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Club Championships 2011 In addition to the swimming trophies and medals, two awards are made. The Gwen Allan Trophy is awarded to the Club's highest achiever: 2011 Jarrod Bradfield. The Carol Hart Memorial Cup is awarded to the young swimmer whose dedication, determination and general attitude to training, competition and loyalty to the Club sets a good example to others: 2011 Olivia Norman. Press report and photos Have you won Mickey Mouse?
*Summary results of the Individual Medley and 200m Championships competitions are here. Club records Laura Stephens 7 (100m Free, 100m Back, 100m Fly, 200m IM, 400m IM, 400m Free, 800m Free) Gold and silver medal winners here.
Emily Stephens 2 (50m Free, 100m IM)
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This weekend Colchester Leisureworld was once again the venue for the finale of Colchester Swimming Club's annual Club Championships for 2011, with swimmers of all ages competing over three evenings for club records, medals and personal bests. After some tough competition and closely fought racing, swimmers, parents, coaches, officials and guests adjourned to the Presentation Evening. Club President Mike Coppin and Chair Tony Bush congratulated the swimmers on some fantastic swimming, not only at the Championships, but throughout 2011, which has been the most successful year in the 124 year history of Colchester Swimming Club, with record numbers of swimmers competing at the Essex County Championships, Regional and National Championships. Tony welcomed the honoured guests, Stuart Bennett, partner at Colchester Swimming Club sponsors' Griffin Chapman accountants, Jackie Longman, representing the Longman family, who presented the Longman trophy for the Girls' Butterfly, Ray Allan, representing the Allan family, who presented the Gwen Allan trophy, and Liz McCarthy, representing the Dixie family, who presented the new Neil Dixie Memorial trophy for the Boys' Junior Breaststroke. He also thanked all the officials and volunteers, who put in many hours to organise and run the championships, and more importantly the swimmers for their achievements and sportsmanship. A staggering 32 Club Records were broken this year, some of which had stood for many years. 12 year old Laura Stephens claimed an incredible 18 records across four age groups in the 100m Free, 100m Back, 100m Fly, 200m IM, 400m IM, 400m Free and 800m Free. Her PBs in the 100m backstroke and 100m butterfly even broke the Club's Open Age record, with her 100m butterfly time of 1:06.42 being the fastest time for a 12 year old in the UK in 2011. Older sister Emily Stephens set 5 records in the 14 & U age group in the 100m, 200m IM, 400m IM, 400m Free and 800m Free, while 13 year old Pip Davenall claimed a record in the 13 & U 100m Breaststroke and Heather Rodwell put her name to 4 new records in the Open Age group in the 200m IM, 400m IM, 400m Free and 800m Free. For the boys, Jim Vickers set 2 new records in the 100m Back and 200m IM in the 14 & U category and 15 year old Jarrod Bradfield claimed 2 more in the 100m Free and 400m Free in the Open Age category. The coaching team made two special awards to recognise a swimmer's dedication and personal achievements. The Carol Hart Memorial Cup was awarded to the young swimmer whose dedication, determination and general attitude to training, competition and loyalty to the Club sets a good example to others and this year the award was presented to 9 year old Olivia Norman by Stuart Bennett. The Gwen Allan Trophy is awarded to the Club's highest achiever and Ray Allan was delighted to present the trophy to 15 year old Jarrod Bradfield, whose many outstanding achievements throughout the year included setting 2 Junior Records at the Euro meet, making a final at the National Age Group Championships in Sheffield and selection for the Junior England Talent Programme. The Longman trophy for the Girls' butterfly was presented to Laura Stephens by Jackie Longman and the new Neil Dixie Memorial Trophy for achievement in the breaststroke was awarded to Cameron Simpson and presented by Liz McCarthy.
