Scottish East District Age Group Championships – Round 3

The third and final round of the Scottish East District Age Group Championships was held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh, on 16/17 March 2024.

 

There were five events in all six age groups, both male and female, namely 100m in all four individual strokes, plus a 200m individual medley.

 

Fins had 12 swimmers, who qualified for the event, in action over the two days with a good degree of success, winning two best girl awards, two championship titles, plus two silver and three bronze medals and a further eleven finalists, or equivalent (the individual medley was heat declared winner). The swimmers contested 44 swims of which 43 produced a long course PB.

 

Top Fins’ swimmer was Lilian Blair, 11/12 girls, winning two best girls awards, one was for the best 11/12 girls over all three rounds of the championships and the other was for the highest points scored at the weekend. Lilian also won the district backstroke title in her age group, in what was a Fins one and two, in a time of 1 minute 21.24 seconds, recording a PB of 6.83 seconds.

 

Lilian also won two silver medals in the freestyle and butterfly; and two bronze medals in the breaststroke and individual medley.

 

The other district title was won by Adam Selbie, 14 years boys, again in the backstroke with a time of 1 minute 7.94 seconds, recording a 6.08 second PB. Adam also finished 4^th in the individual medley, and 5^th in the butterfly, breaststroke, and freestyle.

 

The remaining medal, a silver, was won by Millie Whytock, 11/12 girls, again in the backstroke finishing just 1.49 seconds behind Lilian. This was a fantastic swim by Millie as she is in the younger half of the two year age group. Millie had two other swims finishing 10^th in the freestyle and 13^th in the butterfly.

 

The other swimmers to make it to the finals were:

Ethan Pate, 13 boys, who finished 4^th in both the individual medley and butterfly, 6^th in the freestyle, 8^th in the backstroke, and finished 13^th in the breaststroke.

Irys Blair, 14 girls, who was 5^th in the backstroke. Irys’ other non-final swims were 12^th – individual medley, 17^th – freestyle, 20^th – butterfly, and 25^th – breaststroke.

Caleb Gray, 13 boys, 6^th individual medley, and his other swims were 9^th in both the backstroke and butterfly, 12^th – freestyle, and 14^th – breaststroke.

Cole Gray, 11/12 boys, 8^th in the backstroke. His other swims were 9^th – individual medley, 12^th – freestyle, 13^th – butterfly, and 14^th – breaststroke.

 

The results by the remaining five swimmers were:

Steven Pate, 17/O boys, 12^th – breaststroke; 30^th – freestyle

Finnley McDonald, 15 boys, 16^th in both the freestyle and butterfly; 17^th – breaststroke; 19^th – individual medley; and 24^th – backstroke.

Charlotte Wardlaw, 16 girls, 17^th – breaststroke

Eva Watson, 13 girls, 18^th – individual medley; and 20^th – freestyle.

Grace Wilson, 17/O girls, 34^th – freestyle.

 

Club Information

As this was a long course event, there were several movements in the long course top 50 (eventually) ranking, plus several entries. Where a swimmer has not been mentioned it means that there was no change to their position, event though they achieved a PB.

 

The highest ranked movement came from Adam in the backstroke where a 6.08 seconds PB saw him move from 14^th to 5^th. Adam also moved from 21^st to 13^th in the freestyle, and from 16^th to 14^th in the individual medley.

 

Irys was the next highest moving from 16^th to 11^th, also in the backstroke. Irys also moved from 28^th to 21^st in the breaststroke, and 24^th to 23^rd in the butterfly.

 

Steven moved from 19^th to 12^th in the freestyle.

 

Finnley moved from 16^th to 14^th in the breaststroke, from 17^th to 16^th in the butterfly; and from 19^th to 17^th in the freestyle. He also achieved two entries  and they were 17^th in the backstroke; which was the highest new entry, and 18^th in the individual medley.

 

Ethan moved from 22^nd to 18^th in the breaststroke; and from 25^th to 23^rd in the freestyle.

 

Caleb moved from 23^rd to 19^th in the breaststroke.

 

Charlotte moved from 23^rd to 20^th in the breaststroke

 

Lilian moved from 33^rd to 24^th in the backstroke; 30^th to 26^th in the butterfly; 30^th to 27^th in the breaststroke; 36^th to 29^th in the freestyle; and entered in 30^th place in the individual medley.

 

Eva moved from 29^th to 28^th in the butterfly; 37^th to 32^nd in the freestyle; and entered at 31^st in the individual medley.

 

Two swimmers 8 new entries.

Cole entered the butterfly in 20^th place; the individual medley in 22^nd; both the breaststroke and backstroke in 23^rd; and the freestyle in 27^th.

 

Millie entered the backstroke in 27^th; the butterfly in 28^th; and the freestyle in 38^th.

 

Great performance by all swimmers.

 

 

 

Thank you to Yvonne Pate for supplying the photos.

Ken Whyte,

Club Press Officer