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Congratulations to all swimmers who competed at the East Region Youth Chmapionships. Mid Beds won 10 medals resulting in a 7th place in the medal table. Well done to all who competed in the many finals performances that we had. Also mention to Rachel Hollington for qualifying for her 2nd National Championships in the 100m Backstroke.
Click Here for Results.
MBSS Coaching Team
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The Annual general Meeting of the Mid Beds Swim Squad will be held at Saxon Pool at 7pm on Thursday 19th June. All nominations for committee and resolutions need to be submitted by 20th May 2008.
Click Here for Notice;
Click Here for Nomination Form.
Clare Ingledew, Secretary
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As Sheffield plays host to the DSE Long Course which is hosting the second stage of the Paralympic Trials for Beijing, Sam Bradley (S7/SM7/SB6)has taken the event by storm. Setting a 3 second personal best in the 400m Freestyle he has qualified for the B final at this International event. He secured another B final Placing in the 100m Breaststroke, and set a massive 4 second personal best in the 50m Butterfly to secure a place in the A finals. Mid Beds would like to wish Sam all the best for the finals and the rest of his events this weekend.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Special congratulations to Aydin Berki who qualified for his first National Championships. Aydin qualified in the 800m Freestyle with a massive long course personal best. CAleb Hughes secured another national time for his 100m freestyle as did Emily McConnell in the 100m Breaststroke. Harriet Brettle also secured her first Senior National Time in the 400m Freestyle in winning the event outright. Aydin takes the number of Mid Beds Swim Squad national qualifiers to eleven for the season 2007-2008.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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The four Mid Beds swimmers who qualified for the British Championships swam themselves proud as they set some amazing personal bests at the Olympic Trials. Adam Ingledew (15) set a Bedfordshire and East Region Record on his way to a best time in the 50m Freestyle, Yasmin Bithrey made it three pb's out of three in her events and Charlotte Beck improved on her ranking in the 100m Backstroke. Sam Bradley set a number of personal bests in his first set of Paralympic Trials. Well Done from all at Mid Beds.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Special congratulations to Alice Marchant who qualified for her first National Championships. Alice was competing at the City of Sheffield Premier Meet (Long Course) on Friday 21st March and swam an awesome 18:15.47 in the 1500m freestyle setting several personal bests in the splits. Alice takes the number of Mid Beds Swim Squad national qualifiers to ten for the season 2007-2008.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Again congratulations to all Mid Beds swimmers competing for their feeder clubs at the Bedfordshire County Championships. Special mentions to Tom Kelly for his first regional time of the season, to Emily McConnell for gaining her first national qualifying time in the 200m Breaststroke and to Adam Ingledew for his 400m Freestyle National Qualifying time.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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There will be the following training
amendments over the Easter holiday. Friday 21st March No Training; Saturday 22nd March Training as normal; Sunday 23rd March No Training; Monday 24th March 10.15-11.45am Performance A & Performance B; 11.45-1.15pm Development A & Development B
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Congratulations to all Mid Beds swimmers who competed competed for their feeder clubs at the Bedfordshire County Championships. Special mentions to Jack Catterall and Amber Swales for gaining their first ever Regional Qualifying times and to Shauna Lee for setting the fastest time by a 12 year old in the 100m Freestyle this season, and gaining her national qualifying time too.
Click Here to view the results on the Bedfordshire County ASA website.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Sam set the Junior Nationals alight with his haul of 2 Gold, 4 Silver & 3 Bronze medals at the Junior Disability Sports Events Nationals in Sheffield. Sam set Pbs in all but one event.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Congratulations to all Mid Beds swimmers who competed competed for their feeder clubs at the Bedfordshire County Championships. They collected 7 Golds, 5 Silvers & 7 Bronzes, which was 19 out of a possible 26 haul of medals. Special mentions to three swimmers who set oustanding records. Sam Bradley (SM7) set an 800 and 1500 IPC European Record as well as British records in the same disciplines; Harriet Brettle won the event outright by 0.05 from 12 year old Caleb Hughes. Harriet set new Senior Bedfordshire County Records in the 800 & 1500, gaining her 400m Freestyle National Qualifying time along the way; and Caleb's 800m Freestyle split was the fastest 800m ever recorded by a twelve year old by some 5 seconds.
