41 Borough of Barnsley Swimmers took part in Rotherham Metro's Springtime 50m gala at Ponds Forge over the weekend.
Taking a total of 26 medals and multiple best ever times with support from Club A2 squad coach Joanne Archer and various poolside volunteers the meet was a huge success
Other members of the club that took part over the weekend included Lucy Wightman, Lily Knowles, Brooke Owen, Alex Tiggardine, Chloe Etheridge, Joshua Guy, Yihang Luo, Riley Sykes, Sophie Greaves, Faith Benson, Olivia Sweeting, Sofiia Shkuratska, Alyssa Warren, Maisie Porter, Layla Baker, Autumn Davis, Lily O'Brien, Bethan Thomas, Ruby Severn, Holly Severn, Emilie Todd, Kendall Cusworth, Sebastian Matze, Jake Roberts, Freddie Cooke - South, Ashton Wooller, Jared Almond, Lacey Richardson, Lola Wooler, Olivia Oughton, Dimosthenis Magoulas, Liam Oughton and Mia Howarth BOBSC would like to thank the parent volunteers who gave up their time to help with the gala Sharon Morton - Team Manager (All Weekend :-) ) Linda Etheridge - Team Manager (Sat AM) Andrew Wallace - Team Manager (Sun AM) Claire Wightman - Team Manager (Sat & Sun PM) Sally Warren - Swim Official
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Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club were back in action at the second weekend of the Swim England’s North East Regional Open Age Championships this weekend at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. The club took 9 swimmers who qualified for the stringent entry times. Women’s Club Captain Leni Valentine Bull secured 3 final positions in her favoured Breaststroke in the 50m, 100m and 200m. she won a bronze in the 200m and a silver in the 100m and narrowly missed out on bronze in the 50m breaststroke.
Meanwhile Dan Menzer, Blaine Underwood and Cody Ingram secured final places with Daniel coming 6th in the 800m freestyle, and Blaine taking 8th place in the 50m fly. Cody, like Leni, secured 3 finals for the 50m, 100m and 200m in Butterfly achieving 8th in the 200m and 9th in the 50m and 100m Other swimmers representing Barnsley were Millie Northrop, Georgia Lee and Ella Minogue, Roman Wallace and men’s club captain Noah Wragg Press Officer for the club Adrian Wightman said “Despite the qualifying entry times being very fast the 9 swimmers from the club put their all into their swims. It was great to see BOBSC bring some silverware back to Barnsley as well courtesy of Leni. We hope that our younger swimmers will continue to be encouraged by the grit and determination shown by these (9) swimmers.” Borough of Barnsley were in action over the weekend with swimmers taking part in Swim England’s North East Regional Age Group Championship and Stocksbridge Pentaqua’s Spring Meet. Regionals 6 swimmers took part in the Regional competition at the John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds Lucas Morton (12), Harry Tupman (13), Oscar Lugton (13), Oliver Austin (14) and Poppy Pearson (13). Harry, Oscar and Oliver all secured places in the finals with Harry securing 8th place in the 50m and 100m breaststroke, Oscar coming 9th in the 50m breaststroke and Oliver coming 7th in the 100m breaststroke. They were supported over the weekend by Coach Joanne Archer. Stocksbridge Pentaqua Meanwhile 45 swimmers took part in Stocksbridge Pentaqua’s Annual Spring Open Meet at Ponds Forge Sheffield. The team brought back a grand total of 33 medal (13 gold, 10 silver and 13 bronze) and were supported by Head Coach Carly Herbert and poolside helpers Claire Wightman and Jo Ingram. Both Alexander Matze and Esme Hays secured top boy / girl for the entire gala. A full list of medal winners is below....... Other competing swimmers were Millie Herbert, Chloe Etheridge, Ruby Severn, Emilie Todd, Mia Ibbeson ,Bethan Thomas, Layla Baker, Olivia Sweeting, Sophie Hewings, Mia Howarth, Lucy Wightman, Alice O'Keefe, Davieleigh Farmery, Sofia Shkuratska, Jessica Leather, Naomi Wakeling, Sophie Greaves, Lily O'Brien, Kloe Eade, Rebekah Jones, Isabelle Kimpton, Keira Tiggardine, Alex Tiggardine, Autumn Davies, Evie Blessed, Yihang Luo, Ashton Wooller, Joshua Nortcliffe, Jake Roberts, Samuel Wathen, Sam Guetatt, Jared Almond & Harry Austin.
