39 MEDAL BONANZA AT ROTHERHAM

​Borough of Barnsley swimmers were in action again at the weekend at Rotherham Metro’s A&B Long Course (50m) meet, the last competition Borough were competing in prior to the Yorkshire Counties meet in February. A total of 45 swimmers took part in the gala with A2 squad Coach Joanne Archer at the helm along with 2022 club captain Noah Wragg.
In the A grade category a total of 3 golds, 4 silvers and 7 bronzes were won with 8 gold, 11 silvers and 6 bronzes in the B grade category.
Club Press Officer Adrian Wightman said “Once again our swimmers have excelled with many of the 45 swimmers obtaining personal best times as well as breaking their medal drought.  Also it was great to see some of our newer swimmers compete.  Many thanks to coach Joanne, poolside helpers Craig, Sharron, Steve, Ron, Sally, Claire and club captain Noah”
 

Medal winners were

• Jared Almond – A grade Silver 200m Breaststroke & bronze 50m backstroke
• Oliver Austin – A grade gold 200m Breaststroke  & bronze 200m Freestyle
• Freddie Cooke-South – Debutant gala – B grade gold in  200m breaststroke and silver 50m breast
• Grace Ford - B grade silver in 5om Backstroke
• Adam Gill B grade silvers in 200m breaststroke and 100m & 200m freestyle
• Joshua Guy – B grade silver in 100m freestyle and 50m breaststroke
• Esme Hays – B grade golds in the 100m fly and 50m breaststroke
• Millie Herbert – B grade gold in 50m freestyle and bronze in 200m freestyle
• Cody Ingram – A grade gold in 200m fly
• Millie Laing – B grade bronze medals in 50m fly and 50m freestyle
• Georgia Lee – A grade silver in 50m breaststroke and bronze in the 100m breaststroke
• Lucas Morton – A grade silver in 50m freestyle and B grade golds in 200m freestyle and 100m free and a silver in 50m fly
• Millie Northrop – B grade silver in 200m freestyle
• Brooke Owen – A grade bronze in 50m backstroke
• Lacey Richardson – B grade gold in 50m backstroke
• Purdy Roberts – B grade gold in 200m fly, silver in 100m fly and bronze in the 50m fly
• Kalum Smart – A grade gold in 100m fly
• Alex Tiggardine  - B Grade bronze in 50m freestyle
• Blaine Underwood – A grade silver in 50m backstroke
• Roman Wallace – A grade bronze in 50m breaststroke
• Alyssa Warren – B Grade silver in 200m fly
• Sam Wathen – B grade bronze in 50m backstroke
• Noah Wragg – A grade bronze in 50m and 100m backstroke

​The remaining swimmers that took part in the gala were:
Evie Blessed, Autumn Davis, Kloe Eade, Chloe Etheridge, Sam Guettat, Francesca Hadfield, Mia Grace Howarth, Rebekah Jones, Abigail Longdon, Yihang Luo, Ella Minogue, Joshua Nortcliffe, Lily O’Brien, Poppy Pearson, Jake Roberts, Ruby Severn, Holly Severn, Bethan Thomas, Keira Tiggardine, Lucy Wightman, Jonathon Wightman &Lola Wooler