Borough of Barnsley Swimmer Club (BOBSC) Chloe Etheridge has recently completed a Swim England Young Leaders training Course and has qualified as the youngest official in recent times at the swimming club. Chloe, who has been swimming since the age of 2 said
“Back in October 2022 Swim England North East, offered an opportunity for Young Leaders, to be part of competition officiating training, education and development opportunity. I thought it would be a great opportunity to learn a new skill and support the swimming community in other ways” Having now qualified as official Timekeeper she is taking part as an official at the upcoming Yorkshire Championships on Sunday the 5th February. She is also hoping to gain officiating experience in stroke judging and turns with a longer term view to complete further technical officiating and swim coaching. She is hoping that the success in and out of the pool will further support her GCSE PE course which she is currently completing Club Spokesman Adrian Wightman said “Chloe has showed a real desire to give back to the swimming community. To undertake the course and take time out of her busy life is a real sacrifice and a great testament to her character. We hope that she takes her officiating to the highest level. Who knows we may even see her referring at national and international events….” The Young Leaders course provided:
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Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club, BOBSC, took part on the Alec James Memorial gala at Scunthorpe earlier in January. A team of 11 swimmers took part in this annual gala, brining together clubs aligned to the Barnsley Minors League.
Medals were secured by Daniel Riley – Gold 50m Backstroke Obra Filip – Bronze 50m Backstroke Autumn Davis – Bronze 50m Butterfly Lola Wooler – Bronze 50m Backstroke, Breaststroke & Freestyle Sam Guettat – Silver 50m Breaststroke, Bronze 50m Backstroke Rebekah Jones – Bronze 50m Butterfly Kiera Tiggardine – Bronze 50m butterfly Swimmer Rebekah Jones reported “I was shocked to win a bronze medal in 50 fly knowing how hard it has been to improve this stroke. It has always been difficult to swim fly but over many months with the support and advice from coach Julie Rice and lots of hard work ,sometimes quite painful , I have been able to place 3rd and set a new personal best.” Club spokesman Adrian Wightman said “Yet again the BoBSC swimmers have put 100% effort into a gala with some awesome swims resulting in multiple lifetime best times and a good number of top 6 finishes as well as haul of medals” Other swimmers who took part were Abigail Riley, Millie Herbert, Francesca Cresswell, Joshua Nortcliffe, Alex Tiggardine, Ashton Wooller, Faith Benson, Alice O’Keefe, Mia Howarth, Evie Blessed, Elena Standeven, and Lily O’Brien. Borough of Barnsley brought home a total of 68 medals from Rotherham metro’s January A&B graded meet at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge Arena at the weekend. Olivia Byrne celebrated a 9 medal haul, Charlotte Greaves and Freddie Cook-South took 7, Louis Ennis totalled 6, Alexander Matze 5, with Dimosthenis Magoulas, Esme Hays, Harry Austin and Ruby Severn all securing 3, Alyssa Warren, Joshua Guy and Sophie Greaves claiming 2 and 1 medal to Adam Gill, Alex Tiggardine, Bethan Thomas, Emilie Todd, Jared Almond, Keaton Hall, Lily O’Brien, Purdy Roberts, Sam Guettat and Samuel Wathen. Competing at their first major event was Sophie Siddons and Isabell Cumberbatch Other swimmers representing the club were Autumn Davis, Francesca Hadfield, Grace Ford, Joshua Nortcliffe, Kacey Reade, Rebekah Jones, Sebastian Matze, Keira Tiggardine, Lacey Richardson, Maisie Porter, Mia Howarth, Holly Severn, Callum Cadman and Lucy Wightman, Club Spokesman Adrian Wightman said “it’s great to see over 40 of our swimmers attend the gala and do so well. Despite this being in early in the 50m (long course) season, the medal haul and number of personal bests is testament to our swimmers determination and also enjoyment of their sport. We hope to build on the success of this gala in the upcoming Yorkshire Championships as well as our other race meets. As ever on behalf of all swimmers thanks go to the YourSpace coaching staff and Team Managers for enabling the swimmers to compete at the meet.” Click here toBorough of Barnsley Swimming Club kicked off the new year with 28 top 3 medals at the City of Leeds New Year Meet. A total of 38 swimmers took part under the supervision of A2 squad coach Joanne Archer. The squad secured a total of 28 medals; 9 gold, 5 silver and 14 bronze. The medal winners were
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