Friendly Gala at Heywood against Newent
Cinderford hosted a 50m sprint gala against Newent at Heywood on Saturday giving some of the less experienced swimmers a chance to compete in a friendly environment in which they shone achieving an abundance of personal best times. Newent brought some of Gloucester City swimmers with them to make up their team and to give them the chance to swim in a local derby. With just the 2 teams competing, Cinderford were able to give many of their swimmers the opportunity to swim and make it an exciting gala with some very close finishes.
The older swimmers put on a great display of speed, technical ability and experience and encouraged all the swimmers to achieve. The younger swimmers had a great competition; notably Ben Main who had PB’s in all his races with 12, 9 and 5 seconds off his backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle times and Evan Jones who took 9 and 4 seconds off his backstroke and freestyle and had a new time in his butterfly. His teammate Tyler Adam made an improvement of a fantastic 13 seconds off his breaststroke and came away with a new time in his butterfly.
Other swimmers to make vast improvements were Craig Collett taking 10 and 8 seconds off his freestyle and breaststroke times; Maddie Worgan taking 8 seconds off both her backstroke and butterfly; Chloe Phillips with a 11 second PB in her breaststroke; Siobhan Johnson taking 8 and 6 seconds off her backstroke and breaststroke times and Chloe Kibble taking 8 seconds off her backstroke time.
Luke Nash took 6 and 5 seconds off his backstroke and breaststroke; Rebecca Howard and Luke Mills both took 4 seconds off their freestyle and set a new time in the butterfly; Andrew Cole took 6 seconds off his butterfly: Amy Martin and Sam Jenkins improved their butterfly times by over 4 seconds; Olivia Skipsey had a PB in her freestyle of 4 seconds. Nya Levy, Becky Embling and Jess Tingle set a new time in their butterfly with Nya also taking 4 seconds off her breaststroke.