Verity Forster received an award for outstanding sportswoman, at the North West Essex schools sports partnership sports awards evening 2010.

Verity had been chosen as outstanding sports woman for the Tabor family of schools, she went on to be picked as overall winner (girls) out of all the schools in North West Essex region, this covers some 19,000 children.

Verity received this award for her commitment to sport. In addition to swimming, Verity plays net ball for Braintree Town, represents Braintree at athletics, represents her school in a range of sports, Verity is also currently being graded for her brown belt in Karate

 

 

Nine swimmers travelled to Colchester Saturday 29th May to take part in the Colchester annual open meet. Medals were awarded for first to sixth place.

The first event of the day was the girls then the boys 4X25M individual medley, first swimmer up was nine year old Rebbecca Kitching who had a massive forty second personal best (PB) followed by Rebbecca Moloney (10) who took around eleven seconds off her PB and won a sixth place medal. Lennie Overbury (10) had a seven second PB, Verity Forster (10) had around eight seconds off her PB and a fifth place medal to celebrate. Lauren Hughes (11) also had a great PB taking around ten seconds off her PB, Georgia Harrod (9) also had a PB and a second place finish. George Burrell (10) had a nine second PB and a sixth place medal, Ryan Kelly (11) was the last Braintree swimmer in this event and had a PB and won a fourth place medal.

Next event was the 50M butterfly event Lennie Overbury had a PB to celebrate, as did Rebecca Moloney, with Georgia Harrod winning a silver medal in her age group. George Burrell had a PB and a sixth place medal to celebrate, with Ryan Kelly winning a fifth place medal in his race.

In the 50M breaststroke race Rebecca Moloney had a PB, with Rebecca Kitching ,Lennie Overbury and Verity Forster just missing their PB. Verity Warner-Moulding (10) had a PB and won a silver medal, Georgia Harrod won a bronze medal. Ryan Kelly just missed his PB in the boys race.

50M backstroke race next Rebecca Kitching had a PB, as did Lennie Overbury, Rebecca Moloney just missed her PB as did Lauren Hughes, Verity Warner Moulding had a PB and a silver medal to celebrate, Georgia Harrod also won a bronze medal. Ryan Kelly just missed his PB, George Burrell just missed his PB and still won a fourth place medal.

In the 50M freestyle Rebecca Kitching had a PB, Rebecca Moloney just missed her PB as did Verity Forster and Lauren Hughes, Georgia Harrod Won herself a silver medal. George Burrell set himself a new PB, but Ryan Kelly just missed his.

It was a really great days swimming from some of the clubs younger swimmers

Braintree swimming club again hosted the National Junior Swimming League on Sunday 23 May 2010 swimming against Basildon, Bishops Stortford, Edmonton Phoenix, Epping Forest, Erith and Harlow.
Braintree finished in second position overall which takes them to the finals on the 27th June 2010, which are scheduled to be held in the pool where Edmonton Phoenix swim.

First race was the girls age 12 Medley relay with Emily Woods, Harriet White Isabella Salthouse and Amy Lazell finishing in second place. In the boys 9 years 1 length freestyle relay, Christian White, Finlay Rudge, Montgomery Forster and Charlie Boden finished in first place.

The girls 10 years 1 length freestyle relay team of Rebecca Moloney, Lennie Overbury, Verity Forster and Verity Warner-Moulding finished in first place, as did the boys team of Owen Miller Jordan Rudge, Finlay Rudge and George Burrell. For the 11 year old girls team Harriet White, Jessica Bulleid, Abigail Hart and Emily Woods also finished in first place.

Next up were the individual races Finlay Rudge took first place in the 9 years one length freestyle race. Verity Forster finished second in the 50M breaststroke race, Abigail Hart also finished second in the 11 year 50M backstroke race, as did Ryan Kelly for the boys.

Isabella Salthouse finished first in the 12 years butterfly race, Georgia Harrod finished first in the nine years one length breaststroke race as did Charlie Boden for the boys. Emily Woods finished first in the 11 years 50M butterfly race, Isabella Salthouse finished first in the 12 years 50M freestyle race.
Charlie Boden finished first in the nine year olds one length backstroke race. Verity Warner-Moulding finished in first place in the 10 year old two lengths butterfly race. Amy Lazell finished in second place in the 11 years 50M freestyle race. Emily Woods finished in first place in the 12 years 50M breaststroke race, as did Georgia Harrod in the 9 years 25M butterfly race.

Finlay Rudge finished in first place in the boys 9 years one length butterfly race, Finlay also broke a club record in this race which had stood since 1990. Jessica Bulleid finished in first place in the 11 years 50M breaststroke race.

Back to the relays in the boys 9 years medley race Charlie Boden, Christian White, Finlay Rudge and Montgomery Forster finished in first place. The girls finished in first place in the 10 years freestyle race Lennie Overbury, Verity Warner Moulding, Verity Forster and Rebecca Moloney.

