Liverpool and District Championships 2011 Pt2

Saturday saw the second and final day of the Liverpool and District Championships 2011 for the 53 Warriors of Warrington swimmers that took part.  Bringing home another 83 medals, 43 Golds, 24 Silvers and 16 Bronze, the children made the tally 161 medals overall.  Each 100m event had a final and quite a few of our swimmers qualified.

Michael Ross and Brendan Spencer reached the final of the 100m Backstroke and came 3^rd and 7^th whilst Bethany Young qualified for the 100m Breaststroke and came 5^th.  Again, Michael and Brendan reached the 100m Freestyle final with Michael coming 6^th whilst Brendan won the event. 

Rachel Heesom, Catherine Parker, Rebecca Pye, Kathleen Dawson and Aimee Harvey all qualified for the 100m Butterfly final which saw Rebecca collecting another trophy to add to her collection for 1^st place.  The other girls came 7^th, 5^th, 3^rd and 4^th and we saw Kathleen Dawson achieve an NQT for the event.  Rebecca, Catherine and Kathleen also made the 100m Backstroke final and came 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd and finally Adam Ravenscroft qualified for the 100m Breaststroke final and finished 3^rd. 

David Richardson and James Ross swam NQT’s in the 400 Freestyle event meaning we now have 8 swimmers who have qualified for 20 events so far for the Nationals.  Bagcat winners included Hollie Byron, 10, Bethany Young and Kathleen Dawson, 13, Hannah Wallis and Leah Evans, 14, Catherine Parker and Aimee Harvey, 15, Rebecca Pye and Rebecca Coy, 16 and for the Boys, William Camden, 9, Hugh Takemoto, 11, Aaron Hill and Oliver Houghton, 12, David Richardson, 13, Ewan Miller and Andrew McLay, 14 and Michael Ross, 15.  Rebecca Pye also won the Top Girl award.

Liverpool and District Championships 2011 Pt 1

This Saturday was the first day of the Liverpool and District Championships 2011 and Warriors of Warrington were well represented by a huge team of 58 swimmers.  For many of them it was their first outing representing their club and they didn’t disappoint.  Ranging from 9 year olds, Baylie Coates, Imogen Young and William Camden to 16 year old, Rebecca Pye there were many personal best times achieved.

Some of the heats were solely full of Warriors swimmers and we ended up winning a total of 78 medals, there were 30 Golds, 17 Silvers and 22 Bronze medals around the children’s neck.  For Rebecca, who is one of our club captains it was a great day as it was not only her birthday but she won gold in all of her events and she won quite a few trophies to go with those medals for the overall open winner of the events, showing the younger kids just what you can achieve.  Catherine Parker, Rebecca Pye, Rachel Heesom and Kathleen Dawson qualified for the 100m Freestyle final and at 13 Kathleen swam a fantastic 59.59 in her heat to qualify and she also won a trophy for overall open winner of the event.  They came 2^nd, 4^th, 7^th and 1^st respectively in the final. 

Brendan Spencer, our boys vice captain also made a final in the 100m Butterfly and came in 5^th.  Finally, James Ross swam a brilliant 200m Breaststroke and gained a national qualifying time by one tenth of a second!!!  Nothing like cutting it fine is there James!  The second half of the competition will be on Saturday 12^th February.

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Apologies for the incomplete report from the L&D’s at the weekend.  I didn’t stay quite until the end thinking I would be able to get the results from the last event and the last two finals off the internet on Sunday but unfortunately Liverpool and District’s website isn’t working.  Therefore I could only report upto event 17.  I will put the results of the last event and report on the two finals in next weeks report.

Liverpool Winter Meet 2011

Once the fog had lifted in Liverpool this weekend Warriors of Warrington Swimming Club had a brilliant weekend at the 50m Liverpool Aquatics Pool.  The Liverpool Winter Meet 2011 was the first meet back after Christmas for most of the swimmers and it proved to be a tough challenge but they certainly stepped up to the blocks!

Collecting a total of 16 Gold, 17 Silver and 15 Bronze medals between them was not good enough for our lot as they went on to win Visiting Club and brought back a huge and heavy trophy for their troubles.  David Richardson in the 200 Backstroke, Aaron Hill and Aaron Kirchin Brown in the 200 Butterfly achieved NQT’s bringing the total of national qualifiers to eight so far for the club.  Individual medal winners included Aaron Hill, Aaron Kirchin Brown, Adam Ravenscroft, Adam Poole, Andrew McLay, Catherine Ross, Catherine Parker, David Richardson, Ewan Miller, Hollie Byron, Hugh Takemoto, Imogen Young, James Ross, Kathleen Dawson, Leah Evans, Michael Ross, Oliver Houghton, Rachel Heesom, Rebecca Pye, Stanley Mainwaring and William Camden. 

Outstanding performance of the weekend has to go to Aaron Hill who came 1^st in his age group for all seven events that he entered earning him the Top Boy accolade in the 9 – 12 year olds category and a few quid too from the prize money.   Well done Warriors.

Bolton Mini League

A 31 strong team from the Warriors of Warrington travelled to the Selwyn Jones sports centre on Friday night along with teams from St Helens and Ashton Central to take part in the Bolton Mini League. The swimmers competed in both relay and individual events in an exciting, fast moving but very smooth running gala.

Fantastic relay performances by Elizabeth Buxton, Elena Forde, Hannah Wear, Rebecca Pearson, Oliver Galloway, Baylie Coates, Tobias Fox and George Hill saw Warriors storm into first place in all 6 team races.  Our individual swimmers also performed strongly in their respective events, winning 17 individual events. Our young team showed enthusiasm and support for their fellow team swimmers and a determination to do their best, making them worthy of the final result.

Warriors of Warrington won the evening with an outstanding 84 points by winning a total of 23 events out of a possible 30, followed by St Helens in 2^nd place and Ashton Central in 3^rd place.

Warriors on YouTube!

Well it had to happen at some point.  Warriors of Warrington are now on YouTube thanks to Sport Cheshire.  The video was produced to celebrate Warriors being selected as Cheshire & Warrington Club of the Year 2009.  Take a look at the video to hear some of our swimmers talking about how they feel about swimming for the club and the difference winning the award has made.