A large squad of Bishop’s Stortford swimmers recently attended Braintree & Bocking and Dunmow Atlantic’s joint Christmas Cracker Open Meet in search of some quick times and some rather sparkly Christmas medals. They had a cracking meet with some outstanding individual performances resulting in large amounts of PBs and County times across all ages, and a whopping 47 medals (15 Gold, 17 Silver and 15 Bronze) brought home by these super swimmers:
10 years:
- Eliza Andrews (Silver 100m IM/200m Back)
11 years:
- Alice Longman (Gold 50m Breast/200m Breast/100m IM, Silver 50m Fly)
- Imogen Tang (Bronze 50m Free)
12 years:
- Amy Pinckney (Silver 400m Free)
- Grace Mason (Silver 100m Fly, Bronze 50m Fly)
- Jaymee Wardell (Bronze 200m IM/100m IM)
- Lauren Gore (Gold 100m IM, Silver 200m Breast)
- Lilian Opiyo (Silver 50m Free/100m IM, Bronze 50m Back/200m Breast/100m Back/100m Free)
- Fergal Barry (Silver 50m Free, Bronze 50m Back)
- Jago Derrington (Gold 200m Back/50m Back/200m IM/200m Breast, Silver 200m Free, Bronze 100m Breast)
13 years:
- Evie Smallbone (Gold 50m Back, Silver 50m Free)
- Isabella Good (Bronze 100m IM)
- James Gisborne (Gold 50m Back/100m Breast/200m IM, Bronze 100m IM)
14 years:
- Freyja Somers (Silver 100m IM)
- Adam Hazlewood (Gold 100m IM, Silver 100m Breast/200m Breast/200m IM)
15 years & Over:
- Eleanor Mason (Gold 200m Free, Silver 100m Free/400m Free, Bronze 50m Free/50m Fly)
- Hannah Morgan (Gold 200m Back, Bronze 100m IM)
Well done to everyone who took part across the two days – you made us proud with your effort, achievements and of course, your warm-up dance routines! Thanks also to Matt and Laure for their poolside coaching and support.
Event of the Meet award has to go to the Girls 100m IM, where BSSC swimmers took medals in every age group they entered, and the 12-year-old girls dominated the field taking all top six places!
And finally, the Amazing Focus award has to go to Laure, who continued coaching the girl’s warm-up whilst the boys were performing YMCA all around her!
