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06/02/2012
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
REPORT |
InCAS swimmers qualified for
the final weekend of the East of Scotland District Age Group Swimming
Championships held at the Xcite Leisure Centre, Bathgate last Saturday
and Sunday, the event consisting of 100m sprints, 200m IM’s and being
the climax of the Championships held over three separate weekends
throughout the year.
The weekend saw InCAS
swimmers excel once again in their respective age groups to secure
additional medals to add to their already impressive haul over the
course of the competition.
13 year old Tain Bruce
enjoyed an outstanding weekend with a 100% return securing 5 Gold’s from
her 5 events within the Girls 13 years age group. Tains’ first Gold came
from her favoured event, the 100m Butterfly, in which she come through
the preliminary rounds in a comfortable time of 1:08.62. Bruce went on
to improve on this time within the final, recording a time of 1:05.96
to take her first title of the weekend. Her second event of Saturday saw
Tain continue with her good form within the 100m Freestyle to once again
cruise into the finals later in the evening, touching in on 1:02.78.
Once again the InCAS swimmer rose to the occasion of the final and
pushed hard through 50m and 100m marks to record an outstanding new
personal best time of 1:00.61, and secure her second Gold medal.
Saturday afternoon saw Tain ease through the preliminary rounds of the
200m IM in 2:27.77, and again push the race within the final to record
yet another personal best time of 2:25.21, a 1.9 second improvement, and
another Gold medal.
Sunday saw Bruce continue
with her determination and focus, opening her day’s competition in the
preliminary round of the 100m Backstroke, again achieving a place in the
finals in second fastest position. Not content with the outcome, Bruce
again raised her game within the final going on the take her fourth Gold
of the weekend recording a new personal best time of 1:07.53 in the 100m
Backstroke final.
To complete her weekend and
ensure a 100% success rate, Bruce was seeking to repeat her earlier
performances within the 100m Breaststroke. This she responded to
successfully moving into her 5th final. The final on Sunday
evening saw Tain control the race to secure her final Gold some 3
seconds ahead of her nearest competitor.
This outstanding weekends
performance, together with previous wins from the preceding events
resulted in Tain being deservedly crowned as the East District Age Group
Champion for the 13 year old girls.
Also demonstrating
significant improvements was 12 year old Jack Harrison, competing within
the Boys 10-12 Years age group. Harrison also enjoyed a fantastic
weekends competition resulting in a Gold medal in the 100m Backstroke
recording a time of 1:08.32, and an improvement of 2.99 seconds to his
previous personal best. Adding to the Gold he also took Silver medals
from the finals of the 100m freestyle in which he had an outstanding
swim to record another new personal best time of 1:01.63, taking 1.45
seconds off his previous. A second Silver was also secured in the final
of the 200m IM in a time of 2:33.55, yet another personal best after
putting in a excellent backstroke leg of the IM. Jack also succeeded in
placing 7th in the 100m Butterfly event and 8th in
the 100m Breaststroke to complete his successful weekends competition.
Also bringing home the
medals for InCAS, 12 year old Lauren Pirouet competing within the 10-12
years age group succeeded in taking 2 Silvers, a Bronze and a 4th
place to add to the InCAS points tally. Pirouet opened her account
taking the Bronze medal from the final of the 100m Butterfly, recording
a new personal best time of 1:11.41, a 4.45 second improvement. She went
on take a Silver from the final of the 100m Freestyle in a tight race to
touch in on 1:02.38, a British Age Group Qualifying time, and record
another personal best time. Saturday afternoon saw Pirouet take 6.1
seconds off her 200m IM time (2:34.83) and place 4th overall
within the final.
Also adding to the points
haul, 13 year old Owen Green swimming within the boys 13 years age
group, recorded some significant improvements and secure placings within
the finals of the 100m Breaststroke finishing in 4th place in
a new personal best time of 1:18.58, a 5.65 second improvement. Owen
also reached the finals of the 100m Butterfly, finishing in 1:08.79 and
taking 5th place. He also finaled within the 100m Freestyle,
and again put in an admirable performance to record a 2.4 second
improvement in a time of 1:01.92, and place 5th overall. Owen
succeeded in securing a Bronze medal in the final of the 200m IM and
succeeded in recording an 8.6 second improvement in 2:28.38.
Also adding to the team
points, 11 year old JJ Moultrie-Waring competing within the 10-12 years
boys group done well to secure a place within the final of the 100m
Backstroke after coming through the preliminary rounds in a time of
1:15.89. JJ, with another year to compete within this age group, and the
youngest competitor within the final took 6th place in a time
of 1:17.54, a 4.99 second improvement upon his previous best time.
Moultrie-Waring also qualified within the 100m preliminary rounds for
the 100m Butterfly, placing 15th overall, 100m Freestyle, 12th
position and took 7.60 seconds off his 200m IM time (3:00.09).
Also swimming for InCAS, 10
year old Harris Bruce qualified for all five events over the weekend,
and succeeded in obtaining personal best times for four events: 100m
Breaststroke (1:38.85); 100m Butterfly (1:19.16); 100m Freestyle
(1:13.01); and 200m IM (2:54.98). Also delivering a personal best time,
11 year old James Gray took 2.49 seconds off his 100m Breaststroke to
finish in 1:33.01.
In all a superb display of
competitive swimming from the small group of InCAS swimmers who through
their exertions resulted in InCAS being placed in 4th
position overall from 18 teams across the East District competing for
the Solripe Cup, displaying the quality of swimmers being nurtured
within the Club.
Overall, a fantastic representation from
InCAS during the course of the Championships securing the Girls’ 13
years Age Group Champion; 11 Championship Titles, and two East District
Age Group Records over the 6 days of competition. 
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05/02/2012
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
RESULTS |
The
results from the weekend's Championships are available to view below. A
full report shall follow:
Session 9
Session 10
Session 11
Session 12
Session 13
Session 14
Solripe Trophy
Points
Congratulations are extended to Carnegie ASC on securing the Solripe
Trophy in a closely contested final day of the Championships.
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30/01/2012
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SCOTTISH SCHOOLS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
REPORT & RESULTS |
A number of InCAS swimmers
were in attendance at the Scottish Schools Swimming Championships held
at the Dollan Aquatic Centre, East Kilbride on Saturday 28 January. The
Championships being the culmination of Regional heats held throughout
Scotland during the latter part of 2011 and bringing together the cream
of Scottish swimming at both Primary and Secondary Schools level.
Once again InCAS swimmers
proved they are equal to those from across Scotland, rising onto the
podium for a number of events, and reaching finals within the Primary
School events.
Thirteen year old Tain
Bruce, representing Inverkeithing HS, succeeded in securing Gold in the
Girls 13-14 years’ 100m Butterfly event, recording a time of 1:08.19 and
reinforce her dominance of this event within her age group. Tain also
went on to take the Silver medal from the Girls 13-14 years’ 200m
Butterfly where she was narrowly out touched in the final leg of the
race. Nevertheless a fine days swimming.
Also enjoying podium
finishes was twelve year old Lauren Pirouet, swimming for Queen Anne HS
in the Girls’ 13-14 years 100m Backstroke in which she achieved a Silver
medal recording a new personal best time of 1:12.02, and setting a new
East District Age Group record in the process. Pirouet then went on to
take the Bronze medal in a closely contested 200m Freestyle, in which
the first three swimmers were separated by only 0.3 second, and set new
personal best time achieved in 2:15.72.
Also competing on behalf of
Queen Anne HS, 16 year old Ellie Brisbane had a strong swim within the
Girls’ 17-19 years 100m Backstroke to secure the Gold medal on a time of
1:09.36. She also went on to narrowly miss out on a Bronze, eventually
placing 4th in the 200m Backstroke later in the day.
Also just missing out on the
medal placing but swimming commendably in his first National event was
11 year old JJ Moultrie-Waring, representing Camdean PS, in the Boys’ 12
years and under 50m Freestyle. JJ qualified through the preliminary
round as 5th fastest and stepped up the ante in the final to
finish in 4th position, just off the medals but improving his
personal best time of 32.14.
Also enjoying a finals
experience was 10 year old Harris Bruce of Donibristle PS competing
within the Boys’ 12 and under 50m Butterfly. Bruce fought hard in the
final and succeeded in touching in 4th place, recording a new
personal best time of 35.73, a 1.35 second improvement
Also competing within the
Boys’ 12 and under age group, James Gray (11 years) swimming for St
Leonards New Park PS, recorded an astounding 8.6 second personal best
improvement within the 50m Breaststroke event, finishing in a time of
45.02.
In the older age groups,
InCAS were also represented by 12 year old Jack Harrison, Inverkeithing
HS, who recorded a new personal best time of 2.33.98 in the 200m
Backstroke, and 1:13.64 within the 100m Backstroke event later in the
day. 13 year old Owen Green of Bell Baxter HS, placed 6th
within the Boys’ 13-14 years 100m Butterfly in a new personal best of
1:11.71. Owen also recorded a time of 2:17.96 within the 200m Freestyle
event and placed 9th overall. Representing Woodmill HS, 12
year old Joe Nally, competed within the Boys’ 13-14 years 200m
Breaststroke, and touched in on 3:24.12.
The InCAS swimmers now focus their
attentions upon the East District Age Group Championships finals weekend
being held on 4th & 5th February at Bathgate.
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results
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24/01/2012
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GRANGEMOUTH JAGS MEET ACCEPTANCE SHEET |
The
Acceptance Sheet for the Grangemouth JAGS meet, is available
to view:
Grangemouth
JAGS Acceptance Sheet
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23/01/2012
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1700
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CARNEGIE SC GRADED SPRING MEET REPORT &
RESULTS |
A small squad of InCAS
junior swimmers opened their accounts for 2012 competing in the Carnegie
Graded Spring Meet held at the newly refurbished Carnegie Leisure Centre
over the weekend of 21 & 22 January 2012.
Despite their small numbers
the swimmers achieved encouraging results given the reduced training
programme during the festive period, with a high percentage achieving
personal best times for their events.
Top InCAS swimmer over the
course of the weekend was 11 year old James Gray who has been enjoying a
good run of form recently. He opened his account in the Boys’ 8-11 years
100m Freestyle recording a new personal best time of 1:15.94, taking 3.6
seconds off his previous and securing the Bronze medal in the process.
James followed this promising start with an splendid 200m IM in which he
swam a personal best time for this 50m Butterfly leg in 41.75, and also
pulled back a deficit in the heat with an outstanding breaststroke leg,
allowing him to place 4th in a time of 3:03.01, and a 5.3
second improvement. Not to be complacent he followed this swim with the
200m Butterfly in which he took 8.7 seconds off his previous, recording
a new time of 1:36.41 and finishing in 6th place overall.
On day two of the
competition Gray looked to consolidate his results and went into his
200m Freestyle seeking another personal best, and didn’t disappoint
touching in on 2:43.90, an 8.4 second improvement. He then went on to
record one his of most impressive swims of the weekend, taking 14.4
seconds off his 100m Backstroke time. To close his competition Gray swam
a well controlled 400m Freestyle to record yet another personal best
time, finishing in 5:43.82, taking over 20 seconds off his previous. A
fantastic weekend’s work from the InCAS swimmer.
Also enjoying the
competition was 11 year old Erin Donaldson who despite only swimming on
Saturday managed to emulate her male teammate and record some impressive
personal best times taking 10.5 seconds off her 200m IM (3:28.10), and
15 seconds from her 200m Freestyle in 3:05.44. Donaldson also improved
her time by 6.3 seconds in the 100m Freestyle to finish in 1:19.68.
Youngster, 8 year old Ellie
Turner, competing in the 8-11 years age group was not phased by her
older competition and successfully recorded a 10.8 second improvement in
the 200m IM event.
Also recording a full house
in terms of personal bests were 10 year olds Olivia Ballantine, three
personal best times from the 100m & 200m Freestyle events and 100m
Backstroke; Dana Brand, four personal bests in the 100 & 200m
Freestyles, 100m Backstroke and 100m Breaststroke; and Rachel Ingram,
one personal best from the 100m Breaststroke. In the 11 year old age
group, Erin Clark recorded three personal bests achieved in the 200m IM,
100m Freestyle and 100m Breaststroke; Leighona Harper also succeeded on
obtaining two personal bests from the 200m IM, and 100m Freestyle. 12
year old Amy Hurst also succeeded in securing an improvement from her
100m Backstroke
Also competing was 14 year
old Gabby Gatherer in the Girls’ 14 and Over age group who narrowly
missed out on recording personal bests after competing the 200m IM, 100m
Butterfly, 100m Breastroke and 400m Freestyle.
The InCAS swimmers now look forward to
the Scottish Schools Championship finals on Saturday 28 January being
held at the Dollan Aquatic Centre, East Kilbride were they hope to be
amongst the medals.
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results
Session 4
Results
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20/01/2012
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CARNEGIE SC GRADED SPRING MEET |
Good Luck to our younger
swimmers who are competing over Saturday and Sunday, 21st & 22nd, at the
newly refurbished Carnegie Centre within the Carnegie SC Graded Spring
Meet.
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19/01/2012
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SCOTTISH SWIMMING WEST DISTRICT GRAND
PRIX REPORT |
Fourteen swimmers from the Fife
Performance Swim Squad got 2012 off to a flying start competing in the
first major competition of the year at the reintroduction of the
Scottish Swimming Grand Prix circuit, the first of which was organised
by the West District Swimming and held at the Dollan Aquatics Centre,
East Kilbride on 14 & 15 January. A second event will be organised by
the East District Swimming later in the year.
A feature of the competition being FINA
Points were used to decide the rankings of the swimmers at the meet,
with each swimmer’s best performance being used for ranking purposes.
Points were awarded to the top 10 swimmers in each of the male and
female groups and these points shall be accumulated over the two meets
and the swimmer with the highest point in each category ultimately being
declared the winner of the series. Next year the series shall be
extended to three meets with the inclusion of a leg to be hosted in the
North District.
The competition comprised Open events,
and age group events for 10 to 13 years Girls and 10 to 14 years Boys.
The Open events cumulated in ‘A’ and ‘B’ finals whilst the age groups
were heat declared winners.
The Fife Performance Swim Squad, from a
total of 50 swims, returned with 3 Gold medals, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze
including a total of 14 swims in both the ‘A’ or ‘B’ finals of the Open
swims, and 12 swims in the top 8 for the Age Group events. In addition
two Age Group swimmers were ranked within the Top 10 Performances, and
Fife Performance Swim Squad was the only team to have two ranked
swimmers in the Girls Top 10. Two East District Age Group records were
set and two swimmers secured qualifying times for the British Age &
Youth Championships to be held later in the year at Ponds Forge,
Sheffield.
In terms of overall medals, the top
swimmer for the Fife Performance squad was 13 year old Tain Bruce from
InCAS who won the three Gold Medals in the girl’s 10 - 13 years age
group for the 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly and the 200m Individual
Medley. She also won a Silver medal in the 200m Freestyle and was placed
4th. in the 100m Freestyle. Not content with swimming against
swimmers of her own age Tain took on the older female swimmers in the
Open 400m Individual Medley and with an excellent 6.40 second PB
qualified for the ‘A’ final where she finished in 6th place.
Tain was ranked 4th for her 100m Butterfly swim where her
time related to 613 FINA points.
The squad’s other Silver Medal came from
18 year old Nichola Lamb, Fins, in the Open 200m Freestyle. Nichola was
also 5th in the 400m Freestyle; 6th in the 800m
Freestyle and was 1st in the ‘B’ Final of the 200m Individual
Medley.
12 year old Lauren Pirouet of InCAS, had
a very successful weekend in the Age Group events securing a Bronze
medal in the 100m Backstroke, setting a new Girls’ 12 years East
District Age Group Record in the process. Lauren’s time of 1:12.05 was
also a qualifying time for the British Age Group Championships. Lauren
also went on to take a second Bronze in her 200m Freestyle and just
missed out on a third Bronze, finishing in 4th place in the
200m Backstroke. Lauren was also 6th in the 200m Individual
Medley and 8th in the 100m Freestyle, and had an excellent
weekend by recording Personal Best times in all of her five swims and
was the fastest 12 year old in all bar the 100m Freestyle. Even at 12
years old Lauren was placed in the top 10 rankings at 6th
equal, in the Girls’ 10 to 13 events Top Performances, with her 200m
Freestyle time earning her 603 FINA points.
Jordan Lamb of Fins also recorded a new
Boy’s 15 years East District Age Group record for the 50m Backstroke
beating the previous by 0.22 seconds. Jordan finished 5th in
the 200m Backstroke and 6th in the 100m Backstroke. His 100m
Backstroke time of 1:01.26 is a qualifying time for the British Swimming
Championships that are also acting the Olympic selection trials to be
held at the new Olympic Aquatic Centre in London. The time also
qualifies for the British Youth Group Championships. Jordan also made
two ‘B’ finals finishing 2nd in the 50m Backstroke and 5th
in the 200m Individual Medley.
Swimming in the Boy’s events, another
swimmer to achieve a PB’s in all of his swims was 14 year old Callum
MacGregor of Fins, who finished 5th in both the 100m and 200m
Butterfly but his 200m was an outstanding effort where he recorded an
excellent 29.42 second PB, the largest recorded by a Fife Performance
Squad swimmer at the weekend. Two of Callum’s other PBs were also the
second and third largest with 9.12 seconds coming off his 100m
Backstroke and 8.65 seconds off his 100m Butterfly.
The final swimmer to feature in the
finals was 16 year old Greg Watson, Fins, who gained a 2nd
place in the ‘B’ Final of the Open 200m Freestyle and a 3rd
place in the 50m Breaststroke, both swims being PBs.
Although not featuring in the top 10
places another swimmer to have an excellent weekend was 12 year old Jack
Harrison, InCAS, who obtained three PBs from his three swims ranging
from 8.31 seconds to 4.43 seconds. These times shall improve his
standings within the Scottish Age Group Rankings in his 100m and 200m
Backstroke and places in his 100m Freestyle to be ranked number one.
The remaining seven swimmers also enjoyed
a successful weekend in terms of improvement. These swimmers being –
Owen Green (13), InCAS; Kayleigh Hutton (16), InCAS; Katie Johnstone
(15), Fins; Kieran Pate (15), Fins; Kyle Pate (12), Fins; Morven
Rae-Seaman (13), Fins; and Emma Sharratt (12), Step Rock.
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SCOTTISH SWIMMING WEST DISTRICT GRAND
PRIX MEET RESULTS |
InCAS
swimmer's Owen Green, Jack Harrison, Tain Bruce, Kayleigh Hutton and
Lauren Pirouet, competing within the composite team Fife Performance
Swim Squad, have enjoyed a successful Grand Prix Meet held over the
weekend of 14 & 15 January 2012 at Dollan Aquatic Centre, East Kilbride.
