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Killerwhales swimmers battled against the best that Essex has to offer in the latest round of the 2005 Essex County Championships held on Sat/Sun 26^th / 27^th February at Blackshots Leisure Centre, Grays.

Coming out on top was young Jodie Momodu who pitted her breaststroke skills against other girls in the 100m and 200m races. A super quick heat saw her qualify fastest for the final along with team mate Molly Scott. In the final both girls showed well from the start, Jodie maintained her form throughout to come home first leaving her rivals to fight out the other places. Molly tried her hardest over the four lengths and finished in a fine 5^th place. In the 200m event, a heat declared winner,  Jodie again dominated the race by leading from the start and then slowly moving further away from her rivals, she come home first to the ecstatic cheers of her mother and the other Killerwhales supporters. Molly managed a very creditable 8^th in the same event. Jodie’s other performance over the weekend was the 400m Individual Medley where she claimed a bronze medal.

Kirsty Forbes swam extremely well over her four races in the girls 15 yrs age group events taking 3 silver medals and a bronze in the 100m & 200m backstroke, 400m IM and 200m IM respectively.

Girls vice-captain Laura Andrews took a fine bronze medal in the 16+yrs 200m butterfly where her team mate Julia Braybrooke managed to claim 6^th place. Laura also claimed a 5^th and 4^th place in the respective 200m and 400m Individual Medley races. Younger sister Henny managed two fine medal finishes despite not training at all due to flu, a flat 100m heat saw her scrape through into the 100m breaststroke final when she really performed pushing the winner all the way to claim silver. She later claimed bronze in the 200m race.