Date: Mar 2007
Location: Link Centre, Swindon, UK
Event: Wiltshire BAGCATS 2007 (25m)
Following two weekends of demanding competition at the 2007 Wiltshire Age Group
Championships at the Link Centre, Swindon Dolphin’s young
swimmers emerged with 4 British Age Group Category (Bagcats)
titles, 123 individual medals (53 Gold, 32 Silver
& 38 Bronze), 14 Age Group
Best Times (AGBTs), 4 National Qualifying Times (NQTs)
and an unprecedented collection of Regional Qualifying Times (RQTs) and personal best
(PBs) performances. Dolphin also dominated the relay events.
Lauren Matthews (9) Samantha Berry (10) Jose
Prunty (13) & Cathal Westman (13) reached the
podium by topping their age groups to secure Bagcat titles while 200m breaststrokers James
Clark (12), Cathal Westman and Peter
Wasielewski (14) along with Rosie Wells (13) in
the 200m backstroke achieved NQT’s. In addition, records tumbled as Samantha
Berry, Wasielewski & Westman recorded 3 AGBTs
each with Wellsand Katie Carter (11)
both securing 2.
In the 9 year old girl’s age group Lauren Matthews was
in top form winning gold in the 50 & 200 back and 50 butterfly while Maddie
Easter won the 200 individual medley (IM); 50 & 200 freestyle and 200
fly. Lily Waite took silver in the 200 free with Lauren
Jolliffe achieving bronze in the 50m brs sprint. For the boys Noah
Kirby bagged a 200 brs silver medal and bronze in the 50 brs; 200 free
and 100 IM.
Samantha Berry dominated the 10 year girl’s events
winning 50 & 200 back; 100 & 200 IM; 50, 100 & 200 fly and 400 free. Charlotte
Pitts shared some of the spoils by taking the 50 & 200 free and the
200 brs. For the 10 year old boys Jack Janicki picked
up gold in the 50 & 200 back, Niall Westman won
silver in the 50 & 200 brs, and CraigLofts took
bronze in his favourite 50m free & fly sprints.
Katie Carter lead the way for the 11 year old girls
with first places in the 50 & 100 brs and 100 IM with Charlotte
Gardo snatching gold in the 200 fly. Megan Jones (12)
took silver in the 100 fly and bronze in the 50 back. Joe Kerslake (12)
won bronze in the boy’s 100 back while Liam Herbert (13)
was second in the 100 back and 200 IM before injury brought about a premature end
to his campaign.
Dolphin’s 13 year old girls were in blistering form with Jose
Prunty, Hayley Innesand Beth
Preston completing a 1-2-3 in the 50 & 200 fly. Prunty also
got within a second of her NQT for the 400m free in a time of 4.34.52 on her way to
gold and her other triumphs included being first in the 200 IM; 100 & 200 free
and 100 fly. Rosie Wells was unable to conclude
her Bagcats programme due to a more pressing engagement at the British Championships but
her backstroke appeared effortless as she cruised to gold in the 50 & 200m events,
the latter in a NQT of 2.17.60. Ailie Waite stormed
to victory in the 100 IM & won silver and bronze in the 100 & 200 back respectively.
At individual stroke level Dolphin’s best showing came in the breaststroke particularly
when James Clarke (12), Cathal
Westman (13) and Peter Wasielewski (14)
won the 50, 100 & 200m events in their respective age groups with plenty to spare. Wasielewski also
won the 100 IM while Westman was first in the 50
fly and 200 free. Tim Berry (14) bounced back from
the disappointment of being disqualified in the 200 IM to capture the 400 IM gold
in real style. He also prevailed in the 100m fly. Joel Swann (14)
continued to keep the Dolphin flag flying when he won the 400 free, took bronze in
the 100 free in a time of 1.00.14 and added another bronze in the 400 IM.
The Dolphin relay teams were highly impressive too with the boy’s quartet of Swann,
Herbert, Wasielewski & Westman taking the 4 x 100m freestyle pushing Tigersharks
A into second place. Herbert (back), Westman (brs), Berry (fly)
and Wasielewski (free) then secured the boy’s 4
x100m IM finishing more than 5 seconds ahead of Tigersharks A. The girl’s 4
x 100m IM foursome of Wells (Back), Carter (Brs), Prunty (fly)
& Preston (free) also took gold in an AGBT of
4.52.39 with more than 6 seconds in hand over Trowbridge A.
Results:
Gold:
- 9 yrs – M Easter (4) L Matthews (3)
- 10 yrs – S Berry (8) C Pitts (3) J Janicki (2)
- 11 yrs – K Carter (4) C Gardo (1)
- 12 yrs – J Clark (3)
- 13 yrs – J Prunty (10) R Wells (2) A Waite (1) C Westman (5)
- 14 yrs – P Wasielewski(4) T Berry (2) J Swann (1)
- Relays – boy’s 4 x 100 freestyle; boy’s 4 x 100 IM; Girl’s 4 x 100 IM
Silver:
- 9 yrs – M Easter (4) L Matthews (2) L Waite (1) N Kirby (1)
- 10 yrs – C Pitts (4) S Berry (2) N Westman (2)
- 11 yrs – K Carter (1)
- 12 yrs – M Jones (1) J Clark (5)
- 13 yrs – H Innes (2) A Waite (1) L Herbert (2) C Westman (1)
- 14 yrs – T Berry (2) J Swann (1)
- Relays – Girl’s 4 x 100 freestyle
Bronze:
- 9 yrs – L Jolliffe (1) L Matthews (1) N Kirby (3)
- 10 yrs – S Berry (1) C Pitts (1) J Janicki (2) C lofts (2)
- 11 yrs – C Gardo (2) K Carter (2)
- 12 yrs – J Clark (3) J Kerslake (1)
- 13 yrs – H Innes (4) A Waite (5) B Preston (2) R Wells (2) L Herbert (1)
- 14 yrs – P Wasielewski (3) J Swann (2)
Bagcats Champions 2007:
- L Matthews – (9 yrs)
- S Berry – (10 yrs)
- J Prunty – (13 yrs)
- C Westman – (13 yrs)
Source: Swindon Dolphin Press team