Tain
excelled within the Butterfly and IM events to take Gold in the Girls 13
& Under 200m IM, 100m Butterfly and 200m Butterfly events. She also went
on to secure a Silver in the 200m Freestyle. and narrowly missed out on
Bronze taking 4th place in the Girls 13 & Under 400m IM final. Team mate
Lauren Pirouet also tasted success with fine swims taking Bronze
positions in the Girls 13 & Under 200m Freestyle, and 100m Backstroke,
setting a new East District Age Group Record and also obtained a British
Age Group qualification time. Lauren also finished in 4th place
overall in the Girls 13 & Under 200m Backstroke. Older team mate, 16
year old Kayleigh Hutton swimming in the the Women's Open 50m
Butterfly also recorded a personal best time within her heat.
Owen
Green, put in a good swim in the Boys 14 & Under 100m Butterfly,
achieving a new personal best time. He also went on to swim just on pb
within the 200m Butterfly event. Jack Harrison also enjoyed his outing
at the meet obtaining three personal best times from his three swims
within the Boys 14 & Under 100m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke and 200m
Backstroke events.
In
addition, Tain finished in 4th place and Lauren equal 6th within the
Girl's Top 10 Individual Performances.
Congratulations to our swimmers on your achievements on a national
stage.
The
session results from the meet can be viewed below:
Sessions 1
& 3
Session 2
Sessions 4
& 6
Session 5 Summary
of Top Performers/Clubs
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13/01/2012
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EAST DISTRICT CHALLENGE MEET |
Details of
the SASA East District Challenge Meet have been posted onto the Gala
Information page. Click on the link below for further information:
East District
Challenge Meet
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13/01/2012
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUPS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- FEBRUARY LEG ACCEPTANCE SHEET |
The
Acceptance Sheet for the February leg of the East District Age Group
Championships, is available
to view:
EDAG
Acceptance Sheet
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13/01/2012
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0700
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CARNEGIE ASC GRADED SPRING MEET PROGRAMME |
The Meet Programme for the
Carnegie ASC Graded Spring Meet to be held
on Saturday & Sunday 21 & 22 January 2012 at the Carnegie Leisure
Centre, Dunfermline, is available
to view:
Carnegie
Graded Spring Meet Programme
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08/01/2012
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NEW TRAINING TIMETABLE |
As many
shall be aware we have been in discussions with Carnegie Leisure Centre
to secure additional pool time to allow the continued growth and
development of our squads. As part of this exercise a new squad
structure has also been introduced to allow a clear swimmer pathway.
The new
timetable shall come into effect as of Monday 9 January 2012.
New Training
Timetable
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04/01/2012
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0800
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SCOTTISH SCHOOLS DRAFT MEET PROGRAMME |
The Draft
Meet Programme for the Scottish Schools Championships Finals to be held
on Saturday 28 January 2012 at Dollan Baths, East Kilbride, is available
to view:
Scottish
Schools Championships Programme
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04/01/2012
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0800
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HAPPY NEW YEAR |
On behalf
of all at InCAS may we wish you and your familes a Happy New Year and a
prosperous 2012. Here's to another exciting and successful year of
swimming by all our InCAS swimmers.
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21/12/2011
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InCAS XMAS TRAINING DATES |
A reminder
of the festive closure dates for InCAS training:
It is
with regret we cannot access any swimming pools within the immediate
area to allow training to continue over the festive period. As such we
are forced to put training on hold over the Xmas shut down until such
time as our pool facilities recommence operation.
With
this in mind please note the last InCAS training sessions prior to
Christmas are as follows:
Lochgelly High School
Last
InCAS session is on Monday 19th December.
Centre
closes on 22nd December.
Centre
reopens on Tuesday 10th January, with the first InCAS session
on Friday 13th January 2012.
The
Wing, Inverkeithing High School
Last
InCAS session is on Thursday 22nd December.
Centre
closes on 23rd December.
Centre
reopens on Monday 9th January, with the first InCAS session
commencing on Monday 9th January 2012.
Carnegie Centre, Dunfermline
We are
expected to gain entry to the Centre from the beginning of January but
await confirmation from Fife Sports & Leisure Trust as to the exact
dates of commencement.
We are
also reviewing our pool allocation and undertaking a review of the squad
structure and swimming timetables to maximise efficiency and the best
programme for all our swimmers. Upon completion of this exercise a new
timetable shall be circulated to all.
May we take this opportunity
to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous
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0800
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SCOTTISH GAS NATIONAL SHORT COURSE
CHAMPIONSHIPS REPORT |
Fife Performance Swim
Squad - Scottish Gas National Short Course Open Championships Report
Seventeen members of the
Fife Performance Swim Squad, returned from the Scottish Gas National
Short Course Open Swimming Championships held at the Inverness Leisure
Centre, Inverness between 15-18 December 2011.
The swimmers, competing
within the composite team of the Fife Performance Swim Squad which
consists of swimmers from Clubs across Fife and is supported by Scottish
Swimming, Fife Council and the member Clubs, were against the best
swimmers from Scotland and beyond, however the Fife Performance swimmers
were not phased and rose to the challenge of the Championships.
Top swimmer within the group
was 15 year old Jordan Lamb of FINS, who secured the title of Scottish
Junior Champion in the A final of the men’s 200m backstroke event in a
time of 2:10.44. Jordan also achieved some notable swims within the
preliminary rounds of the 100m backstroke and the 50m backstroke events
to secure entry to the B finals in which he placed 13th
overall in both finals in new personal best times of 1:00.03 and 27.99
respectively.
Also obtaining success on a
national stage was 13 year old Tain Bruce of InCAS, who won Gold in the
Girl’s 14 & Under 400m Individual Medley in a new personal best time of
5:00.06, an 8 second improvement. Bruce also demonstrated her aptitude
once again within the Girl’s 14 & Under 100m Individual Medley event
narrowly missing out on the Bronze medal to take 4th place
from the final in another new personal best time of 1:09.24. Tain also
supplemented these achievements by achieving entry to the B finals of
the women’s 200m butterfly where she finished 13th overall.
Eighteen year old Nichola
Lamb of FINS also enjoyed the Championships delivering a number of fine
swims to gain entry into a number of finals. Her highest placing came
from the A final of the women’s 400m Individual Medley recording a new
personal best time of 5:01.15 to take 5th place. She also
secured 7th place within the A final of the 200m freestyle
event in a time of 2:06.73, and 8th in the A final of the
400m freestyle event. A busy schedule also saw Lamb take 7th
spot in the B final of the 200m Individual Medley.
One of the squads youngest
members, 12 year old Lauren Pirouet of InCAS, also produced some
admirable swims which bode well for her future. Pirouet swam an
aggressive 400m freestyle within the Girls 14 & Under event to finish in
5th position in a new personal best time of 4:35.61 setting a
new East District Age Group Record in the process and narrowly missing
out on the Scottish National Age Group Record by 0.2 second. She also
proved her creditability within the freestyle distance events finishing
in 7th place within the Girls 14 & Under 800m freestyle in
another personal best time of 9:31.89.
Greg Watson, 16, of FINS,
displayed a steady improvement across the board following a hectic
programme of events seeing him compete in no less than 10 separate
events. Despite this heavy workload he secured entry to the B final of
the men’s 400m Individual Medley finishing in 4th position
and take 12th overall. Watson also swam well to gain entry to
the B final of the men’s 100m breaststroke event, again producing
another personal best swim to take 16th position overall.
The women’s ‘A’ relay team
consisting of Nichola Lamb, Tain Bruce, Lauren Pirouet and Louise Feenie
of Glenrothes ASC, put in fine performances within the 4 x 50m
freestyle and 4 x 100m freestyle relays to finish in 10th and
12th positions respectively.
Also representing Fife
Performance Swim Squad at the Championships were: Louise Feenie of
Glenrothes ASC; Hannah Gray, Harriet Gray, Katie Johnstone, Kieran Pate,
Morven Rae-Seaman, Arran Stowe, and Kirsty Wilson all of FINS; Rebecca
Turner and Greg Turner of Burntisland ASC; and Owen Green and Kayleigh
Hutton of InCAS.
Despite their formulative
years as a squad, the results on this national stage demonstrate the
significant improvements which are being realised since the squads
formation. The squad are seeking to build on these results and deliver
further success in next years Scottish National Age Groups Championships
and thereafter focus on the British National Age & Youth Championships
in July 2012. |
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SCOTTISH GAS NATIONAL SHORT COURSE
CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS |
InCAS
swimmer's Tain Bruce and Lauren Pirouet, competing within the composite
team Fife Performance Swim Squad, have enjoyed a successful Short Course
Championships held over the past four days at Inverness.
Tain
excelled within the IM events to take Gold in the Girls 14 & Under 400m
IM, and narrowly missed out on Bronze taking 4th place in the Girls 14 &
Under 100m IM final. Team mate Lauren Pirouet also tasted success with
fine swims especially in the distance freestyle. Lauren finished in 5th
place overall in the Girls 14 & Under 400m freestyle setting a new East
District Age Group Record and was just 2 10th's of a second off the
Scottish Age Group Record. She also placed 7th overall in the 800m
freestyle event from a field of 47 swimmers.
Congratulations to both swimmers on your achievements on a national
stage.
The
session results from the meet can be viewed below:
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
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SCOTTISH GAS NATIONAL AGE GROUPS
CHAMPIONSHIPS INFORMATION POSTED |
Details of
the Scottish National Age Group Championships are available
to view on our Gala Information Page, or click on the below link:
Scottish
National Age Groups Championships Information
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09/12/2011
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InCAS DISTANCE MEET & InCAS SPRINTS
MEET INFORMATION POSTED |
Details of
InCAS very own meets, the Distance Meet to be held in May 2012 and also
the reintroduction of our Sprints Meet, in November 2012 are available
to view on our Gala Information Page, or click on the below links.
InCAS Distance
Meet Information
InCAS Sprints
Meet Information
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WING TRAINING CANCELLED THURSDAY 8
DECEMBER 2011 |
Please
note training this evening at Inverkeithing High School is cancelled due to
the closure of the facility due to the high winds.
We
apologise for this inconvenience which is beyond our control.
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
- DECEMBER REPORT & RESULTS |
The second round of the East Districts
Age Group Championships, consisting entirely of 200m distances across
all strokes, took place over the weekend of 3 & 4 December at the Fife
Institute of Sport, Glenrothes, and once again InCAS swimmers
demonstrated their proficient standing within the East of Scotland
swimming fraternity with impressive displays across the weekend.
Tain Bruce, 13 years, had an outstanding
weekend’s competition in the Girls 13 years’ age group taking 3 Golds’
from the four events held across the weekend. Bruce opened her account
with a Gold medal in the final of the 100m butterfly in a time of
2:30.59, some 8 seconds ahead of her nearest rival. Tain went on to
secure her second Gold from the 200m backstroke with a fine swim of
2:26.27, an improvement of 3.78 seconds, and closed her weekend on a
high taking her third Gold from the final of the 200m breaststroke in
2:46.81. She also qualified and placed 6th within the final
of the 200m freestyle event. A fantastic exhibition of competitive
swimming across all four strokes demonstrating her quality.
InCAS freestyle specialist, twelve year
old Lauren Pirouet, once again demonstrated her aptitude within the
Girls 10-12 years 200m freestyle event to take a hard fought Gold in one
of the races of the weekend, in an astounding personal best time of
2:11.04. Pirouet had come through the preliminary rounds in second
fastest position, in a new personal best time of 2:14.26, and the final
proved to be an outstanding contest against the fastest qualifier from
Kelso with both swimmers pushing each other hard with Lauren Pirouet
pushing through the 150m mark to take the touch and achieve a time that
places her at No. 2 in the GB Rankings. Pirouet complimented the Gold
securing a Silver medal from the final of the 200m backstroke after
recording a new personal best in the preliminary rounds, 2:29.86, but
couldn’t quite match this within the final. Lauren also swam well within
the 200m butterfly preliminary rounds recording a new personal best time
of 2:39.41, an 11.11 second improvement, and went on to take the Bronze
medal in the final in a slightly slower time of 2:41.98. Pirouet also
rounded off her weekend with a personal best time achieved from the 200m
breaststroke in 3:06.75, and went on to secure the 6th
position within the final.
Equally as impressive, twelve year old
Jack Harrison put in a huge effort and was rewarded with four personal
best times from four swims, taking Silver medals within the finals of
the 200m backstroke and 200m freestyle events in the Boys’ 10-12 years
age group. Harrison had secured his spot in the final of the 200m
backstroke after a fantastic swim of 2:28.69 in the preliminary rounds,
and was just edged out of the top spot. His second Silver came from
freestyle event in which he has been recording significant improvements
of late. Proving he is a force to reckon with Harrison touched in with a
new personal best of 2:15.49, taking some 7 seconds off his previous.
Also enjoying a podium finish thirteen
year old Owen Green took the Bronze medal in the final of the 200m
butterfly in the Boys’ 13 years age group in a time of 2:40.36 just off
his pb. Owen also came through the preliminary rounds to reach the final
of the 200m breaststroke placing 6th and recording a 6.48
second improvement in 2:54.86. He also recorded a huge 8.38 second
improvement from the 200m backstroke, and just missed out on the finals
of the 200m freestyle finishing in 7th spot overall.
Also enjoying the Championships, 10 year
old Harris Bruce, was not phased by the quality of swimmers despite his
lesser age and swam extremely well to record four personal best times
from his four events, the most significant coming within the 200m
backstroke and a 9.06 second improvement . Training partner, 11 year old
JJ Moultrie-Waring also put in a good display of strong swims within his
two events to achieve three personal best times, the first coming from
the 200m backstroke, placing 8th overall and a 7.26 personal
best time in 2:43.87. His second race, the 200m freestyle proved
productive in providing personal best times for both the 200m and also
the 100m split time. Also swimming well, 11 year old James Gray recorded
an improvement of 5.28 seconds to record a new time of 3:21.67 from the
boys 10-12 years 200m breaststroke.
Also competing across the weekend were
brothers Conor and Joe Nally who both recorded personal best times of 5
seconds, Conor within the 200m breaststroke and Joe from the 200m
backstroke. Also coming away with an improvement to her times was 16
year old Kayleigh Hutton within the girls’ 16 years and over age group
recording a time of 2:35.66 and a 2.69 second improvement from the 200m
backstroke. Also competing within the 200m breaststroke events were 14
year olds Gabby Gatherer and Erin Brown, coming in on 3:17.33 and
3:04.91 respectively.
A good weekend’s work from the small
group of InCAS swimmers achieving 4 Gold’s, 3 Silver’s, 2 Bronze; and
more significantly a huge haul of 31 personal best times.
The concluding weekend of the East
District Age Group Championships is some way off, 4 & 5 February 2012,
however with the Scottish National Short Course Championships and the
reintroduction of the Scottish Swimming Grand Prix Circuit, not
withstanding other competitions, these swimmers shall be kept busy in
the interim period.
The results can be viewed:
Session
5
Session
6
Session 7 Session
8
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EAST DISTRICT MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
REPORT & RESULTS |
InCAS Masters swimmers were also in
action competing at the East District Masters Championships held at the
Mercat Gait Centre, Prestonpans, also over the weekend of 26 & 27
November.
Not to be outdone by their younger
contemporaries, the Masters swimmers proved they too could turn on the
style.
Jennifer
Davis swimming in the 19-24 age group impressed winning Gold’s in
50m
backstroke ,50m butterfly,
100m backstroke ,100m butterfly, 100m freestyle and a Silver medal in
the 50m freestyle. From this impressive display of swimming she was
awarded top female swimmer in the 18-24 years age group and also the
female Sprint Champion of the Championships. In addition Jennifer also
broke the meet record in 100 backstroke in a time of 1.10.07 with the
previous record standing at 1.12.05.
Alistair Davis
also
won Gold in the 50m breaststroke, Silvers in 50m
butterfly and 100m freestyle in the 16-17 years age group. Team mate
Alex Balman secured won Gold in the 100m butterfly and Silver in the 50m
butterfly in the male 30-34 years age group.
Club President, Andrea Gellan, also enjoyed success winning a Silver in
the 100 butterfly, and Bronze medals in 400m freestyle, narrowly
missing out on the Silver by 0.01sec, 50m freestyle and 50 butterfly in
the female 50-54 age group.
The InCAS relay teams also fared well. The 75+ years composite age
group 4 x 50m freestyle relay of Thomas Davidson , Kayleigh Hutton,
Jennifer Davis and Alistair Davis won Gold by 6 seconds to set a new
Meet record in a time of 1.50, the previous meet record was 1.53. The
medley 75+ years team of Kayleigh Hutton, Ailidh Brown, Alistair Davies
and Thomas Davidson also won Silver.
The 120+ age group relay team of Morris Pate, Alex Balman, Jennifer
Davis and Andrea Gellan also won silver in the 4 x 50m freestyle relay
and the 4 x 50m medley relay taking Bronze.
The results can be viewed:
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
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CUMBERNAULD SC WINTER GRADED MEET REPORT |
A small team of InCAS junior swimmers
headed West over the weekend of 26 & 27 November to compete within the
Cumbernauld Winter Age Group Graded Meet hosted by Cumbernauld Swimming
Club at the Tryst Centre in Cumbernauld, and the Youth swimmers put in
some fantastic performances all round.
Swimming outwith their normal competitive
area was all part of the experience for the young swimmers, and to
challenge themselves against swimmers from another region of Scotland
was for many a first. This did not however unnerve their resolve as they
put in many fines swims to obtain personal best times throughout.
Young 8 yr old Ellie Turner was InCAS top
performer achieving a Bronze medal placing within the girls 8-9 yrs 100m
freestyle event, and obtaining a 3.6 second personal best in the
process. Ellie also further enhanced her standings achieving pb times in
the 50m butterfly, 47.80, a 5 second pb and a 5th position;
and also completing her first 200m IM, again achieving a 5th
placing in a time of 3:47.15.
Following closely behind in improving her
personal best times was 11 yr old Erin Donaldson, who took home six new
personal best times from six swims enjoying a productive outing.
Also achieving personal best time over
the weekend were Erin Clark, Emily Adams, Iona Clark, Rachel Ingram,
Millie Knox, Rowan Ormiston and Cara Smyth. |
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CUMBERNAULD SC WINTER GRADED MEET RESULTS
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A busy weekend for our InCAS
swimmers who travelled through to Cumbernauld for their annual Winter
Meet. Some fantastic swims were achieved with a huge amount gaining new
personal best times. Well done to all who competed over the course of
the weekend.
The results can be viewed:
Cumbernauld
Meet Results |
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23/11/2011
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FIFE SCHOOLS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS
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Well done to all our InCAS
swimmers who competed for their respective Schools within the Fife
Schools Swimming Championships.
The results can be viewed:
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
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FIFE SCHOOLS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS REPORT |
Inverkeithing Competitive
Amateur Swimming Club swimmers secured a hefty medal haul at the first
leg of the Fife School’s Swimming Championships held on 16 November at
the Fife Institute of Sport in Glenrothes.
The children who train with
InCAS took away more than their fair share of medals. "For such a small
club there were some great results", said Derek Pirouet, InCAS Vice
President, "and is great testimony to the quality of the coaching, the
support of the parents and of course the dedication and talent of the
swimmers". We are very proud of the InCAS trained swimmers who took home
three out of a total of sixteen possible gold individual medals in the
Primary Schools session in the morning and took further medals in the
High School sessions bringing the total medal haul for the InCAS
swimmers to twelve gold’s, sixteen silver’s and six bronze.