In the girl’s medley race, Abigail Hart, Harriet White, Jessica Bulleid and Amy Lazell finished in first place. In the girls 12 years freestyle race Emily Woods, Isabella Salthouse, Abigail Hart and Amy Lazell finished in first place.

The last race of the night is always very exciting its the mixed one length freestyle relay swum in ascending age order, the swimmers were Georgia Harrod, Finlay Rudge, Verity Warner-Moulding, Jordan Rudge, Emily Woods, Ryan Kelly, Isabella Salthouse and Kacper Kurowski Braintree had another first.

ESSEX COUNTY MASTERS SHORT COURSE GOLDS
WEEKEND OF 8TH MAY 2010

In addition to the above swimming Lee Peterson competed at the Essex County Masters short course competition where he claimed Gold's in 50M Backstroke, 4X25M Individual Medley, 50M breaststroke, 100M backstroke and the 100M butterfly race. Also claiming the Essex Record time in his age group 35-39 in the 100M backstroke race.

A great personal achievement and reflection on the continued hard work in and out of the pool. Many congratulations Lee!

Four Braintree swimmers made their way to the pool at Thurrock to Swim in the Canvey Island Sprints open meet, on a beautiful sunny May Saturday. Medals were awarded for first to sixth place.

Lauren Hughes (11) had a brilliant PB in her 50M freestyle race and her 50M butterfly race, she just missed her PB in the backstroke race.

Charlie Boden (9) had five swims, he was second in the 50M backstroke race, fourth with a PB in the 50M butterfly race, he had a PB in the 50M freestyle race, third in the 4X1 length individual medley race, fifth with a PB in the 50M freestyle race. Charlie just missed his PB in the Breaststroke race.

Owen Miller (10) had a PB in the breaststroke race he just missed his PB in the backstroke and freestyle races.

Eleanor Miller (12) had a PB in the 50M freestyle race, she just missed her PB in the 50M butterfly and backstroke race.

Good luck to Ole Mills (11) Emily Woods (11) Isabella Salthouse (12) Harriet Bartram-Baird (13) Sophie Howard (13) Luke Durban (14) and Tom Mclagan (14) all competing in the British Gas ASA East Region BAGCAT Swimming Championships, in the 50M pool at Norwich, over the first two weekends in June.

The first round of the Junior Speedo League division two was held at Braintree swimming pool the next two rounds will be held over the next two months, this league is for swimmers aged 9 to 12 years old only.

First race was the girls then the boys 12 and under, one length individual medley relay, one swimmer swimming each stroke, for the girls finishing in second place was, Grace Hellier, Emily Woods, Isabella Salthouse and Eleanor Pantlin. For the boys Daniel Mclagan, Ole Mills, Ben Cox and Kacper Kurowski. In the same race but for the ten and under category, finishing in second place again for the girls Rebecca Moloney, Lennie Overbury, Verity Warner-Moulding and Tyra Johnson. For the boys Owen Miller, Konrad Gubinski, Jordan Rudge and George Burrell.

Next up 4X1 length freestyle relays in the 11 and under age group, for the girls finishing in first place, Lauren Hughes, Jessica Bulleid, Abigail Hart and Emily Woods. For the boys finishing in third place George Salthouse, Daniel Mclagan, Ben Cox and Ole Mills.

The next lot of races involved the swimmers swimming on there own, Nine year old Charlie Boden swam in the one length freestyle coming second, in the 10/U 50M breaststroke race both swimmers came third for the girls Verity Warner-Moulding, for the boys Konrad Gubinski. In the 11/U 50M backstroke race both swimmers finished in first place Abigail Hart for the girls and Ole Mills for the boys.

In the 12/U two lengths butterfly race Isabella Salthouse finished second for the girls, with Daniel Mclagan finishing third for the boys, Georgia Harrod swam for the 9/U girls in the 25M Breaststroke race coming second, Christian White swam for the boys. Rebecca Moloney swam the 10/U two lengths backstroke finishing in third, George Burrell swam for the boys. Emily Woods finished second in the 11/U 2 lengths butterfly race with Daniel Mclagan finishing in third for the boys.

Isabella Salthouse finished in second place in the 50M freestyle race. Nine year old Rebecca Kitching finished in third place in the 25M backstroke race, with Finlay Rudge finishing in first for the boys. Verity Warner-Moulding finished in third place in the 10/U 50M fly race. Emily Woods and Ben Cox swam the 11/U 50M Freestyle race with Emily finishing in first place and Ben in third. Ole Mills finished third in the 12/U 50M breaststroke race. Georgia Harrod finished in second in the 9year old one length fly race with Finlay Rudge going one better in first.

Jordan Rudge finished in third place in the 11/U 50M freestyle, Ole Mills was second in the 11/U 50M breaststroke race. Kasper Kurowski finished in first place in his 12/U 50M backstroke race.

