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InCAS Press Release Last Updated :06/02/2012 21:15:34
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06/02/2012 |
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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30/01/2012 |
Scottish Schools Swimming Championships Report
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. |
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23/01/2012 |
Carnegie Graded Sprint Meet Report
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 Breaststroke 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.
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19/01/2012 |
Fife Performance Swim Squad - Scottish Swimming Grand Prix - West District 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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21/12/2011 |
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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05/12/2011 |
East District Age Group Championships - December Leg Report
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 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. |
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29/11/2011 |
East District Masters Championships Report
At the completely opposite end of the age group spectrum, 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. 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. |
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29/11/2011 |
Cumbernauld 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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23/11/2011 |
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 Breastroke 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, St Andrews HS, 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. 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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15/11/2011 |
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 swimming for the younger swimmers of InCAS. |
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07/11/2011 |
East District Age Group Championships - November Meet 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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03/11/2011 |
Carnegie SC Winter Meet Report
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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05/09/2011 |
Dunedin Swim Team 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.
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 Kayleigh Hutton; 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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01/09/2011 |
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 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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16/08/2011 |
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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25/07/2011 |
British Gas ASA National Age Group Championships Report
Two members of InCAS, Thirteen year old Tain Bruce and Eleven year old Lauren Pirouet both of InCAS, 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, 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 for both Tain Bruce and Lauren Pirouet, with the latter returning home as British National Age Group Champion. |
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23/06/2011 |
East District Open Water Open Championship 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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14/06/2011 |
InCAS Distance Meet & Tayport Cup Reports
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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28/05/2011 |
Dunfermline Amateurs Sprint Meet 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 stepping 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 her first competitive medal.
Other InCAS swimmers who celebrated personal best times were: Dana Brand; Lee Harrison; Rebecca Wilson; Rowan Ormiston; Erin Donaldson; Cara Smyth; Andrew Morris; Olivia Ballantine; 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. |
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26/04/2011 |
Scottish National Masters Championships
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 Metcalf, 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 Metcalf (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. |
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14/04/2011 |
Scottish National Age Groups Championships
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. |
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28/03/2011 |
Top Boy’s for InCAS & Personal Bests Galore!
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 and also 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 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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22/03/2011 |
East Districts Final Weekend - Records Fall
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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07/03/2011 |
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. |
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15/02/2011 |
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 promising 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. |
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07/02/2011 |
East District Age Groups Championships - 5 & 6 February 2011
The first day of the second weekend of the East District Age Group Swimming Championships took place in the Fife Institute Glenrothes on Saturday and Sunday 5th and 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 Golds 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 Gold's, one Silver, seven Finalists, two East District records, and thirteen best times from fifteen swims, a superb weekend for these eight swimmers. |
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31/01/2011 |
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 were 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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26/01/2011 |
A Busy Weekend For InCAS
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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11/01/2011 |
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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29/11/2010 |
City of Sunderland Winter Meet - What a Haul
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. |
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29/11/2010 |
Cumbernauld Age Group Meet - Medals Galore
Six young Incas swimmers competed in the Cumbernauld Annual Graded Meet on Saturday 27th November and brought home a bagful of medals. 10 year old JJ Moultrie –Waring was on good form; out of 4 swims he won 4 Gold’s doing a massive 4 Personal Bests. JJ’s Gold’s came in the 50m Freestyle in 33.66, 100m Backstroke, 1.26.16, 100m Freestyle in1.14.31 and 200m IM in 3.07.69. These gold’s ensured JJ was awarded the Top Boy Award for the meet.
Team mate 9 year old prodigy Harris Bruce won two Gold’s in the 50m F/C-35.70 and 100m B/C-1.28.06 with a Silver in the 100m F/C-1.16.45.
11 year old Hayden Moffat also had an outstanding day of swimming with a first place in the 100m Breaststroke in a time of 1.33.52 which gave him a swam too fast award, also winning a Silver in the 200m IM - 3.02.94, a silver in the 100 Freestyle in 1:16.57, a Bronze in the 100m Backstroke -1.27.46,and a 4th place medal in the 50m Freestyle. Team mate 11 year old Jack Harrison won a Silver in the 100m Backstroke in 1:27.24, a 4th place in the 200m IM and 5th in the 50m Freestyle. Two young 9 year old girls also competed with distinction with Dana Brand achieving a 4th place in the 50m Freestyle and 3 Personal Bests with club mate Cara Smyth achieving a 6th place medal and 2 Personal Bests. |
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15/11/2010 |
Eian Prentice Memorial Meet - InCas Do Their Club Proud
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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08/11/2010 |
East District Age Groups Swimming Championships - Round 1
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 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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01/11/2010 |
Carnegie SC Long Course Winter Meet - Lauren Takes The Top Award
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.
Laurens 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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11/10/2010 |
Fife Swimming Championships Report The Fife swimming Championships were held at the Fife Institute Glenrothes on Sunday 10th October and what a show the Incas club put on.
The girls 11/12yrs Age group was dominated by 12yr old Tain Bruce with 3 Golds,2 Silvers and 4 superb PB’s. Tains 3 Golds came in the 200m I.M. in 2.37.74 knocking six seconds from her previous best, Tains next Gold came in the 50m Fly in 34.59 (PB) and 50m F/C 30.74 (PB). Her Silvers came in the 50m B/C 36.25 and 50m Breastroke 41.75.
Lauren Pirouet who is still only 11yrs old and can still compete in this age group next year had an excellent days swimming with a Silver in the 200m I.M. in 2.48.40 and 2 Bronzes in the 50m B/C 36.62 and 50mF/C 32.07 all PB’s. The same age group saw 11yr old Morven Rae-Seaman have a cracking day with a 4th in the 200m I.M. in 2.54.83 (PB) also achieving 3 other very good PB’s.