The InCAS swimmers were
represented in teams from several from the local primary schools
including Donibristle, who once again won this years Primary School
Trophy. InCAS swimmers also competed for other Primary Schools
representing Camdean, Cairneyhill, Inverkeithing, Park Road, Limekilns,
St Leonards NP, St John’s PS and Dalgety Bay Primary Schools.
Dana Brand, representing
Camdean PS secured a Gold in the 25m freestyle in the girls 10 & under
age group. Further success for Camdean PS came in the form of another
Gold medal for JJ Moultrie-Waring in the final of the boys 11 years and
under group 50m freestyle. JJ also supplemented this with a Silver medal
from the final of the 50m backstroke.
Harris Bruce, swimming for
Donibristle PS, enjoyed another productive day taking Gold in the boys
11 years & under 50m butterfly final. He also tasted further success in
securing the Silver medal in the 50m backstroke event.
Taking Silver’s in their
respective events were James Gray, St Leonards NP, in the 50m
breaststroke for the boys 11 yrs and under, and Park Road’s Olivia
Ballantine, from the 25m Breaststroke final for girls 10 & under. Ross
Dixon of St John’s PS won a deserved Bronze medal from the boys 11 &
under breaststroke.
Cara Smyth and Rachel Ingram
also enjoyed success with Silver medals for Donibristle PS in the girls
10 & under 100m freestyle relay event.
Just outside the medals but
achieving finalist placings were Andrew Morris, Ellie Turner, and Rachel
Ingram.
In the first leg of the
Secondary Schools Championships held on the afternoon, InCAS swimmers
were again successful representing Dunfermline HS, Queen Anne HS, St
Andrews, Inverkeithing HS, Woodmill HS, and Balwearie HS gaining Gold
medals and setting new meet records in the 200m butterfly and the 200m
freestyle events.
Lauren Pirouet representing
Queen Anne HS took Gold in the 13/14 age group 200m freestyle event
setting a new Fife Schools meet record in the process. Not to be
outdone, Tain Bruce swimming for Inverkeithing HS also took Gold in the
200m butterfly for 13/14 girls, also setting a new Fife Schools meet
record. Tain then went on to take a second Gold in the 200m IM event
literally minutes after finishing her fly event, a testament to her
stamina.
Also enjoying success and
the reward of medalware was Owen Green, Bell Baxter HS taking Gold in
the boys 13/14 years 200m freestyle event, followed by Owen going on to
secure a Bronze medal within the 400m freestyle later in the afternoon.
The experience of InCAS
swimmers also showed with further success coming with Silver medals for
Erin Brown, Woodmill HS, in the 200m breaststoke; Jack Harrison,
Inverkeithing HS, in the 200m backstroke; Kayleigh Hutton, Inverkeithing
HS, in the 200m IM. Woodmill HS swimmers Conor and Joe Nally, took
Bronze medals in their respective age groups events in the 200m IM and
200m breaststroke.
Also taking a Bronze medal in the 200m
IM was Gabby Gatherer within the girls 14-15 years age group.
The second and concluding
leg of the Secondary Schools Fife Championships took place on Tuesday
22 November once again at FIRPE, Glenrothes. The 100 metre sprint events
delivered further success for InCAS swimmers, and added to their overall
medal haul.
12 Year old Lauren Pirouet
of Queen Anne HS opened with a new personal best time in the final of
the girls 12/13 yrs age group 100m backstroke to take the Gold medal.
Pirouet also went onto secure her third Gold medal of the Championships
in the 100m freestyle in another personal best time of 1:03.03.
Tain Bruce, 13, swimming for
Inverkeithing HS competed within the girls 13/14 years 100m butterfly
event to also secure her third Gold medal of the Championships, in a new
meet record time of 1:06.46. Also competing for Inverkeithing HS, 16
year old Kayleigh Hutton, had a great day taking Silver medals in the
girls 16 & over 100m backstroke final, and also the 100m freestyle
final. In the boy’s 12/13 years 100m backstroke final, 12 year old
Inverkeithing HS swimmer Jack Harrison also won a Silver medal in
1:12.19. Harrison also went on to take a second Silver medal within the
final of the 100m freestyle, in a new personal best time of 1:03.08. In
the boys 16 & over age group, Alistair Davis took the Silver medal in
the 100m butterfly event in 1:08.31.
Woodmill HS swimmer, Erin
Brown, 14 yrs, was awarded Silver medal in the girls 14/15 yrs age group
breaststroke, and also achieved a 5th position in the final
of the 100m butterfly. Fellow Woodmill swimmers Conor and Joe Nally also
enjoyed another successful day with Conor swimming well to take the Gold
in the boy’s 14/15 yrs 100m freestyle in a time of 1:00.77, he also
complimented this with a Bronze within the 100m breaststroke. Brother
Joe, 12 yrs, replicated his siblings success within the boys 12/13 yrs
100m breaststroke also achieving a Bronze medal. He also achieved a 5th
position within the final of the 100m freestyle.
InCAS new recruit, 13 year
old Owen Green, swimming on behalf of Bell Baxter HS, swam a controlled
100m butterfly final to easily take the Gold medal in a time of 1:08.23.
Also achieving a finalist
position was 14 year old Gabby Gatherer, St Andrews HS, coming in 5th
position within the 100m breaststroke final of the girls 13/14 years age
group. Swimming for St Columbus HS within her first Secondary Schools
Championships was 12 year old Emily Adams, who took part in the 100m
breaststroke and 100m freestyle.
After two days of
competition the InCAS based swimmers secured an impressive medal haul
resulting in twelve Fife School’s Champions and four meet records being
set in the process. In addition Tain Bruce and Lauren Pirouet shared the
Top Swimmer Award for the Secondary Schools, along with four other
swimmers, with Queen Anne HS taking the accolade of Top School at the
Championships.
A number of the InCAS
swimmers obtained qualifying times for the Scottish Schools Finals to
be held at Dollan Baths, East Kilbride in January 2012. InCAS wish them
well for the finals which brings together the elite of Scottish Schools
swimmers.
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FAULDHOUSE PENGUINS MEET REPORT |
A small but successful team of InCAS
junior swimmers attended the 11th Eian Prentice Memorial Gala
hosted by Fauldhouse Penguins at Deans Community High School in
Livingston on Sunday 13 November.
Top Incas swimmer was JJ Moultrie-Waring
with 4 Gold’s and 1 Bronze. JJ’s dominance saw him win the 50m
butterfly (37.57); 50m backstroke (39.02), 50m freestyle (33.07) and
also a convincing win, leading from the start, within the 200m freestyle
(2:38.07), leaves JJ amongst the top 11 years in his age group within
Scotland.
Not to be outdone by her older brother 8
year old Ali Moultrie-Waring took Gold in an incredible 200m freestyle
swim (3:17.40) – her first ever time competing at this event, Ali was
entered on a ‘ No time available ‘ and was racing against 20 swimmers
of which 15 swimmers were a year older than her .
Not only did Ali beat her fellow heat
swimmers by 50m, but also won the whole event, beating a total of 20
swimmers. Most defiantly the swim of the day! Ali also took two Silver
medals in the 25m Freestyle (20.08) and 25m Breaststroke (27.07), a 5th
in the 25m butterfly (25.77) and a 6th in the 25m backstroke
(24.11).
7 year old Sam Harrison competed in 4
events and placed 5th in the 25m butterfly (29.34) and also the 25m
backstroke (25.91), a credible 6th in the 50m Breaststroke
and in the 50m freestyle finished in 9th place.
Ellie Turner continued to improve in all
events with a Gold in the 25m butterfly (21.99), Silver in the 25m
backstroke (22.29), 2 Bronze medals in the 25m breaststroke (27.30) and
25m freestyle (20.258). Ellie also finished a credible 7th
place in the 200m freestyle (3:29.39).
Arron Hurst, Iona Clark, Erin Hutton and
Sophie Ingram all showed their commitment with excellent swims in a very
tough field of competitors.
The 9 and under freestyle Relay team of
Ali Moultrie-Waring, Sam Harrison, Aaron Hurst and Ellie Turner finished
a credible 5th.
Rachael Ingram showed great improvement
finishing just outside the medals in the 50m breaststroke (50.16) with a
very close race in finishing 4th with only 0.68sec separating
the 1st 4 swimmers!
Leighona Harper produced 4 personal best
swims in all her events with a very well paced 200m freestyle swim
(3:06.10). Rowan Ormiston was another swimmer who showed great
improvement in the 200m freestyle event with a 7 second improvement
(2:55.78).
Along with Millie Knox the 11yr olds
continue to improve and show commitment through their training
attendance which result in such performance
Special mention should go to Andrew
Morris, Conal Scott, Lee Harrison and Ross Dixon who all showed
excellent commitment in all their swims.
The 11yrs under 4 x 50m freestyle relay
team of Millie Knox, Ross Dixon, Rowan Ormiston and JJ Moultrie-Waring
also finished 6th overall.
A great productive days competitive
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FAULDHOUSE PENGUINS MEET RESULTS |
The
results from Sunday's annual Eian Prentice Memorial Meet hosted by
Fauldhouse Penguins are available to view:
Link to
SwimScotland Results
InCAS Swimmers
Results
A full
meet report shall follow.
The triumphant older swimmers, complete with 'Inc' the mascot.
The younger InCAS swimmers showing off their medals.
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LOCHGELLY TRAINING CANCELLED SUNDAY 13
NOVEMBER |
Please
note training this Sunday at Lochgelly High School is cancelled due to
another booking at the venue.
We
apologise for this inconvenience.
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS -
NOVEMBER LEG REPORT |
Several InCAS swimmers were in
attendance at the opening round of the East District Age Group
Championships held over the weekend of 5 and 6 November at the Fife
Institute of Sport, Glenrothes, and once again they demonstrated their
proficient standing within the East of Scotland swimming fraternity with
an impressive display.
Three InCAS swimmers opened their
collection of medals from the Championships with notable swims in their
respective age groups.
In the opening event of the
Championships, the 800m freestyle, thirteen year old Tain Bruce,
swimming in the Girls 13 years age group secured her first Gold in a new
personal best time of 9:30.72, an astounding improvement of 25 seconds.
Tain also added a second Gold medal from Sunday’s 400m IM event in
another new personal best time of 5:10.35. To complete her weekend Tain
also took a third Gold swimming strongly in the 400m freestyle event, in
a new personal best time of 4:38.15.
Saturday also saw InCAS distance
protégé, twelve year old Lauren Pirouet, once again stamp her authority
in the distance events dominating the Girls 10-12 years 800m freestyle
event to take Gold in a time of 9:32.72, a 13 second personal
improvement. Pirouet later went on to secure a Bronze medal in the
Girls 10-12 years age group 400m IM, recording a new personal best time
of 5:30.26, a 15 second improvement. The highlight of her weekend came
in the Girls 10-12 years 400m freestyle event in which she demonstrated
her pace control recording a new personal best time of 4:39.23 to secure
her second Gold of the weekend, set a new East District age group record
and achieve a British Age Group qualifying time in the process.
InCAS swimmers however were not content
to remain in the shadow of their teammates victories and achieved
equally admirable results across the course of the weekends competition.
Saturday saw twelve year old Jack
Harrison, open his account competing in the 400m freestyle event
performing well to bring home the Bronze medal in the Boys 10-12 age
group, coming in with a time of 4:53.88. Jack also went on to record a
massive 47 second improvement within the 1500m freestyle event on Sunday
morning, narrowly missing out on a second bronze medal, in 19:20.17.
New InCAS team member, thirteen year old
Owen Green, enjoyed a productive swim in the boys 13 years age group
400m freestyle event, swimming a well paced race to touch in a new
personal best time of 4:40.90, narrowly missing out on the Bronze medal
but achieving his target of securing a qualifying time for the Scottish
National Short Course Championships to be held later this year in
Inverness.
Team mate, eleven year old JJ Moultrie-Waring
swam an equally controlled race to record a new personal best time of
5:16.36 in the boys 10-12 years 400m freestyle, a 14 second improvement
and place 10th overall.
Twelve year old Joe Nally, also recorded
a time in the 400m freestyle just outside of his previous time, 5:33.36,
this despite his drop in training due to other sporting pursuits.
Keeping it in the family, fourteen year old Conor Nally, also recorded
three swims over the course of the weekend in the 400m freestyle, 1500m
freestyle and the 400m IM, with his times just outside of his current
pb’s.
A good weekend’s work from these InCAS
swimmers achieving 5 Gold’s, 2 Bronze; 1 East District Age Group Record,
a Scottish National qualifying time, a British National qualifying time
and a huge haul of 13 personal best times.
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS -
NOVEMBER LEG RESULTS
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Well done to all our InCAS
swimmers who competed within the first leg of the East District Age
Group Championships held at Glenrothes over the 5 & 6 November.
The results can be viewed:
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4 |
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SCOTTISH SWIMMING MINDSET SEMINAR |
Following the Seminar held
today at FIPRE by Scottish Swimming and SportScotland Institute of
Sport, the weblink provides additional information upon the subject
matter,
Click here to
view Scottish Swimming Mindset Assessment
Click here to
view Mindset |
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CARNEGIE SC WINTER MEET REPORT
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A small group of InCAS
swimmers competed within Carnegie SC’s annual Winter Meet held over the
weekend of 29 & 30 October at the Fife Institute of Sport, Glenrothes.
The meet attracting some of Scotland’s biggest swimming stars such as
Robbie Renwick and Corrie Scott, both of whom successfully represented
Scotland at the recent Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Young InCAS swimmer James
Gray stood out as the top InCAS performer with an impressive display of
swimming within the boys 10-11 years age group of the Competition to
bring home a Gold, two Silver and two Bronze medals.
Eleven year old James’s Gold
was secured in the 200m IM event, recording a new personal best time of
3:08.33, an improvement of 9 seconds. The Silver medals came from the
100m breaststroke, in a time of 1:35.50, and the 100m IM in 1:29.27,
both of which were once again personal improvements. Gray rounded off
his collection of all medals with the Bronze’s from the 50m freestyle,
touching in on 35.77, and the 100m butterfly in 1:45.18. A great
weekends results for the youngster.
Team mate, twelve year old
Jack Harrison, competing in the boy’s 12-13 years age group recorded two
personal improvements from his two swims, the 100m IM, a 3 second
improvement, and the 200m backstroke event, a 1.2 second reduction.
InCAS females were
represented by sixteen year old Kayleigh Hutton, and fourteen year old
Gabby Gatherer. Kayleigh enjoyed a busy schedule of seven events over
the weekend and managed to record consolidated results with 50%
obtaining personal improvements on her times, with the best coming from
her 200m backstroke in 2:38.45 and the 200m IM in a time of 2:41.11. A
jet lagged Gabby, just returned from holiday, recorded a time of 3:20.47
from her 200m breaststroke event. |
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CARNEGIE SC WINTER MEET RESULTS
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Well done to all our InCAS
swimmers who competed at Carnegie SC's recent Winter Meet at Glenrothes. A
number of good swims and personal best were achieved during the course
of an enjoyable day's competition.
The results can be viewed:
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4 |
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14/10/2011
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TRAINING NOTICE OVER SCHOOL HOLIDAY
PERIOD |
Please
note there is no training at Lochgelly High School on Sunday morning, 16
October, and also next Friday due to the School holidays.
Training at The Wing next Monday, Wednesday & Thursday are running as
normal, 6.00-8.00pm.
Normal
training programme shall resume once the schools return from the October
holidays.
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09/10/2011
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1500
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BRITISH GAS ASA AGE GROUP & YOUTH
CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012 |
The
Championships information has been posted on the Gala Information page
of the website.
Click
here to view
British Gas ASA Age Group & Youth Championships Information
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18/09/2011
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CARNEGIE MINI-MEET RESULTS
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Well done to all our InCAS
swimmers who competed at today's Carnegie Mini-Meet at Glenrothes. A
number of good swims and personal best were achieved during the course
of an enjoyable day's competition.
The results can be viewed:
Session 1
Session 2 |
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15/09/2011
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LOCHGELLY TRAINING CANCELLED SUNDAY 18
SEPTEMBER |
Please
note training this Sunday at Lochgelly High School is cancelled due to
the Carnegie SC Mini-Meet running.
We
apologise for this inconvenience to those not competing at the Gala.
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13/09/2011
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SCOTTISH GAS NATIONAL SHORT COURSE
CHAMPIONSHIPS |
The
Championships information has been posted on the Gala Information page
of the website.
Click
here to view
Scottish Gas
National Short Course Championships Information
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13/09/2011
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GEORDIE WOTHERSPOON & FIFE
CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS |
Congratulations to all our
InCAS swimmers who swam extremely well at Sunday's Geordie Wotherspoon
Memorial Meet and the Fife Championships. An extremely well contested
and exciting day's swimming resulting in InCAS placing second place
overall behind Carnegie SC to whom our congratulations are extended. A
full report shall follow.
The results can be viewed:
Geordie
Wotherspoon & IM Results
Fife
Championships Prelim Rounds
Fife
Championships Finals |
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05/09/2011
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DUNEDIN CHALLENGE MEET REPORT |
A small squad of InCAS
swimmers opened their accounts for the 2011/12 season competing in the
Dunedin Swim Team Challenge Meet held at the Fife Institute of Sport,
Glenrothes over the weekend of 3 and 4 September 2011.
The meet was well attended
by 22 Clubs, and circa 300 swimmers from all other Scotland providing an
opportunity to secure benchmark times given the meet is one of the first
competitive meets of the new season. Due to the early stage within the
season InCAS Coaches were seeking to consolidate technique as opposed to
focusing upon securing personal best times however a large number of
swims surpassed these expectations and obtained podium finishes.
Top of the medal haul for
InCAS was 9 year old Harris Bruce competing in the Boy’s 10 & Under age
group. An outstanding weekend’s swimming saw this young swimmer secure 7
Gold’s in the 100m breaststroke (1:40.31); 50m breaststroke (39.40);
100m backstroke (1:23.04); 100m individual medley in a new meet record
time of 1:25.57; 50m butterfly in another meet record time of 36.16;
100m butterfly setting a third meet record in 1:22.93; 100m freestyle
(1:14.22), a Silver in the 50m backstroke (39.40) and a Bronze in the
50m freestyle (34.29). These swims saw Harris deliver an astounding 5
personal best times, and undoubtedly the Top Boy in the 10 & Under age
group.
Also amongst the medals was
11 year old James Gray who secured Silver in the Boy’s 11/12 age group
100m breaststroke in a new personal best time of 1:38.07. James also
went to obtain personal best times in the 100m IM and took an incredible
3 seconds off his 50m butterfly in 43.18.
12 year old Jack Harrison,
also swimming in the 11/12 years age group, also celebrated a podium
placing with a Bronze medal from the 50m backstroke event in a time of
35.14. Harrison also managed to record three personal best times
throughout the course of the meet from the 100m backstroke, 50m and the
100m freestyle events.
