: 14

Gold 

Jay Cushen: 400 IM, 50 Fly, 200 IM, 200 Bk, 200 Brst, 200 Fly,  

Adam Wright: 200 Free, 100 Free, 400 Free,  

Ethan Jones: 100 Bk, 200 Bk, 50 Bk,

Henry Oliver: 400 IM, 400 Free, 

Rory Armitt: 400 Free, 

Lottie Howman: 800 Free, 

Abbie Christopherson: 200 Fly, 

Finn Armitt: 200 Fly, 

Millie Riddick: 100 Bk, 

Jordan Gaskell: 200 Fly,  

Cameron Jones: 100 Bk,

Lewis Turner: 1500 Free 

Silver 

Jay Cushen: 100 Bk, 50 Free,

Ryan Wheeler: 100 Fly, 50 Fly, 

Rory Armitt: 200 Bk,

Lottie Howman: 100 Free,

Abbie Christopherson: 200 Free,

Ethan Wright: 400 IM, 

Millie Riddick: 200 Free 

Alex Moss: 200 Brst,

Jordan Gaskell: 100 Fly, 

 

Bronze

Lottie Howman: 200 Fly, 200 Free, 50 Free, 

Katie Woodbridge: 800 Free, 100 Fly, 

Jay Cushen: 200 Free, 

Abbie Christopherson: 800 Free, 

Finn Armitt: 100 Fly, 50 Fly, 

Ryan Wheeler: 200 Free, 

James Adamson: 1500 Free

Alex Moss: 1500 Free

  

Competitors were: Abbie Christopherson, Adam Wright, Alex Moss, Cameron Jones, Lottie Howman, Domi Dean, Millie Riddick, Ethan Jones, Ethan Wright, Finn Armitt, Georgia Williams, Harvey Zwijnen, Henry Oliver, Izzy Kay, Izzy Burton, James Adamson, Jay Cushen, Jonny Mullett, Jordan Gaskell, Josh Wilson, Katelyn Murray, Katie Wilson, Katie Woodbridge, Lewis Turner, Olivia Morley, Oscar Jolliffe, Becky Alderman, Rory Armitt, Ryan Wheeler, Theo Oliver, Will Murray.

Thank you very much to all swimmers who made the weekend such a great success and very enjoyable. Your attitude and deiscipline is second to none, always striving for improvement, I may not show it sometimes but everyday is a joy working with you.  I would also like to say a special thank you to Helen Wilson, Sarah Jane Armitt & Nigel Woodbridge, who were outstanding as team managers. Our team managers at all meets always bring happiness, joy and positivity to our swimmers and coaches which is very important and greatly appreciated. All swimmers raced tremendously well, but I would like to leave a special mention to Millie Riddick who has gone from strength to strength this season. Millie attends every single morning training session and has one of the furthest distances to travel to get to the pool, great commitment Well Done. I would also like to mention our three youngest swimmers Adam Wright, Lewis Turner and Theo Oliver all of which are under 12 years of age. All three raced superbly well in a LC pool for which they have limited racing experience. Well Done.

Again well done to all competitors, many swimmers have posted very fast LC ranking times so early in the National window which is very encouraging. We now move on forwards to the SM distance events on Friday evening and then the following weekend we go to Sheffield for the Derventio Meet.

Over the same weekend we also had six swimmers travel to Bolton to try and gain Regional QT's. The feedback I have gained was excellent with a number of swimmers gaining Regional QT's or going very close, also a good number of medals were achieved. Well done to Adam & Abbey Brown, Alissa Blackshaw, Ethan Wright, Henry Oliver and Alex Moss who were competing. 

To finish off this report a little paragraph which reflects our club:

Crawling is acceptable, Falling is acceptable, Puking is acceptable, Bleeding is acceptable, Sweat is acceptable, Pain is acceptable, Quitting is never, ever, ever acceptable. We are intense, we are obsessed, we are not normal, we say yes when others say no, we rise whilst others sleep, we are better today than we were yesterday, we will do what others will not, we control our destiny, we are on a quest, WE WILL NEVER STOP.

The key to success is consistency, consistency in attendance and consistency in training performance. Those swimmers who always attend and those swimmers who always train to a high level make the biggest gains.

See you all at the pool, lets work together. 

Apologies for any errors in the report. Thanks Dan.