With only 4 lanes rather than 5 we had to remove the warm up and finish later, and Helen had to rearrange the whole programme! She did this with out a fuss! Hurdle one beaten!

 

Hurdle 2 arrived in the form of a broken battery, so the starting system, Dolphin Timing and strobe were all compromised. Again; no fuss, Helen and our Officials team went to plan B and the gala went smoothly! Extra thanks to Club Captain Rosie and (former Club Captain) Isabelle for collecting all the manual times even though they were racing

 

The swimmers kicked off with a 50 Fly for our bronze group - where our youngest swimmers swam their most challenging event. Of course there were some DQs but EVERYBODY completed their race which is AWESOME.

 

Our new House T-shirts were superb, a big thank you to @the.kitstop and Martin for sorting!

 

Group Moves from the last Pointscore:

Moves from bronze to silver : Amelia (Paddles) and Noah (Fins)

Moved from silver to gold : Chloe (pullbuoy) Bella (Kickboard) Mikaela (Paddles)

 

Awards from the last Pointscore:

Bronze Winner - Orlaith M / Ted M

Silver Winner - Mikaela (overall winner) / Sam H

Gold Winner - Athena / Ian M (overall winner)

 

Penelope H won the Swimmers Draw

 

2026 Club Records :

Etta : 400 IM / 400 Free / 800 Free Age 9-10

Jay : 400 IM Age 9-10

Wendy : 50 Back / 100 Fly AGE 17/o

Emily : 50 Free /400 IM Age 17/o

Darcy : 800 Free Age 17/o

 

A big thank you to Helen for organising and her amazing group of Officials plus Ian and Gary on results. Thanks to the Coaches (always) and lifeguards (Michael, Simon and Max) and to the Team Managers - John, Matt and Martin who were awesome; plus thank you to Mollie for doing all the main marshalling, plus Eva at the racing end with the swimmers.

 

Most importantly, thank you to our amazing 108 swimmers who took part; it was a pleasure to watch you swim, the future for Altrincham SC is bright