In the girls 15 years and
over age group, 16 year old Kayleigh Hutton secured a Bronze medal in
the 50m backstroke event in a time of 35.66
A number of other InCAS
swimmers also demonstrated their intent for the coming season with many
recording personal best times: Dana Brand, 3 pb’s from 100 back, 50m
free and 100m free; Erin Brown, 1 pb from 200m free; Gabby Gatherer, 1
pb from the 100m IM; Millie Knox, 3 pc’s in the 100m IM, 50m back, 50m
free; and Ellie Turner, 4 pb’s in 50m breast, 50m back, 50m free, and
100m free.
The remaining InCAS swimmers
despite not recording pb times did deliver swims to be pleased with,
these included Rachel Ingram; Kelsey Knox; and Cara
Smyth.
In all a productive weekend
for InCAS achieving 7 gold’s; 2 silver’s; 2 bronze’s and a haul of 22
personal best times. |
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04/09/2011
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DUNEDIN CHALLENGE MEET RESULTS
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Congratulations to all our
InCAS swimmers who swam extremely well in their first meet of the new
season. A number of fine swims were demonstrated with a number of
personal best times recorded despite the early stage of the season. A
full report shall follow.
The results can be viewed:
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4 |
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04/09/2011
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WING TRAINING RESUMES |
Please
note training at The Wing shall be running as normal on Monday 5
September following the heating failure last week.
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02/09/2011
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SCOTTISH SWIMMING NEWSLETTER |
The latest
edition of SplashNews, Scottish Swimmings own online news is available
to view and contains an article on our very own Andrea Gellan.
Click
here to view
SplashNews
Online
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01/09/2011
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1707
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WING TRAINING CANCELLED |
Please
note training this evening at The Wing is cancelled as the water
temperature level has not risen sufficiently to enable swimmers to
safely enter the pool.
We
apologise for this inconvenience which is outwith our control.
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01/09/2011
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1700
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PENTLAND FIRTH OPEN WATER REPORT |
New Record for Pentland Firth Swim
At 6pm on Wednesday 24th August open water
masters swimmer Andrea Gellan set off from South Ronalday in Orkney to
swim the 7.5km across the Pentland Firth. She arrive at Duncansby Head
on the mainland of Scotland at 8.40 pm, completing the swim in a record
time 2 hours 40 mins, 2 hours quicker than any previous attempt to swim
the Firth . Andrea is the first person to successfully swim the route
from South Ronaldsay to Duncansby Head.
‘The swim was just amazing. I have never experienced so
many different water states in one swim. The water was flat at the
start- like swimming through quick silver. Then I hit the whirlpools
where the tides meet. They were fun to swim through- very choppy water
first then loads of bubbles and I could feel my body twisting with the
forces. Then I hit very choppy water which was really difficult to swim
through. I swallowed water and felt sick. Then I was into large rolling
waves which were much easier. My boatman Hamish told me I only had a
mile and a half to go. I could see the cliffs at Duncansby point getting
closer and closer. The sun was beginning to set behind the cliffs. We
were so close I could see all the striations in the rock face. I swam in
through the swirling water, changing from dark blue to light azure
towards the cliff face. It was surreal to be at the bottom of the cliff
face amongst the waves and rocks looking up at the lighthouse.
She was accompanied throughout her swim by a safety boat
piloted by Hamish Mowatt , who steered a straight course through the strong
tides, her husband Alistair who supplied her with warm energy drinks and
Carole Mowatt.
In addition to setting a new record Andrea has raised
over £1200 towards aid for the east Africa drought crisis appeal as
well.
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01/09/2011
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COMPETITION CALENDAR UPDATED |
A number
of new competition meets have been added to the Competition Calendar for
consideration. These shall also be placed onto the InCAS notice board at
The Wing.
Click
here to view the updated
Competition
Calendar.
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01/09/2011
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PENTLAND FIRTH OPEN WATER |
Our Club
President, Andrea Gellan, has returned following her successful open
water swim across the notorious Pentland Firth, and in doing so has
succeeded in raising funds for drought victims in East Africa. A
deserved congratulations to Andrea for this remarkable achievement.
A full
report shall follow.
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22/08/2011
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BRIDGE TO BRIDGE OPEN WATER REPORT |
Thirty
one swimmers braved the cold waters of the River Tay on the evening of
Thursday 18 August to compete in the annual race between the River Tay
rail and road bridges. The event, which was sponsored this year by
Honda dealers West End Garage, is organised by Ye Amphibious Ancients
Bathing Association which is based in Broughty Ferry.
Repeating
her success from earlier in the season in the Tayport Cup, InCAS swimmer
Jennifer Milligan (14), who led the field in the early stages of the one
mile course, eventually came home in fourth place overall but in first
place in the junior category to take the gold medal in a time of 26
minutes and 57 seconds. The start and early sections of the race were
filmed by STV for their coverage of local news in Dundee.
Jennifer
was presented with her gold medal and shield trophy by Dundee’s Lord
Provost John Letford.
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19/08/2011
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DUNEDIN CHALLENGE MEET
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The Meet Programme for the
Dunedin Swim Team Challenge Meet is available to view.
Click here to
view. |
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16/08/2011
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SCOTTISH GAS SCOTTISH OPEN WATER
CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Scottish Gas Scottish
Open Water Championships 2011 Report
A member of InCAS has
successfully returned from her first taste of National level competition
after competing in the Scottish Gas Scottish Open Water Swimming
Championships held at Milton of Morenish, Loch Tay over the weekend of 6th
& 7th August.
Despite the idyllic setting,
the weather unfortunately degraded generating difficult conditions and
lowering the water temperature, thus making the course even tougher for
the competitors.
Regardless of these
conditions, Fourteen year old Gabby Gatherer, still a relative novice to
the sport given she is still within her first year of transition to open
water competition, demonstrated admirably quality and determination.
Gabby chose to waver entry into the 1 Km Novice event, and selected
entry into the 13-14 years age group 2 Km Open Competition showing a
true reflection of her grit and will.
Gabby swam extremely
throughout the race despite it being her first experience of swimming in
an open water loch, and battled hard in the closing stages against her
experienced adversaries in a fight for the second/third position, and
was just pipped on the line to take the Bronze medal in a time of
32:30.00. This time delivered a 2 ½ minute improvement upon her previous
time undertaken as recently as six weeks ago at the East District Open
Water Championships held at the relatively sheltered Loch Ore Meadows.
Nonetheless, the result is a major achievement for this aspiring open
water swimmer in her first national competition securing a podium finish
and placing third in Scotland.
Gabby trains predominantly
with the Fife Performance Swim Squad, with InCAS being her home Club.
She also competes with Dunfermline Water Polo Club and has been selected
to represent Scotland Girls at the forthcoming Tri-Nationals Cup to be
held in Limerick, Ireland between the 19-21 August, which shall see
Scotland compete against Finland and Ireland.
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10/08/2011
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REVISED SUMMER TRAINING TIMETABLE |
Please
note the intended return to The Wing on Week Commencing 15 August has
been delayed due to over running maintenance works at the Centre. We
have therefore secured training at Lochgelly High School until the week
commencing 29 August 2011 whereupon we have been advised the The Wing
shall be available as normal.
Click
here to view the revised
Summer Timetable.
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25/07/2011
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BRITISH GAS ASA NATIONAL AGE GROUP
CHAMPIONSHIPS |
British Gas ASA National
Age Group Championships Report
Two members of InCAS, Thirteen
year old Tain Bruce and Eleven year old Lauren Pirouet,
returned from the grand finale of this season’s swimming calendar after
competing at the British Gas ASA National Age Group Championships held
at the international venue of Ponds Forge, Sheffield between 21-25 July
2011.
The swimmers, competing
within the composite Fife Performance Swim Squad, were against the very
best of age group swimmers, aged between 11 to 14 years, from across
Britain. The high standard of qualification for the event resulted in
limited swimmers from across Scotland achieving consideration times for
the Championships. Indeed qualification in it’s own right is a
significant achievement for any swimmer.
The first day of the
Championships opened with Tain Bruce competing in the preliminary heats
of the opening event, the girls 200m IM. Tain opened her account with a
time of 2:33.79, just outside of her personal best, and saw her place in
31st position overall from a strong field of 54.
Teammate 11 year old Lauren
Pirouet started her Championships with a bang in her preliminary heat of
the girl’s 100m freestyle. A strong first 50m of 31.07 saw Lauren touch
in with a time of 1:04.60 which not only saw her qualify in 6th
place for the finals but also set a new East District age group record
by over 1 second. Barely rested, Pirouet continued with her good form in
the heats of the 200m backstroke event, once again proving her worth on
the National stage with another finals qualification performance
recording a time of 2:38.48, which also set a new East District Age
group record.
The evening of day 1 saw
Lauren Pirouet take her place in her inaugural British National’s finals
commencing with the girl’s 11 years 100m freestyle final under the glare
of the TV lighting and expectant atmosphere . The depth and quality of
the field was apparent, and Pirouet reaching a finals position had
already achieved a primary target. Her opening 50 metres was swam
aggressively, allowing her to turn in 7th position, and
strike for home finishing in 1:04.38 placing 7th overall.
This time once again broke her East District Age Group Record set
literally hours before.
Two finals in one evening
was indeed a fine opening to this promising 11 year old ‘s
Championships, and the final of the girl’s 11 years 200m backstroke
event was again a tough affair given she was entering in 9th
position. A controlled first 100m saw Lauren move up a couple of
positions however her 3rd 50m saw her ultimately finish in 9th
position in a time of 2:38.12, shaving some further time off her earlier
qualifying time, and in the process setting another new East District
age group record. An excellent opening day of two qualifying swims, two
finals and four East District age group records.
The morning of the second
day of the Championships opened with Lauren Pirouet competing in the
preliminary heats of the girls 400m freestyle in which she swam a
controlled race leading from the front with precision splits to ensure
her place in the final for the girls 11 years age group in a time of
4:48.05, placing the 3rd fastest entry time, and incredibly
break yet another East District age group record. Tain Bruce
followed stepping up onto the blocks to start her second day of
competition in the 100m butterfly heats. In yet another outstanding
field of competition from across the UK Tain swam admirably with a
strong return leg to touch in on 1:08.52, unfortunately narrowly missing
out on a finals position.
The evening of day 2 hosted
the finals from the day’s competition, and once again the atmosphere was
outstanding with a packed spectators gallery showing their support for
the finalists. Lauren Pirouet stepped onto the floodlight finals stage
in the opening event of the evening with nine other competitors from
across Great Britain, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates, with a
strong contest expected with many swimmers raising their game for the
final. Not deterred by the circumstances Pirouet went out hard in the
first 50m and turned in pole position in a time 31.57. She continued
with her determined, yet controlled swim in the knowledge many of her
competitors would be pressing her through the latter stages of the race
and she settled into third place. It was evident after the first 200m
the contest for a podium finish was available for the taking, and
Pirouet rose to the challenge digging deep through the third quarter of
the race to maintain her stroke and pace to allow her to attack for the
finish in the final 50m in which she held off strong competition to take
third place in a time of 4:43.20, setting a new Scottish National age
group record and also two new East District age group records in the
process. Pirouet was however awarded with the Silver medal due to the
first placed swimmer being from outwith the UK. A well deserved result
for the young Scottish swimmer.
The third day of the
Championships, Saturday, saw the two InCAS swimmers rise for another day
of tough swimming with Lauren competing in the girls 200m freestyle
event, followed by Tain Bruce in her favoured event, the 200m butterfly,
and Pirouet moving onto the 800m freestyle later in the day.
As with every race at this
level of meet there were no easy heats, and Pirouet required to record
yet another personal best swim to even be considered for the finals
later in the day. Lauren didn’t disappoint and once again displayed a
calm exterior to deliver another personal best time of 2:18.73 to book
her place in the evening’s final. The time also gave her another East
District age group record, and was a mere 0.4 seconds off the Scottish
National age group record for 11 years.
Tain Bruce was also in
attendance on the third morning competing in the girls 13 years 200m
butterfly event, a tough race whatever the circumstances. Lining up in
heat 5 against her adversaries Bruce went out ahead of her personal best
in a time of 33.06 at the 50m mark, and improved upon this at the
halfway point at 100m in 1:10.45. The final 100m was a tough affair but
she dug deep to bring her home in a time of 2:31.22. Disappointment
however in the form of a technical infringement at the start of race
unfortunately saw Tain disqualified.
Lauren Pirouet returned to
Ponds Forge for the afternoon session, and one of her favoured events
the 800m freestyle which would be a heat declared winner and as such
treated as a finals scenario. Pirouet lined up in her heat focused and
ready for the task ahead. An excellent first 100m took her out ahead of
the pack and saw her settle into racing from the front. Her main
competitor in the heat from Dubai eventually tussled the lead from
Lauren, but Pirouet reacted well and tracked her through the 200, 400
and 600 metre marks. Sensing her time was on target Lauren pushed ahead
in the final 200 metres to bring her home in a time of 9:44.17, not only
setting yet another East District record but also smashing the Scottish
National Age Group Record which previously stood at 9:56.29. This
impressive performance eventually saw Lauren lift the Gold medal, and
the title of Age Group Champion of Great Britain.
Following this fantastic
swim, Pirouet had little time to recover and focus for her final of the
200m freestyle held during the evening of Day 3. Once again a host of
international swimmers delivered their best wishes via video links, and
the stage was once more set for an evening of superb swimming. Lauren
Pirouet took her place once again on the finals stage, and managed to
deliver yet another fine performance touching in on 2:18.75, literally
matching her entry time, and giving her a 6th place overall.
No mean feat considering she was still recovering from perhaps her swim
of the Championships hours before.
Day 4 brought yet an other
qualifying round for Lauren Pirouet in the girls 100m backstroke event,
and given the weeks exertions, the question was could she once again
produce a personal best swim to have a chance of qualifying for the
evenings finals. Pirouet responded with an outstanding performance going
out in the first 50 metres on her personal best time and raising the
pace on the return leg to record a time of 1:13.90 which surpassed
expectations and saw her qualify for the final in 6th
position. The time also set her 10th East District Age Group
record of the Championships.
The morning also saw the
arrival of two more Fife Performance Swim Squad members, 12 year old
Morven Rae-Seaman and 13 year old Rachel Smith, who together with Tain
and Lauren formed the quartet for the girls 4x200m freestyle relay
event. The team had qualified after winning the Scottish National Age
Groups earlier in the year. Rachel Smith as lead swimmer set off in a
fast paced heat and it was clear the competition was fierce. Morven
Rae-Seaman took over the second leg for her 200m freestyle passing over
to Pirouet, with Tain Bruce bringing home the team in an unofficial time
of 2:35.19.
The penultimate evening of
the Championships saw Pirouet once again in the finals arena on this
occasion for the girls 11 years 100m backstroke final. Given the
previous improvement in her time, the final indeed presented a challenge
for Lauren knowing full well nothing less than another improvement would
be required. She went out hard in 36.16 but came back in the second 50
metres even harder bringing in her 11th East District record
with a new personal best time of 1:13.76 and placing 7th
overall.
The final day of the
Championships brought both Tain Bruce and Lauren Pirouet back for their
final events of the competition, the 400m Individual Medley. First to
take to the blocks was Tain Bruce as she had qualified through a short
course entry time despite her time being significantly better than the
later heats achieved at long course standard. Tain’s first leg of
butterfly was on pb to allow her transfer into the backstroke 100m in
the middle of the pack. Tain’s breaststroke leg however was outstanding
and saw her pull herself right up the field and well placed for the
final 100m freestyle in which she brought herself home to touch in on
5:23.24 and place 16th overall, an excellent swim to conclude
her week’s competition.
Next up, Lauren Pirouet, was
looking to also close on a high. Lauren went out hard allowing her to
close her first 100m slightly ahead of her pb, however perhaps taking
too much out of her after a hard weeks swimming as the next two legs of
backstroke and breaststroke saw Pirouet slightly behind her times but a
strong final 100m freestyle saw her reduce that deficit to finish in a
time of 5:41.76.
In all an outstanding
display of swimming against the very best of competitors from Britain
and beyond for both Tain Bruce and Lauren Pirouet, with the latter
returning home as British Champion.
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23/07/2011
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BRITISH GAS ASA NATIONAL AGE GROUP
CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Both Tain Bruce and Lauren
Pirouet are currently in Sheffield at Ponds Forge competing in the
British Gas ASA National Age Group Championships running from 21-25 July
2011. Both InCAS swimmers have achieved some fantastic results to date.
Results from the
Championships can be viewed
Click Here to
View. |
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12/07/2011
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SASA EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP
CHAMPIONSHIPS |
The Meet information and
dates for the East District Age Group Championships are available to
view on the
Gala Information page. Please
note there shall be no time trials this year as a change in format has
been implemented,
East District
Age Group Championships Meet Information |
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01/07/2011
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1201
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BRITISH GAS SCOTTISH NATIONAL OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS |
The
British Gas Scottish National Open Championships are currently running
at Tollcross Leisure Centre, Glasgow with a large contingent of well
known swimmers such as Rebecca Adlington, Hannah Miley, Robbie Renwick
and Jak Scott, who are in preparation for the World Championships. Also
in attendance is the National training squad for Spain, and also a large
number of foreign competitors from as far a field as Brazil.
InCAS
are represented with the inclusion of both Tain Bruce and Lauren Pirouet
who have qualified for this high level meet, and we wish them both the
best of luck.
The
results from the Championships can be viewed:
British Gas
Scottish National Open Championships Results
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30/06/2011
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1133
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SUMMER TRAINING TIMETABLE & NEW POST
SUMMER TIMETABLE |
With the
imminent Summer holidays upon us, we have circulated the Summer Training
programme to allow swimmers to train over this period. Click here to
view
Summer Timetable.
Upon
our return to a full training programme after the Summer holidays we
shall be utilising Lochgelly HS on a Sunday morning in lieu of Saturday
afternoon's following the Council's decision to close the Community
facility on Saturdays. The revised timetable is available. Click here to
view
Standard Training Timetable.
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29/06/2011
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1549
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TRAINING CANCELLATION |
Please
note there shall be no training at The Wing, Inverkeithing High School
on Thursday 30 June.
We
apologise for this inconvenience.
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23/06/2011
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1256
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EAST DISTRICT OPEN WATER OPEN
CHAMPIONSHIPS REPORT |
The dismal weather
experienced at Lochore Meadows on Saturday 18 June did not dampen the
results for two InCAS swimmers who were competing in the East District
Open Water Championships 2011.
Despite the weather the
Championships brought together many swimmers from across Scotland for
the Open meet, which also doubled as the East District Championships,
across a variety of age group categories.
Fourteen year old Gabby
Gatherer, swimming in her first Open Championships endured the chilly
waters and swam extremely well to take the Silver medal in the 13/14
years 2 Km Open category, a fantastic achievement given the adverse
weather conditions and a resultant water temperature of only 14 ⁰C,
which forced many swimmers to withdraw from completing the race. This
swim also crowned Gabby as Champion in the 13/14 years East District
members category.