Back to the relay races, the boys 9/U Individual Medley relay team of Charlie Boden, Christian White, Finlay Rudge and Montgomery Forster finished in second place. In the 10/U freestyle relay race the girls Lennie Overbury, Rebecca Moloney, Tyra Johnson and Verity Warner-Moulding finished in third. In the 11/U individual medley relay Abigail Hart, Harriet White, Jessica Bulleid and Lauren Hughes finished in third place, the boys also finished in third Ben Cox, Ole Mills, Daniel Mclagan and George Salthouse. The 12/U freestyle relays were next with both the girls and the boys finishing in second, for the girls Emily Woods, Grace Hellier, Eleanor Pantlin and Isabella Salthouse. For the boys Ole Mills, Daniel Mclagan, Ben Cox and Kacper Kurowski.

The last race of the day was the age increasing girl boy freestyle relay, the team were Georgia Harrod, Finlay Rudge, Verity Warner-Moulding, Jordan Rudge, Emily Woods, Ole Mills, Isabella Salthouse and Kasper Kurowski, the race was an exciting climax to the meet and Braintree were just touched into second place by Royal Tunbridge Wells.

With some strong swimming and despite not having a nine year old girls relay team, Braintree finished in second place overall, this puts them in a strong position for the next two rounds. The top two teams from league two will be promoted to league one

Some of the competing swimmers

 

31 Braintree swimmers took part in the first open meet hosted by Halstead swimming club at Braintree pool. places were awarded from first to sixth place.

Abigail Hart (11) had seven swims and got personal bests in five of them in the 100M backstroke also a fifth place, in the 100M freestyle also a sixth place, in the 4X25M individual medley IM (all four strokes) a third place, in the 50M backstroke also a 3rd place, in the 50M butterfly also a 3rd place. Abigail also had a third place in the 50M freestyle and a fifth place in the 50M breaststroke although she just missed her PB in these races.

Charlie Boden (9) had six swims Charlie had a 15 second PB and first place finish in the 4X25 IM he also had a second place finish in the 4X50 IM although he missed his PB, a fourth place finish in the 50M backstroke, sixth place and a pb in the 50M breaststroke, second place and a pb in the 50M butterfly race, third place and a PB in the 50M freestyle .

Charlotte Speakman had four swims she got a PB in the 50M backstroke, a pb and a fifth place finish in the 50M butterfly race, a pb in the 50M freestyle race. Christian White (9) had a PB in the 50M freestylerace.

David Fryatt (13) had three swims and was first in the 100M backstroke with a PB, fourth in the 100M breatstroke with a PB, David was also first in the 100M freestyle race although he missed his PB. Dylan Nutt had two swims and and had a PB in 50M breaststroke race. Edmund Beaton had two swims and two Pb's one in the 50M freestyle and a PB and a sixth place finish in the 50M backstroke.

Eleanor Miller (12) had three swims and three personal bests in the 50 freestyle and 50M butterfly, she also had a pb and a third place finish in the 100M butterfly race.Eleanor Pantlin (12) had two swims and two PB's in the 50M freestyle and backstroke.

Emily Woods (11) had four swims four pb's first place in the 100M freestyle, and second place in the 100M backstroke, 50M breaststroke and 50M Butterfly. George Burrell (10) had four swims four personal bests, in the 50M freestyle, he had a fifth place finish in the 100M freestyle, and second place finishes in the 50M backstroke and 50M butterfly race.

George Salthouse (11) had six swims a pb and a sixth place finish in the 100M backstroke race, a pb and third place finish in the 100M butterfly race, pb in the 100M freestyle race, a pb and a 4th place finish in the 50M butterfly race. Georgia Harrod (9) had six swims and a first place finish in the 4X25M IM 4X50M IM, fourth place in the 50M backstroke, first with a PB in the 50M butterfly race, first place and a pb in the 50M freestyle race.

Grace Baukham (15) had six races fourth place in the 100M backstroke race, first place with a Pb in the 100M freestyle, first place in the 100M freestyle race, second place with a Pb in the 50M backstroke race, first place and a pb in the 50M butterfly race, first place and a Pb in the 50M freestyle. Harriett White (10) had four swims four pbs, third place in the 100M Breaststroke, first place in the 4X50 IM with a 20 second PB, fourth place in the 50M backstroke race, fourth place in the 50M freestyle race.

Harriett Bartram Baird fourth place in the 100M backstroke race, first in the 100M freestyle race and 4X50 IM both witha pb, second in the 50M freestyle witha pb, sixth in the 50M backstroke, second in the 4X25M Im with a pb. Katie Tyler had had three swims fourth with a Pb in the 100M freestyle race, a pb in the 50M freestyle race. Konrad Gubinski had two swims fourth in the 50M breatstroke race witha pb.