We are very pleased to announce we have a swimmer selected for Phase two of the Swim England National Development Programme! Oliver Austin who trains with our A Squad, will be one of three hundred swimmers selected for phase two of Swim England’s National Development Programme which are set to train at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games venue, the first face to face camp to take place since 2019. The 13 to 14 years olds will take part in two long course pool sessions and split into 6 zonal teams – one in the Commonwealth Games 10-lane competition pool and the other in the six-lane training facility at Sandwell. The camp will concentrate on stroke and turn skill development as well as working on land training activities. The selection process was pretty tough with only 25 male and 25 female swimmers being picked per zone, from their long course times achieved and recorded on the Swim England database between 12 April and 5 December 2021 considered as part of the selection process. The highest-ranked swimmer has been chosen in each Olympic event and further selections have been made from the second and third ranked positions until the maximum numbers per camp were achieved. This is a fantastic achievement for Oliver and we wish him all the very best on camp! Congratulations Oliver! Kind Regards, Carly Herbert Head Coach Your Swim Academy Performance Squads Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club The Annual British Championships took place between the 5th and 10th of April at Ponds Forge, Sheffield returning after a 3 year break. This year Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club had 3 eligible swimmers Georgia Lee (17) , Eleanor Valentine-Bull (16) and Daniel Menzer (18). (Despite meeting qualifying criterion a record number of entries for the events Georgia (middle) meant she was unable to compete.) The event started at 9:30am on Tuesday 5th April and marked the beginning of six days of eye-catching competition where athletes across the country came together to compete in a bid to win senior and junior titles, and looked to become part of the selection process for the European Junior Championships. Many a famous face were to be seen poolside including the likes of Adam Peaty, James Guy, Molly Renshaw and Kathleen Dawson After months of hard work and dedication in order to qualify for the meet, the swimmers efforts paid off with their tremendous performances! They have done everyone at the club proud and set the bar for the beginning of the season! A fantastic outcome after such a rocky road back to full training. Borough’s female club captain, 16 year old Eleanor Valentine-Bull opened the meet for on Tuesday 5th April in the 50m Breaststroke, with 18 year old Daniel Menzer following her on Wednesday 6thApril with the 200m Butterfly. Eleanor, currently studying for her GCSE exams at Horizon Community College in Barnsley is a long standing member of the club, swam an impressive time 34.54, her second fastest time this season. Her placing was 85th out of 137 given she was one of the youngest swimmers in the category. Eleanor said “It was an amazing experience and surreal to be surrounded by a number of Olympic swimmers” Daniel Menzer, currently studying A levels at Pontefract college has seen a lot of success with the club since joining us during the first lock down, and has gone on to make Yorkshire finals and set new life time bests since training with the club. Daniel swam a fantastic 2:16.11, again the second fastest time for him this season. He came 93rd or 110. Both Eleanor and Daniel will now be focussing on qualifying for the British and Home Nation Summer National Championships and the British National Championships.
Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club would like to thank the leisure provider Barnsley Premier Leisure (BPL) for providing a quality training programme through the Your Swim Academy Performance Squads and ensuring our swimmers receive the highest level of training and support on their doorstep. Press Officer Adrian Wightman said “It’s tremendous to see how our well our swimmers have done in both training and competitions over the last few years. The training programme provided by BPL is now reaping success on the local, regional and national stage. For a relatively small club having 3 qualifiers for the British Nationals is a great achievement and an accolade that all involved in the club are immensely proud of. Should anyone wish to find out more about the swimming club please visit www.bobsc.co.uk for more information.” The British Championships are back in full swing for the first time in three years, where we have 3 swimmers from the Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club qualifying, but only 2 of them will get the chance to compete due to recent changes in the event conditions. The event will start at 9:30am on Tuesday 5th April which will mark the beginning of six days of eye-catching competition where athletes across the country will come together to compete in a bid to win senior and junior titles, and look to becoming part of the selection process for the European Junior Championships. Our female club captain, 16 year old Eleanor Valentine-Bull will be opening the meet for us on Tuesday 5th April in the 50m Breaststroke, with 18 year old Daniel Menzer following her in the pool on Wednesday 6th April with the 200m Butterfly.