InCAS teammate, 14 yr old
Jennifer Milligan, competing in the 15/16 years age group also succeeded
in securing the Silver medal in the 2 Km Open category despite swimming
against older competitors. This results comes on the back of her recent
success at last weekend’s Tayport Trophy Competition and exhibits
Jennifer’s natural aptitude for this form of swimming which is becoming
increasingly popular throughout Britain.
Both swimmers train with
InCAS as their home Club, with Gabby also training with the Fife
Performance Swim Squad, and also competing within the Caledonia water
polo team. |
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23/06/2011
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FIFE NOVICE LEAGUES & FIFE LEAGUES 2011
- MEET 4 RESULTS |
Following
last weekend's fourth and final meet of the Fife Novice and Fife
Leagues at FIPRE, Glenrothes the results from both sessions are
available to view below:
Click
here to view
Novice League Results
Click here to view
Fife Leagues
Results
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14/06/2011
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1251
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InCAS DISTANCE MEET REPORT & TAYPORT
CUP OPEN WATER REPORT |
InCAS once again hosted
their annual Distance Meet which is specifically geared towards
providing younger swimmers an opportunity to compete within the longer
distances of the swimming competition events, and also provide the
prospect to secure National Squad selection times for Bronze squad
training camps run by Scottish Swimming.
The meet attracted Clubs
from all across Scotland, from as far north as Nairn, Buckie, and
Aberdeen and as far south as Duns, and the field of swimmers was indeed
of high calibre, however, this did not prevent the host Club, with
limited numbers compared to the larger contingents, from finishing
second overall following many fine results across the course of the
weekend.
Two InCAS swimmers succeeded
in breaking three Scottish National Age Groups over the course, together
with three East District Age Group records. 12 year old Tain Bruce
swimming in only four events due to illness managed to take four Gold’s,
breaking the 12 years Scottish National Age Group Record for the 400m IM
in a time of 5:08.24, which is also a new East District Record and a
British Age Group qualifying time. Tain also won Golds in the 200m IM
(2:27.11); 200m butterfly (2:29.77); and also the 200m breaststroke
(2:49.92).
Equally as impressive over
the weekend was fellow training partner 11 year old Lauren Pirouet who
went one step further and broke two Scottish National Age Group Records.
Pirouet’s first record came from a controlled swim in the 800m freestyle
in a time of 9:45.97, an impressive four seconds off the previous
Scottish record. Lauren’s second national record was secured in the 400m
freestyle on Sunday, swimming aggressively to lift the record in a time
of 4:42.20. Both swims secured Gold’s for this promising 11 year old
competing in the girls 11-12 years age group, and also broke two East
District Age Group records in the process. Lauren went on to compliment
her Gold’s with a Silver in the 200m freestyle, and also two Bronze
medals from the 200m backstroke and the 200m butterfly. These results
together with a 5th place in the 200m IM event resulted in
Lauren finishing in 2nd place in the girls 11-12 years group.
In terms of medal haul,
young 9 year old Harris Bruce, swimming the Boy’s 10 years and under age
group secured the Best Boy award following Gold’s in the 200m butterfly
(3:09.50); 1500m freestyle (21:37.15); 200m IM (3:02.61); 400m IM
(6:16.74), and Silver’s in the 200m breaststroke (3:31.90); 200m
freestyle (2:36.13); 200m backstroke (2:57.56); and the 400m freestyle
(5:48.03). A remarkable achievement for this youngster competing against
swimmers a year older.
In the same age group, 10
year old teammate JJ Moultrie-Waring enjoyed a 100% success rate of 3
Gold’s from 3 swims in the 200m freestyle (2:32.19); 200m backstroke
(2:51.13) and the 400m freestyle (5:30.36). Closely following behind
was 10 year old James Gray who also enjoyed a successful meet securing
four medals from his four events. James topped the podium to take Gold
in the 200m breaststroke (3:26.95). This was followed by a Silver medal
in the 200m IM, and two Bronze medals from the 200m freestyle, and also
the 400m freestyle.
In the girls 10 and under
age group, InCAS swimmers took all three medals in the 800m freestyle
event with 10 year old Leighona Harper winning Gold, (14:06.56), closely
followed by Dana Brand in Silver position (14:09.08), and Erin Hogg in
Bronze (15:26.86). A fantastic result for these swimmers in their first
ever competitive distance event. 10 year old Dana Brand also went on to
expand her medal collection with two further bronze’s from the 200m
breaststroke and the 200m backstroke. Also obtaining a top six finish in
the age group was 10 year old Millie Knox who took fifth place in the
200m backstroke (3:32.23), an 11.5 second improvement. Olivia Ballantine,
also aged 10, closely followed behind to take the sixth place in the
200m backstroke (3:32.84).
The boys older age group
11-12 years saw 11 year old Jack Harrison continue to grow in
confidence, particularly in the 200m backstroke in which he placed 3rd
in a new PB time of 2:37.04. Jack also placed in the top six with a
fifth place in the 400m freestyle (5:01.40); and two sixth place
finishes from the 1500m freestyle (20:07.83), and the 200m freestyle
(2:23.97). Also competing in the 11-12 boys was Hayden Moffat, in his
final meet representing InCAS prior to emigrating to Australia. Hayden
took a massive 34 seconds off his previous 400m IM in a new time of
6:09.35, and also recorded two further huge PB’s in the 400m freestyle
and the 200m butterfly event. Fellow teammate, 11 year old Joe Nally,
also recorded a 10 second PB’s from his 400m freestyle, and 200m
butterfly swims, which was a great achievement following his reduced
training regime. Also performing well and securing a number of personal
best times was 11 year old Kieran Wilson in his first distance meet.
In the older groups, 14 year
old Gabby Gatherer swam extremely well to secure some impressive PB
times which saw her take 6 seconds off her 200m breaststroke (3:12.15);
5 seconds off her 200m freestyle; and 4 seconds from her 100m butterfly
split in the 400m IM event. Gabby recorded a total of 7 PB times from
the meet.
Swimming well within the
boy’s 13-14 years age group was 14 year old Conor Nally, who was
rewarded with a Silver medal in the 200m butterfly event in a time of
2:37.04, a 9 second improvement. Conor also went on to place fourth in
both the 200m IM (2:33.40); 400m IM (5:20.68); and two sixth place
finishes from the 200m freestyle (2:14.11) and 400m freestyle (4:41.11).
Other InCAS swimmers who
obtained Personal Best times, and indeed recorded their first times at
these distance events were Emily Adams; Erin Donaldson; Kelsey Knox;
Rowan Ormiston; and Cara Smyth.
With limited numbers the
InCAS results punched above their weight, placing them above the larger
Clubs of Warrender and City of Aberdeen in the final Club standings.
Club Vice-President, Derek
Pirouet, commented ‘The success and results achieved over the course of
this weekend bear testament InCAS are a swimmer focused Club
accomplished at nurturing and developing outstanding swimmers as
demonstrated by the times recorded across all age groups within the
Club.’.
Not to be outdone by their
pool colleagues, two members of the InCAS Club were competing on Sunday
in the Tayport Cup Open Water Meet, which has been held on the River Tay
since 1970. The event is one of the more prestigious within the Open
Water Calendar, and the success of the indoor swimmers was reflected
equally as strongly by both the Club President, Andrea Gellan, and
Jennifer Milligan.
14 Year old Jennifer
Milligan, who has been migrating more into the Open Water events showed
her promising talent for the sport in securing the Hart Trophy for the
fastest Junior Girl, 16 years and under, in a time of 23:45 which was
also the fastest of the day. Teammate Andrea Gellan finished in second
place behind Jennifer in a time of 24:09, a 2 minute 19 second
improvement over previous years, and won the Tayport Trophy for first
female, 16 years and over swimmer. Both swimmers were awarded with Ian D
McIntosh gold medals for their outstanding swims. |
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12/06/2011
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InCAS DISTANCE MEET RESULTS |
We would
like to extend our thanks to all Clubs and swimmers who competed at this
weekend's Distance Meet. We trust you shall agree the meet was a
complete success for the swimmers, with many impressive results recorded
over the course of the two days.
We
would also wish to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all
individuals who volunteered their services to assist with both the
officiating and also the many unspoken roles that contributed to the
smooth running and success of our meet.
Finally, congratulations are extended to Carnegie ASC on securing the
Top Club for the weekend......keep that Trophy shining, as we're hot on
your heels!!!! ....... Well done.
The
results from each of the four sessions are available to view:
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results
Session 4
Results
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10/06/2011
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InCAS DISTANCE MEET |
We would
like to wish all swimmers competing in our Distance Meet over the course
of this weekend, 11 & 12 June, the very best of luck in your chosen
events. A copy of the Draft Meet Programme is available below.
InCAS Distance
Meet DRAFT Programme
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05/06/2011
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TRAINING UPDATE |
Please
IGNORE the previous notice advising training was cancelled. The Wing is
open as normal therefore there shall be training at The Wing, Inverkeithing High School this
Monday, 6 June.
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05/06/2011
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MIDLOTHIAN MINNOWS MEET RESULTS |
The
results from the Midlothian Minnows Meet can be viewed below. An
excellent number of swims were achieved across the board, with a large
number of swimmers obtaining medal placings. A full report shall follow.
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
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03/06/2011
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0805
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TRAINING CANCELLATION |
Please
note there shall be no training at Lochgelly HS this
Saturday, 4 June, due to the Midlothian Minnows Meet which is being held
at Prestonpans. Good Luck to those competing.
We
apologise for this inconvenience.
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29/05/2011
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0910
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DUNFERMLINE ASC JUNIOR SPRINT MEET
RESULTS & REPORT |
A number of younger InCAS
swimmers competed in the annual Dunfermline Amateurs Swimming Club
Sprint Meet held at Glenrothes on Saturday 28 May 2011. The meet aimed
specifically towards the younger age groups within the swimming
fraternity, and what a fantastic demonstration of swimming skills the
InCAS swimmers delivered.
Top InCAS swimmer on the day
was 9 year old Harris Bruce, who dominated his age group taking Gold in
all four individual events, a meet record and also the Top Boy Award for
the 9 years age group. Harris’s first gold came in his opening event,
the 25m butterfly in which he not only recorded a new personal best time
of 16.83, but also set a new meet record in impressive form. This swim
set the benchmark for the day for this young star, and he delivered a
further three wins in the 50m breaststroke, shaving 0.53 seconds from
his personal best time; 100m IM in 1:24.95; 50m freestyle in 33.88
seconds; and 50m backstroke, again in a pb time of 39.18. A fantastic
achievement and display by the young swimmer.
Despite the above results,
other InCAS swimmers were hot on the heels of Harris, also demonstrating
their quality and worth within the meet.
In the boy’s 10 years age
group JJ Moultrie-Waring enjoyed an excellent day of competition in
which he battled hard all day against a new adversary from Grangemouth.
JJ opened his day with a tough swim in the 100m IM event, in which he
was literally just touched out at the finish to take 2nd
place, but succeeded in taking a massive 4.93 seconds off his previous
personal best time recording a new time of 1:24.51. Teammate 10 year old
James Gray also swam extremely well which resulted in him securing the
bronze medal, and lowered his pb time by a huge 6.73 seconds to 1:34.88.
The battle continued to the
next round, with JJ Moultrie-Waring raising the level in the boys 50m
backstroke to take podium place and gold ahead of his competition in a
new pb time of 38.28. Again, teammate James Gray closely followed behind
recording another significant pb time taking 2.34 seconds off. The
morning session saw Moultrie-Waring in another hard fought contest in
the 50m freestyle event in an excellent race in which he took silver in
a time of 37.89, just 0.1 off the gold. James Gray also finished the
morning session on a high, securing another bronze medal to add to his
collection. The afternoon session saw a role reversal as James Gray took
top spot and Gold in the boy’s 10 years 50m breaststroke event, in which
James finished in 44.98, with JJ coming in to take 4th place.
The final event of the day for this age group saw JJ Moultrie-Waring
once again take the gold medal in the 50m butterfly. JJ’s time of 39.38
was a new pb time by an improvement of 0.91 second. James Gray also
secured his third medal of the day with another bronze but in doing so
recorded a massive pb taking 1.74 seconds off his previous.
In the boys 11 years age
group, InCAS were represented by Kieran Wilson who also swam well to
indicate the depth of talent within the Club. Kieran opened his account
with a strong swim and well deserved silver medal in the 50m freestyle
event taking 0.99 off his time of 34.05. With success breeds success,
and this was evident with Kieran capturing a second silver in the boys
11 years 100m IM. The medal was however outshone by scale of his
improvement, taking an astounding 25.64 seconds off his previous
personal best time. Kieran complimented these result with a bronze medal
from the 50m butterfly in a time of 44.95, an improvement of 1.34.
Not to be outdone by their
male teammates, the InCAS female swimmers also swam well to record a
varying degree of success across the board, but more importantly
personal best times were being recorded in abundance. Worthy of note
were the swims by the newer members who enjoyed their baptism into
competitive swimming were 8 year old Katelyn MacNeil who recorded
massive personal best times in the girls 25m butterfly and 25m freestyle
events; as did 8 year old Erin Hutton in the 25m backstroke and secured
her first competitive medal.
Other InCAS swimmers who
celebrated personal best times were: Dana Brand; Lee Harrison; Rebecca
Wilson; Rowan Ormiston; Leighona Harper; Erin Donaldson; Cara Smyth;Erin
Hogg; Andrew Morris; Olivia Ballantine; and Rachel Ingram.
Whilst the InCAS swimmers
were triumphant across their individual events, they also tasted success
in the relay events, securing further medals. The 10 and 11 years age
group team of Kieran Wilson, Olivia Ballantine, JJ Moultrie-Waring and
Rowan Ormiston secured bronze in the mixed 100m medley relay event. They
also improved upon his position to take the silver medal in the mixed
100m freestyle relay. However the relay event of the day, the mixed 200m
freestyle cannonball relay put the biggest smiles on many of the InCAS
swimmers in which they take the bronze medal. The team consisted of Erin
Hutton; Katelyn MacNeil; Rebecca Wilson; Harris Bruce; Dana Brand; JJ
Moultrie-Waring; Rowan Ormiston; and Kieran Wilson.
A fantastic days competition
from these aspiring young swimmers who represented InCAS in good form.
Click here to view:
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results |
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27/05/2011
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0720
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MIDLOTHIAN MINNOWS MEET |
The Draft
Programme for the Midlothian Minnows Meet on Saturday 4 June 2011
at Prestonpans is available to view.
Please
note the Warm-Up time is scheduled to commence at 9.00am, and the meet
programme shall run as two smaller sessions with a 30 minutes break half
way through as opposed to a morning and an afternoon session. It is
therefore envisaged the meet shall be finished around 1.30pm.
Click
here to view:
Midlothian
Minnows Session 1 Programme Click
here to view:
Midlothian
Minnows Session 2 Programme
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26/05/2011
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DUNFERMLINE ASC JUNIOR SPRINT MEET |
The Draft
Programme for the Dunfermline Amateurs Junior Sprint Meet for this
Saturday, 28 May, is available to view.
Please
note the Warm-Up times have changed to commence at 9.00am, and not
8.30am as previously advertised within the meet information. The
afternoon session warm-up commences at 1.00pm.
Click
here to view
DASC Sprint
Meet Information Click
here to view
DASC Sprint
Meet
Programme
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24/05/2011
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0805
|
TRAINING CANCELLATION |
Please
note there shall be no training at Lochgelly HS this
Saturday, 28th May as Lochgelly Pool is unavailable due to another
booking.
We
apologise for this inconvenience.
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26/04/2011
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BRITISH GAS SCOTTISH NATIONAL MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 |
Thomas Davidson who trains with Fife
Performance Masters Swim Squad and InCAS swimming club, was the fastest
overall swimmer in the Scottish National Masters Championships at
Tollcross last weekend, competing against an international field of
swimmers aged18 and over. He won the 50 mts freestyle is a time of 23.76
secs and broke the Scottish record of 23.90.
The Fife Performance Swim Squad , which
is supported by the Scottish Amateur Swimming Association, Fife Council
and local participating clubs, have recently created the ‘Fife Masters
Swim Squad ‘for ex competitive swimmers, or swimmers of any level
looking to improve their technique, endurance or those wishing to
compete again. Squad members retain their home club identity, coming
together to allow further training and a potential team identity at
competitions
Fellow Fife Performance and InCAS team
mate Simon Metcalfe, also competed at Scottish National Masters in the
18-24 age group, winning gold in the 200mt Individual Medley (IM) and
bronze in the 100mts free and 100mts breast stroke, whilst Ritchie
Metcalfe (Fife Performance and Dunfermline Amateurs) won golds in 400
mts IM and 200 fly, silver in 200mts breast, and bronze in the 200IM in
the 50-54 age group.
Not to be outdone the ladies also swam
well with Chantal Guillot (Fife Performance InCAS) winning golds in the
50 fly, 50 free and 100 IM in the 35-39 age group, whilst fellow club
member Andrea Gellan gained silvers in the 800 free, 200 fly and 100 fly
and bronze in the 400 free in the 50-54 age group.
Carolynn Vogel, (Fife Dunfermline)
swimming in the 30-34 age group gained gold in the 400IM, and bronze in
the 50, 100 and 200 back, whilst team mates, Terri Hindley, gained
silver in 200 breast and bronze in the 50 beast and Ina Reid also swam
well.
Results from the
Championships can be viewed:
Scottish
National Masters Championships |
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25/04/2011
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TRAINING CANCELLATIONS DUE TO SCHOOL
HOLIDAYS |
Please
note there shall be no training on the following dates due to the Public
Holidays being taken by Fife Council:
Friday
29 April - No training at Lochgelly High School
Monday
2 May - No training at The Wing, Inverkeithing High School.
We
apologise for these forced cancellations to our training programme due
to the facilities closures. |
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21/04/2011
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FIFE NOVICE LEAGUES & FIFE LEAGUES 2011
- MEET 3 TEAMS |
The team sheets for the third meet of the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues
have been posted
onto the
Gala Information Page, the date
being 8 May 2011. Please note warm-up times are 9.00am for the Novice
Leagues and 1.00pm for the Fife Leagues. All the meets shall be
held at FIPRE, Glenrothes.
Click
here to view
Novice League
Team selections
Click here to view
Fife Leagues
Team selections
Further
information upon the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues can be found on the
Fife Leagues 2011 webpage. |
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19/04/2011
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
Click here
to view
Notice of
Annual General Meeting
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18/04/2011
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FIFE NOVICE LEAGUES & FIFE LEAGUES 2011
- MEET 2 RESULTS |
Yet
another good day for InCAS at the second round of the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues with many fine
performances and another abundance of personal best times achieved. Well done
to all our swimmers, you have represented InCAS well
over the course of the day's competition as can be demonstrated with the
results below.
Click
here to view
Novice League Results
Click here to view
Fife Leagues
Results
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14/04/2011
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BRITISH GAS SCOTTISH NATIONAL AGE
GROUPS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 |
Some of West Fife’s most
talented swimmers represented the newly formed Fife Performance Swim
Squad at the Scottish National Age Groups Championships held at the
International swimming venue at Tollcross, Glasgow over four days of
competition between 7-10 April.