Lauren Hughes (11) had four swims 50M Freestyle, Breaststroke, Butterfly and Backstroke and got a PB in all four. Lennie Overbury (10) had a 10 second PB in the 4X50 IM and a fifth place finish, and a pb in the 50M freestyle. Millie Bauckham had a PB in the 100M freestyle and 50M backstroke.

Ole Mills (11) had seven swims and placed first in all of them, 100M backstroke with a PB, 100M breaststroke no Pb, 100M butterfly with a Pb, 100M freestyle with a PB, 4X25 IM with a PB, 4X50IM with a PB, 50M Breaststroke no pb.

Owen Miller (10) had three swims sixth with a Pb in the 100M free style, 3rd with a Pb in the 50M backstroke and a pb in thr 50M freestyle. Philip Hart had six swims, a pb in the 4X25M IM, a pb and sixth place finish in the 50M backstroke, a pb in the 50M breaststroke, a Pb and sixth place finish in the 50M butterfly race. Rebecca Kitching had three swims a Pb in the 50M backstroke and the 50M freestlyle.

Rebecca Moloney (10) had six swims third with a Pb in the 100M backstroke, a pb in the 100M breaststroke, a pb in the 100M freestyle, a pb and fifth in the 50M backstroke, a pb in the 50M freestyle. Sophie Beaton had a PB in the 50M butterfly race.

Sophie Howard had a third place finish in the 100M backstroke, a sixth place finish in the 100M freestyle, a fourth place finish and a pb in the 4X25 IM, a fifth place finish in the 50M freestyle with a pb. Tyra Johnson (10) had only one swim and made it count with a five second pb. Verity Forster (10) had a pb and a sixth place finish in the 100M breaststroke race, a Pb in the 100M freestyle, a Pb and a sixth place finish in the 50M backstroke race. Verity Warner Moulding (11) had a pb and a third place finish in the 4X25 IM, a first place finish in the 50M backstroke race, a pb and a third pleaxe finish in the 50M breaststroke and the 50M freestyle

 

 

A group of eight swimmers went to Southend on Good Friday to compete in the last 100M open meet at Warrior Square before Southend get their new pool.

Charlotte Speakman (10) Rebecca Moloney (10) Tyra Johnson (10) Lennie Overbury (10) Lauren Hughes (11) Eleanor Miller (12), Owen Miller (10) and George Burrell (10).

The first event was the girls 100M breaststroke race, Charlotte had a six second Personal Best (PB), Tyra set a brilliant first PB swimming this distance for the first time, both Rebecca and Lennie set PB's in this event.

Event two was the boys 100M butterfly event with only George taking part he put in an excellent swim and took fifteen seconds off his PB and had a fifth place finish.

Event three the girls 100M freestyle, Tyra swimming to a massive PB taking 25 seconds off her entry time, Lennie taking four seconds off her time, Charlotte and Rebecca both taking one second, Lauren took six seconds off her PB, and Eleanor three seconds. This was a great event for all the girls especially as they are not used to the longer 33 metre pool.

Last event of the morning was the boys 100M backstroke race George just missed his PB, but Owen had a massive 22 seconds off his PB.

First event of the afternoon was the girls 100M backstroke, Lennie had a small PB, Eleanor took eight seconds off her time, and Lauren and Rebecca just missed their PB's.

Both Owen and George took part in the 100M breaststroke race and both just missed their PB's. Eleanor had another PB in the 100M butterfly event taking around three seconds off her time and Lauren just missed her PB.

Last event of the day was the boys 100M freestyle, by this time everybody was very tired and both boys just missed their PB.

It was a great days swimming from all the swimmers, we would also like to say thank you to Angela Moloney and Richard Burrell for standing in as coaches for the day, they both did a great job of encouraging all the swimmers.

 

 

Braintree swimming club held an internal gala for it's swimmers on Thursday 25th March 2010. All the swimmers wore different colour hats to show which team they were competing in. Nicky Wiseman and Angela Moloney headed up the very organised pink team, while Paul Durban and Mike Woods took charge of the greens, Head coach Steve Hall, Claire Harrison and Nita Mills ran the yellows, Amanda Durban and Lynne Mclagan ran the blues, Amanda was defending her crown as she was the winning coach last year.

Although this gala was really for fun all the swimmers worked really hard to win in every race they swam in, there were the straight forward relay races, with swimmers of mixed ages and abilities taking part for each team. There were also the more fun races with the smaller younger swimmers sitting on floats to be pushed and pulled by the older swimmers, everybody got a few swims and all the swimmers really had good fun!.

Amanda was the winning coach for the second year in a row, all the other coaches will be planning how to stop her making it three in a row next year!. All the swimmers had fun and as a special treat got an Easter egg to take home!.

Thank you to all the coaches for their hard work

 

Some of the swimmers who took part in the second round.

Competing Clubs: Braintree, Harwich, Clacton, Basildon, Halstead

 

Braintree swam to huge victory in the mini league gala at Harwich, rarely out of the top three, winning 19 out of 48 races.