The boys 8-10yrs age group saw 10yr old J.J.Moultrie-Waring swim 3 swims and win 3 Golds in the 100m I.M. in 1.29.44, 50mB/C -40.15 and 50m F/C 34.72 all in PB’s. Team mate Harris Bruce although only 8yrs old won a Silver in the 50m Fly in 40.93, a Bronze in the 100m I.M. in 1.29.98 and 2 more PB’s.
Other swimmers who also swam exceedingly well were girls 8-10yrs Lauren Alison-3PB’s,Cara Smyth-1 PB,Olivia Ballentyne-3PB’s,Millie Knox-3PB’s, Amy Hurst-3PB’s, Rowan Ormiston-2PB’s and Rachel Ingram-1PB.
The girls 11/12yrs saw Emily Adams-3PB’s whilst the girls 13/14yrs saw Emily Paterson 4PB’s with Kayleigh Hutton in the 15+ age Group 1PB. The boys 11/12yrs age group saw newcomer 11yr old Calum Alison swim a superb 4 swims and achieve four huge PB’s. Altogether 6 Golds,4 Silvers,3 Bronze and a massive 49 lifetime bests from only 18 swimmers. |
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04/10/2010 |
East District Time Trials Report
Fifteen InCAS swimmers competed in the East District Time Trials held at the Fife Institute Glenrothes on Saturday/Sunday 2nd and 3rd October.
Swimming out of her skin was 11yr old Lauren Pirouet. In her first ever 1500m F/C Lauren broke the East District Age Group Record knocking 9 seconds from the previous record with a time of 19.36.83. Lauren took the record from a former Incas swimmer Lucy Ellis who is representing Scotland in Delhi at this time. During Laurens 1500m F/C swim she achieved lifetime bests in her 50m, 100m, 400m, 800m and of course 1500m F/C. Lauren also achieved PB’s in 200m Breastroke and 400m IM.
Also swimming like the prodigy she is, 12yr old Tain Bruce had an excellent weekend achieving massive PB’s in her 200m B/C,200m F/C,400m IM and 1500m F/C. The same age group saw 12yr old Morven Rae-Seaman also have an outstanding weekend with massive PB’s in 100m Br,200m F/C,400m IM,800m F/C and 1500m F/C ,whilst 13yr old Emily Paterson swam her socks off with huge PB’s in her 100m B/C,100m Fly,100m F/C,200m IM,400m IM and 800m F/C.
Other swimmers to achieve PBs were 13yr old Erin Brown 100m F/C,10yr old Leighona Harper 100m B/C,100m Fly and 100m Br. 10yr old Millie Knox 100m B/C and sister Kelsey Knox 100m B/C. 11yr old Rowan Ormiston had a good weekend with PBs in the 100m B/C,200m B/C and 200m IM.
The boys not to be outdone with 11yr old Joe Nally achieving PBs in 100m B/C, 100m Br,200m B/C,200m Br and 200m IM with team mate 11yr old Hayden Moffat making his mark with PBs 100m Br,100m Fly,200m B/C,200m Br,200m F/C and 200m IM. Not long out of his stookie 11yr old Jack Harrison still managed PBs in 100m Fly,200m B/C,200m F/C and 400m F/C, whilst 10yr old J.J.Moutrie-Waring achieved PBs in 100m Fly,200m Br and 200m F/C.13yr old Conor Nally also had an excellent weekend with very good PBs in 100m B/C,200m Br, and 200m IM.
Altogether a massive 52 PBs from the first major Competition of the year. |
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23/08/2010 |
FINS Graded Meet Report
A handful of Incas swimmers competed in the first competition of the season and what a start they made.
The Fins Graded Meet held at the Kirkcaldy swimming pool on Saturday/Sunday 21st and 22nd August saw Top InCAS swimmer 13 year old Conor Nally winning 4 Gold’s and a Bronze. Despite being out of the water for nearly a full month this very competitive young man had a superb weekend. Conor’s Gold’s came in the 50m Breastroke in 40.68, 50m Butterfly - 33.27, 100m Breastroke - 1.29.41 and 100m Individual Medley - 1.18.92 with a Bronze in the 50m F/C - 31.10. All of Conor’s swims were excellent PB’s.
Young 9 year old J.J.Moultrie-Waring swimming in the boys 11 and under age group had an outstanding swim to win the Gold in the 100m Individual Medley in an excellent PB time of 1.31.40. Young 11 year old Joe Nally also had an excellent weekend with a Silver in the 50m F/C in 35.10 and a Bronze in the 100m F/C - 1.19.77. Joe also won a 5th placed medal in the 100m B/C in 1.31.73. All of Joe’s swims were PB’s.
15 year old Kayleigh Hutton had a good weekend winning two Bronze medals in the 50m Breastroke in 41.60 and 100m Breastroke - 1.30.64. 13 year old Gabby Gatherer won a 6th placed medal in the 100m Breastroke final. Altogether 5 Golds, 1 Silver, 4 Bronze, 11 Finalists and 11 PB’s. |
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01/06/2010 |
Midlothian Minnows Report
A dozen young Incas swimmers competed in the annual Midlothian Mini Meet held in Prestonpans on Sunday 29th May.
With the age groups of 9 and under; 10 years; 11/12 years InCAS had an excellent day of swimming with 11 year old Tain Bruce taking the top honours once again in the 11/12 years age group. Four swims – four Gold’s – four lifetime bests. Tain’s Gold’s came in the 50m Backcrawl in 37.53; 50m Breastroke 40.91; 50m Fly 34.39 and 50m Front Crawl 31.28, an excellent days swimming.
The boys 9 and under age group saw a tussle between 8 year old Harris Bruce and 9 year old JJ Moultrie –Waring with JJ just coming out on top. The 25m Fly saw Harris win the Gold in 19.96 with JJ second in 19.97 only a hundredth of a second behind. The 25m Backcrawl saw JJ win the Gold in 19.59 with Harris winning the Bronze in 20.14. JJ went on to win a Silver in the 25mF/C in 18.04 with Harris finishing in 4th place and again a Bronze in the 25m Breastroke 26.04 with Harris in 5th place.