Click Here to download the results.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Congratulations to all Mid Beds swimmers who competed at the City of Cambridge Open Meet. Special congratulations to Sam Bradley who broke the British Record (awaiting ratification) in the 400 IM in the SM7 category. Also special congratulations to the following swimmers who collected Gold medals at the meet: Jessica Caughtry, Emily Bradbury, Brandon Nabarro, Caleb Hughes, Katie Tavener, Yasmin Bithrey, Charlotte Blacksley, Adam Ingledew, Chris Bradbury, Harriet Brettle & Hannah Raine.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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There are 3 training alterations on week beginning the 4th February as Vix is on holiday. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday AM at Saxon will be from 0600-0730 as Tricia is covering.
Wednesday AM is unaffected and will be from 0545-0745 as usual.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Please find below the membership forms for 2008. Parents - you are reminded that you cannot attend or vote at the MBSS AGM if you are not an Associate member. Associate membership is £5.00. Please can you complete new forms even if you have only recently joined MBSS. All forms, together with your payment in respect of Associate membership, should be returned to me no later than Thursday 31st January 2008. Click on the following forms to download them: Swimmer Membership Form, Associate Membership Form, 2008 Medical Form, 2008 Swimmer Code of Conduct, 2008 Parents Code of Conduct.
Clare Ingledew, Secretary
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Congratulations to Sam Bradley who has been selected to represent Great Britain at the Danish Open from 5-10 March.
Good Luck from All at Mid Beds
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Congratulations to Harriet Brettle who has been selected for the East Region Triathlon Academy.
Congratulations from the Coaching Team
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Click Here to read the UPDATED 2008 Open Meet Calendar and Training Cancellations document.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Many of you have been asking for electronic versions of the log sheets. Click Here for the new log sheet that Ash has made. Click Here for the detailed weekly log sheet.
Vix & Ash
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A big congratulations also to all swimmers who competed at the East Region LC Championships at Norwich over the weekend. All swam well under tough training after only returning from a heavy long course training camp in Eger, Hungary. Mentions must go to Harriet Brettle who collected 4 medals (Silver Senior 400m Freestyle, Silver Junior 200m Freestyle, Silver Junior 100m Freestyle & Bronze Junior 100m Backstroke), Adam Ingledew who broke the 50m Freestyle Bedfordshire Junior County Record and collected 4 medals (Silver Junior 100m Freestyle, Silver Junior 50m Freestyle, Bronze Junior 50m Butterfly & Bronze Junior 50m Backstroke) and also to Chris Bradbury who collected his first regional medal (Bronze Junior 50m Freestyle).
Congratulations from the Coaching Team
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A big congratulations to Sam Bradley who had a very successful DSE Open SC Championships. Sam collected 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals and attained 8 personal bests out of 9 swims.
Congratulations from the Coaching Team
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A big congratulations also to all swimmers who competed at the East Region LC Championships at Norwich over the weekend. All swam well under tough training after only returning from a heavy long course training camp in Eger, Hungary. Mentions must go to Harriet Brettle who collected 4 medals (Silver Senior 400m Freestyle, Silver Junior 200m Freestyle, Silver Junior 100m Freestyle & Bronze Junior 100m Backstroke), Adam Ingledew who broke the 50m Freestyle Bedfordshire Junior County Record and collected 4 medals (Silver Junior 100m Freestyle, Silver Junior 50m Freestyle, Bronze Junior 50m Butterfly & Bronze Junior 50m Backstroke) and also to Chris Bradbury who collected his first regional medal (Bronze Junior 50m Freestyle).
Congratulations from the Coaching Team
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Land Training on Tuesday 6th November is cancelled. Swimmers may bring their mats onto poolside and complete their blood flow and stretching routines.
