Sputniks gala round 2 2023

22 Apr 2023

As with round 1, the first race was the 10 and 11 year olds 100 IM, 14 of our swimmers took to the pool, For the age 10’s girls Jessie F got us off to a great start getting silver, with some fantastic swimming from our other competitors. In the boys race, Ethan B finished in 4th, with Coby F and James M finishing in the top 10. For the age 11s Adam F finished in silver place, Noah H in 6th and Ilysia B got a 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 F placed in silver place for the 8 year olds, with Edward K finishing closely behind in 4th and Adam B in 6t, Aurita S finished in 5th place with a PB. The 9-year-olds saw 6th place finishes off Hattie S and 5th place finish for Theodore J, Jack M finished in the top 10. 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 Jessie F got her second silver of the night. Ethan B got 5th with top 10 finishes for James M and Edward H. In the 11-age category we had top 10 finishes for Adam F, Noah H, Charlie M and Ilysia B. Again, we saw many PB across the board along with many of our swimmers getting a time in this event for the first time.

We were back to the individual IM, our 8 and 9 year olds. For our 8 year olds Edward K got gold with top 10 finishes for Thomas F and Adam B in bronze. Aurita S got bronze. Next our 9 year olds Hattie S finishing in 4th and a top 10 finish for Kyra A. Ted J in 5th place and a top 10 finish for Rueben H.

The final events were the 25m and 50m Butterfly, firstly our 10 and 11 year olds swam 50m, in the 10s Jessie F finished off her evening with a gold and Charlotte R finishing in the top 10. We saw top 10 finishes for Ethan B, Coby F and Edward H. The 11’s Adam F got a sliver, Charlie M finished in 6th place closely followed by Noah H in 7th. Next, we saw the 8 and 9 year olds swim 25m butterfly, in the 8 year olds Thomas F and Aurita S got gold. In our 9 year olds Hattie S came in 4th and Ted J finishing 5th, with Rueben H and Luca B 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 3 teams into the 8/9 relays. Everyone swam brilliantly with some great change overs.

There was real team sprit on the poolside - it was a brilliant night for Scorpions with so many PBs, and lots of happy, smiling swimmers after all their races, it was great to see. Our coaches Pete and Graham did a brilliant job poolside. We will see you all for round 3, in round 3 the races repeat themselves, so swimmers can compete in Breaststroke and Freestyle again along with an IM, please remember if you competed in round 1 you will have times for all the events so make sure you enter them on the entry form, it means you swim against swimmers of a similar speed, making it more likely to get PBs.

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