The girls 9 and under 4x25m Front Crawl Relay team of Leighona Harper, Millie Knox, Dana Brand and Cara Smyth won a Silver.
The boys 11/12 years age group saw Jack Harrison win a Bronze in the 50m Backstroke in a personal best time of 39.63. Jack also achieved lifetime best times in the remainder of his swims, 50m Fly, 50m Breaststroke, and 50m Free.
Other swimmers who performed superbly were in the 9 and under age group, 6 year old Ali Moultrie-Waring, 6 year old Ellie Turner and Lee Harrison. 10 year old age group Rowan Ormiston, Amy Hurst and Kelsey Knox. In the girls 11/12yrs age group Claire Mitchell. Altogether 6 Gold’s, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, 12 Finalists and an impressive 30 PB’s. |
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27/05/2010 |
Success in
Sheffield for InCAS Swimmers
In the boy’s 10 Year age group, Joe Nally, swam well to achieve a 4th place in the 50m Fly, just missing out on a Bronze medal. Joe also accredited himself in a busy weekend of swimming in the 50m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke, 50m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 50m Breaststroke, 200m Breaststroke, achieving a number of personal bests for long course.
Meanwhile team mate Hayden Moffat, competing in the 11/12 age group also done himself credit in a number of his events given the strong field of older swimmers, placing a very credible 6th in the 50m Fly, 7th place in the 50m Breaststroke, and an 8th in the 50m Backstroke. Hayden also swam well in the 100m Fly, 100m Breaststroke, 100m Freestyle and is well placed for contesting medal positions in next years competition.
In the boy’s
13/14 year age group, Conor Nally competed admirably, against an extremely
strong field of talented swimmers. Conor enjoyed a busy weekend with the 50m
Backstroke, 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 50m Breaststroke
and 50m Fly recording a number of personal bests across the board.
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03/05/2010 |
The Annual InCAS Distance Meet was held at the Kirkcaldy Swimming Pool over Saturday and Sunday, 1st and 2nd of May. With twenty teams from all over Scotland competing the programme was oversubscribed with quite a number of rejections. With a chance for younger swimmers to achieve their Bronze or Silver Squad times the Distance Meet incorporates 200m of each stroke with 200m IM, 400m IM, 400m Front Crawl 800m Front Crawl and 1500m Front Crawl making the competition very exciting.
A handful of young Incas swimmers made an exciting and very successful weekend of swimming for the host club. Top InCAS swimmer by a mile was 10 year old Lauren Pirouet winning 5 Gold’s; 1 Silver; 1 Meet Record and Top 10 years and under Female Award. Lauren's Gold’s came in the 200m Back Stroke in 2.51.59, 200m Front Crawl 2.31.35, 200m IM 2.59.02, 400m Front Crawl 5.13.30 and 800m Front Crawl in 10.34.83, also a Meet Record. Lauren also won a Silver in the 200m Breastroke in 3.30.00. All of Lauren's swims were lifetime bests.
Team mate 11 year old Tain Bruce also had an excellent weekend swimming in the girls 11/12yrs age group winning Gold in the 200m Breastroke in 3.05.43 and Bronzes in the 400m Front Crawl in 5.04.72, 200m IM 2.44.84, and 400m IM in 5.41.51. Also winning a 4th placed medal in the 800m Front Crawl.
The girls 13/14yrs age group saw 13 year old Erin Brown have a fantastic swim in the 200m Breastroke to win Gold in 2.58.86, a superb personal best.. The boys 10 and under age group saw 10 year old Joe Nally win a 4th in the 400m Front Crawl and two 6th place medals in the 200m Breastroke and 1500m Front Crawl with team mate 8 year old Harris Bruce storming home to win a 5th placed medal in the 200m Front Crawl.
The girls 11/12yrs age group saw 12 year old Emily Paterson win a 4th place in the 200m Front Crawl and team mate 11 year old Morven Rae-Seaman also win a 4th place in the 200m Backstroke.
The boys 13/14yrs age group saw 13 year old Conor Nally have an outstanding weekend although only winning a 6th place in the 1500m Front Crawl his seven swims knocked huge amounts from his previous best times.
The girls 13/14yrs age group saw 14 year old Kayleigh Hutton win a 5th place in the 200m Front Crawl and a 6th place in the 400m Front Crawl.
Other swimmers who achieved Personal Best's were 13 yearr old Gabby Gatherer,11 year old Hayden Moffat and 10 year old Jack Harrison.
Altogether 7 Golds,1 Silver,3 Bronzes, 21 Finalists and a fantastic 35 lifetime bests.
A huge thank you to all the parents and helpers who made this competition so successful. |
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08/03/2010 |
A small number of InCAS swimmers competed in the final weekend of the East District age groups at the Fife Institute of Sport, Glenrothes.
Outstanding swims were achieved especially from 11 year old Tain Bruce, with 4 swims, 4 major personal bests and 4 gold medals. She also won the Andrew Taylor Trophy for her 100m front crawl swim which was deemed the best swim of the 10/11 age group.
Tain's first gold came in the 100m back stroke c where she knocked 6 seconds from her previous best swim to win gold in 1.116.67. She then won gold in 100 breast stroke in 1.26.67, another 6 second personal best. Tain then swam in the 100 fly to once again win gold in a time of 1.14.06 knocking 7 seconds from the previous best. In the afternoon Tain swam in the front crawl heats and finished 1st place in 1.07.81 but when the final came along Tain nearly pulled out due to ill health. Struggling on she swum the final and won gold in 1.06.72 destroying her personal best by 3 seconds.
