Saturday 10th October
saw Cleethorpes & Scunthorpe Aquatics (CASA) made their assault on this
year National Arena Swimming League
The National Swimming League, having
just secured new sponsorship from swimwear manufacture Arena, is a national
competition with teams taking part in regional leagues across the country all
on the same dates in October, November and December. The winners of each region
compete in a national final in an attempt to be crowned the best team in the
country.
CASA had two teams taking part
with the ‘A’ team in Division 1 and the ‘B’ team in Division 2. It was to be a home gala for CASA ‘A’
with the team hosting the event at Grimsby Swimming Pool. Up against stiff
opposition in the form of Nottingham Leander, winners of the East Midland
league last year. They put in a strong
performance to finish in over all second position, with 7 first place, 14 second
places and 8 third places.
An exciting gala CASA ‘A' had to
wait until event 6 - Boys 13yrs/U 4 x 2 Medley Relay Team for their first win
of the night, with James Burke first in
the water on the Backstroke, Josh Jones on the Breaststroke, Callum Gladding on
the Butterfly and finally Keiran Skinner with the Freestyle leg of the race.
The four boys also went on achieve another 1st in the Freestyle
Relay. For Josh Jones & Kieran
Skinner their winning streak continued into their individual events with Josh
on top form in 13yrs/U 100M Breaststroke also securing a new personnel best
time and Keiran taking the laurels and winning the 13/U 100M Backstroke taking
more than 3 seconds off his previous best time. The Boys 11/U Medley Team of Jack Cowling, Ryan Johnson, Jack
Newton and Scott Zimmerman won their race by a clear margin. CASA ‘A’ only other individual wins came in
the 15yrs/U 100 Butterfly with Thomas Paine producing an excellent swim in a
new personnel best time and Girls 15/U 100M Breaststroke with Lauren York the
only CASA girl to take top spot on the night.
There were many excellent swims from the CASA ‘A’ swimmers during the evening,
however special mention should go to Girls 11/U Freestyle Team of Olivia
Sullivan, Bryony Bower, Sophie Cragg and Holly Williams, although the girls had
to settle for second place behind Notts Leander they gave their all to finish
with a 9 second lead on the 3rd place team!
Other team events swimmers just
missed out on that elusive first place were
Girls 11yrs 4 x 2 Medley Relay: O
Sullivan, C Bower, H Williams, S Cragg
Girls 15/U 4 x 2 Medley Relay: N
Sharman, L York, K Over, F Stanford
Ladies Open 4 x 2 Medley Relay: C
Steels, L York, J Kirk, S Gladding
Ladies Open 6 x 2 Freestyle Relay:
J Kirk, F Stanford, K Over, L York, S Gladding, C Steels
Individual Second places
Boys 11yrs 50 Backstroke: Jack
Cowling (Pb)
Girls 11yrs 50 Butterfly: Holly
Williams
Girls 11yrs 50 Breaststroke:
Olivia Sullivan (Pb)
Boys 13yrs 100 Butterfly: Callum
Galdding (Pb)
Boys 15/U 100 Freestyle: Thomas
Paine
Open 100M Breaststroke: Lauren
York
Girls 11 yrs 50M Freestyle: Sophie
Cragg (Pb)
Boys 13yrs 100 Freestyle : Keiran
Skinner (Pb)
The swimmers achieved a staggering
52 new best times on the night with the Final Score :
Nottingham Leander 239 - CASA ‘A’ 195
- Sherwood Colliery 169 - Louth 159 - Kings Lynn 144 -Deepings 143
For CASA ‘B’ in their
Division 2 fixture, they had no luxury of a home gala, but a long 3 hour bus
journey to their meet at Wellingborough.
Despite a number of last minute changes to the team, with a number of
swimmers swimming up age groups, the team performed exceptionally well with
some great swims and an amazing 57 new best times. The Team amassed 6 first
place, 13 second places, and 9 third places
11 year old Jessica Brandham secured
the teams first win of the night on the 11yrs 50M Backstroke. A couple of
events later it was the turn CASA ‘B’ Team member Holly Smith (Pb) to finish in
1st place with an excellent swim in the 13yrs 100 Breaststroke.
Also, taking a 1st place for the girls was Ashleigh Fletcher as she
won the Ladies Open 100 Freestyle. On
the boys events, Sven Schygiol secured a win in the 11 yrs 50M Breaststroke and
with 12yrs old Oliver Webster (Pb) winning the 13 yrs/U 100M Freestyle. On the relays CASA ‘B’ had a number of close
finishes, however only managed to secure one 1st place, well done to
the boys 11 yrs 4 x Medley Relay of Nathan Sharman, Sven Schygiol, Nahum Kloss
and Keiran Sharman.
A host of 2nd place
swims were achieved by the swimmers, most notably Michael Dzieweczynski swim in
the Boys 13/U 100M Butterfly were he
just missed out on the top spot by a touch, but gave his all in an superb swim
to earn himself a new personnel best time, other 2nd place swims
were in :
Boys 11/U 50M Backstroke: Nathan Sharman
Boys 13/U 50M Breaststroke: Oliver
Webster (Pb)
Boys 15/U 100M Backstroke: Toby
Butler
Boys 11/U 50M Butterfly: Sven
Schygiol
Boys 13/U 100 Backstroke: Tom
Wells (Pb)
Ladies Open 100M Backstroke:
Ashleigh Fletcher (Pb)
Boys 15/U 100M Freestyle: Toby
Butler (Pb)
Girls 15/U 100M Freestyle:
Rhiannon Harber
Boys 11/U 50M Freestyle: Nathan
Sharman(Pb)
Girls 11/U 4 x 2 Meldey Relay:
Jessica Brandham, Sophie Thompson, Grace Lister, Yasmin Callaghan
Boys 13/U 4 x 2 Medley Relay: Tom
Wells, Oliver Webster, Callum Cook, Andres Clavijo
Boys 13/U 4 x 2 Freestyle Relay:
Andres Clavijo, Callum Cook, Tom Wells, Oliver Webster
Final Score:
Wellingborough 207 – Coalville 187
– CASA ‘B’ 183 – Market Haborough 170 – Corby – 152 – Aylsham 140
Both
teams now look forward to Round 2 on Saturday 14th November