Vix Metcalf, Head Coach
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Head Coach, Vix Metcalf, has been selected for a specialist education programme 'Women in High Performance Sport' for female coaches who work in a performance environment. The ASA were invited by Sport Coach UK as the first individual sport to run a 3 year education programme, which consists of 4 specialised CPD seminars per year as well as individual mentoring.
Well done from the Committee
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All swimmers are required to send off the British Swimming Medical Declaration Form to the ASA once a season. This is a requirement of the ASA whether you have regular medication OR NOT. You are expected to declare on the form if you do not take regular medication. Vicky Brettle, Welfare Officer
Click Here for the form
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Mid Beds are pleased to announce the BWSC Open Meet in association with Mid Beds for the 26th & 27th January 2008
Click Here for the Documents: Rules; Schedule; Entry Form; Club Summary Form; Coaches Pass & Officals Availability Form
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The final meeting for the Hungary Camp will be on Saturday 13th October 2007. 0730 = Briefing for Parent Helpers; 0830 = Final Information for Parents; & 0930 ALL Swimmers. All swimmers attending the camp are expected to attend without exception.
Clare Ingledew, Secretary
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The photos that were taken at the Season Squad Meetings are available to purchase. Please see Sonia Stokes to order or you can order them from the website link below.
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Mid Beds Swim Squad are delighted to announce that Head Coach, Vix Metcalf, has been selected as a Development Coach for the English National National Event Camps (Level 3) for the 2007/2008 Season. In addition, both she and Ash Morris, MBSS Assistant Coach, have been selected as Development Coaches for the English Talent Development Level 1 Regional Camps for the 2007/2008 Season. These selections follow Mid Beds Swim Squad's most successful season ever and are well deserved. The Committee, Swimmers & Parents would like to offer their congratulations to both Vix & Ash.
Clare Ingledew, Secretary
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All squad training is cancelled on Thursday 4th October due the MBSS fundraising evening at Henlow Dog Track, Bedfordshire.
Tickets are available for this evening from Clare Ingledew or Vicky Brettle
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Please read the 2006-2007 Season Review, the fourth edition of the newsletter as well as the recent updates from the treasurer.
Click Here for the Season Review,
Click Here for the Fourth Newsletter
Click Here for the Treasurers Update.
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The Mid Beds Swim Squad has been awarded Swim 21 at the Competitive Development level. The committee would like to thank Swim 21 Co-ordinator Sue Mason as well as coaches Vix Metcalf & Ash Morris for their tireless work towards this achievement.
Well done from the Committee.
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Another big congratulations to Harriet Brettle & Adam Ingledew who have been selected onto the Level 2 East Region camps (for 14 & 15 years olds). They were picked following their performances at the 2007 Regional and Nationals Championships.
Congratulations from the Mid Beds Coaching Team
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Please find below the updated Provisional Competitions. All parents and swimmers please print off the updated schedule.
Click Here to view the document.
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A big congratulations to Alex Raine, Charlotte Beck & Yasmin Bithrey who have been selected onto the Level 1 East Region camps. The swimmers were picked following their performances at the 2007 Regional and National Championships. The clinics will provide opportunities to undertake Unit 1 of the British Swimming athlete education program, and will be screened by a physiotherapist on their core strength and stability exercises.
Well done from the MBSS Coaching Team.
