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JOANNA AND DAVID ARE TOP WHALES AT PB PROGRESS MEET
KWSC hold their own club meet.

After the previous weeks disappointment at Southampton when Fareham Nomads weekend gala was cancelled after just three races the Killerwhales decided to give their swimmers and end of season gala like no other.  The hastily arranged but extremely successful event took place over three hours starting at 6 am on Saturday morning.  The event format was 200m medley, 100m back, breast, free and fly followed by 200m freestyle and then a cannon relay involving all 43 swimmers in 3 teams (lucky Christina Stenson having to swim 2 lengths). Heat winners were rewarded with a lucky dip into the sweet bag, race winners were announced after calculating who had improved on their previous best time by the widest margin or were closest to their time. A Top Girl and Top Boy were calculated by adding all improvement times to give a cumulative time total.

The Top Girl award and pink winners sash went to Joanna Johnstone who would have won a Top Smile award if there had been one. Joanna swam extremely well in all of her races improving her previous 200m medley and freestyle times by over 20 seconds. She manage to take first place in 5 out of the 6 races in the 13 years age group, Amy Hime swam a great 100m breaststroke to deny Joanna a clean sweep.

The Top Boy award and blue winners sash went to David Haynes in the 16 years + section who managed to improve 4 of the six events by the biggest margin, a massive 19 seconds in the 100m breaststroke helped David’s overall total. Taking the 100m fly and free was Ben Clifford-Stephenson who also claimed bragging rights by winning the 100m freestyle race.

In the boys 11 and under events honours were shared between Toby Andrews and Lewis Clifford-Stephenson, Toby took the 200m medley and freestyle plus the 100m breaststroke, Lewis took the 100m fly, free and backstroke awards.

The boys 12 years awards were shared between Joe Sissons and Lee Parker. Lee took four of the awards finishing with best pb improvement in the 200m medley and 200m freestyle, 100m fly and freestyle. Young Joe took the 100m breaststroke and backstroke awards.

Johnny Congdon and Andrew Dawkins shared the awards for the boys 13 year section with Andrew 100m & 200m free and 100m breaststroke and backstroke. Johnny won the 200m medley, 100m butterfly awards.

James Croxon and Dean Smith equally shared the honours for the 14 year boys, James taking the 200m medley & freestyle plus the 100m fly, Dean taking the 100m back, breast and freestyle awards.

Adam Conway was unlucky not to get top boy for his efforts in the 15 year boys section having taken the award for all six of his events.

Sisters Cassie and Georgia Beadel shared the honours for the girls 11 years and under section. Younger sister Cassie improved on her 100m free and backstroke, the latter by over 18 seconds. Georgia took the award for 100m breast and butterfly, and also the 200m free & medley, her medley swim improved on her time set only 3 days prior by over 19 seconds.

Megan Davis took five awards in the girls 12 year age group, both her 200m medley and 200m freestyle were by over 21 and 17 seconds respectively, her previous best times had only been recorded on the preceding Wednesday. She also took the award for 100m breast, fly and freestyle. Georgia Shaw took the award for best time in the 100m backstroke.

Emily Endacott and Rachel Green shared the awards for the girls 14 year age group, Emily took the award for the 100m freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke, the latter two events improved her previous times by over 10 seconds. Rachel took the 100m fly and 200m medley and freestyle awards improving on her previous best for the latter two events by over 8 and 10 seconds respectively.

In the girls 15 years Ellena Wheatley and Lauren Andrews both set the standards, Lauren took the award for the 100m backstroke and butterfly events. Ellena took the medals for the 200m medley and the 100m & 200m freestyle.

The girls 16+ events were shared equally between Laura Andrews, Julia Braybrooke and Katie Hegmann. Laura took the 100m breaststroke award; Katie took the 100m back and freestyle, whilst Julia took the 200m medley, 200m free and 100m butterfly awards.

The final event was the Cannon Relay which involved all swimmers. A tight race during the early ‘baton’ changes saw the white team open a two metre gap, each time the blue team threatened to close the gap the whites put in a burst to regain their lead.

After the racing was over it left the officials to calculate the winners, every competing swimmer received a certificate showing the times they swam for each race and a handful of sweets. The winners for each event in each age group all received a sparkling gold medal etched with the event details superbly set off with a green ribbon. Top Boy and Top Girl were both presented with their winners sash’s declaring TOP BOY or TOP GIRL 2005.