Otters News

School Speed Awards 2007 18/11/07

A Big Thank you to all the swimmers on Sunday for taking part in the school speed awards, the behaviour on poolside especially our new swimmers was fantastic. I huge vote of thanks must also go to all our officials on the night without your help and support we would be unable to manage this type of event at the club.

The results can be found Here and are also on the Notice Board at the pool

North District Junior Development Meet on 3+4/11/07

Well done to all our swimmers, and for all our officials on the day, Coaches report can be found Here

Westhill Minnows 22/09/07

MEDALS:

Gold

Jennifer Pirie (Back & Fly)      

Bronze

Jennifer Pirie (Brst)

Boys Medley Relay Team (Douglas, Daniel, Cameron M & John) – 5^th place

Finalists:

John Jessiman (BC 4^th & Fly 5^th)

Douglas Fraser (Brst 4^th)

Anna Strachan (Free 6^th)

Wow!  Jennifer has done it again!  More medals!

Well done to all our swimmers and especially for those that got to the finals – a wonderful achievement.

Most time taken off was by Cameron Morrison with 15secs off his 50 Fly swim, with Daniel close behind taking off 10secs from his frontcrawl.

Thank you to our Coach Jenni and to Ken who assisted in session 2, also to our officials Durno, Maureen and Nicci. For the full results look on the meet information page.

BoD September Splash 8/9/07

TOO FAST CERTIFICATE!
Jennifer Pirie (Free)
MEDALS:
SILVER:
Jennifer Pirie (Fly)
Kieran Jack (Brst)
Nathan McLean (Back)
BRONZE:
Laurence Alderton (Free)
Some fantastic swims!
Some brilliant pbs - not only did Jennifer get a 'Speeding Ticket' but also took
12 secs off her backstroke swim!  Meagan did a wonderful pb with 18 secs off her
back swim, and Daniel took 11 secs off his back and then a further 10 secs off his
breaststroke event!  There were at least 7 swimmers who took more than 5 secs off
atleast one of their swims.
Well done to all.
Thank you' to our Coach Jenni and to our officials Lesley, Barbara, Joyce & Val.  Full Results under meet information.

Time Trials Huntly 02/09/07

Well done to all our swimmers, especially are new swimmers who were there for the 1st time. A BIG Thank you to everyone that was able to help on the day, we can't do it without you. Results can be found Here

ASA Level 1 Teachers Course

Congratulations to Stephen Andrew, Chris Alderton, Gillian Bowie and Amy Knowles who  have all passed their ASA Level 1.

Distance Awards 1st July 2007

Well Done ! to all our swimmers who took part in the distance awards, a total of 74,200 metres just over 46 miles - very impressive. See all the results here

Many thanks to all our helpers and Jenni and Colin who organised the event.

Ythan Meet at Ellon on 19/05/07 (24/05/07)

North District Age Group Champs in Inverness on 3+4/03/07 (25/03/07)

Well we've never had anyone qualify for the District Age Group Championships before so it was a bit of a surprise to find that this year we had 4 qualifiers!

Andrew Whyte was the only Otter to make the trip though and he was rewarded with a personal best in the 100 breaststroke.  Next year we hope that Andrew will qualify in a few more events and have some company other than Lynn and his mum and dad.

Well done Andrew for making the grade!

Elgin Graded Meet at Buckie on 17+18/02/07 (25/03/07)

Not many Otters went to Buckie for this meet due to the long weekend and everyone was just toooooooooooo busy.

Laurence and Chris Alderton, Eilidh Macdonald and Hanna Diab managed enough swims for everyone though and Eilidh in particular had a very busy weekend and managed 9 out of 9 PBs.

Results can be found on the Meet Information page.  Medals as follows -

Peterhead Graded Meet at Peterhead on 10/02/07 (25/03/07)

Lots of PBs for Kieran Jack, Ewan Andrew, Kieran Alderton, Laura Jack, Ellie Shields and Douglas Fraser.

Results can be found on the Meet Information page.

Special congratulations to Ewan Andrew on his Gold Medal in the 100 breaststroke.

City of Glasgow Long Course Graded Meet at Tolcross on 03/02/07 (25/03/07)

First time experience in a big pool for everyone and didn't we do well?

Douglas Fraser, Jordan McPherson, Jennifer Pirie, Eilidh Macdonald, Laurence Alderton, Andrew Jessiman, Ellie Shields, Nathan McLean and Andrew Whyte were representing Alford Otters and there were some sparkling performances from everyone with some times faster than short course personal bests - this is great although perhaps it tells us that we should still be working on our turns!

Andrew Whyte won bronze in the 100 breaststroke, Nathan MacLean was twice placed (in the 100 free and 100 back) and Ellie was too fast in the 50 freestyle.  Well done everyone.

Dyce Mini Meet at Bon Accord on 21/01/07 (04/02/07)

12 Otters swam at the first Dyce Mini Meet and every single swimmer managed at least one personal best with Hanna Diab recording a full house in all 5 of her events

Many swimmers made it through to finals and were awarded with medals and flashes as follows -

Well done everyone.