The boys 10/11 individual medley and front crawl relay team of Jack Harrison, Joe Nally, Hayden Moffat, and Keiran Wilson won sixth place awards whilst the girls 10/11 relay team of Morven Rae-Seaman, Clair Mitchell, Tain Bruce, and Lauren Pirouet came 6th place in the front crawl relay. |
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25/04/2010 |
Despite only having a limited number of available swimmers through both illness and Icelandic Ash, InCAS achieved fantastic results across the board at the Falkirk Otters Age Groups Meet held at Larkhall on Saturday 24 April.
Notable mention goes to 8 year old Harris Bruce, who achieved 4 Gold’s in the 50m free, 50m backstroke, 50m fly and 50m breast, all of which were not only Personal Best’s but also smashed 4 Meet Records, a remarkable achievement for one so young. These results secured Harris the Top Boy Award in his age group.
Not to be outdone, 9 year old JJ Moultrie Waring also achieved suitably fantastic results in the older age group winning gold in the 50m fly and 50m backstroke events, a silver in the 50m free and a 5th place in the 50m breast. Again all achieving Personal Best times for JJ.
In the girl’s older age groups, 10 year old Lauren Pirouet swam well to secure a gold in the 50m backstroke, a silver in the 50m free, and also a 4th place in the 50m fly event, and a 5th in 50m breast. All of Lauren’s swims obtaining Personal Best times. These results placed Lauren second in the Top Girl Award for the 10 year age group.
The remaining swimmers of Cara Smyth, Jack Harrison, Hayden Moffat and Rowan Ormiston all swam equally well within a strong field of swimmers within the Competition and all did themselves credit plus achieving a variety Personal Best times. |
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09/02/2010 |
The third weekend of the East District Age Group Swimming Championships took place at the Fife Institute, Glenrothes on Saturday and Sunday 6th and 7th February. A small number of Incas swimmers competed returning with 1 Gold 2 Silvers and a Bronze medal haul. Five finalists and a massive 20 Personal Best's from 16 swims.
11 year old Tain Bruce who has already won 6 Gold’s in her age group won another Gold in the 200m Individual Medley in a superb Personal Best time of 2.43.24 knocking a huge 8 seconds from her previous best. Tain also won 2 Silver’s in the 800m Front Crawl in 10.35.66 and 1500m Front Crawl in 20.54.70, knocking over a minute and a half from her previous best.
Young 10 year old Lauren Pirouet with still another year to go in her age group won an excellent Bronze in the 800m Front Crawl in 10.57.83, knocking a full minute and a half from her previous best also achieving Personal Bests in her 100m Front Crawl, 200m Front Crawl and 400m Front Crawl during the race.
12 year old Conor Nally had a good weekend with a 6th place in the 100m Butterfly final knocking 6 seconds from his previous best. Other swimmers who swam way inside their best times were Morven Rae-Seaman; Ailidh Brown; Erin Brown; Kayleigh Hutton; Hayden Moffat; Jennifer Milligan and Emily Paterson. |
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25/01/2010 |
A number of young Incas swimmers competed in the Livingston Development Swimming Gala on 23rd January at the Whitburn Pool, West Lothian and what a show they put on. Four 1st places, two seconds, ten top 6th places and a superb 30 PB's.
Top Incas swimmer was 8yr old Harris Bruce who blew the opposition away with four 1st places from four swims and four PB's in the boys 9yrs age group. Young ten year old Rowan Ormiston had an excellent 50m F/C swim to finish in 2nd place in a very good PB. The 6x25m relay team of Olivia Ballentyne, Leighona Harper, Amy Hurst, Finlay Pearson, Cameron Pearson and Harris Bruce came home with a Silver medal.
Other swimmers who had an excellent days competition in one of her first competitions were 8yr old Olivia Ballentyne with two 4ths and four massive PB's, 8yr old Dana Brand with a 5th place and three PB's,11yr old Kirsty Pearson 5th place and two PB's, 8yr old Cara Smyth two PB's, 8yr old Zoe Nicholson one PB, Millie Knox two PB's, 9yr old Amy Hurst three PB's and Kelsey Knox two PB's.
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08/12/2009 |
Young 11 year old Incas swimmer Tain Bruce came home with 3 Gold’s from the East District Age Group Championships held at the Fife Institute, Glenrothes last weekend to add to her 3 Gold’s from the previous month. With two weekends still to go Tain is hoping to be crowned Top 10/11yr old.
Tain’s Gold’s came in the 200m Breaststroke in 2.48.47, 200m Butterfly in 2.53.28 and 400m Front Crawl in 5.16.35 - all personal best times.
The same age group saw 10 year old Lauren Pirouet win a 5th place in the 400m Front Crawl and team mate Morven Rae-Seaman a 6th place in the 400m Front Crawl.
