Coaches Report – County Championships 2011

The final weekend of the Worcester county championships produced more fine swims from members of Ledbury & District swimming club.

In the mens 200m butterfly silver medals and personal bests for Tom Stokes (17/over) and Bradley Willson (14yrs) followed by a gold medal for Peter Crocombe in the final of the 13yrs 100m Breaststroke.

On the girls side the 100m Breaststroke proved to be a good event with Hannah Casewell (bronze), Dani Fitzgerald and Leah Heath all qualifying for the 14 years final, as did Lucy Stokes (silver 15/16 years).

Ledbury swimmers also secured a 1-2-3 in the 10 years 400m Freestyle with Lucas Dewe taking gold and Sam Hall and Elliot Heath close behind. Lucas and Elliot also qualified for the regional championships with these times.

Charlotte Hall continued her fine form through the championships with an impressive personal best swim to take silver in the 9yrs 200m backstroke. More gold medals were to be won later in the day going to Sam Hall (200m IM – 10yrs) and Peter Crocombe (100m FS – 13yrs).

The final medal tally for the club was 10 gold, 33 silver and 29 bronze medals. Seven swimmers also achieved the Midlands regional qualifying times on several events: Tom Stokes, Lucy Stokes, Calypso Harvey, Alex Middleton, Sam Hall, Lucas Dewe and Elliot Heath.

Head coach Chris Treanor had this to say of the performances: “Overall I am pleased with how we have done. The swimmers have shown the skills that we have been developing in training. We have also learned some valuable lessons about racing and looking forward to next year the challenge is how we are going to improve on this result. If we can improve everything by 2 or 3 percent then I can see the club breaking into the top five in the county”.

Ledbury Swimming Club is always looking out for new members to join the talented group of athletes. Anyone who would like more information should check out the club website at www.ladasc.com. The club caters for swimmers who can perform 3 strokes over 25m or more, and also trains swimmers at regional and national level.