The principle behind the
squad, which is open to swimmers from all ten Clubs within Fife who have
the ability to meet the squad criteria, enables the swimmers compete as
Fife Performance Swim Squad at all National competitions and selected
meets in England or abroad, and swim with their home Clubs at District
and other domestic competitions.
Top swimmer in terms of
medals was InCAS swimmer, 12 year old Tain Bruce, in the Girls 10-12
years age group. Tain amassed an outstanding 6 Scottish National Age
Group Champion titles over the course of the competition. Her individual
titles came in the 100m Butterfly, in a new East District Age Group
Record of 1:07.18; the 200m Butterfly; 100m and also the 200m
Freestyle; 200m and 400m IM’s. Tain’s swims all resulted in personal
best times being set, with the greatest improvement coming in the 200m
Butterfly achieving a 11.45 second improvement.
Another InCAS swimmer, 11
year old Lauren Pirouet, also demonstrated her worth in the 10-12 years
age group. Lauren won a silver in the 1500m freestyle event in time of
18:58.31 which set a new Scottish National Age Group Record, and beat
the previous record by some 32 seconds. This time also set a new East
District Age Group Record and also set a new East District Age Group
Record for the 800m freestyle with her split time from the 1500m event.
Lauren also reached five finals finishing fourth in the 200m freestyle,
fifth in the 200m backstroke setting two new East District Age Group
Records in the process, seventh in the 400m IM, and eighth in the 100m
backstroke despite recovering from sickness earlier in the day which
forced her withdrawal from the 400m freestyle. A fantastic achievement
swimming against 12 year olds.
Tain and Lauren also
competed in the Girls 11-13 Years relay events, alongside Morven
Rae-Seaman and Rachel Smith of FINS. The team excelled and won the 4 x
200m freestyle relay in a time just 2 seconds outside of the Scottish
Record, and shall now represent Scotland at the British Age Group
Championships to be held at Ponds Forge, Sheffield in July. The quartet
also secured two further bronze medals in the 4 x 100m Medlay relay, and
the 4 x 100m freestyle relay.
Another InCAS swimmer
representing the Fife Performance Swim Squad was 12 year old Jack
Harrison in the 200m backstroke. Jack, in his first major national
competition shall extremely well to record a fantastic personal best
time of 2:44.67, and finish ahead of his adversaries.
Also competing in the Boys
relay team was InCAS swimmer, Conor Nally, who swam in the 4 x 100m
freestyle and 4 x 200m freestyle relays, finishing in 17th
and 16th places respectively.
All in all an excellent
representation by InCAS swimmers within the Fife Performance Swim Squad
team.
Tain receiving one of her
Six Championship medals. Scottish National Age Group Champions - Girls 11-13 Years 4x200m
Freestyle Relay
left to right: Tain Bruce. Morven Rae-Seaman. Lauren Pirouet, Rachel
Smith.
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11/04/2011
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BRITISH GAS SCOTTISH NATIONAL AGE
GROUPS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 |
A number
of InCAS swimmers competed at the Scottish National Age Groups
Championships as part of the Fife Performance Swim Squad, held at
Tollcross, Glasgow which brought together the elite of Scotlands Age
group swimmers, and also a large number of swimmers from England.
Twelve
year old Tain Bruce had an outstanding four days of competition in which
she dominated her age group, the 10-12 Years. Tain topped the podium on
no less than six separate occasions, each one of them crowning her as
the Scottish National Age Group Champion of each respective event.
Tain's performances secured her Gold's in the 200m IM; 100m Butterfly,
in which she set a new East District Age Group Record; 200m Butterfly;
100m freestyle; 200m freestyle; and 400m IM.
Eleven
year old Lauren Pirouet, also swimming in the 10-12 years age group,
swam superbly to take Silver in the 1500m freestyle event which she not
only set two East District Age Group Records but also smashed the Scottish
National Age Group Record by 32 seconds. Lauren also finished as the top
11 year old in the finals of the 100m backstroke; 200m backstroke, in
which she set two new East District Age Group Records; 100m freestyle;
200m freestyle; and 400m IM.
Tain
and Lauren also formed part of the successful relay team who took Gold
in the 4x200m freestyle relay event, crowning them as Scottish National
Age Group Champions and they shall now represent Scotland at the British
Age Group Championships in Sheffield in July. They also managed to
secure Bronze in the 4x100m freestyle relay and also the 4x100m Medley
relay.
Eleven
year old Jack Harrison also put in an excellent performance in the 200m
backstroke, achieving a new personal best time of 2:44.67. A massive
improvement for the young swimmer beating many of his adversaries in the
process.
14 year
old Conor Nally also took part within the Boys 11-14 years relay team
competing in the 4x200m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle relays.
InCAS
wish to congratulate all our swimmers who took part in the
Championships.
The
full results from the Championships can be viewed:
Scottish
National Age Groups Championships Results
A full
report shall follow. |
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04/04/2011
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EASTER TRAINING NOTICE |
Training over the Easter Holiday period shall run as normal, with the
exception of Thursday 7 April at The Wing; Saturday 9 April at Lochgelly;
and Monday 11 April at The WIng which are cancelled. |
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02/04/2011
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1145
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FIFE NOVICE LEAGUES & FIFE LEAGUES 2011
- MEET 2 TEAMS |
The team sheets for the second meet of the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues
have been posted
onto the
Gala Information Page, the date
being 17 April 2011. Please note warm-up times are 9.00am for the Novice
Leagues and 1.00pm for the Fife Leagues. All the meets shall be
held at FIPRE, Glenrothes.
Click
here to view
Novice League
Team selections
Click here to view
Fife Leagues
Team selections
Further
information upon the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues can be found on the
Fife Leagues 2011 webpage. |
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28/03/2011
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WARRENDER BATHS AGE GROUP MEET REPORT |
Last weekend saw an
opportunity for the younger swimmers within InCAS to compete in the
Warrender Baths Annual Age Group Meet held at Glenrothes pool to
demonstrate their worth, and what a show they put on.
Saturday saw the 9 and 10
years age groups take to the water, and they collectively gave InCAS
something to cheer about. Without a doubt two young swimmers stood out
above the rest with their strong performances throughout the day.
In the Boy’s 9 Years age
group, Harris Bruce, established an early authority over his rivals with
an outstanding swim in the opening event, the 100m IM, finishing some 5
seconds ahead of his nearest competition in a time of 1:26.62. Harris
then continued his form into the 50m backstroke event, again coming in
ahead to secure Gold in 39.22, establishing a new Meet Record in the
process. Not content with this strong start to his competition, Bruce
then looked to complete a successful morning with his favoured stroke,
the 50m butterfly, and again did not disappoint, finishing in 1st
place in 38.20, an amazing 7 seconds ahead of second place.
The afternoon session also
saw Harris demonstrate his worth at the longer distance in the 200m
freestyle, where once again he finished in top spot touching in on
2:39.82, another personal best time. He then went onto his 5th
event of the day in the 50m breaststroke, and recorded another 2 second
personal best time whilst taking the silver spot on the podium. At the
close of the day, in his final event, the 50m freestyle sprint Harris
captured his 5th Gold of the day in a close race and in turn
placing him as the 9 Years Top Boy Award.
Not to be outdone was 10
year old JJ Moultrie-Waring, who sought to emulate his younger teammate,
and he done so superbly demonstrating some lovely stroke technique and
race composure in his opening event, the 200m freestyle in which he
controlled the race from start to finish to record a time of 2:40.75,
some 11 seconds ahead of his competitors, and a new personal best time.
He then went into his next race, the 50m freestyle with some confidence
which allowed him to take the Gold medal after a strong swim in 33.29,
again another personal best time.
The afternoon saw Moultrie-Waring
continue with his good form in the 100m IM event, demonstrating all
four strokes with excellent execution. The next race also brought more
gold for JJ, with a controlled swim in the 50m backstroke, recording
another new personal best time of 39.69. The final race of the day for
JJ in the 50m butterfly, also brought more success to this young
aspiring swimmer achieving another Gold in 40.29, and yet another
personal best time. In all 5 Gold’s from 5 races, and 100% success
brought the accolade of the 10 Years Top Boy Award to JJ Moultrie-Waring.
The girl swimmers of InCAS
were equally keen to establish themselves on the first day of
competition, and they too produced some outstanding performances which
bode well for the future of InCAS.
Swimming in the 100m IM
event, top InCAS female was 9 year old Olivia Ballantine swimming her
first competitive IM race came in 8th position, and was
closing followed by her teammates, of Ellie Turner, Dana Brand, Ali
Moultrie-Waring, and Cara Smyth who all recorded personal best times,
with Dana and Cara EACH taking in excess of 22 seconds from their
previous times.
In the Girls 10 years age
group Leighona Harper performed well over the course of the days events
taking the 5th place medal in the 200m freestyle. Leighona
also went onto to consistently record finishes in the top 10, and no
less than 4 personal bests from her days swims.
In the girls 9 and under
group, the band of InCAS swimmers were joined by Rachel Ingram, with
Olivia Ballantine once again finishing as top InCAS performer in the 50m
backstroke closely followed by Dana Brand. In the 50m butterfly event,
young 7 year old Ellie Turner gave her performance of the day finishing
as the top InCAS swimmer recording an outstanding time of 52.13 and
finishing in 11th place in a group of 24 older swimmers.
In the girls 9 years 200m
freestyle, the trio of Olivia Ballantine, Dana Brand and Cara Smyth all
swam well to produce sizeable lifetime bests. Olivia also went on to win
a 5th place medal in the 50m breaststroke event in a time of
54.19, with Rachel Ingram finishing in a fine 10th spot.
The second day of
competition brought the 12 years old to compete, with InCAS represented
by Jack Harrison and Emily Adams.
Both Harrison and Adams
started their day’s competition in the 200m freestyle with Jack Harrison
securing a 6th place medal in a new personal best time of
2:28.46. Emily in her first competitive 200m freestyle race swam well to
record her first time and establish a benchmark for future competition.
Jack Harrison then went on
to improve upon his previous placing with a 5th place in the
50m freestyle, touching in on 31.36, another personal best time. And to
prove a point, Harrison then went on to finish in 4th spot in
the 200m IM taking some 12 seconds off his previous time. He then went
on to secure yet another medal placing in the 50m backstroke, taking 5th
place. An outstanding days performance from this young gentleman.
Emily Adams, showing
improvement throughout the day went onto compete in a further 4 events
and is looking encouraging for future competitions.
All in all, InCAS, despite
only taking a small contingent of swimmers consisting of Harris Bruce,
JJ Moultrie-Waring, Olivia Ballantine, Dana Brand, Cara Smyth, Ellie
Turner, Leighona Harper, Ali Moutrie-Waring, Rachel Ingram, Emily Adams
and Jack Harrison secured two Best Swimmer Awards, 10 Gold’s, 1 Silver
and an impressive 38 personal best times. An excellent weekend of
performances for InCAS. |
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WARRENDER BATHS AGE GROUP MEET RESULTS |
The
results from the weekends Warrender Age Group Meet are available to
view. A fantastic effort by all InCAS swimmers with a number of
individual outstanding performances, notable mention to Harris Bruce and
JJ Moultrie-Waring who won Best Boy within the 9 years and 10 years age
groups respectively. A full report shall follow.
Click
here to view
Warrender Meet
Results
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL AGE GROUP
CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 MEET PROGRAMME |
The
finalised Meet Programme for the Scottish National Age Group
Championships 2011 have been released.
Click
here to view
SNAGS Meet
Programme
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS -
FINAL WEEKEND REPORT |
A small contingent of InCAS
swimmers qualified for the finals weekend of the East of Scotland
District Age Group Swimming Championships held at the Fife Institute of
Sport at Glenrothes last Saturday and Sunday with Tain Bruce and Lauren
Pirouet once again topping the podium, whilst setting a new Scottish
National Age Group Record and two East District Age Group Records.
The weekend saw these
swimmers excel once again in their respective age groups to secure
additional medals to add to their already impressive haul over the
course of the 4 weekends of competition.
Saturday saw 12 year old
Tain Bruce start her weekend with a 4th placing in the girls
12/13 years age group final of the 100m freestyle behind her 13 year
old competitors in a time of 1:02.32, a new pb. Tain then went onto
secure her first medal of the weekend, a bronze in the final of the 100m
backstroke in a time of 1:10.88.
The first day of competition
also saw 11 year old Lauren Pirouet commence proceedings with a silver
medal in the final of the girls 10/11 years age group 100m backstroke in
a new pb time of 1:13.21. She also went on to qualify for the finals of
the 100m breaststroke and finished a credible 5th place
overall.
The second day of
competition on Sunday saw both swimmers produce their best performances
with outstanding swims in their favoured events.
Tain Bruce excelled in the
final of the girls 12/13 years 100m butterfly event to take gold in a
new pb time of 1:05.89 which set a new Scottish National Age Group
Record for 12 years, and also a new East District Age Group Record, and
saw her move up to the No 1 position in the GB rankings.
Not to outdone by this
performance, Lauren Pirouet emulated her older teammate with an
incredible performance in the girls 10/11 years final of the 100m
freestyle producing a new East District Age Group Record time of
1:03.39, just 0.02 second outside of breaking the Scottish National
Record, whilst securing the gold medal and a new pb time. This result
ensured an impressive clean sweep of all the freestyle events by Lauren
winning the 100m, 200m, 400, 800m and 1500m events over the course of
the Championships. Lauren had earlier in the day also added a bronze
medal to her collection with a strong swim in the 100m butterfly finals.
These cumulative results together with her gold’s in the 400m IM and
200m backstroke events in previous weeks resulted in Lauren being
crowned as the Girls 10/11 years East District Age Group Champion for
2010/2011.
The weekend also saw other
InCAS swimmers qualify for the finals weekend, and they too swam well to
produce some excellent results. Young 10 year old JJ Moultrie-Waring
swimming in his first East District competition gave an admirable
performance in the boys 10/11 years 100m backstroke achieving a new pb
time of 1:24.53. JJ also swam on the Sunday afternoon in the 100m
freestyle event, recording a time of 1:14.28.
Older teammate, 11 year old
Jack Harrison went one better qualifying for the finals of both the 100m
backstroke in a time of 1:20.13, going on to finish in 5th
position, and also qualifying for the 100m freestyle, again finishing in
5th place in a time of 1:09.93 recording a new pb time
despite recovering from a virus.
In the girls 14-15 years age
group, 15 year old Kayleigh Hutton competing in the 100m freestyle
touched in on a time of 1:05.50.
Also representing InCAS in
the relays were new comers to the East Districts Rowan Orimiston,
Leighona Harper and Kirsty Pearson who along with Lauren Pirouet
competed in the girls 10/11 years 200m freestyle relay ultimately
finishing in 7th place in a time of 2:26.28 and enjoying the
experience of this level of competition.
Overall, a fantastic
representation from InCAS during the course of the Championships
securing the Girls 10/11 years Age Group Champion; 10 Championship
Titles, a Scottish National Age Group Record and 8 East District Age
Group Records over the 8 days of competition. |
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS -
FINAL WEEKEND RESULTS |
The results from the finals weekend of the East
District Age Group Championships are available to view. Click on below
link to view:
East District
Age Group Results - Final Weekend
Congratulations to all whom swam for InCAS. A special mention goes to 12
Year old Tain Bruce who not only won the Girls 12/13 Years 100m
Butterfly in a new East District Age Group Record, she also broke the
Scottish National Record for 12 Years Age Group. A fantastic result. A
full report shall follow. |
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DUNFERMLINE ASC JUNIOR SPRINT MEET INFORMATION POSTED |
Details
and information upon Dunfermline Amateurs Junior Sprint Meet have been posted onto
the Gala Information page for consideration.
Click
here to view
DASC Sprint
Meet Information
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InCAS DISTANCE MEET INFORMATION POSTED |
Details
and information upon InCAS annual Distance Meet have been posted onto
the SwimScotland website. All swimmers eligible for the meet are
encouraged to partake in the meet to secure times for distance events.
Full details shall be posted on the Information Board at The Wing in due
course.
Click
here to view
Distance Meet
Information
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FIFE NOVICE LEAGUES & FIFE LEAGUES 2011
- MEET 1 RESULTS |
A
fantastic start to the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues 2011 with many fine
performances and an abundance of personal best times achieved. Well done
to all our swimmers, both new and old, you have represented InCAS well
over the course of the day's competition as can be demonstrated with the
results below.
Click
here to view
Novice League Results
Click here to view
Fife Leagues
Results
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS -
FINAL WEEKEND DRAFT PROGRAMMES |
The draft programmes for the sessions of the final weekend of the East
District Age Group Championships are available to view. Click on below
link to view:
Session 13 -
Saturday Morning
Session 14 -
Saturday Afternoon
Session 15 -
Sunday Morning
Session 16 -
Sunday Afternoon
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FIFE NOVICE LEAGUES & FIFE LEAGUES 2011
- MEET 1 TEAMS |
The team sheets for this years first Fife Novice and Fife Leagues meets have been posted
onto the
Gala Information Page, the dates
being 13 March 2011. Please note warm-up times are 8.00am for the Novice
Leagues and 12 noon for the Fife Leagues. All the meets shall be
held at FIPRE, Glenrothes.
Click
here to view
Novice League
Team selections
Click here to view
Fife Leagues
Team selections
Further
information upon the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues can be found on the
Fife Leagues 2011 webpage. |
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
RESULTS & REPORT |
More Records Tumble for
InCAS Swimmers
Several InCAS swimmers were
in attendance at the penultimate round of the East District Age Group
Championships held on Saturday and Sunday, 5 and 6 March at the Fife
Institute of Sport, Glenrothes and once again demonstrated their worth
with an impressive display.
Two InCAS swimmers increased
their collection of medals from these Championships with notable swims
in their respective age groups.
Eleven year old Lauren
Pirouet, once again stamped her authority in the distance events
dominating the Girls 10-11 years 400m freestyle event to take Gold in a
new East District Age Group Record time of 4:45.28, achieving new
personal bests for the 100m and 200m splits, and placing her at No 1
within the GB rankings.
Lauren then went on to take
Gold in the Girls 10-11 years 200m backstroke in a time of 2:36.62,
setting another personal best time and narrowly missed out on a British
Qualifying time by 0.60 second.
Twelve year old Tain Bruce,
swimming in the Girls 12-13 years age group also had an outstanding
weekend of competition, notably in the 200m breaststroke in which she
rose from a 5th place ranking to secure Gold with a
incredible time of 2:45.13, which was only 0.40 second outside of a
British Qualifying time, and set a new East District Age Group Record
which had stood for 10 years.
Tain also added a Bronze
medal to her collection from the 400m freestyle event in a new personal
best time of 2:43.20, which placed her as the top 12 year old. To
complete her weekend Tain also took 4th place in the 200m
freestyle event, in a new personal best time of 2:16.30, and again
placed her as the top 12 year old within the event.
InCAS swimmers were not
however remaining in the shadow of their teammates victories and
achieved equally admirable results across the course of the weekends
competition.
