Please find below the results from the internal 400m Free Gala.Well done to all of those swimming the event for the first time, and to those who recorded a Personal Best time. There were a lot of great swims across all the squads and agegroups involved.
Please make a record of the time that you swum especially if it was your first attempt at the event or it was a PB. These times will not appear on the British Swimming database because it was an unlicensed gala.
It was great to kick off the 2020 series of Club Galas with another 3 new club gala records being set. Matthew Burgess got his name on the Club Gala Records for the first time with a big PB swim of 4.51.66 in the 11&12 years age group. Lucy Oliver knocked a massive 15 seconds off the previous record in the 10 years age group with a new record of 5.09.17. Harriet Rogers set a new record in the 15&over age group of 4.32.10 also with a PB performance.
Please find attached the times and placings for DASC swimmers after the first weekend of two at the N&D Championships at Sunderland. There is also a list of our medallists (8 medals) and other swimmers finishing in the Top Ten in events (21). There were many long course PBs recorded. It was great to see some, including youngsters, competing at this level for the first time, and even making finals and winning medals. Congratulations.
What a fantastic turnout we had from swimmers and divers, parents and other family members at the DASC Annual Presentation held at ROF59. We hope you all enjoyed it. Please click on the link below and scroll through a few images to remind you of the evening!
A huge thank you to Rob Douglas-Reeves for putting on such an excellent Quiz. Well done to the winning team the ‘Crackers’ and everyone else who participated.
It was a great occasion to recognise individuals who have made huge improvements in 2019, individuals who bring a smile to the face of their coaches, and individuals who have excelled at the 2019 Club Gala Series.
During the 2019 Club gala season a total of 37 new club gala records have been set, meaning about 27% of all the records have been re-written.
Club Gala Records broken in 2019
Age Group
Boys
Girls
Total broken
Total No. of Records
8 & under
0
0
0
8
9&10
5
3
8
32
11&12
4
2
6
32
13&14
2
7
9
32
15&over
8
6
14
32
Totals
19
18
37
136
Coaches awards for the squads
Well done to all those swimmers who were awarded ‘the most improved swimmer’ within their squads. Unfortunately, a few were not there to collect their award in person, therefore please see Allison Matthias on poolside for you certificate and reward.
Squad
Most Improved Swimmer
B3
Jack Geldard
B2
Finn Pentland-Rice
B1
Tom Brown
Squad
Most Improved Swimmer (Boy)
Most Improved Swimmer (Girl)
A3
William Robson
Lucia Valgolio
A2
Charlie Stephenson
Isabelle Skelton
A1
Sam Beukenholdt
Niamh Kay
Top
Harvey Matthias
Molly Mooney
A special monetary award was given to two junior swimmers. This monetary gift was sponsored by Andy Dunn. This cash prize was in recognition of their dedication, commitment and regular attendance at Monday morning training sessions.
Well done to Seth Farmer (A2) and Lucy Oliver (A1)
Diddy League Awards
The Durham & District Diddy League is a competition between clubs based in Co Durham. It is widely known as the ‘Diddy League’, because it is a gala for youngsters aged 9-12 years. The galas are always exciting, noisy, competitive occasions with individual races and relay events, points being awarded to each club on the position achieved in each race.
During the Diddy League 2019 Division 2, the DASC team accumulated the following trophies:
Runners up Trophy (just missed out on the top spot by 9 points to Morpeth)
Best Overall 11 year Old Team Trophy
Best Overall 12 year Old Team Trophy
Steve Janes Trophy– Over all the heats & final the DASC team accumulated the most 1stplace wins
2019 DASC Club Champions
For those who don’t know:
Points are awarded at the club galas throughout the year for the fastest 8 swimmers of any age in 100m of each stroke (not IM) and the 800m/1500m Free events.
The DASC Club Champion is the swimmer with the most points after those 5 events.
Men’s Championship
15 males scored points over the year with the top 3 being well clear of the rest.
In 3rdplacewith 23 points a swimmer who qualified to compete in the English Summer Nationals for the first time in 800m and 1500m events, Johnson Bache
In 2ndplace, with 26 points, the only male to score points in all 5 events, fresh from competing at the Scottish Nationals where he finally broke the minute barrier for 100m Butterfly,Alfie Elliott
In 1stplacewith 32 points, is a swimmer who has dominated the club galas this year to the extent that he didn’t even compete in one of the 5 scoring events, the 1500m Free and still wins this trophy; he won 13 of the 16 events for 15 & overs, he holds 10 of the club gala records for 15 and overs, remarkably in all 4 strokes plus IM, setting 7 of them this year, but was beaten by the narrowest of margins by Jack Hurworth in the final Skins race – Will Beukenholdt
Women’s Championship
20 females scored points over the year and again the top 3 were well clear of the rest of the field.