Other Incas swimmers who swam well were Hayden Moffat, Conor Nally, Erin Brown, Jennifer Milligan, Gabriella Gatherer, Kayleigh Hutton and Ailidh Brown. |
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10/11/2009 |
Incas
Have An Outstanding Day At The Races A small group of Incas swimmers competed at
the Annual Fauldhouse Junior Age Group competition held in Whitburn on Sunday
8th November. What a show – easily the best supported
team there, they managed to finish in 2nd place in the Top Club
Competition with only 21 swimmers compared to huge numbers from a number of
other clubs. The competition commenced with the 8/u and
9yrs age groups swimming in the morning with the 10/11yrs age groups in the
afternoon. The morning session saw 8yr old Harris Bruce destroy the field
with 4 Gold’s in the 25m B/C in 22.51, 25m Breastroke 27.16, 25m Fly 20.13
and 25m F/C 18.94, also picking up a Bronze in the Open 9/u 200m F/C in
3.21.36. In the girls 8/u age group Dana Brand
swimming in her 1st Open meet won a Silver in the 25m B/C in
26.73, Bronze in the 25m Breastroke 37.87 and a 4th in the 25m F/C
all in very good PB’s. The same age group saw Cara Smyth win a 4th
placed medal in the 25m Fly and two 6th placed medals in the 25m
B/C and 25m F/C all excellent PB’s. The
boys 8/u saw 1st timer
Scott Hendrie win a 5th place medal in the 25m Breastroke also a
massive PB. The 9yrs age group saw J.J. Moultrie have
an outstanding meet with Silver in the 25m Fly in 19.31, Silver in the 50m
F/C 38.54 and a Bronze in the 50m B/C in 46.62 all in very good PB’s. The
girls 9yrs age group saw Rowan Ormiston have an excellent days swimming with
three 4th placed medals in the 25m Fly, 50m F/C and 200m F/C. The
4x25m F/C Relay team of Harris Bruce, J.J. Moultrie, Rowan Ormiston and
Leighona Harper won the Silver. The Afternoon saw some more outstanding
swimming from the InCAS swimmers. The 11yrs age Group saw Tain Bruce win two Gold’s
in the 50m Fly in 35.22 and 200m F/C in 2.36.62, with Silvers in the 50m B/C
in 38.83 and 50m Breastroke 43.74 and 50m F/C 33.57 all PB’s. The 10yr old age group saw Lauren Pirouet
win a Silver in the 50m B/C in 40.98, Bronze 50m F/C in 35.50, 4th
in the 50m Breastroke and 4th in the Open 11/u 200m F/C and also a
5th place in the 50m Fly. The same age group saw Amy Marshall win
a 6th place medal in the 50m Breastroke. The 11yrs age group saw Morven Rae-Seaman
win a Bronze in the 50m B/C in 39.28 and a 6th in the 200m F/C
both excellent PB’s. The boys 10yrs group saw Hayden Moffat have
an outstanding day with 3 Gold’s, 1 Bronze and a 6th place medal. Hayden’s
Gold’s came in the 50m B/C 40.41, 50m Breastroke 46.63 and 50m Fly-38.68,
with his Bronze in the 50m F/C 36.11 and a 6th place in the 200m
F/C , all his swims were PB’s. His team mates Jack Harrison and Joe Nally
both won medals with Jack picking up a Bronze in the 50m B/C in 41.48 plus a
4th in the 50m F/C . Joe won a 4th place in the 50m
Breastroke, 5th in the 50m B/C and 6th in the 50m Fly.
Both swimmers achieved PB’s in all their swims. The 10/11yrs mixed relay team of Tain
Bruce, Lauren Pirouet, Hayden Moffat and Joe Nally won the Bronze in the 4 x 50m
F/C relay. Other swimmers to achieve PB’s were Leighona Harper, Zoe
Nicholson, Keirin Wilson, Claire Mitchell, Kerry Hendrie, Holly Hendrie and
Emily Nicholson. Altogether 9 Golds,8 Silvers, 8 Bronze, 41 Finalists, and 63
PB’s. |
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04/11/2009 |
Ten Incas swimmers competed in the first East
District Age Group Championships at Glenrothes on Saturday 31st
October and Sunday 1st November. What a show they put on with 4
Golds, 3 Silvers, 1 Bronze, 11 Finalists and a superb 13 personal bests from
17 swims. Top Incas swimmer despite having just
returned from a two week jolly in the Caribbean was 11yr old Tain Bruce with
3 swims and 3 Gold’s. Tain’s Gold’s came in the 200m Breastroke in 3.09.34,
200m F/C 2.31.70 and 400m IM 6.07.13. Thirteen year old Scottish Schools
Internationalist Rachel O’Donnell had a mixed weekend with Gold in her 200m
Butterfly in a personal best of 2.26.55, Silver in the 400m IM in 5.15.90 and
a Bronze in the 200m B/C in 2.25.23. The girls 16+ age group saw Scottish
Internationalist 16yr old Roisin Donnelly have an outstanding weekend with
two swims and two Silvers in the 200m Butterfly in a superb time of 2.21.17
and 400m IM in 5.01.87 both excellent PB’s. Young 11yr old Morven Rae-Seaman
had an outstanding 100m F/C to reach the final knocking 8 seconds from her
previous best and then knocking another full second off in the final in
1.15.20 to finish 4th. Meanwhile the boys 10/11yrs age group saw
Hayden Moffat also knock six seconds from his best also to finish in 4th
place in 1.18.70. 14 yr old Kayleigh Hutton returned to some of her old form with a cracking
time of 1.04.68 in the heats but could not sustain it finishing in 6th
place in the final. Other swimmers who swam well were Erin and Ailidh Brown,
Lauren Pirouet and Jennifer Milligan. |
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16/09/2009 |
Two young INCAS swimmers competed in the annual
MAGS meet at the Grangemouth Leisure centre on Sunday 13th September 2009.
