Dolphin Win Centenary Competition

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Swindon
Dolphin piped local rivals Wootton Bassett and Swindon ASC to win the Wiltshire
Centenary Secondary Competition Cup in a very exciting gala at

Milton Road

last
night. 

The
contest, a one length relay competition for swimmers who had not participated in the
top three divisions of the Moonraker Summer League this season, went
down to the wire with positions changing hands frequently throughout the evening.
Wootton Bassett led by 2 points at the half way stage and were a point ahead with
3 events to race.  However, the Dolphin
team, which included a large number of less experienced swimmers, dug deep to overhaul
the opposition in the closing phase to win by 4 points.   

Leading
the way for Dolphin was the girls’ under 12 year foursome of Chiara
Pascarella, Stephanie
Dabbs (from Swim Channel, competing in a club team
for the very first time), Bethani
Crouch & Victoria
Tainty who
secured their age group freestyle.  The girls’
u14 quartet
of Tess
Hill, Lauren
Hawkins, Emma
Prunty and Louise
Cullen,
and the open women’s team of Helen
Hanks, Cullen, Sarah
Kelly & Hattie
Jones soon
followed suit by winning their respective freestyle events.

Equally
impressive were the excellent wins for Tainty (u12), Prunty (u14), Jones (u16)
and Hanks (Open)
in the girls’ butterfly squadron and for Sam
Hunter (u12), Tom
Rendel (u14), David
Moorhouse (u16),
and Andy
Holborow (open)
in the boys’ backstroke squadron.

Andy Holborow – on top form

Dolphin’s
open medley relay teams were unsurpassed with Kelly, Emma
Coleman, Hanks and Cullen securing victory
for the girls, and Ben
Emmerson, Holborow, Andrew
Bilko and Andy
Alexander on
song for the boys.

Bilko, Moorhouse, Holborow & Alexander were
also triumphant in the boys’ open freestyle.

Dolphin
Swimming Development Officer, Steve
Cryer,
was delighted with the performance and said that he was “particularity pleased with
the skills and progress of the younger, inexperienced swimmers”.

Result:
Swindon
Dolphin – 72 points, Wootton Bassett – 68, Swindon ASC – 63

Source: Swindon Dolphin Press Team