The racing kicked off with Jessica Bulleid and Ryan Kelly swimming in the 11 and under 50M backstroke race, with Jessica finishing in second and Ryan finishing first. Next up was the 9 year olds 4X1 length breaststroke race, with Rebecca Kitching, Chloe Littleton, Katie Bulleid and Georgia Harrod taking second place for the girls, Konrad Gubinski, Montgomery Forster, Owen Miller and Charlie Boden finishing third for the boys.

Next up was Harriett White in the 10 year old 50M backstroke race finishing with PB in first place and Finlay Rudge for the boys finishing in second place. The older swimmers took to the pool next with Abby Halfacre and Ben Shambrook in the 100M freestyle race, Abby finishing third with Ben going one place better in second. Next up Adam Shambrook in the 50M butterfly race going one better than his brother with a first place finish.

Back to the younger swimmers 10 year olds Verity Forster and Mathew Thomas in the 50M breaststroke race next, Verity finishing second and Mathew finishing first. Up one age group for the 11 year olds Abigail Hart and Jordan Rudge both finishing first.

Next up the older swimmers in the 4X1 length X2 race, each swimmer swims one length then gets out and swims again when it comes round to their turn, the girls finishing second were, Hannah Woods, Chloe Grose, Emily Bulleid and Emma Wilde, the boys finishing first were Philip Hart, Thomas Mclagan, Jonathan Everard and Adam Shambrook.

Ten year olds Verity Forster and George Burrell next up in the 50M freestyle race, Verity finishing first with a PB and George finishing second. For the eleven year olds Jessica Bulleid and Daniel Mclagan, both finishing with a PB, Jessica in second place, Daniel in first.

Adam Shambrook back in first place in the 50M Backstroke race, with Emma Wilde taking second in the 50M breaststroke race and Ben Shambrook third.

Next up was the age increasing 6X1 length butterfly race, for the girls, Georgia Harrod, Harriet White, Amy Lazell, Eleanor Miller, Chloe Grose and Emily Bulleid finishing in second place, for the boys Finlay Rudge, Daniel Mclagan, Ryan Kelly, David Fryatt Jonathan Everard and Thomas Mclagan swimming to another first place finish.

The 11 year old freestyle relays next girls finishing first and boys in second the swimmers were, Amy Lazell Harriet White, Jessica Bulleid and Abigail Hart, Daniel Mclagan, George Burrell, Mathew Thomas and Jordan Rudge.

12 year old 50M backstroke Amy Lazell finishing third and Philip Hart in first. This was followed by the 100M freestyle race Hannah Woods finishing second and David Fryatt in third. Nine year old boys 4x1 length freestyle race and another first place finish for Charlie Boden, Montgomery Forster, Owen Miller and Finlay Rudge. In the nine year old one length fly race Georgia Harrod finished third and Charlie Boden in first. In the ten year old 50M race Abigail Hart finished second and Daniel Mclagan finished third.

In the six length increasing age breaststroke race the girls finishing first were Rebecca Kitching, Verity Forster, Jessica Bulleid, Emma Wilde, Chloe Grose and Hannah Woods. The boys finishing second were Konrad Gubinski, Jordan Rudge, Daniel Mclagan, David Fryatt, Thomas Mclagan and Adam Shambrook. Emma Wilde next in the 50M butterfly race finishing first, with David Fryatt finishing third.

In the 50M Breaststroke race Emily Bulleid finished third with Thomas Mclagan finishing in first place for the boys. 12 year old freestyle relay race next and for the girls finishing second Emma Wilde, Abby Halfacre, Eleanor Miller and Amy Lazell. In the girls ten year old freestyle race finishing first the team were Verity Forster, Rebecca Kitching, Jessica Bulleid and Harriet White. For the boys finishing second were Finlay Rudge, Mathew Thomas, George Burrell and Jordan Rudge.

The final scores were Braintree 192 points, Harwich 136 points, Clacton 134 points, Halstead 106 points and Basildon 102 points!. Well done to all the Braintree swimmers.

On the weekend of 06th and 07th March 2010, a small team of Braintree swimmers took part in the third weekend of Essex county swimming, Medals awarded first to third, with pendants awarded up to sixth place.

Luke Durban (13) and Thomas Mclagan (13) got things underway in the 1500M freestyle race with Luke taking Gold and Thomas taking Silver. Rebekah Booty (14) and Helen Mitchell were next up in the 100M butterfly race, both finished with a Personal Best (PB), Nina Wiseman was next up in the 16 year old category and finishing in fifth place. Georgia Harrod (9) was next up in the 200M breaststroke event finishing with a PB and a Bronze medal, Harriett White (10) swimming in the same event finished in fourth place also with a PB. Emily Woods (11) was next up in the 200M individual medley race finishing in fourth place with a PB. Rebekah Booty swimming in the 100M backstroke finished in sixth place with a PB, Emily Bulleid (14) also swam to a PB in this race.

