Best of British for CASA

The swimming stars of Cleethorpes & Scunthorpe Aquatics (CASA) have demonstrated their growing reputation in the water in emphatic style with a stunning eleven swimmers qualifying for the ASA National Age Group and Youth Championships this year in a total of thirty five events. The previous best achievement for the club was in 2004 when four swimmers qualified in a total of fourteen events.

To put this achievement into perspective CASA have many more swimmers qualified than a number of big city clubs with Council funded programmes. For example, in the Age Group Championships, 606 swimmers have qualified nationally from 197 swimming clubs and only 11 clubs in the whole of the UK will have more swimmers represented than CASA. To name but a few this means CASA have more swimmers qualified than Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Hull, Cardiff, Bradford, Leicester and Coventry.

Chief Coach Nathan Hilton said “This is a fantastic achievement for the swimmers as the qualifying times are the toughest they have ever been and only about twenty swimmers have qualified in each event in the whole of the UK in each age group. Anyone involved in competitive swimming will understand how big an achievement this is and it is further evidence of the progress we have made. This puts our swimmers and the club at the very top of the sport nationally for age group swimming and we believe we are on the verge of something very special.”

CASA swimmers that have qualified and their events are:

Leah Altoft, 13 years - (200 & 400 IM, 100 & 200 Breast)

Jack Burnell, 15 years - (400, 800, 1500 Free)

Tobias Butler, 13 years - (800 & 1500 Free)

Savannah Cheung, 11 years - (200 Back)

Georgia Cragg, 11 years - (100 & 200 Back, 100 & 200 Breast & 800, 1500 Free)

Callum Gladding, 11 years - (100, 200 Fly and 400 Free)

Josh Jones, 11 years - (100 & 200 Breast)

Aisley Leeman, 18 years - (50 Free)  

Sophie Long, 12 years - (200, 400, 800 & 1500 Free)

Thomas Paine, 14 years - (800 Free, 400 IM)

Oliver Webster, 11 years - (100, 200 & 400 Free, 100 & 200 Breast, 200 & 400 IM)

The ASA National Age Group Championships are due to be held 24^th – 27^th July and the ASA National Youth Championships 29^th July – 2^nd August at Ponds Forge International Swimming Centre in Sheffield. The Age Group Championships are for girls aged 11 – 13 years and boys aged 11 – 14 years. The Youth Championships are for girls age 14 – 17 years and boys 14 – 18 years. Tickets are available for these championships either via the British Swimming website or on the door at Ponds Forge and CASA would be delighted to have your support.

CADS welcomes swimmers of all abilities and offer learn to swim lessons through to top level competition. For more information or a no obligation trial please contact Nathan Hilton at nathanhiltoncads@hotmail.com or on 07725 597734.