Borough of Barnsley Open Meet 07/07/2013

On Sunday the 7th of July a small group of Kimberley Swimming Club swimmers travelled to Sheffield’s Pond Forge, to compete in the Borough of Barnsley 6th Long Course Open Meet.

Ted Goonan-Dunne 9yrs, Jessica Shephard 9yrs, Erin Dixon 9yrs, Abbey Close 10yrs, Emily Bettridge 10yrs, Eve McGrenaghan 10yrs, Jimi Knowles 10yrs, Joseph Kingsland 10yrs, Ciaran Smith 10yrs, Katie Walker 10yrs, Florence Orme 11yrs, Caitlin Smith 11yrs, Katie Horner 12yrs, Jade Calder 13yrs, Jade Duffy 14yrs, Gemma Calder 14yrs & Ben Barsby 17yrs all competed in a number of events.

As all the events had upper cut off times set for each age group, a number of swimmers, gained exceptional personal bests and exceeded the upper cut off times to gain speeding tickets, a certificate in recognition of their achievement.

Speeding tickets went to –
Ted Goonan-Dunn – 50m back, 200m IM, 50m free & 50m breast, Jimi Knowles – 50m Back & 50m free, Erin Dixon – 50m back & 200m IM, Jessica Shephard – 50m back, Katie Walker - 50m Back, Joseph Kingsland - 100m Breast and Ben Barsby 100m back.

In addition to the speeding tickets, lots of personal bests were achieved and trophies were won by the following swimmers –

Abbey Close – 2nd 50m back
Jimi Knowles – 1st 50m fly & 3rd 100m free
Ted Goonan-Dunne – 1st 50m fly & 1st 50m breast
Jade Calder – 2nd 50m fly & 2nd 50m free
Gemma Calder – 2nd 50m fly
Joseph Kingsland – 2nd 100m free & 2nd 200m IM
Jessica Shephard – 3rd 200m IM
Ben Barsby – 1st 50m breast

  Jimi with his trophies and his speeding tickets.  Whooosh!!


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