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Awards to Maddie and Harumi

At a presentation evening last Saturday Maddie Tichborne and Harumi Yagi of Barnet Copthall were presented with the Senior Wilkinson Sword and the Junior Girls Wilkinson Sword respectively for their performances at the Middlesex Championships.

After looking at the photographs of Maddie and Harumi holding these lethal weapons I think you'll agree that it would be better not to pick a fight with either girl just now!

London Swimming Long Distance Meet

Some excellent results for Barnet Copthall at last weekend's meet in Aldershot where London swimmers were given the rare opportunity to swim 800 free and 1500 free long course. Congratulations to all 5 swimmers.

Jamie Richter swam just one of the events - the 1500 free - but managed two National Qualifying times! At the 800m mark he registered 9:53.05 which was an NQT and he continued at a good pace to complete the 1500m in 18:46.90 - a second NQT. Jo Zambelli knocked two and a half seconds off her previous PB in the 800 free and achieved an NQT with 9:33.54. Chris Eddon qualified for ASA Nationals for 800m and must have been very pleased with his time of 8:36.50 - a PB of nearly 8 seconds.

Both of the other Copthall swimmers produced PBs - Megan Boldison bettered her 800m time by 30 seconds to finish on 9:47.79 and Emily Dean improved her 1500m time by nearly 8 seconds with a 19:53.30.

M11 League Round 1

The first round of this year's Junior Speedo League (otherwise known a the M11 League) was held at Barnet Copthall Pools today. The round was won by Hillingdon with Barnet Copthall in 4th place.

The Copthall swimmers all swam really well with 29 PBs out of 32 individual swims. There were wins for Caroline Wong (Girls 10yrs 50 fly); Robert Dos Santos (Boys 9yrs 25 breast and Boys 9yrs 25 fly); Elisha Kramer (Girls 9yrs 25 back); Haris Bandey (Boys 9yrs 25 back); Aiden Doherty (Boys 11 yrs 50 breast) in the individual races and for the 9rs Girls 4 x 25 free relay team (Isabelle Dean, Jovana Djordic, Elisha Kramer, Alaya Seoudy) and 9 yrs Boys 4 x 25 free relay team (Alex Kapanadze, Matt Savitz, Haris Bandey, Robert Dos Santos)

Well done to all swimmers and good luck in the next round!

Session changes in May and June

The following sessions are changed or cancelled:

Monday 5 May: SENIORS in Training Pool 9:00am to 11:am; AGE GROUP in Main Pool 9:00am to 11:00am; ALL OTHER SQUADS cancelled (Bank Holiday)
Friday 9 May: SHARKS cancelled; JAG in Training Pool from 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Sunday 11 May: MASTERS is cancelled
FRIDAY 16 May: MORNING TRAINING is cancelled; JAG, AGE GROUP and SENIORS in Training Pool 5:30pm to 7:30pm
SATURDAY 17 May: AGE GROUP and SENIORS in Training Pool 6:00am to 8:00am
SUNDAY 18 May: MASTERS in Training Pool 4:30pm to 6:30pm; AGE GROUP, SHARKS and PRELIM are cancelled
SATURDAY 24 May: AGE GROUP and SENIORS in Training Pool 6:00am to 8:00am
SUNDAY 25 May: AGE GROUP cancelled
MONDAY 26 May: ALL SQUADS cancelled (Bank Holiday)
SUNDAY 8 June: AGE GROUP cancelled
SUNDAY 15 June: AGE GROUP cancelled
SUNDAY 22 June: MASTERS in Training Pool 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Final day at World Masters .....

.... and a final medal for Mark Reynolds who swam 4:25.30 to win bronze in the 400 free.

Other good placings in this final session were John Rittenhouse 9th in 400 free (4:44.55) and Joe Twyman 7th in the 50 back (30.15).

Pictured above: John Rittenhouse, Sachika Yamawaki , Joe Twyman, Ian Woollard, Georgie Hamilton, Susie Breslin, Emma Harvey, Mark Reynolds, Jeanette Squires -missing from photo Jayne Ball and Jeanette Benn

So, in summary, the weeks results were:

Mark Reynolds - two silver, two bronze, three (perhaps four) British records. 50, 100, 200 and (possibly) 400 free

Georgie Hamilton - Two golds (100 and 200 fly), one silver (400IM)

Synchro coach Emma Harvey - Synchro Silver.

Reynolds, Twyman, Harvey, Yamawaki - Bronze in the mixed free relay.