Chairman
Thursday, February 7th, 2008The below is a link to Club Chairman Peter Seward’s report that he gave out at the Club Presentation Night in January 2008.
Archive for February, 2008
Winter
Thursday, February 7th, 2008After the first two rounds of this year’s winter league Penguins are lying in a disappointing 13th Place out of the 23 teams.
A tough opening gala held at Salisbury in December saw a severely depleted squad (30 compared to the 44 originally selected) produce a fighting display to finish 5th in the gala but 13th overall in the league. The younger swimmers put in some excellent performances and, with gaps in the older age groups, many swimmers were asked to do extra swims and they responded magnificently.
The second round was recently held in Trowbridge and a stronger squad turned out to give a good account of itself, finishing 4th on the night but 11th overall in the league. Again, strong swims from the younger age group teams were a feature of the Penguin’s performance but a better showing than in the first round gala was also made by the older teams. A major talking point was the unfortunate disqualification of a breaststroke team!
The third round, to be held at Salisbury again, is coming up on Saturday, 9th Feb. We want an excellent turn out of swimmers so that we can repeat or better the performance of the last round in order to force ourselves into the ‘Division2’ Final on 15th March. Last year we came 3rd in this final and 8th overall, losing out by just one point on 2nd and 7th place, respectively. Make sure Mike Wootton knows about your availability if selected to swim.
Peter Seward
Club Chairman
Wiltshire
Monday, February 4th, 2008Wiltshire Sprints
On Sunday the 3rd February Marlborough Penguins took 24 swimmers to the Wiltshire Sprints at Milton Road in Swindon
Medals were won by
Abbie Moss - Gold in Butterfly, Silver in Freestyle & Bronze in Backstroke
Lindsay Reid - Gold in Butterfly
Nicky Sexton – Gold in Freestyle
Charlie Cox – Gold in Freestyle
Juliette Casini – Bronze in Freestyle
Nicky Sexton came 5th in the final of the Womens Open 36.67yds Freestyle.
Abbie Moss came 3rd in the Womens Open 36.67yds Butterfly Junior Championship.
This year we also entered a team in the Mixed Junior 8 x 1L Medley.
Well done to all !!