Eleanor, currently studying for her GCSE exams at Horizon Community College in Barnsley is a long standing member of the club, and has been with us from the age of 6. She found her love of sprinting recently after winning a gold and two silver medals in February’s Yorkshire Championships. After the meet Eleanor will have her eyes set on qualifying for the British and Home Nation Summer National Championships. Daniel Menzer, currently studying A levels at Pontefract college has seen a lot of success with the club since joining us during the first lock down, and has gone on to make Yorkshire finals and set new life time bests since training with the Performance Squads. Daniel will also be going on to qualify for the British and Home Nation Summer National Championships and the British Championships. Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club would like to thank the leisure provider Barnsley Premier Leisure (BPL) for providing a quality training programme through the Your Swim Academy Performance Squads and ensuring our swimmers receive the highest level of training and support on their doorstep. The BOBSC swimmers were in action again at the weekend at Team Jorvik’s Spring Festival securing a haul of 85 medals in the one day 100m and 200m race meet/ A total of 52 swimmers from all the BOBSC Squads took part at the gala at Leeds John Charles Centre for Sport with coach Julie Rice and poolside helpers Penny Austin and Sharron Morton. The total medal haul across the A, B and C grades were 32 gold, 29 silver and 24 bronze, an outstanding achievement There were some massive improvements on personal best / entry times with some swimmers achieving improvements of up to 10 second and some with even higher times. Press Officer Adrian Wightman said “Yet again the our swimmers demonstrated how much they are improving and hungry to secure those top 3 places. It was great to see the swimmers putting 100% effort – well done everyone.” The squad host the first meet of the recently post-covid relaunch of the Barnsley Minors League next weekend where they hope to retain their place in the first division for a second season. Summary of Results below....
Borough of Barnsley competed in the final Yorkshire Championships of the season this weekend taking part in the 50m sprints, the 800m Freestyle and the teams event at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. The club took 33 swimmers to the event and succeeded with 10 top 10 finishes in the sprints / 800m and 2 top 10 finishes in the teams events; 8th in the women’s 15/16 yr 200m Medley and a 9th place in the Men’s A team 13 over 200m Freestyle. A huge contratulations to our Yorkshire Champion... Eleanor Valentine-Bull 1st in the 16 years 50 breaststroke And a Mahoosive shout out to our other finalists !! Cody Ingram 3rd in the 16 years 50 fly & 9th in 50m Breaststroke Alexander Matze 5th in the 10/11 50 breaststroke Harry Tupman 7th in the 13years 50 breaststroke Georgia Lee 10th in the 17/overs 50 breaststroke Lucas Morton 5th 50m backstroke & 5th 800m Freestyle Oliver Austin 6th 50m Breaststroke Millie Northrop 7th 50m fly Head Coach Carly Herbert said “this was the most successful Yorkshire Championships we have had at long course (50m). its been a tough couple of years with breaks for the Pandemic and having to rebuild stamina and strength back up but all the swimmers swum amazingly well. We have lost count of the seasonal best and personal best times that have been achieved”
Club Press Officer Adrian Wightman said “A great Yorkshire season for the club with all swimmers putting 100% effort in. We are really proud of their achievements and look to build on this success in the upcoming Barnsley Minors League as well as in other competitions. The club would like to thank all the coaching staff for their hard work and for all volunteers who helped poolside and officiating over the 3 weekends of events” Other competitors were Boys: Harry Austin, Joshua Guy, Adam Gill, Oscar Lugton, Jared Almond, Jonathon Wightman, Roman Wallace, Kalum Smart, Blaine Underwood, Daniel Menzer & Noah Wragg Girls: Olivia Byrne, Millie Laing, Kendall Cusworth, Poppy Pearson, Brooke Owen, Esme Hays, Purdy Roberts, Olivia Oughton, Kloe Eade, Meredith Gregory, Keira Tiggardine, Georgia Lee, Macy Yoxall, Lola Yoxall & Ella Minogue Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club’s Yorkshire competed at the Yorkshire Swimming Associations 2022 Group Championships last weekend. With entry times set at a high standard, the 100 swimmer club that trains across the borough, turned out a total of 26 swimmers eligible for over 75 events.
The club brought home 19 top ten finishes including 2 silver medals by girls captain Eleanor Valentine-Bull who secured second spot in the 16 yrs 100m and 200m breaststroke. Other top ten finishes were obtained by
Other swimmers were Harry Austin, Adam Gill, Jonathon Wightman, Roman Wallace, Kalum Smart, Blaine Underwood, Poppy Pearson, Brooke Owen, Esme Hays, Purdy Roberts, Kloe Eade, Meredith Gregory, Macy Yoxall, Lola Yoxall & Ella Minogue Club Spokesman Adrian Wightman said “Once again we were successful in qualifying for a large number of events and the swimmers excelled as ever. We saw multiple personal best times as well as some nail biting finals. We look forward to the Yorkshire Sprints on the 26th February and hope we can bring more silverware home A Great Start to the 2022 Yorkshires with 9 Top 10 finishes and a silver medal in the girls 100m breaststroke courtesy of Eleanor Valentine Bull!
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