Young 11yr old Tain Bruce had an outstanding meet with two golds, 1 silver
and a 4th place medal, top 11yr old female award and four excellent lifetime
bests out of four swims. Tains golds came in the 100 fly 1.21.26 & 100m
front crawl in 1.09.67. Tain then went on to win silver in the 100m back
crawl in 1.22.27 and finally fourth place in the 100 breaststroke in 1.32.91. |
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23/06/2009 |
The annual Open Age
Group Incas Distance Meet was held in the Fife Institute Glenrothes on
Sat/Sun 20th and 21st June. This is one of the most popular meets of the year
and attracts a massive number of swimmers. With 31 clubs competing the
standard was indeed very high. Incas Committee would like to thank the
massive support given by all the clubs for a very successful weekend of
swimming. The hosts had an excellent weekend with 6 Golds, 7 Silvers, 2 Bronze, 24 Finalists, and 5 Meet Records a huge 37 personal best times and the Top 12yr old Female award. Top Incas swimmer was British Age Group finalist and Scottish Schools Internationalist 12yr old Rachel O'Donnell with 5 swims, 5 Gold’s, and 5 Meet Records. Rachel’s swims were in the 200m Breaststroke in 2.48.75,200m Fly in 2.29.22, 200m Free in 2.10.40,200m IM in 2.27.38 and 400m Free in 4.39.56 and Rachel also won the Top 12yr old female award. The girl’s 10/u age group saw 10yr old Tain Bruce have an outstanding weekend with 1 Gold, 6 Silvers and 6 personal bests. Tain’s Gold came in the 200m IM in 2.51.82 a massive PB whilst her Silvers came in the 200m B/C in 2.2.51.23,200m Fly in 2.58.08,200m Free 2.33.26,400m IM 6.02.78,400m Free 5.26.18 and the 800m Free in 11.11.53. The same age group saw 9yr old Lauren Pirouet win a superb Bronze in the 800m Free in 12.31.09 also winning a 4th placed medal in the 400m Free and a 5th placed medal in the 200m Free all in massive PBs. Young 10yr old Morven Rae-Seaman also won two 6th placed medals in the 200m IM and 400m Free. The boy’s 10/u age group saw Scott Wilson win a Bronze in the 200m Breaststroke in 3.43.82. The girl’s 11/12yrs age group also had Isla McLeod swim her socks off with a 4th placed medal in the 800m Free also achieving 4 personal best times. The girls 13/14yrs age Group saw 13yr old Chelsea Lawson have an excellent weekend with a Superb Silver in the 400m IM knocking 16 seconds from her previous best in 5.18.99 and only two tenths of a second from the Gold. Chelsea also won 5th placed medals in the 200m Fly and 200m IM. The same age group saw 13yr old British Age Group Finalist Samantha MacMillan win a 4th placed medal in the 200m Fly and a 5th placed medal in the 200m B/C also achieving three personal bests. Other notable performances and personal bests were achieved by Hayden Moffat, Jennifer Milligan, Ailidh Brown, Erin Brown, Amber McWhirter, Conor Nally, Laura Kate O’Brien, Kayleigh Hutton and Leah Marshall. The Incas club finished in a very creditable 3rd place overall. |
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08/06/2009 |
3 Incas swimmers competed in the East
District Open at the 50m Royal Commonwealth Pool Edinburgh Sat/Sun 6th and
7th June.13 yr old Chelsea Lawson won the Gold for the girls 13yr age group
200m Backstroke in 2.35.40. British Age Group finalist and Scottish
Internationalist 12yr old Rachel O'Donnell won a Bronze in the Open 400m IM
in 5.30.35 although not near her best enough to win 3rd spot. Rachel also in
her weakest event made the Open final of the 100m B/C finishing in 7th place
in 1.13.06a personal best time |
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25/05/2009 |
Saturday/Sunday the
23rd and 24th May saw a number of Incas swimmers 12yr old Rachel
O'Donnell came home with 3 Golds and two Silvers. Rachel’s Golds came in the
100m Butterfly in 1.09.10,400m IM in 5.22.55 lifetime best, and 200m Freestyle
in 2.17.78, whilst her Silvers came in the 100m Breaststroke in 1.21.55 and
200mIM in 2.33.86. Rachel was also the fastest 12yr old in the Open 400m
Freestyle, again in a PB time of 4.45.88. With clubs from all over the United Kingdom the competition was indeed fierce. |
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11/05/2009 |
Two of Incas
swimming club members competed in the East Lothian Graded Meet held at the
new Preston Pans Pool on Sat/Sun 9th and 10th of May. Meanwhile 13yr old Samantha MacMillan competed in the North Ayrshire Open Meet coming home with a superb 2 Golds, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 4th place medal and 4 lifetime bests. Samantha's Golds came in the 100m Butterfly in 1.09.57 just 3 tenths of a second outside her PB. Her second Gold came in the 200m IM in 2.38.27 a good PB. Her Silver came in the 200m Butterfly in 2.38.54 a massive 14 second PB and her Bronze came in the 200m Free in 2.22.51 a small PB. Samantha swam a 400m IM finishing in 4th place but knocking a huge 15 seconds from her previous best in a time of 5.40.63. |
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04/05/2009 |
A handful of Incas swimmers competed at the East Lothian Graded Meet at Preston Pans on Saturday the 1st May returning with 2 Silvers, 1 Bronze, 3 Too Fasts flashes and a superb 25 PB's. Flashes were won by 9 yr old Amy Marshall in the girls 50m Breaststroke in 54.39 and 50m F/C both excellent PB's. Amy also won a 5th place in the 50m B/c. Scott Wilson in the boys 10yrs only swimming in one race won a Too Fast flash in the 45.72 also a good PB. 10yr old Jack Harrison was the star of the show swimming in only his 4th swimming gala had a tremendous day with a Silver in the 50m B/C ,Silver in the 50m F/C and Bronze in the 50m Butterfly all in very good PB's. |
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28/04/2009 |
Young 15yr old Cupar girl Roisin Donnelly has been
selected for her 2nd International cap. Roisin along with 7 other Top
Scottish swimmers have been selected to go to a training camp the 1st week of