Saturday saw 13 year old
Gabby Gatherer start her weekend with a new personal best time of
2:46.20 in the Girls 12-13 years 200m freestyle. On the Sunday, Gabby
swam in the 200m breaststroke recording a time of 3:18.11, and also the
100m breaststroke in 1:36.48.
In the Girls older age group
of 14-15 years, 15 year old Kayleigh Hutton opened her weekend with a
time of 1:14.94 in the 100m butterfly. Sunday saw an invigorated
Kayleigh achieve a new personal best time of 4:56.11 in the 400m
freestyle, and also record another personal best in the 200m freestyle
in 2:21.49. A welcome return to form for Kayleigh.
Erin Brown, 14, making her
comeback following a bout of illnesses demonstrated her skill, recording
an admirable time of 3:02.97 which was encouraging despite her lack of
training over recent months.
InCAS were also well
represented by their male swimmers, who despite their limited numbers
also demonstrated their worth, particularly in the Boys 10-11 years age
group. The quartet of JJ Moutrie-Waring, Jack Harrison, Joe Nally and
Hayden Moffat were in good form recording significant improvements
across the board.
Ten year old JJ Moultrie-Waring
swam extremely well in the Boys 10-11 years 400m freestyle, recording a
new personal best time of 5:41.86 as top 10 year old, and looks an
exciting prospect for taking the title in next years competition.
Eleven year old Jack
Harrison went one better, and took 5th place in the 400m
freestyle in an excellent personal best time of 5:22.17. Jack extended
his form in the 200m backstroke event and narrowly missed out on a
bronze medal placing 4th and recorded another personal best
time of 2:46.95, which qualifies Jack for the forthcoming Scottish
National Age Groups meet in April.
Joe Nally, 11, narrowly
missed out on a new PB in the 400m freestyle event coming in on 5:40.52.
Joe did however go on to swim in a new best time in the 200m backstroke
but was declined of recording the time due to a technical infringement.
Teammate, Hayden Moffat, 11,
with only a single swim over the weekend competing in the 200m
backstroke event finished in 7th place in a new personal best
time of 2:52.78.
In the Boys 12-13 years age
group, 13 year old Conor Nally also started his weekend in a positive
manner setting a new personal best in the 200m freestyle in 2:21.06.
Conor went onto the 400m freestyle later on the Saturday afternoon to
record a second personal best of the day in 4:48.24.
A good weekend’s work from
these InCAS swimmers achieving 3 Gold’s, 1 Bronze; 2 East District Age
Group Records and a huge haul of personal best times.
Click here to view
Results from
East District Age Group Championships Sessions 5 - 8 |
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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL MEET PRESS RELEASE |
Edinburgh International
Age Group Meet – ‘InCAS On Tour’
Several InCAS swimmers were
in attendance at the Edinburgh International Age Group Meet held on
Saturday and Sunday, 12 & 13 February at Tollcross Swimming Pool,
Glasgow …’On-Tour’ due to the continuing refurbishment of the
Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh.
For a number of the InCAS
swimmers it was their first experience at this level of Competition in
the presence of Hannah Miley, Corrie Scott and Robbie Renwick, who
represented Scotland at the recent Commonwealth Games in Delhi, and the
InCAS swimmers responded with a demonstration of fantastic performances
across the board.
Top InCAS swimmer over the
course of the weekend was 12 year old Tain Bruce who secured four podium
finishes from five events.
Top of the list was Tain’s
Gold coming from the Girls 11-12 years 100m Butterfly finals on the
Sunday evening in a new personal best time of 1:08.84, narrowly missing
out on a British Age Group qualification time by only 0.14 of a second.
Tain had also previously
secured a Silver medal on Saturday evening in the finals of the Girls
11-12 years 100m Freestyle posting a new personal best time of 1:04.32,
and also a Bronze medal in the Girls 11-12 years 100m Backstroke in
1:14.22, again another personal best.
On the Sunday evening, Tain
also added another Silver medal to her collection from the final of the
11-12 years 100m Breaststroke in a time of 1:22.55. Tain also achieved a
time of 2:36.49 in the 200m IM event. Overall, an excellent weekend’s
results from a busy meet programme.
Teammate, 11 year old Lauren
Pirouet also enjoyed a productive weekend despite swimming against the
older competitors in the 11-12 years age group. Lauren qualified for the
finals of the 100m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke on the first day of the
competition. In the final of the 100m Freestyle she finished in 5th
place as top 11 year old in a time of 1:06.19, which is a British Age
Group qualifying time. Lauren then went onto the 100m Backstroke final
to again finish in 5th position, setting a new East District
Age Group Record in a time of 1:15.87, and also achieving another
British Age Group qualifying time.
Sunday saw Pirouet qualify
for the final of the 100m Butterfly event, in which she finished in 10th
place, recording a new personal best time of 1:18.11. The remainder of
Lauren’s swims in the 100m Breaststroke and the 200m IM events were also
personal best times recorded. Another successful weekend for this young
swimmer returning with another East District Record and two British Age
Group qualifying times.
Also competing in the Boys
11-12 years age group were 11 year old’s Hayden Moffat and Jack Harrison
who were once again head to head in a number of events recording a
number of personal bests.
Hayden Moffat competing in
four events, had an outstanding weekend achieving four personal best
times in the 100m freestyle; 100m backstroke, 100m butterfly and 100m
breaststroke. Jack Harrison, swimming in the 100m freestyle and the
100m backstroke also swam equally well, recording personal best times in
both of his swims.
13 year old Gabby Gatherer
swimming in the Girls 13-14 age group also had an outstanding weekend
competing in the 100m and 200m breaststroke events, 100m butterfly and
100m freestyle recording significant personal best times in each of her
four events, with additional personal best split times.
In the Boys 13-14 age group,
13 year old Conor Nally with a full schedule of events started his
weekend with a personal best time of 1:17.75 in the 100m backstroke, and
went onto continue this theme throughout the course of his swims
achieving no less than 9 personal best times.
By no means last, 15 year
old Kayleigh Hutton, still returning to full fitness, demonstrated her
worth by achieving a significant number of personal best times from her
6 swims over the weekend and is looking promising for the future.
A good weekend’s work from
these InCAS swimmers achieving 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze; 1 East
District Record; 2 British qualifying times; and a plethora of personal
best times.
Click here to view
Results from
Edinburgh International Age Group Meet |
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
PRESS RELEASE |
The first day of the second weekend of
the East District Age Group Swimming Championships took place in the
Fife Institute, Glenrothes on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th
February and a small number of InCAS swimmers had an excellent weekend.
Eleven year old Lauren Pirouet started
her weekend with an East District Age Group Record in her first swim
Lauren swam the 800m Freestyle in 9.56.34 to beat the existing record
held by an InCAS swimmer and of course win the Gold by a huge 37
seconds. Lauren then went on to win a Silver in the 200m I.M. in a PB
time of 2.41.33.
Joe Nally swimming in the boys 10/11yrs
age group 1500m Freestyle finished in 4th place knocking over
two minutes from his previous best in 22.00.53, also gaining an
excellent PB in his 200m IM. Club mate Hayden Moffat an outstanding 200m
IM to finish in 4th Place in the 10/11yr age group in
2.54.45.
Day two saw once again 11 year old
Lauren Pirouet have an excellent swim with an outstanding 1500m
Freestyle to win the Gold in a new East District Record, beating her own
record by 32 seconds in 19.04.51. Two Gold's and one Silver from three
swims an excellent weekend.
The girls 12/13yrs age group saw 12 year
old Tain Bruce have an absolutely outstanding swim in the heats of the
200m IM to qualify in 1st place in 2.27.67, a massive PB. In
the final Tain won the Gold finishing a full 4 seconds in front but a
second slower than her heat time.
The boys 10/11yrs age group had Joe
Nally swimming only his second 800m F/C as a reserve but with
withdrawals he was given a swim to finish in 5th place
knocking a minute and a half from his previous best in 22.00.53.
The boys 12/13yrs saw Conor Nally have
an excellent swim in his 200m IM to knock a full four seconds from his
previous best.
Other swimmers who swam very well were
11 year old Rowan Ormiston two swims two PB’s in the 100m Backstroke and
200m IM, 11year old Jack Harrison one swim and a big PB in the 200m IM,
13 year old Gabby Gatherer secured a 5 second PB in the 200 IM, and
last but not least 15yr old Kayleigh Hutton with a limited training
programme swam very well.
Three Golds, one Silver, seven
Finalists, two East District records, and thirteen best times from
fifteen swims, a superb weekend for these eight swimmers.
Click here to view
Results from
East District Age Groups Sessions |
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SCOTTISH SCHOOL'S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
PRESS RELEASE |
Top of the Class for
InCAS Swimmers
A number of InCAS swimmers
were in attendance at the Scottish Schools Swimming Championships held
at Tollcross Swimming Pool, Glasgow on Saturday 29 January. The
Championships being the culmination of Regional heats held throughout
Scotland, bringing together the cream of Scottish swimming at Primary
and Secondary Schools level.
Despite the elite of Youth
swimming in attendance, two InCAS swimmers rose to the occasion within their
respective age group events and were crowned Scottish Schools Champions.
11 year old Lauren Pirouet representing Townhill PS secured her place in
the Finals of the girls 12 years and under 50m Backstroke with a
comfortable win in the preliminary round in a time of 35.43. Lauren then
went on to improve on her time and secure Gold in a time of 35.16, a
full second ahead of her nearest competitor.
Both of Lauren’s times set new East
District Records.
In the girls Secondary
Schools 13-14 years age group Tain Bruce, representing Inverkeithing HS,
battled hard to take her Gold in the 200m IM event in an outstanding
time of 2:35.73, and the deserved title of Scottish Schools Champion.
Tain also competed in the girls 13-14 years 100m Butterfly and despite
the field containing swimmers a year older than Tain, she dug deep to
secure a Bronze medal in a time of 1:09.95.
InCAS are also delighted
with the results of Joe Nally and Hayden Moffat who were both
representing Limekilns PS. Joe finished a respectable 13th
place in the 50m Breaststroke event in 45.52, with Hayden going one
further and qualifying for the finals of the 50m Butterfly ultimately
finishing in 8th place in a time 37.74. Also competing in the
Boy’s 12 and under 50m Backstroke for King’s Road PS was Jack Harrison
who also swam well to qualify for the finals, and finished in 10th
place in 39.42.
Competing for Woodmill HS
was Joe’s brother Conor Nally in the boy’s 13-14 years 100m Butterfly,
again swimming admirably to finish in 8th spot in 1:14.68.
Conor also competed in the 200m IM event placing in 12th
overall in 2:44.19. In the girl’s 15-16 years age group, 15 year old
Kayleigh Hutton swam for Inverkeithing HS in the 200m IM event finishing
in a time of 2:49.15.
InCAS Vice-President, Derek
Pirouet, commented ‘We are extremely proud of all the InCAS swimmers
who have qualified to reach the Championships. Furthermore, we are
delighted InCAS swimmers have secured wins on a National stage which is
a fantastic result for such a small Club that bears testament to the
Coaching and support of all involved.’ |
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SCOTTISH SCHOOL'S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
RESULTS |
A number
of InCAS swimmers represented their respective schools as part of the
Fife Schools Squad competing at Tollcross, Glasgow on Saturday 29
January.
Congratulations go to Tain Bruce and Lauren Pirouet who were crowned as
Scottish Schools Champions for the 200m IM and 50m Backstroke
respectively. Tain also secured a Bronze in the 100m Fly event.
Other
InCAS swimmers who also swam well to qualify for the Finals were Jack
Harrison in the 50m Backstroke, finishing 10th overall, and Hayden
Moffat in the 100m Fly, finishing 8th overall. Brothers Conor and Joe
Nally also represented their schools with Conor swimming in the 100m Fly
finishing in a respectable 8th position, and also the 200m IM, placing
12th. Brother Joe competed in the 50m Breaststroke finishing in 13th.
Also swimming in the 200m IM representing Inverkeithing High was
Kayleigh Hutton who finished in 20th overall.
Well
done to all our InCAS swimmers who qualified for the Championships.
The
session results are available to view:
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results |
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STIRLING SWIMMING JUNIOR OPEN MEET &
LIVINGSTON DOLPHINS PRESS REPORT |
A small contingent of four
swimmers represented InCAS at the prestigious Stirling Swimming Junior
Open Meet held at The Peak Sports Centre, Stirling over the weekend of
22 and 23 January. With many of Scotland’s major Clubs represented the
level of competition was of a high calibre but the InCAS swimmers were
happy to rise to the challenge.
On the first day of
competition, Erin Brown shone as InCAS top performer in the girls 13
years age group 100m Breaststroke event. Erin qualified in her heats in
a time of 1:25.56, and secured her place in the finals held later in the
day. Erin went on to produce a strong swim to secure her first medal of
the year taking Silver in a time of 1:24.97. An exceptional result and
places her well for the Scottish Schools event. Also competing in the
Girls 13 years 100m Breaststroke was teammate Gabby Gatherer who
recorded a time of 1:36.82 in the preliminary heats.
In the boys events InCAS
were represented by the duo of Hayden Moffat and Jack Harrison. Jack
opened his day in the boys 11 years 100m backstroke event, recording a
time of 1:22.98 which would have given him a personal best had it not
been for a technical infringement. Jack went onto to compete in the boys
11 years 200m freestyle with his teammate Hayden Moffat lining up
against him in the adjacent lane. The two InCAS swimmers produced an
excellent race to pull ahead of their competitors and fought hard to the
final touch with Hayden taking the honours in a time of 2:37.89, and
Jack literally a fingernail behind in 2:37.97. Both times were personal
bests.
Erin Brown went onto swam
admirably in the heats of 13 years 200m IM recording a time of 2:56.58
despite a lack of race training. The close of Saturday saw Hayden Moffat
in the heats of the 100m breaststroke, swimming in a time of 1:37.46 to
bring his day to an end.
The second day of
competition saw Hayden Moffat and Jack Harrison compete in the 100m IM
with both recording two excellent Personal Bests, 1.25.14 and 1.26.71
respectively. Both then went on to compete in the 100m Freestyle, once
again both producing very good personal best times with Hayden in
1.14.40 and Jack in 1.14.58. The afternoon session saw Hayden qualify
for the 100m Butterfly final in 6th place in a superb
Personal Best of 1.25.10, and ultimately finishing in 5th
place in the finals. Erin Brown also competed in the 100m Freestyle
recording a very good Personal Best time of 1.10.78.
Not to be outdone by their
older Club mates Saturday 22 January also saw a group of InCAS younger
swimmers compete in the annual Livingston & District Dolphins Graded
Meet held in Whitburn. What a show the youth swimmers put on with every
single swimmer achieving at least two Personal Best times. Rebecca
Wilson 4 PB’s, Katelyn McNeil 4 PB’s, Aaron Hurst 2 PB’s, Cara Smyth 3
PB’s, Dana Brand 3 PB’s, Olivia Ballantine 3 PB’s, Rachel Ingram 3 PB’s,
Leighona Harper 4 PB’s and Millie Knox 3 PB’s. An excellent weekend for
the InCAS club. |
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STIRLING SWIMMING JUNIOR OPEN MEET RESULTS |
Results
from the weekend's Stirling Swimming Junior Open Meet are
available to view.
Click here to
view.
The
small contingent of InCAS swimmers competed well over the course of the
weekend with a number of personal bests achieved. |
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LIVINGSTON & DISTRICT DOLPHINS
DEVELOPMENT MEET RESULTS |
Results
from the weekend's Livingston & District Dolphins Development Gala are
available to view.
Click here to
view.
A large
number of personal bests were achieved over the course of the days
competition. Congratulations to our younger swimmers. |
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SWIM MEETS ADDED TO GALA INFORMATION
PAGE |
A number
of Meets for 2011 have been added to the
Gala
Information page. Please feel free to look at this
years events InCAS shall be competing. |
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FIFE NOVICE LEAGUES & FIFE LEAGUES 2011 |
The dates for this years Fife Novice and Fife Leagues have been posted
onto the
Gala Information Page, the dates
being 13 March, 17 April, 8 May & 19 June 2011. All the meets shall be
held at FIPRE, Glenrothes.
Further
information upon the Fife Novice and Fife Leagues can be found on the
Fife Leagues 2011 webpage. |
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL SHORT COURSE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- PRESS RELEASE |
Incas Compete At Scottish Nationals
Friday
the 7th January saw the commencement of the Scottish National
Open Short Course Swimming Championships held at the International 50m
pool in Tollcross Glasgow.
Despite
the loss of training due to the weather and forced closures over the
last month four Incas swimmers competed.
Top
Incas swimmer was 12 year old Tain Bruce, swimming in the girls 14 and
under age group Tain had 6 swims, 6 PB’s, an East District Age Group
record, a 6th place in the 400m IM in 5.11.89 which was her
ED record. Tain went into the 100m IM heats lying 93rd and
finished in 18th place in 1.12.63 knocking a full six seconds
from her previous best.
Also
swimming in the girls 14 and under age group was 11 year old Lauren
Pirouet who despite having been floored by a virus for the past two
weeks went on to swim an excellent 800m Freestyle in 10.11.47, knocking
fourteen seconds from her previous best.
Incas
two other swimmers were 13 year old Conor Nally swimming in the boys 15
and under age group and despite having been out for nearly a month
still managed a creditable swim in the 400m IM less than a second
outside his PB.
Finally
15 year old Kayleigh Hutton swimming in the Open age group also had a
number of reasonable swims given she too is coming back from illness.
Well
done to all our swimmers who represented InCAS at this National event. |
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10/01/2011
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL SHORT COURSE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
RESULTS |
The results from the Scottish National Short Course Open Swimming Championships
held at Tollcross, Glasgow are available to view.
Congratulations to our InCAS swimmers who qualified and produced some
outstanding performances: Tain Bruce; Kayleigh Hutton; Conor Nally; and
Lauren Pirouet.
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results
Session 4
Results
Session 5
Results
Session 6
Results
Session 7
Results
Session 8
Results
Session 9
Results
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05/01/2011
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TRAINING RECOMMENCES
AT THE WING |
Happy New
Year to all our swimmers, parents and members. As part of your New Year
resolutions, training recommences this evening, 5 January 2011 at The
Wing between 6.00 - 8.00pm for those squads who normally attend per the
standard Training Timetable.
Click here to
view. |
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31/12/2010
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SCOTTISH SCHOOL'S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS |
The Meet Programme for the Scottish Schools Swimming Championships
to be held at Tollcross, Glasgow on 29 January has been posted onto
the Gala Information webpage.
Click here to
view. |
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FESTIVE GREETINGS |
InCAS wish
to extend the season's Best Wishes to our swimmers, parents and all
involved with the Club. May we also take this opportunity to wish you
all a prosperous New Year.
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20/12/2010
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL SHORT COURSE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS |
The Meet Programme for the Scottish National Short Course Open Swimming Championships
to be held at Tollcross, Glasgow in January has been posted onto
the Gala Information webpage.
Click here to
view. |
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20/12/2010
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BONUS BALL WINNER |
The
winning Bonus Ball number from the National Lottery Draw, for 18
December 2010, is No. 40 - InCAS.
