17 Jun 2023

Twenty-nine swimmers attended the gala with our coaches Pete and Graham. We saw some fantastic swimming in the final round, lots and lots of PBS and great finishing positions You could really tell poolside that the swimmers felt more confident in the gala environment, all the swimmers were supportive of each other, going to cheer each other on in-between their own races. It was great to see, everyone competing did scorpions proud.  Sputniks round 4 consisted of Backstroke and butterfly and an IM, a repeat of round 2.

The first race was the 10 and 11 year olds 100 IM, 15 of our swimmers took to the pool, the age 10’s girls got us off to a great start Freya Pilkington got gold and Jessie Ford finished in 4^th. Charlotte and Isla both got top 10 finishes.  In the boy’s race, Ethan Beran finished in 4th. For the age 11’s boys Noah Hancock finished in 5^th with Harry Brosnihan finishing in the top 10.  Ilysia Blackburn got top 10 finish, we saw lots of pbs and smiling faces.

Next, we saw the 8 and 9 year olds competed in 25m backstroke, Thomas Ford placed in 4^th for the 8 year olds and Adam Brown getting a top 10 finish, Aurita Sakirov finished in 6^th place with a pb and Erin Brown getting a top 10 finish. The 9-year-olds saw Hattie Stokey take silver and Reuben Hancock getting a top 10 finish. Again, we saw some fantastic swims with many getting pbs.

The 10 and 11 year olds returned to the pool for 50m backstroke, in the 10 year olds Freya got silver place and Jessie got bronze, well done girls, Isla got her second top 10 finish of the night and Ethan Beran got 4^th  for the boys. In the 11-age category we had top 10 finishes for Noah Hancock and Charlie Morton. Again, we saw many pbs across the board, well done all.

We were back to the individual IM, our 8 and 9 year olds. For our 8 year olds Thomas and Aurita got bronze with top 10 finish for Adam. Next our 9 year olds Hattie Stokey got Silver and a top 10 finish for Reuben Hancock.

The final events were the 25m and 50m Butterfly, firstly our 10 and 11 year olds swam 50m, in the 10’s Freya and Jessie finished off their evening with a gold and a bronze respectively. Olivia plant and Charlotte Rucklidge finishing in the top 10.  We saw top 10 finishes for Ethan Beran who finish in 4^th for the boys.  The 11’s Noah Hancock got 5th Charlie Morton finished in 7^th place closely followed by Harry Brosnihan in 8th.  Next, we saw the 8 and 9 year olds swim 25m butterfly, in the 8 year olds Thomas Ford got gold and Aurita got silver. In our 9 year olds Hattie got gold and Reuben Hancock finish in 6^th place and Luca Barlow finishing in the top 10. Yet again we saw a huge amount pbs which is fantastic.

Sputniks always finishes off with a relay and this week it was the freestyle relay, we were able to enter 3 teams into age 10/11 relay and 4 teams into the 8/9 relays. Everyone swam brilliantly with some great take overs. it was a brilliant night for Scorpions, with lots of happy, smiling swimmers after all their races, it was great to see. Our coaches Pete and Graham did a brilliant job poolside.

Finally at the end of the 4 rounds of Sputniks top boy and top girl are awarded for each age group. This is worked out off points awarded from the 4 rounds with 8 points being awarded to 1^st place going down to 1 point for 8^th place across all the races.  Although none of our swimmers took home the trophy, they only narrowly missed out. Well done to

Aurita Sakirov- 3^rd place- 8 year old girls

Thomas Ford- 2^nd place- 8 year old boys

Hattie Stokey- 2^nd place – 9 year old girls

Ethan Beran- 2^nd place- 10 year old boys

           Jessie ford- 2^nd place-10 year old girls

  Freya Pilkington- 3^rd place- 10 year old girls

 

 

 

 

 

 

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