June in Prague and also to compete in an International Competition on the
last three days. Roisin is also very proud to be awarded her school colours
this Friday from Bell Baxter for her selection at the Schools International
here she won the Gold in the Open 200m Breaststroke and Silver in the 100m
Breaststroke. Roisin hopes to make her school proud of her. |
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24042009 |
INCAS MAKE A BIG SPLASH What a fantastic five days InCAS swimmers had at the Scottish National Age Group Meet (SNAGS) held at the 8 lane 50m International Royal Commonwealth Pool from Wednesday 7th – Sunday 12th April 2009. The competition standard was very high and included 32 clubs competing from south of the border. The Girls 10/12 age
group saw Rachael ODonnell, 12, become Scottish National Age Group Champion
in 7 events. In the first day and swimming the two hardest events, 200fly
qualified for final, 100 free qualified for final and 400IM a heat declared
swim. Unfortunately Rachael was not allowed to swim against the Portsmouth
and Northsea girl who was in the heat after Rachael’s so had to be content
with a silver medal in the 400 IM in a time of 5.22.63. Rachel won the 200fly
final destroying the East district record by an amazing 9 seconds, following
only 30minutes rest Rachael went on to win the 100 front crawl in a time of 1.02.58 beating the east district record by
over 1 second. This record was held by European Junior medallist ex InCAS
swimmer Lucy Ellis. Rachael went on to
win gold’s in 100 fly new east district held by an ex InCAS swimmer in
1.07.57, 200 free 2.14.14, 200IM 2.30.04 all east district records. She won
silver in the 100 breast, 1.21.85, 400
IM and bronze in the 200 breast 2.55.44 5th place in the 400 free,
6th in the 200 back, 8th in the 100 back. This young swimmers
success led to her being featured in BBC news and National newspaper articles
alongside the amazing Scottish Olympian Hannah Miley. InCAS Relay team consisting of Rachael O’Donnell, Chelsea Lawson, Samantha McMillan, and Laura Kate O’Brian won gold in the 4x100 medley relay when competing against the mighty City of Leeds team. These young girls now qualify to represent Scotland in the British Age Group Championships. This team also won bronze in the 4x100 free relay and 4th place in the 4x200m free relay. The 13yr old girls
saw Chelsea Lawson win silver in the 100 back with a time of 1.09.18 only
1hundredth of a second behind the gold medal winner. Samantha McMillan qualified for the 100 fly
final finishing in 7th place. 14 year old Ailidh brown achieved a fantastic life time best in the 100 back when swimming in the 4x100 medley relay. The 15yr old age
group saw Scottish International swimmer Roisin Donnelly win gold in the 200
breaststroke with the fastest time by all age groups in 2.37.67 just a tenth
outside the time in which she won the Schools International three weeks ago. Roisin won silver in the
100 breast in 1.14.43 and reached finals in all her other swims. Based on her
performance at this meet and at the British trials Roisin has been selected
to swim for the Scottish team and will be heading to Prague on the first of
June. Altogether this very small club won 7 golds, 3 silvers, 2 bronze, 22 finalists and 22 fantastic lifetime bests.
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The annual Warrender Sprint Swim Meet was held at the Fife Institute Glenrothes on Saturday/Sunday 28th/29th March. A very small band of Incas swimmers had an outstanding meet with the younger age group 9yrs/10yrs competing on the Saturday and the 11yrs/12yrs competing on the Sunday. Saturday saw an excellent performance by
10yr old Tain Bruce winning 4 Golds in the 50m B/C in 38.94 50m Fly
36.64 50m F/C 33.50 and 100m Freestyle in 2.34.08 also winning Silver in
the 100m IM in 1.23.56 and a Bronze in 50m Breaststroke in 45.98 all in
superb lifetime bests. Tain also won the Top Female 10yr old award
trophy. The girls 9yrs age group saw Lauren Pirouet win a superb Gold in
the 200m Freestyle in 2.59.06 an excellent PB also winning a Silver in
the 50m B/C in 44.20 Sunday saw the 11/12yrs age groups competing once again although only 5 swimmers competing Incas picked up another 4 Golds,4 Meet Records and 2 East District Records. Top of the shop was Scottish Internationalist 12yrs old Rachel O'Donnell with an incredible 4 swims, 4 Golds, 4 Meet Records and 2 East District Records. Rachel only entered the competition to bring her sprints down to enable her to bring her longer distances down and she certainly did that. Her Golds came in the 50m B/C in 32.63 a Meet Record,50m Breaststroke in 36.66 another Meet Record,50m Fly in 31.37 again Meet Record and East District age group Record and 50m Freestyle in 28.76 a Meet and East District Record. Other swimmers who swam some excellent PB's were Emily Patterson 5 PB's,Michal Dacko 4 PB's,Jennifer Milligan 5 PB's and Isla McLeod 3 PB's. A total of 10 Golds,3 Silver,2 Bronze,18 Finalists,4 Meet Records , 2 East District Records and a superb 44 lifetime bests. |
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15/03/2009 |
Two
Incas swimmers gained their first International caps at the weekend competing
in the Schools International in Swansea. With all four home nations competing
the standard was high. 15yr old Roisin Donnelly had an outstanding meet
helping Scotland to come 2nd behind the "Auld enemy". In the open
200m Breaststroke Roisin in the slowest lane from her entry time won the Gold
knocking a huge 5 seconds from her previous best in 2.37.39 which is also a
qualifying time for the Scottish elite squad. Roisin then swam in the girls
15/16yrs 100m Breaststroke and once again knocked two full seconds from her
previous best finishing in 2nd place in a time of 1.13.64.Roisin was awarded the
trophy for the most improved and Best Scottish swim of the event.