David Fryatt (12) was next up in the 4X25M individual medley finishing with a PB, Luke Durban and Thomas Mclagan finishing in the top six again with Luke in fourth place and Thomas in sixth both with PB’s. Next up was Hannah Travell (13) finishing in 6th place in the 1500M freestyle race. Next up Ole Mills in the 200M freestyle race finishing with a PB. Rebekah Booty and Helen Mitchell were next to swim in the 50M butterfly race, both finished with a PB. Nina Wiseman next off the blocks in the same event finishing in 6th place with a PB.

Luke Durban back with a bang finishing in first place in the 100M butterfly race with a PB, with Thomas Mclagan also with a PB finishing in sixth place. Daniel Mclagan (10) up next in the 400M Freestyle race finishing in fifth place with a PB, Ole Mills also swimming in this event also finishing with a PB. Going next Helen Mitchell and Emily Bulleid in the 200M Backstroke race both finishing with a PB. Next to swim was Emily Woods in the 200M Breaststroke race finishing in fifth place with a PB. Isabella Salthouse next into the pool in the 50M Butterfly race finishing with a PB. David Fryatt, Luke Durban and Thomas Mclagan all swimming in the 100M freestyle race in their respective ages, David finishing with a PB, Luke and Thomas both finishing with a PB, Luke with a bronze medal and Thomas in fifth place. Helen Mitchell next to swim the long 1500M race finishing in fifth place with a PB. Last to try this distance was Nina Wiseman finishing with a PB and a bronze medal.

Emily Woods finished the 200M backstroke just outside the places in seventh with a PB, Hannah Travell and Sophie Howard (13) both in the 200M backstroke both finishing with a PB, with Hannah swimming to fifth place. Last event for the Braintree swimmers the 4X 50M individual medley race, David Fryatt swam to a PB in his age group, with Thomas and Luke both putting in PB’s Thomas winning a bronze medal, woth Luke finishing just behind in fourth place.

Good luck to all the Braintree swimmers at the final weekend of county swimming in Thurrock, at the end of the month.

First into the pool for Braintree was Amy Lazell in the 11 and under 50M Backstroke, although she finished in first place Amy was to fast and was time faulted, but she did mange to get a Personal best (PB) out of the swim, Daniel Mclagan the swam in the boys 11/U backstroke and finished in third place but was also to fast and was time faulted.

Next up was the 9 and under 4X 1 length Breaststroke relay for the girls Rebecca Kitching, Katie Bullied Chloe Moloney and Georgia Harrod. For the boys Konrad Gubinski, Simon Smith, Owen Miller and Charlie Boden, both teams finishing in second place.

Rebecca Moloney was next in the pool in the 10/U 50M Backstroke finishing in third place. Next into the pool some older swimmers Abby Halfacre for the girls and Ben Shambrook for the boys, swimming the 100M 13/U 100M Freestyle Abby finishing 4th Ben finishing 2nd. Tom Mclagan took to the pool next in the Open age group 50M butterfly race and finished first with a PB but was time faulted.

Next four races 50M breaststroke races, Lennie Overbury and Mathew Thomas in the 10/U Lennie finishing 5th with a PB Mathew finishing 1st with a PB. For the 11/U Lauren Jolliffe finishing 3rd and Jordan Rudge finishing 2nd. The following four races 50M Freestyle for the 10/U Rebecca Moloney was first with a PB, George Burrell was 3rd in the 11/U Lauren Hughes was third and Ryan Kelly was 1st. Older swimmers again open age 50M Backstroke Hannah Woods finishing 4th, Nick Higgins 3rd, 50M Breaststroke 13/U Louise Lazell was 1st Ben Shambrook 2nd.

Next up was the 6 lengths increasing age group butterfly races, for the girls Georgia Harrod, Abigail Hart, Lauren Hughes, Louise Lazell, Alex White and Emily Bulleid taking 2nd place, for the boys Finlay Rudge, Daniel Mclagan, Ryan Kelly, Nick Higgins, Tom Mclagan and Adam Shambrook, finishing in first place. In the 50M backstroke 13/U Isabella Salthouse finished in first place and Philip Hart finishing second.

In the 4X1 length freestyle relay 9/U for the girls finishing 4th Rebecca Kitching, Katie Bulleid (in her first ever gala and second relay of the evening), Chloe Moloney and Georgia Harrod, the boys Charlie Boden, Simon Smith, Owen Miller and Finlay Rudge finished first but were time faulted. Charlotte Speakman got a PB in the one length 10/u fly race, both Abigail Hart and Daniel Mclagan were 2nd in the 50M fly race.