In 3rdplacewith 23 points, which might have been more if she hadn’t been injured for the final gala, is a youngster who is still only 13 and only moved into Top squad in February, a silver medallist from the NER Championships in May, Laura Burgess.
In 2ndplacewith 31 points, and the only female to score points in all 5 events, a bronze medallist from the N&D Championships earlier in the year, Molly Mooney.
In 1stplace, just one point ahead with 32 points, opting to give the 100m Breaststroke a miss in the final club gala, is the outstanding DASC swimmer of 2019. She won 2 silver medals at the British Summer Nationals in her age group and has just won a bronze medal in a new NER record time in the OPEN 50m Free at the Scottish Short Course Nationals. At the 2019 Club Galas she won 11 golds and currently holds an amazing 30 of the 68 girls records across all age groups, but was also beaten by Molly in a very close final Breaststroke race of the SKINs events – Harriet Rogers. Harriet wasn’t unable to attend the Awards night so little brother Lucas collected it on her behalf.
Royal Commonwealth Pool Edinburgh (13-15th Dec 2019)
The Scottish National Championships in Edinburgh has been the main focus this short course term for the best DASC Top Squad swimmers. Six of them journeyed to the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh to compete in an event attracting several GB Internationals including Freya Anderson, Duncan Scott and Ross Murdoch.Glen Fenby, DASC coach, had prepared them well, with all bar one swimmer (Jack Hurworth who very unfortunately was ill and not able to perform to the best of his ability), recording at least one PB swim over the course of the weekend. All the events were Open, ie not swum in age groups.
Harriet Rogers made the “A” Final in the 50m Butterfly with a time of 28.13 and in the night final she produced another PB to finish 6thwith a time of 27.95. However, on her race finish Harriet managed to bend her finger and required treatment overnight for a possible fracture. In the morning with a badly swollen finger she swam 50m freestyle in a time of 25.84 and again made the “A” final on the evening where she swam 25.55 to claim the bronze medal, a superb achievement in this level of competition. This was the fastest time set by a 15-year-old at the Championships and is a NER record. Her 100m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly times were very close to her PB times and were both the 3rdfastest by 15-year olds on the day.Harriet returned home on Sunday, had a quick trip to A&E to check that her finger was not broken, and then set off the next day to the other end of the country to take part in a 4-day Swim England National Event Camp at Millfield School in Somerset.
Harriet Rogers made the “A” Final in the 50m Butterfly with a time of 28.13 and in the night final she produced another PB to finish 6thwith a time of 27.95.
Will Beukenholdt goes on and on improving across all strokes, setting another 4 PB times during the weekend on 100m Freestyle, 50m and 100m Breaststroke and 100m IM. In the 100m Breaststroke, he proved that his recent brilliant club gala record time in the event had not been a fluke by clocking 1.07.74. He laid to rest his recent NER disqualification in 100m IM to also break through the 60 second barrier in 100m IM in 59.99 sec. Oh the difference that one-hundredth of a second makes!
It was great to see hard-working Molly Mooney produce her first Breaststroke PB times in 2019 at all three distances in one weekend with the 200m time of 2.45.80 knocking over 2 seconds off her previous best.
Alfie Elliott swam two great Butterfly races to produce a PB in each, and finally achieve his long-held ambition of breaking the 60 second barrier on 100m to lower his previous PB by over a second to 59.58, which is a very significant improvement at this level.
Johnson Bache swam in his first-ever 800m Freestyle in a licensed gala on the Friday and was disappointed with his swim as it was well outside his long course time for the event. After some remedial work with Glen on his tumble turns, he returned the next day for the 1500m Freestyle, going through the 800m mark 7 seconds quicker than the day before and going on to produce a great 2 second PB of 17.12.77. He is to be congratulated on a lesson well learned and picking himself up to try again.
‘It was a fantastic weekend and to see DASC swimmers win heats, produce pbs and win medals at this level of competition just makes all the hard work worth it from swimmers to parents and to coaches. Well done all.’
Please see below for a list of accepted and rejected entries. Unfortunately rejections have been made according to the meet conditions; ‘Should entries be over-subscribed, entries will be rejected on the basis of slowest submitted times within each age group – unless the swimmer is a classified Para-Swimmer. City of Sunderland ASC reserves the right to limit entry numbers of each event to manage the session times.‘