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11/03/2009 |
17yr old Incas swimmer Jennifer Somerville competed in the
British Junior Swimming Championships for the Disabled held in the Ponds
Forge International pool in Sheffield Friday 6th-Sunday 8th March. Jennifer despite
recovering from a recent illness came home with 5 Golds and 2 Silvers in the
S7 Category. Her Golds came in the 100m, 50m Backstroke, 50m, 100m, 400m
Freestyle, and her Silvers were in the 50m and 100m Breaststroke both in
lifetime bests. Jennifer is a very plucky young lady and travels from
Penicuik six days a week to train at the Royal Naval Base at Rosyth and
Inverkeithing High School, and that certainly shows commitment. |
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09/03/2009 |
InCAS swim club had an outstanding weekend at the
final weekend of the East Districts Age group swim held at the Fife Institute
in Glenrothes on Saturday /Sunday 7th/8th March. |
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08/02/2009 |
The 3rd East District age group swimming
Championships proved to be a huge success for a number of Incas swimmers held
at Glenrothes Institute on Sat/Sun 7th/8th of February. Outstanding swims
were 12yr old Rachel O'Donnell who not only won the Gold in the girls
12/13yrs age group 200m Individual Medley but smashed the East District
Record by a huge margin knocking a full 4 seconds off in 2.26.44 which puts
Rachel No 1 in the British Rankings. Rachel also won a Silver in the 1500m
Freestyle in 18.46.73 and a 4th in the 800m Free. Also having an excellent
weekend was 11yr old Conor Nally swimming in the 10/11yr old age group
winning a Silver in the 1500m Free in a PN time of 21.11.91 and a Bronze in
the 800m Free in 11.08.61. The girls 10/11yrs age group saw 10yr old Tain
Bruce have another outstanding swim meet with a Bronze in the 800m Free in
11.27.77 and a superb 2.58.71 in the 200m Individual Medley to finish in 4th
place. The girls 14/15yrs age group saw Scottish Breaststroke Age Group
Champion Roisin Donnelly win an outstanding Bronze Medal in the 200m
Individual Medley knocking a full 4 seconds from her previous best in
2.24.93. Other swimmers who improved tremendously were Chelsea Lawson
finishing in 6th place in the girls 12/13yrs age group in the 200m Individual
Medley knocking off a full 7 seconds from her best time and Samantha
MacMillan also chop 7 seconds from her PB and Kayleigh Hutton 3 seconds.
Whilst the girls 14/15 age group saw Ailidh Brown knock 3 seconds off with
younger sister Erin Brown improve by 8 seconds. Last but not least young Isla
McLeod had a super swim in the 800m Free to knock over twenty seconds from
her best. |
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26/01/2009 |
Seven young Incas swimmers competed in the
very popular Stirling Junior Open Age Group meet held at the Grangemouth
Leisure Centre on Sat/Sun 24th and 25th January and what a performance they
gave. Golds,3 Silvers, 2 Bronzes, 6 Meet Records, 20 lifetime bests and Top
12yr old Female award. |
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09/12/2008 |
Despite 50% of the Incas swimming club
suffering from various bugs and viruses a number of them competed at the East
District Age Group swimming Championships held at the Fife Institute on
Sat/Sun 6th and 7th December. The boys 10/11yrs age group saw Conor Nally
have an excellent weekend winning a Gold in the 200m Butterfly in 3.10.39
also winning a 4th placed medal in the 200m Backstroke both in lifetime
bests. The girls 10/11yrs age group saw 10yr old Tain Bruce win a Bronze in
the 200m Butterfly in a superb lifetime best of 3.10.82. The girls 14/15yrs
age group saw British Age Group Finalist Roisin Donnelly win a Gold in the
200m Breaststroke in 2.39.48. The girls 12/13yrs Age group saw another
British age group finalist 12yr old Rachel O'Donnell win a Bronze in the 200m
Freestyle in 2.14.70 also two 4th places in the 400m Freestyle and 200m
Breaststroke and with another year in this age group things are looking quite
good. The 12/13 age group also saw Chelsea Lawson win a 5th place medal in
the 200m Freestyle final. Other swimmers to achieve a number of lifetime
bests were Isla McLeod, Erin Brown, Laura Kate O'Brien, Samantha MacMillan,
Kayleigh Hutton, Ailidh Brown and Donald Griffiths. |
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16/11/2008 |
Saturday/Sunday 15th and 16th November saw the
first ever Portobello Long Course Meet held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool
Edinburgh with a huge entry including Olympians Hannah Miley and Robbie
Renwick competing. This competition attracted a very large entry from all
over Scotland including some from South of the border. Four young swimmers
from the InCas swim club based in Inverkeithing competed with excellent
results. Twelve year old Rachel O'Donnell had a reasonable weekend with a
Gold in the 200m Freestyle in 2.17.11 also three Silvers in the 100m Free
1.05.19 200m Individual Medley 2.36.15 and 400m Free 4.52.78 with a Bronze in
the 200m Breastroke. The same age group saw Chelsea Lawson return to some of
her old form with two Bronzes in the 100m Free 1.05.39 and 200m Backstroke
2.38.24. 17 year old Jennifer Somerville who is an S7 Disabilty swimmer and
was allowed to compete in this prestigious meet won three Silvers in the 50m
Free, 50m Backstroke and 50m Breastroke in a new Scottish Record time of
1.01.49 knocking over four seconds from the previous record whilst 12year old
Isla McLeod achieved 3 lifetime bests. |
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09/11/2008 |
A number of young Incas swimmers competed at
the annual Fauldhouse Penguins Meet held at Whitburn on Sunday 9th November
and came home with a hatful of medals. |
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15/09/2008 |
The annual MAGS Age Group swim meet held at
the Grangemouth Sports Centre on Saturday the 13th September saw a small band
of Incas swimmers compete in this highly rated competition. |
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08/09/2008 |
The annual Dunedin Challenge Swim meet, held
at the Fife Institute Glenrothes on Saturday/Sunday 6th & 7th September,
saw InCAS swimming club from Inverkeithing win 7 Golds, 4 Silvers, 4 Bronze,
4 Meet Records and a superb 60 lifetime bests with one overall Top 11/12yr
old female award. |
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20/08/2008 |
British Age Group Swimming Championships 2008
- SHEFFIELD |
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20/08/2008 |
Fins Graded Meet 2008 - KIRKCALDY |
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24/06/2008 |
InCAS Distance Meet |
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04/06/2008 |
East District Open Swimming Championships |
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20/05/2008 |
Success in Sheffield for InCAS Swimmers |
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12/05/2008 |
Young InCAS Swimmers Dominate |
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29/04/2008 |
Another successful weekend for InCAS – young
and old! |
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02/03/2008 |
Outstanding Success for InCAS Swimmers |
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20/02/2008 |
Five Incas swimmers competed in the Edinburgh
International Age Group Meet held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool which incorporated
the Tri-Nations Championships. With teams from Wales,Ireland, England,
Scotland and Norway competing in all age groups the standard was very high
indeed. |