Both the boys and girls finished third in the increasing age 6X1length Breaststroke race for the girls Rebecca Kitching, Lennie Overbury, Megan Halfacre, Louise Lazell, Hannah Woods and Megan Thomas, for the boys Konrad Gubinski, Jordan Rudge, Daniel Mclagan, Ben Shambrook, Philip Hart and Adam Shambrook. Both Isabella Salthouse and Tom Mclagan finished first in the 13/U two lengths fly, Emily Bulleid was second in the open age group 50M breaststroke, with Adam Shambrook finishing first.

Finishing up the races was the 10/u 4X1 length freestyle relays for the girls Abigail Hart, Charlotte Speakman, Lennie Overbury and Rebecca Moloney finished third , for the boys Dylan Nutt, Mathew Thomas, George Burrell and Jordan Rudge.

Overall the final scores were Maldon 105 5th place, Rochford 124 4th place, Braintree 136 3rd place, Basildon 144 2nd place Colchester 165 1st place.

We look forward to round two!

 

Braintree swimming club had a small group of swimmers competing at the Essex Age Group championships, at Blackshots Swimming pool Thurrock, swimmers have to gain qualifying times in their own age groups to be able to swim at these championships. The swimmers compete in heats in their age group the first six then go through to the finals medals are awarded for first to third place and pendants are awarded for fourth to sixth, this weekend was all

First to take to the pool was nine year old Georgia Harrod, in the 50 metre backstroke event, Georgia swam well to qualify for the final in 5th place, improving on this in the final with a fourth place finish overall. Ten year olds Daniel Mclagan and Verity Warner-Moulding also swam in this event with Daniel claiming a PB and Verity just missing hers. Eleven year old Emily Woods also qualified for the final in her age group, although Emily qualified in fourth position she could not quite hold onto this in the final and finished in fifth place. Twelve year olds David Fryatt and Isabella both swam in the backstroke unfortunately just missing their PB’s in this event. For the thirteen year olds Sophie Howard swam to a PB, with Hannah Travell making the final qualifying and holding onto the bronze medal position, Luke Durban also made his final qualifying in sixth place and finishing in fifth place overall. For the fourteen year olds Rebekah Booty, Emily Bulleid and Helen Mitchell all took to the pool with only Emily managing a PB.

In the 50M Butterfly event Georgia Harrod again made her final qualifying in sixth place, but again improving on this in the final and finishing in fourth place, Emily Woods and David Fryatt both managed a PB in their age groups, with Hannah Travell just missing hers, Luke Durban once again in the final qualifying in third place, but just missing the medals in the final finishing in fourth place.

Only three swimmers in the 50M Breaststroke event Georgia Harrod getting a PB, with Helen Mitchell just missing hers, Emily Woods swam well with a PB also qualifying for the final in sixth place, improving on this in the final finishing overall in fourth.

In the 50M freestyle event, Georgia Harrod again made her final qualifying and finishing in fifth place, Verity Warner-Moulding just missed her PB, Emily Woods made another final qualifying in fourth place, and finishing in fifth place overall, David Fryatt, Isabella Salthouse, Harriet Bartram-Baird, Sophie Howard, Rebekah Booty all gained a PB in this event with Emily Bulleid and Nina Wiseman just missing theirs, thirteen year old Hannah Travell qualified for her final in fifth place, but swam an excellent final to end up with a silver medal.

A team of Hannah Travell, Nina Wiseman, Rebekah Booty and Helen Mitchell competed in the under 16 Individual Medley and 200M freestyle relays, finishing eighth in the Medley and fourth in the 200M freestyle, well done girls.

Some of the event scheduled to take place on this weekend had to be rescheduled due to a problem at the pool and will probably be swam at Braintree’s home pool on the 13th and 14th February good luck to all the Braintree swimmers for that weekend.

Saturday 16th January 2009, was a chance for the Braintree swimmers to leave their goggles at home and put their glad rags on, it was club disco night, it was good for the swimmers to let their hair down and be able to socialise and celebrate all the hard work they put in, all the hours of early mornings and late nights training, swimming takes a lot of dedication from the swimmers, their parents, the coaches, and the committee so the disco was a big thank you to everybody.

The disco also includes the presentation of trophies medals and shields, the swimmers compete for these in the club championships and some throughout the swimming year.

The winners were as follows, girls and boys aged 8 and under Rebecca Kitching and Finlay Rudge, girls and boys aged 9-10 Abigail Hart and Ole Mills, girls and boys aged 11-12 Sophie Howard and David Fryatt, Girls and boys aged 13-14 Helen Mitchell and Tom Mclagan, girls and boys aged 15-16 Nina Wiseman and Adam Shambrook, aged 17 and over boys only Peter Hawkings, Girls overall champion Helen Mitchell.

There was then an award of the most successful swimmer of the year and this went to Luke Durban, who qualified to swim at a county level, regional level, and at the national level, Luke has also been selected to swim for the prestigious Ortus Londinium squad and will get to compete in Nice in France in March, to be selected for this squad you have to have a top 17 National ranking in a 50M pool which show just how successful Luke has been!.

