Monster Effort at Bradford
On the weekend of October 29th and 30th Rotherham Metro travelled to the inaugural Bradford Halloween meet and they came away with a monster haul of medals.
Girls Competition
Leading the way in the girl’s open competition was Charlotte Pearson who gained an unrivalled eight gold medals in the 50 and 100 fly, 50, 100, 200 and 400 freestyle, 50 backstroke, 200 breaststroke and a silver in the 200IM. Hot on Charlottes heels was twelve year-old Holly Sotheran who was in scintillating form gaining six gold medals in the 50, 100,200 fly, 100 breaststroke, 200 backstroke and 400 freestyle and following this up with silver in the 200 breaststroke and bronze medals in the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle. In the open section Emily Shone (15) put in some tremendous performances to claim gold’s in the 100 and 200 backstroke, 50 and 100 breaststroke with silver in the 50 freestyle and bronze in the 200IM. In a extremely competitive twelve year-old section Alice Aucott was outstanding claiming double gold in the 100 and 200 freestyle and a trio of silver medals in the 200 IM, 50 freestyle and 50 fly and finally a bronze medal in the 100 fly. Ten year-old Kayley Britten showed her versatility by winning gold in the 50 fly, silver in the 50 backstroke and bronze in the 50 breaststroke, earning double silver and bronze medals was thirteen year-old Abbie Hull with silvers in the 200 backstroke and 400 freestyle and bronze medals in the100 fly and 200 IM. Abbie Ackroyd (11) put in superb performances to claim silver in the 50 breaststroke and bronze medals in the 200 IM and 200 breaststroke with Ceri Thorman also eleven claiming a silver in the 200 backstroke and bronze in the 200 freestyle. Breaststroke specialist Alicia Hartley (13) came away with a silver in the 50 breaststroke and bronze in the 100 breaststroke, Rebecca Britten who had only just turned 14 the week before did exceptionally well to come away with a silver medal in the 50 backstroke. In the open section Kimberley Bush came away with a silver in the 100 freestyle with Jessica Bushby (14) gaining bronze medals in the 50 and 100 fly in her age group.
Boys Competition
Fourteen year-old George Russell put in some truly outstanding performances to bag an impressive six gold medals in the 100 fly, 200 fly, 100, 200 and 400 freestyle and finally the 200 backstroke. Connor Neal (12) claimed a brace of gold’s in the 50 fly and freestyle with silver in the 200 IM followed by an hat-trick of bronze medals in the 100 breaststroke, 100 and 200 freestyle. Not to be outdone thirteen year-old Robert Pearson claimed gold in the 50 backstroke with silvers in the 100 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle and a brace of bronze medals in the 50 freestyle and 200 backstroke. In the open section Aaron Waterhouse won a. massive eight medals which were a brace of silvers in the 50 and 100 fly with six bronze medals in the 200 IM, 200 freestyle, 200 fly, 200 breaststroke, 100 freestyle and 400 freestyle. Benjamin Cliff (12) took silver in the 50 breaststroke with bronze medals in the 50 fly, 50 freestyle and 200 breaststroke, also gaining silver and bronze medal in the open section was Adam Parkes in the 100 and 50 backstroke respectively. Two boys scoring an hat-trick of bronze medals was Josh Hillman (13) in the 200 fly, 100 freestyle and 400 freestyle and Jack Whitehurst (10) in the 50 fly, 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle with Simon Worne claiming a bronze medal in the open 50 breaststroke.
Other swimmers competing were:
Rebecca Bamber, Matthew Sotheran, Josh Whitehurst, James Shiel, Shannon Eades, Nicole Clarke, Bethany Woodcock, Kelsey Longden, Thomas Gibbons and Samuel Pearson.