Sedgefield 75 swimming club were back in action last Sunday at Haven Point in South Shields as a competing club at Newcastle Swim Team’s ‘Summer Spectacular Sprints’ gala.
A one-day event with 50m and 100m races that proved very popular with a very high turnout including a number of swimmers from Scotland.
Zoe Hodgson swam six races beating her PB’s in four of them, the undoubted highlight being beating the cherished landmark 30 seconds for 50m freestyle for the first time, posting 29.83 seconds.
Jessica Bell raced five times and set new PB’s in three of them, 50 and 100m breaststroke and 100m butterfly.
Charlie McEwan took on four races, freestyle and butterfly over both distances, placing well.
Emma Price entered seven races, beating PB in four of them and setting three new club records in the process. She came away with gold medals in 50 and 100m freestyle, silvers in 100 butterfly and 100m individual medley, and bronze in 100m breaststroke.
Ellis Dickinson swam in three races and set a very good PB of over 2.5 seconds in 100m freestyle and placed very well.
Filip Wilczynski swam five races, beating PB in 100m individual medley and 50m butterfly. Filip also set a new club record for 50m backstroke, in which he won bronze.
Swimming at her first competition was Aviana Wilson, who swam very good times and placed very respectably in 50m freestyle and 100m individual medley.
At the end of the two sessions were fun ‘skins’ competitions – a knockout of quickfire 50m races, the strokes chosen at random with the last swimmer being eliminated in each heat until there is one remaining. Qualification was via the 100m individual medley races. Filip and Emma both qualified with Filip finishing third in the boys 13 & under and Emma second in the girls 14 & over. Both took home generous cash prizes for their efforts which was very well received!
Sedgefield 75 are based at Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre and offer top coaching towards competitive swimming for those progressing from swimming lessons. Check out www.sedgefield75.com or find us on Facebook.