As part of the Club Championships, special awards are made to the top swimmers in the combined 200 IM and 400 IM results, based on placings, and the top overall swimmers were: in the Girls Senior competition, 1st Heather Rodwell, 2nd Emily Stephens and 3rd Laura Stephens; in the Girls Junior competition, 1st Laura Stephens , Joint 2nd Chloe Rudkin and Pip Davenall; in the Boys Senior competition, 1st Jarrod Bradfield, 2nd Harrison Sadler, 3rd Tom Vickers; and in the Boys Junior competition, Joint 1st were Tim Kwok and Sam Mackinder. Every year the club hold a special 200m Championships to test the endurance of the participating swimmers, with qualifying swimmers competing in four 200m races across all four strokes - freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke - all in the same evening. Competing for points based on their times compared to their age group national qualifying times, swimmers across all age groups from 10 years and above produced yet more outstanding swimming to show their determination and strength. In the girls' competition the top three swimmers were Laura Stephens in 1st place, Emily Stephens in 2nd place and Pip Davenall in 3rd place. In the boys' competition, Jim Vickers retained his title and again took 1st place, while Harrison Sadler was 2nd and Jarrod Bradfield was 3rd. "The Beast Challenge" is the coaches' personal challenge of competing in all three gruelling distance events - the 1500m freestyle (Boys), 800m freestyle (Girls), 400m IM and 200m butterfly. Well done to all the swimmers who rose to the challenge! The Junior & Intermediate squads competed in 50m sprints in all four strokes plus the 100m IM, with some superb swimming and great PBs. The Girls results were: in the 9 year old age group, Olivia Norman claimed gold medals in all 5 events, with Millie Lancaster and Asma Parker taking 2 silvers each, Abbie McCarthy claiming the other silver and 2 bronze and Phoebe Crofts winning a bronze; in the 10 year old age group Daisy Jackaman took 3 gold medals, with Jordan Glynos-Fernie and Molly Duffet claiming 1 each and Mia Nicholson winning 2 silver and 2 bronze; and in the 11 and over age group, Beverley Whitaker took 3 with Ellie Duley and Jennifer Bates claiming the other 2 golds, and Sophie Marven, Hannah Vickers, Ana Stephens-Row, Phoebe Coles, Victoria Bush, and Katie Leonard sharing the other medals. In the Boys competition, Isaac Pavey won 4 golds and a silver, Christopher Ashdown won a gold and 3 silvers, while Joseph Cole won 3 bronze medals in the 9 year old age group; in the 10 year old age group, Harry Chatterton and Kirin Yeung won 2 golds each, with David Purser winning a gold and 3 silvers and Jamie Coles and Oliver Hambleton sharing the other medals; in the 11 and over age group, Alex Cole and Matthew Purser won 2 golds each, with Thomas Lo winning a gold and Nicholas Mitchell, Samuel Reeves and Antoine Massey sharing the other medals. All swimmers aged 8 and above can compete in the 11 & U, 13 & U and Open Age 100m races, and here too the swimmers performed extremely well, not only breaking records, but also setting some impressive personal best performances. For the girls, the gold medal winners were Laura Stephens (5), Ellie Duley (2), Heather Rodwell, Philippa Davenall, Emily Stephens, Meg Adamson and Olivia Norman. Among the boys, the gold medals were shared by Antoine Massey (4), Cameron Simpson (3), Jarrod Bradfield (2), Jim Vickers, Spencer Prior and Charlie O'Connor.
Joint Head Coach Michelle Young was full of praise for all the swimmers, "We have a great team spirit in the Club and all the swimmers push themselves and their team mates to be the best they can. The countless PBs, Essex County qualifying times and 32 Club Records are a testament to their hard work and dedication".
Yet more records fell as Saturday saw the final stage of this year's Club Championships for the swimmers of Colchester Swimming Club, sponsored by Griffin Chapman accountants, as swimmers competed in the annual 50m Sprint Championships at Colchester Leisureworld. Some fantastic swimming saw 5 Club (Open Age) records broken as the Colchester swimmers fought for the final medals of 2011. To be eligible for a medal place, swimmers had to win points by racing all four strokes and the 100m Individual Medley, with gold and silver awarded to the top 2 swimmers in each age group and bronze medals going to all the other swimmers who completed the sprint challenge. In the 12 and under category, Laura Stephens held off a strong challenge from Chloe Rudkin to take the Gold medal, with the ever improving Chloe taking a deserved Silver. Laura broke two Club records in the process - the 50m backstroke in 31.86 seconds and the 50m butterfly in 30.59 seconds. In the 13/14 category, Emily Stephens edged out Philippa Davenall by just 1 point to take Gold, with both girls breaking records as they fought it out. Emily set new records in the 50m freestyle (28.43) and 100m IM (1:09.12), with Pip setting the new 50m breaststroke record in a time of 36.70 seconds. The Boys event was dominated by Jim Vickers to take the Gold medal, with Alex Carter taking the Silver. In the 15 and over age group Katherine Insull secured the Gold medal with Jennifer Redmond taking the Silver just 1 point behind, while the Boys event was even closer, with Jarrod Bradfield and Charlie O'Connor sharing the Gold as they both finished on 23 points. The Grand Finale of the evening was the Girls and Boys "Medley Skins" event, with the 6 fastest swimmers in the 100m Individual Medley keep swimming rounds of 50m, every 3 minutes, with the eliminated swimmer drawing the stroke for the next round, until the last 2 remaining swimmers compete in a final swim-off for the title. The qualifiers for the Skins were Jennifer Redmond, Paige Young, Emily and Laura Stephens, Chloe Rudkin and Philippa Davenall, and, for the Boys event, Dan Few, Harrison Sadler, Jim Vickers, Alex Vipond, Jarrod Bradfield and Matt Lemnell and they out on an exciting series of races for the cheering supporters! The Girls event saw an exciting breaststroke final between two of Colchester's young stars, 13 year old Philippa Davenall and 14 year old Emily Stephens. Pip pulled out a superb turn to take a lead over Emily on the last length and, despite Emily's fightback down the second length, held off her challenge to take the Girls title by just 0.01 seconds. The Boys final was between two more of Colchester's young stars, Jarrod Bradfield and Matt Lemnell, with Jarrod storming back on the second length of a butterfly race to take the Boys title. Well done to all the swimmers who took part in a very tough and exciting night's competition.
Club Championships - Records 1993-2011
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