Otters News
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Beavers relpay Meet 19th April
We had 2 teams (8-10 & 11/12) entered for this new Relay event
swimming 5 events of Freestyle, Brst, Fly, Back and Cannon, and our 8 to 10 year
olds did extremely well winning the Silver medal for the 4 x 50m Fly (Caitlyn,
Matthew, Jordan and Meagan) – well done!
A noisy long day and hot!
Thank you to Gillian Bowie for her assistance on poolside and to
Barbara Harrison, Linda Crawford, Nicci McPherson & Andrew Bycroft for
timekeeping.
For full results see meet information
North District Age Group Championships
New
personal best times from North District Age Group Championships -
Aimee
100
breast 1.33.91
200
breast 3.16.15
100
fly 1.24.91
Hanna
200
free 2.34.60
800
free 11.22.88
400IM
6.19.68
100
fly 1.30.22 (split on route to 400IM)
Report
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Aimee
Crawford and Hanna Diab represented Alford Otters in the North District Age
Group Championships in Inverness.
Hannah
swam in the 200 and 800 freestyle and the 400IM. She managed to record personal
bests in all three events and as an added bonus managed a personal best in the
100 fly during her 400IM.
Aimee
matched Hannah with 4 personal best swims, firstly in the 200 breaststroke, with
a 100 breaststroke PB at half way, then a further reduction in her 100
breaststroke time in the race proper and a 100 butterfly personal best time
aswell.
Aimee
and Hanna swam well against girls in the same 10-12 year age group that they
will be swimming in next year and it was exciting to share the pool with
Commonwealth Games swimmers Hannah Miley and Kerry Buchan. This
was a really fast meet featuring the fastest swimmers in the North District.
Lynn
Elgin Meet 16 - 17/02/2008
A small team of 5 swimmers
took part in the Elgin meet however there were some amazing swims with 23 pb’s
from 31 swims.
Aimee Crawford and Andrew
Whyte led the way with 7 pb’s each and Aimee winning not only 2 Gold, 2 Silver
and a bronze medal but the Silver Quaich for best girl in her age group (10-11)
Andrew Whyte took 41 seconds
off his 200 Fly time and won a bronze medal for his 200 Brst where he took 14
seconds off his pb. Andrew Jessiman had 4 pb’s which included 8 seconds off his
200 free and 6 seconds off his 200 bc. He also had the best tumble turn ever
seen by an otters swimmer in his 50fc, going from 5th at the start of
the turn to 1st at the end of the turn !!
Eilidh had 4 pbs including
12 seconds of her 400 fc time. Jennifer took 10 seconds off her 200 fly pb.
In addition to the swims the
behaviour was excellent with some good banter between our swimmers and the Elgin
swimmers who were communicationg across the pool using their Nintendo DS
machines, Quite how is beyond me !!
Thanks to our officials
Durno and Linda Crawford who was taking part in her first Gala. Durno was not
scheduled to officiate but helped out on both Saturday and Sunday.
BY Colin Macdonald
Team Photo
New Timekeepers
Congratulations to our newly qualified
timekeepers; Linda Crawford, Anne Jessiman, Fiona Douglas, Veera Siwek, Jenni
Morrison, Chris Alderton and Andrew Morrison. I'm sure you are all looking
forward to wearing your whites !!
Cults Otters Novice Gala - 10th February
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Well done to our swimmers and especially our medal
winners. As you can see vertually every |
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swim was a new personal best time or on their pb. The
most impressive results from Caitlyn |
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with more than 14secs off 3 of her events, Isobel took
nearly 20secs off her IM and three swimmers took 16 secs off: Lauren off
her IM, and Elise & Cameron C off their Brst. A lot of very good PBs.
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We had incredibly well behaved children who didn’t eat
too many sweets or have powerade drinks |
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and therefore were not hyper - well done parents! During
the races they sat well, cheered each |
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other on and all swam as if their lives depended on it,
brilliant. Lauren swam really hard in the last stretch of both relay
events making up loads of ground, and Caitlyn's Fly was beautiful. Well done one and all, you were a real credit to the club
and yourselves.
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Thank you to our 'Coaches' Julie Green, Jenni Morrison &
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For Alford Otters Results and Medal Winners
click here
Team Photo
City
of Glasgow Long Course Age group meet 2&3
February 2008
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What a brilliant weekend. Aimee
and her cash of medals and some
fantastic results and |
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good swims, especially from
Andrew W & William both taking
14 secs off their 200 FC |
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and Ellie taking 11secs off.
But what a result from John
taking 11 secs off his 50 Fly |
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and what a swim at the end of a
weekend. |
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All of you were great, too many
to mention here. Keep up the
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Lynne |
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Everyone was so well behaved and
put so much effort in to their
swims - Well done. Jenni
For a full list of the Otters
Results
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A
few Photo's from the weekend
Group
Photo
Officials,
working hard !!,
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Scottish School Championships 2008
Four of our
Swimmers; Aimee Crawford, Eilidh Macdonald,
Hanna Diab and Jennifer Pirie swam in the finals
of the Scottish Schools Championships on
Saturday for Alford Primary. Aimee and Eilidh
swam in the individual breaststroke events and
Hanna in the individual freestyle. All 3 girls
swam well but were unplaced. In the final
session of the day they swam with Jennifer as
the lead off swimmer in the Girls relay event.
They missed out on a medal by 0.17 of a second
in the event which was won by The High School of
Glasgow.
Click here
Dyce
Mini Meet 20th January 2008
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Well
done to all. Amazing number of
finalists and the club came 4th!
Congratulations to our Medal winners and
finalists. Two of our swimmers made the
finals for all 4 strokes! A huge thanks
to all our swimmers for their fantastic
behaviour on poolside and the great team
spirit they had. We received comments
from other coaches about the great
performance of our swimmers and their
team spirit being the only swimmers
receiving medals and clapping for the
other medal winners.
For the full results go to meet
information or
click here
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