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13/12/2010
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BONUS BALL WINNERS |
The
winning Bonus Ball numbers from the National Lottery Draw, for 6
November 2010, is No.
36 - InCAS; 13 November is No 45 - InCAS; 20 November is No 29 - InCAS;
27 November is No 8 - InCAS; 4 December is No 11 - Lauren Pirouet; and
11 December is No 27 - Sharon Milligan. Congratulations to those who
have won.
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08/12/2010
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TRAINING UPDATE 8 DECEMBER
AT THE WING |
The SEALS
squad training this evening is cancelled due to inadequate cover
poolside due to the adverse weather conditions. Apologies for this
inconvenience. |
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08/12/2010
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TRAINING UPDATE 8 DECEMBER
AT THE WING |
We have
been informed by staff at Inverkeithing High School the Community Wing
is currently open but they are continuing to monitor the weather and may
decide to close prior to our training session this evening.
At present tonight’s training
for those squads who normally train on Wednesdays is running per the
standard timetable, however this may be subject to late cancellation
dependant upon the facilities decision later today. We therefore urge
you to check your emails and also the website prior to departing for
training to ensure The Wing is still open and not taken the decision to
close.
Once
again all at InCAS thank you for your patience over this extended period
of closure forced upon us. |
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06/12/2010
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TRAINING CANCELLED - MONDAY 6 DECEMBER
AT THE WING |
Tonight's
training at The Wing, Monday 6 December, has once again been cancelled due to the
continued
severe weather conditions which have forced the closure of Inverkeithing
High School.
Given
the weather forecasts we request you continue to monitor the website for
updates upon this weeks training schedule which may be impacted due to
the weather. |
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03/12/2010
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1130
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TRAINING CANCELLED - FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3 & 4
DECEMBER
AT LOCHGELLY HS, AND ALSO 5 DECEMBER AT STIRLING |
Tonight's
training at Lochgelly High School, 3 December, has been cancelled due to the
continued
severe weather conditions which have forced the closure of Lochgelly
High School. We are also informed Lochgelly HS shall remain closed until
Monday and as such Saturdays training session is also cancelled.
Given
the dangerous driving conditions we have also decided to cancel our long
course training session at Stirling NSA on Sunday 5 December.
We are
hopeful training shall resume on Monday 5 December at The Wing but
request you continue to monitor both the website and emails for further
updates. |
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02/12/2010
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0930
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EAST DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS - DECEMBER
LEG POSTPONED |
We have
received notification of the postponement of this weekends East District
Championships leg due to be held at Glenrothes given the weather
conditions. The East District Committee shall review the options to
reschedule this leg and shall notify us as and when this have been
addressed. |
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02/12/2010
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0930
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TRAINING CANCELLED - THURSDAY 2
DECEMBER
AT THE WING |
Tonight's
training at The Wing, Thursday 2 December, has been cancelled due to the
continued
severe weather conditions which have forced the closure of Inverkeithing
High School.
Given
the weather forecasts we request you continue to monitor the website for
updates upon this weeks training schedule which may be impacted due to
the weather. |
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01/12/2010
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EAST DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS - DECEMBER
LEG ALERT |
We have
received advance warning from the organisers of the East District
championships, this weekends scheduled event may be postponed due to the
adverse weather conditions we are experiencing. At present Glenrothes
Swimming Pool has been closed since Monday, and if there is no
improvement we may be faced with the prospect of this weekends leg of
the Championships being postponed.
Postponement would be a last resort given the implications, and the East
District Committee shall be reviewing the position on Friday afternoon.
As such we wish to forewarn our swimmers of the above position and
request you monitor the website and your emails on Friday to clarify if
the weekends sessions shall proceed. |
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01/12/2010
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TRAINING CANCELLED - WEDNESDAY 1
DECEMBER
AT THE WING |
Tonight's
training at The Wing, Wednesday 1 December, has been cancelled due to the
severe weather conditions which have forced the closure of Inverkeithing
High School.
Given
the weather forecasts we request you continue to monitor the website for
updates upon this weeks training schedule which may be impacted due to
the weather. |
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30/11/2010
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1100
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CUMBERNAULD AGE GROUP MEET RESULTS |
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29/11/2010
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1750
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CITY OF SUNDERLAND WINTER MEET RESULTS
& PRESS REPORT |
Five Incas
swimmers travelled down to compete in the annual Sunderland Open Swim
Meet on Saturday and Sunday 27th & 28th November
which was held in the new 50m International Sunderland Aquatic Centre
and what a two days they had.
The
first day saw 11 year old Lauren Pirouet win two Gold’s, the first
coming in the 200m Backstroke in a time of 2.43.22, which is a new East
District Age Group Record. Lauren also took Gold in the 400m IM in
5.44.98, which is a British Age Group qualifying time. Lauren also won
Silvers in the 200m IM, 2.46.04, and the 100m Backstroke in 1.18.24, all
of her swims were excellent Personal Bests.
Team
mate 12 year old Tain Bruce also had an outstanding weekend winning two
Gold’s on the first day in the 200m IM, 2.39.57, and the 400m IM in a
time of 5.26.94. Tain also won two Bronzes in the 100m Backstroke,
1.20.98, and 200m Backstroke with 2.44.50. Club mate 12 year old
Morven Rae-Seaman finished in 6th place in the 400m IM and
50m Fly, with two 7th places in the 50m Freestyle and 200m
Backstroke, all in excellent Personal Best times .
13 year
old Emily Paterson had four swims on the first day of competition
achieving a 7th place in the 50m Freestyle and four
excellent Personal Bests. Meanwhile 13 year old Conor Nally finished in
8th place in the 400m Free in a Personal Best time, a 9th
place in the 100m Breaststroke and 10th in the 100m
Freestyle.
Sunday
brought even more success with Lauren Pirouet winning three more Gold’s,
the first coming in the 100m Freestyle in 1.07.66, the second in the
200m Freestyle, 2.25.50 and the last in the 400m Freestyle in a
fantastic time of 4.56.46 achieving another British Age Group qualifying
time. Laurens last swim, in the 50m Backstroke, gave her a Silver in
36.66.
12 year
old Tain Bruce not to be outdone won two more Gold’s in the 100m
Freestyle in 1.04.58 and second of the day in the 200m Freestyle,
2.20.58, also winning two Silvers in the 200m Fly in 2.42.32 and also
the 100m Fly in 1.11.18, all being Personal Bests.
Also on
Sunday 12 year old Morven Rae-Seaman achieved a 6th place in
the 50m Fly and 8th place in the 50m Backstroke, again
achieving Personal Best times.
13 year
old Conor Nally also achieved a Bronze in the 400m IM in 5.35.99, an 8th
in the 400m Freestyle, 9th in the 200m Breast and a 10th
in the 100m Freestyle, again all Personal Bests, whilst Emily Paterson
achieved a 9th place in the 100m Freestyle and a superb 3
Personal Bests.
Altogether a fantastic haul of 9 Gold’s, 5 Silvers, 3 Bronze, 28
Finalists and a massive 50 Personal Best times.
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results
Session 4
Results
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29/11/2010
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1750
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CUMBERNAULD AGE GROUP MEET PRESS REPORT |
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29/11/2010
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TRAINING CANCELLED - MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER
AT THE WING |
Tonight's
training at The Wing, Monday 29 November, has been cancelled due to the
severe weather conditions which have forced the closure of Inverkeithing
High School.
Given
the weather forecasts we request you continue to monitor the website for
updates upon this weeks training schedule which may be impacted due to
the weather. |
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22/11/2010
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XMAS TRAINING TIMETABLE |
Information upon the training timetable over the forthcoming festive
period can be viewed. Intermediate training sessions at Cowdenbeath have
also been organised details of which are included on the timetable.
Click here to
view. |
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22/11/2010
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1857
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL SHORT COURSE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Information upon the Scottish National Short Course Open Swimming Championships has been posted onto
the Gala Information webpage.
Click here to
view. |
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16/11/2010
|
2013
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FIFE SCHOOLS 'A' CHAMPIONSHIPS
|
The
results from the Fife Schools 'A' Championships to be held at Glenrothes on
16 November 2010 are available to view:
Session 3
Results (Secondary Schools)
On
behalf of all at InCAS we wish to congratulate our older swimmers who took
part in this event, achieving some great results and also personal bests across the
board. Well done to all and good luck to those who have qualified for
the Scottish Schools finals to be held in January 20111. |
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15/11/2010
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InCAS XMAS PARTY INVITATION |
Ho Ho
Ho.......Tis the Season to be Jolly.....Well almost..
The Big
Felly in the red outfit and dashing boots requests the pleasure of the
swimmers company on Wednesday 15 December at The Wing, Inverkeithing for
an evening of fun in the pool, followed by disco and goodies. Full
details can be viewed
clicking here.
In
order to assist in calculating numbers for food and drink could you
please contact Queenie Bruce to confirm attendance. A sheet shall also
be placed onto the InCAS information board at The Wing to allow you to
tick to confirm attendance. Any parent volunteers to assist on the
evening would also be greatly appreciated and again the sheet shall
allow you to indicate your services. |
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15/11/2010
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CUMBERNAULD GRADED AGE GROUP WINTER
MEET |
The
Acceptance Sheet and Meet Programme for the Cumbernauld Age Group Meet
to be held on Saturday and Sunday 27 and 28 November are available to
view on the Gala Information Page.
Click
here to view Acceptance Sheet
Click here to
view Meet Programme |
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15/11/2010
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FAULDHOUSE PENGUINS AGE GROUP MEET
PRESS RELEASE |
The annual
Eian Prentice Memorial Gala hosted by the Fauldhouse Penguins took place
at the Whitburn pool on Sunday 14th November.
17
young Incas swimmers competed with the best of them, returning home with
9 Golds, 4 Silver, 6 Bronze, 30 Finalists, 2 Meet Records and a superb 2nd
Club overall.
The
boys 9 years age group saw Harris Bruce have another outstanding days
competition with 5 swims and five Golds. Harris won Golds in the 25m Fly
in 18.44, 50m Backstroke in 40.83, 50m Breaststroke in 49.88, 50m
Freestyle in 35.16 and the 200m Freestyle in 2.45.86 all in very good
Personal Bests.
The
girls 8 and under age group saw 7 year old Ali Moultrie-Waring win a
Gold in the 25m Freestyle in 20.59, also winning a Silver in the 25m Fly
in 26.17 and a 6th placed medal in the 25m Backstroke. Team
mate 7 year old Ellie Turner also had an outstanding day with two Bronze
medals in the 25m Backstroke in 25.21 and 25m Fly in 26.65, with a 6th
placed medal in the 25m Freestyle all in excellent Personal Bests.
The
girls 9 years girls also saw Olivia Ballantine win a Silver in the 50m
Breaststroke in 53.94 and also two 5th place medals in the
50m Backstroke and 200m Freestyle with team mate Dana Brand winning two
4th placed medals in the 25m Fly and 200m Freestyle.
The
boys 8 and under age group saw Aaron Hurst in one of his first ever
galas win a 6th placed medal in the 25m Breaststoke. The
mixed Relay 4x25m Freestyle team of Olivia Ballantine,Aaron Hurst, Ali
Moultrie –Waring and Harris Bruce won a 4th placed medal.
The
afternoon session saw the 10 and 11 years age groups compete with 11
year old Lauren Pirouet once again stamping her authority with 3 Golds
in the 50m Backstroke in 35.83 a new Meet Record, 200m Freestyle in
2.24.75, knocking a full 4 seconds from the previous Meet Record, and
finally the 50m Freestyle in 31.15, just 3/100ths outside the Meet
Record. Lauren went on to win a Silver in the 50m Fly in 36.34 (PB) and
a Bronze in the 50m Breaststroke in 43.33 (PB).
The
boys 11 years age group saw Hayden Moffat win a Silver in the 50m
Backstroke in 40.32, Bronze medals in the 50m Breaststroke in 45.53 and
200m Freestyle in 2.43.05 and a 4th placed medal in the 50m
Freestyle, all in excellent Personal Bests.
The
girls 10 years girls saw Rowan Ormiston win a 5th place medal
in the 50m Freestyle in a personal best time of 38.86. Other swimmers
who achieved massive personal bests were Iona Clark, Cara Smyth,
Rachel Ingram, Millie Knox, Kelsey Knox, Amy Hurst and Emily Adams. |
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14/11/2010
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FAULDHOUSE PENGUINS AGE GROUP MEET
RESULTS |
The
results from the Eian Prentice Memorial Meet be held at Whitburn on
14 November 2010 are available to view:
Session 1 Results
Session 2 Results
On
behalf of all at InCAS we wish to congratulate our swimmers who took
part in this event, achieving results and personal bests across the
board. Press report to follow. |
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08/11/2010
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
REPORT |
The first
leg of the East District Age Group Swimming Championships took place at
the Fife Institute Glenrothes on Saturday & Sunday 6th/7th
November.
A dozen
Incas swimmers competed in various age groups, distances and strokes. 12
year old Tain Bruce despite swimming in the 12/13yrs age group, one of
the most competitive in the sport, had an outstanding weekend with two
superb Golds. Her first Gold came in the 400m IM which Tain had swam on
Wednesday winning Gold at the Fife Schools swimming Championships, this
time Tain went even faster winning the Gold in 5.16.05 a huge PB and
only less than 4 seconds from the British qualifying time with seven
months to go. Tain’s second Gold came somewhat as a surprise in the 200m
Butterfly, lying in 10th place in the heats,Tain qualified in
first place for the final knocking off a full twenty seconds from her
best. Going into the final Tain swam a magnificent final to win in
2.32.96 knocking a further three seconds off, probably the race of the
weekend.
The
girls 10/11yrs age group once again saw 11 year old Lauren Pirouet start
to stamp her authority on her age group with a superb Gold in the 400m
IM and a nine second PB in 5.45.03. Lauren then totally controlled the
200m Freestyle to win the Gold in a very fast time of 2.20.92. Lauren
also finished a credible 5th place in the 200m Breaststroke.
The
boys 10/11 years age group saw 10 year old JJ Moultrie –Waring swimming
in the “B” side of the 100m Freestyle attempting to qualify for the “A”
competition and boy did he qualify winning the final in 1.16.36 knocking
5 seconds from his previous best and winning by a full 4 seconds. The
same age group saw 11 year old Hayden Moffat just returning from 3 weeks
in Australia to finish in 4th place in the 200m Breaststroke.
The
girls 12/13 years age group saw 12 year old Morven Rae-Seaman finish in
4th place in the “B” final in 1.08.87 knocking a full 5
seconds from her best time to qualify for the “A” Meet in March.
15
year old Kayleigh Hutton also qualified for the “A” Meet in March
finishing in 6th place in the final in a PB of 1.03.29.
Other
swimmers to achieve some outstanding PB’s were Joe Nally (2), Jack
Harrison (1), Emily Paterson (1), Conor Nally (3) and Erin Brown (2).
Gabby Gatherer swam commendably well in the 100m freestyle narrowly
missing out on a PB. Altogether 4 Golds, 2 Qualifiers and a massive 21
Best Times from 24 swims. |
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS |
The
results from last weekends East District Age Group Championships held at
FIPRE, Glenrothes are available to view:
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results
Session 4
Results
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04/11/2010
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUPS
FEBRUARY PROGRAMME |
The Meet
Programme for the third session of the East District Age Groups to be held at Glenrothes on
5 & 6 February 2011 is
available to view.
Click here to
view. |
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03/11/2010
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1600
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EAST DISTRICT AGE GROUPS
DECEMBER
PROGRAMME |
The Meet
Programme for the second session of the East District Age Groups to be held at Glenrothes on
4 & 5 December is
available to view.
Click here to
view. |
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03/11/2010
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1600
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SCOTTISH SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Information upon the Scottish Schools Championships has been posted onto
the Gala Information webpage.
Click here to
view. |
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03/11/2010
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FIFE SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS
|
The
results from the Fife Schools Championships to be held at Glenrothes on
2 November 2010 are available to view:
Session 1
Results (Primary Schools)
Session 2
Results (Secondary Schools)
On
behalf of all at InCAS we wish to congratulate our swimmers who took
part in this event, achieving results and personal bests across the
board. |
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02/11/2010
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LIVINGSTON DOLPHINS DEVELOPMENT MEET |
The
Entry Sheet for the Livingston Dolphins Development Gala on Sunday, 22
January 2011 has been posted on the Gala Information page.
Click here to view. |
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02/11/2010
|
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FAULDHOUSE PENGUINS MEET |
The
Acceptance Sheet for the Fauldhouse Pengiuns Meet on Sunday, 14 November
2010 has been posted on the Gala Information page.
Click here to
view. |
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01/11/2010
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CARNEGIE LC WINTER MEET REPORT |
Two young
protégés who swim for the Incas swimming club from Inverkeithing had an
absolute superb weekend competing in the 50m International pool in
Glasgow, where the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held.
On the
first day 11 year old Lauren Pirouet swimming in the 11 and under age
group started with a bang. Her first swim in the 200m Backstroke in a
time of 2.45.12 gave her not only the Gold but also a massive PB and an
East District Age Group record by over two seconds. Her next swim in the
400m Free saw Lauren win another Gold in 5.01.81 only 0.8 of a second
outside the British Age Group qualifying time with ten months still to
go. Lauren came out of the 400m Free to swim in the 100m Backstroke and
once again proved her worth with another Gold in 1.18.19.
Lauren's team-mate 12 year old Tain Bruce although swimming in the 12/13
years age group had an outstanding first day qualifying for the final
in the 100m Breaststroke and finishing in 6th place in a PB
of 1.29.46. Tain then competed in the 200m Breastroke with a 4 second PB
to win a 4th placed medal in 3.05.30. Tain also swam in the
400m Free once again knocking 12 seconds from her PB to finish in 7th
place.
On the
Sunday Lauren won a superb Gold in the 200m Free in 2.26.54 (PB), and
also an outstanding Gold and time in the 100m Free in 1.07.97 just half
a second outside the British qualifying time. Lauren also picked up two
Silvers in the 50m Free in 31.74 (PB) and the 200m IM in 2.54.27.
Altogether five Gold’s, 2 Silvers gave Lauren the Top Female 11 and
under Award.
Tain
Bruce went on to win an outstanding Silver in the 100m Butterfly final
in a huge PB time of 1.13.39, also making the finals in the 50m Free
finishing 9th in 31.65 (PB), 200m IM 2.43.89 6th
place (PB) and 200m F/C 6th place 2.26.36 (PB).
These
two young swimmers have their next sights set on the Scottish National
Age Groups next April at the same venue. |
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01/11/2010
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CARNEGIE LC WINTER MEET |
The
results from last weekends Carnegie SC Long Course Winter Meet held at
Tollcross, Glasgow are available to view:
Session 1
Results
Session 2
Results
Session 3
Results
Session 4
Results
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01/11/2010
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BONUS BALL WINNER |
The
winning Bonus Ball number from the National Lottery Draw, for 30
October 2010, is No.
11, which is lucky Lauren Pirouet. Congratulations.
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