There was then an award of the stroke trophies for the fastest times set this year by a club member, female and male Individual medley trophies Nina Wiseman and Lee Peterson, the same swimmers won the perpetual 100M breaststroke trophies, and the 100M Butterfly trophies Lee also won the 100M backstroke trophy, for the girls in the backstroke the winner was Rebekah Booty. Winners of the 100M freestyle trophies were Hannah Travell and Max Palmer-Everson.

There was then the award of the Achievement trophies, Helen Mitchell took the Sean Eveleigh Achievement trophy for breaking a club record by the biggest margin.

It was then time for some shields where the club looks to the future, the youngest best swimmer award went to Charlie Boden, the winners of the Watkins shield for the most promising young swimmer runner up went to two swimmers who will get six months each with the shield Lennie Overbury and Rebecca Maloney.

Lastly there was the awards of medals and Ribbons to the men who swam in the parents race, Wayne Bulleid in first place, Mathew Hart in second place, Paul Kelly in third place, Keith Tyler in fourth place, Steve Rudge in 5th place.

Everybody had a great time, we wished Nita Mills a happy 40th birthday, we also said thank you to Nita for all her hard work running the club shop. We would also like to say thank you to Lynne Mclagan for all her hard work organising a really great disco and all the trophies and shields, we also said a partial goodbye to club legend Janet Watkins.

Janet Watkins has been coaching swimmers for Braintree Swimming club for thirty years or more, she has now decided the time has come to take a step back and semi retire, she has handed the job of Junior section Coach on to a new successor, Nicky Wiseman has slotted into the role perfectly although she is not quite as loud as Janet.

Anybody who has ever been coached by or been in the pool when Janet is coaching will know her instantly her dulcet tones cam be heard all over Freeport "I said streamline off the wall", or "tumble turns at both ends" are amongst her favourites, we wouldn't like to say how many swimmers have been taught by Janet over the years, but she will be sorely missed that is for sure, Janet will continue to assist for holiday cover and some Sunday mornings, when she is not off on one of her well earned holidays!.

Braintree Swimming club wish Janet all the best for her retirement and look forward to seeing her on poolside when she is called upon, but we will miss her most at swimming gala's where she could usually be heard above everything else, microphones included encouraging her swimmers and looking for another win!.

Happy Retirement Janet, good luck Roger!

Weekend of 09th January saw a good turnout from BBSC despite the heavy snow experienced over the last week.

A small group of Braintree swimmers braved the elements to swim at the Sudbury open swimming meet. The swimmers were Charlotte Speakman (9) Lauren Hughes (11) Abigail Hart (10) Millie Bauckham (13) Amy Lazell (11) Louise Lazell (13) Rebecca Maloney (10) and our two boys George Burrell (10) and Charlie Boden (9) in his first open meet ever!

Personal Bests (PB) were hard to come by after the Christmas break but all the swimmers gave it a good go and swam really well this open meet is only for improving your times, no medals or places are awarded.

First up was the girls 200M Backstroke with Charlotte, Lauren Abigail and Millie all taking part and only Abigail managing a PB.

Next event the 50M Breaststroke race, boys went first with both George and Charlie taking part Charlie managed to take 6seconds off his personal best!. Charlotte was the only female swimmer and just missed her PB. The 100M Freestyle was the next event with Millie, Abigail and Lauren taking part, only Lauren managed a PB in this event.

The 100M Individual Medley followed with George, Charlie, Charlotte Abigail, Amy Louise and Lauren taking part, George took over 20 seconds off his time in this race, Amy also swam to a PB in this race.

Next event the 200m Butterfly Charlotte and Millie took part in this race, Charlotte for the first time although disqualified in the end, it was a brave first effort swimming eight lengths of this difficult stroke.

50M Freestyle was the next event to take place Charlie and George swam again for the boys, with Charlie just missing his PB and George taking two seconds off his time. For the girls Charlotte, Lauren, Abigail, Amy, Louise and Millie all took part, with only Amy gaining a PB. The 100M Breaststroke was next and only Louise took part and gained herself a PB.

Next up the last event of Saturday the 200M Freestyle, both the boys took part in this event with Charlie taking seven seconds off his time, George also got a PB and took 3 seconds off his time. Form the girls only Amy took part and was just outside her PB.

On Sunday there were only three female swimmers taking part Abigail, Millie and Rebecca.

Abigail was first up in the 50M butterfly race and gained a PB. Rebecca and Abigail both took part in the 100M backstroke race and both gained a PB. Rebecca was the only Braintree swimmer in the 200M Breaststroke race where she gained a thirty second PB, she also took ten seconds off her 400M freestyle time, three great swims from Rebecca.

Abigail and Millie both swam in the 200M Individual Medley race with Abigail gaining a PB and Mille just missing hers. In the 50M backstroke race, Millie, Abigail and Rebecca all took part, with Rebecca gaining herself another PB.