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Mid Beds had it's most successful Nationals to date by finishing as the 9th placed boy's club in the country at the National Age Group Championships. Final performances from Caleb Hughes, Yasmin Bithrey and the MBSS 400 freestyle relay team of Chris Bradbury, Adam Ingledew, Christian Stokes & Alex Raine combined for us to finish as the 20th placed club in the National Age Groups. Caleb Hughes collected 2 gold, and 4 silver medals during his time at Sheffield, proving his talent potential. He has been identified by British Swimming as an athlete with incredible talent. Charlotte Beck, Rachel Hollington, Shauna Lee and Charlotte Blacksley all set personal bests in their events. Adam Ingledew, Alex Raine & Chris Bradbury all performed well in a tough meet. At the National Youth Championships Harriet Brettle made the final of the 100m freestyle for the first time, after setting a new personal best of 59.62, making her the first MBSS female swimmer to break the minute long course. Sam Bradley & Lauren Steadman swam some outstanding personal best times and made numerous finals, all making sure they improved on heats to finals times. Both swimmers travel to Slovenia as part of the British Disability Swimming Development Program during August. Please visit www.britishswimming.org for results
Well done from the MBSS Coaching Team
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As you may all be aware I am leaving Mid Beds to pursue a new career as a PE teacher and would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the Mid Beds swimmers and their parents. The hard work and level of commitment shown by all swimmers (and parents!) has been exceptional and has definately made my time with the squad very enjoyable. The squad and its swimmers has gone from strength to strength and I would like to wish you all success for the future. Keep working hard and the rewards will come. Hopefully I may see some of you in the 2012 Olympics!
Good Luck Katie
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Well done to all who swam at this meet. Some good times posted.
Click Here for the Results
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The coach's and committee members would like to wish all those competiting at nationals, good luck in the races!
Click Here for the link to the results
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The summer timetable is now available, please see the link below for further information
Click Here for the Timetable
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Well done to all who competed at Norwich. Overall we were 3rd in the medal table, a massive improvement on last year.
Click Here for the Info from the coach's
Click Here for the Results
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Some great swims at the hatfield open meet back in may! Special mention to Rachel Hollington who achieved her first national time.
Click Here for the Results
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Well done to all who competed at Norwich! We are currently 3rd in medal table for the first weekend. let's change some of the reserve placings into final placings, for the weekend coming. Everyone swam well-special mention to all the relay teams for some outstanding result!
Click Here for the Results
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Well done to all who competed at Sheffield at the no frills open meet. Some amazing swims, well done!
Click Here for the Results
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There will be no training the weekend of the 2nd/3rd June and 9th/10th June. This includes both Saturdays session at Saxon Pool, and Sundays at Flitwick. This is because all the coaches are at East's in Norwich, and no one is available to cover!
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Good Luck to everyone competing this weekend at the Regional BagCat Championships. The coaching team have put together some information for all, please see click the link below!
Click Here for the Newsletter
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This year has been a recording breaking year for Mid Beds Swim Squad, with overall more swimmers achieving regional and nationals times then ever before!
Click Here for the spreadsheet
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Training on Monday 28th May is 4pm till 6pm at Saxon. It is open to all of Yellow and Black Squad.
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Please see below for next seasons competitions. Details for the CMK November meet will be available after BagCat regional championships in June.
Click Here for the spreadsheet
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Well done to all who competed at the east region youth championships, some great swims! Overall 4 Beds County LC records, 5 golds, 4 silvers and 4 bronze medals. 4th in medal table as well!!!!!
Click Here for the results
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The Mid Beds Swim Squad AGM has been called for 21st June 2007 at 7pm, at Saxon Pool
Click Here for a Nomination Form
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A new newsletter is available, please click on the link below to go to the newsletter page.
Click Here to go to the Newsletters
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Good Luck to everyone competing this weekend at the Regional Youth Championships. Vix and Ash have put together some information for all, please see click the link below!
Click Here to view the document
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Training is now available on Saturday morning at the usual time of 7.30am till 9.30am. Training is on as usual on Sunday morning at Flitwick
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There is now a videos page on the website. Alex Popov a great freestyle swimmer and all round performer Michael Phelps are the videos currently on there
Click Here to go to the Videos Page
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Some great swims this weekend at the City of Derby open meet. Special mention to Helen Davey for achieving her first regional qualifying time! Well Done do everyone else who also competed!
Click Here for the results
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Can everyone who has qualified for the East Region BagCat Championships please have there forms in by 1st May, please hand them to the coach's! If you haven't received yours yet, please email Vix Here .
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Some great swims at Peterborough in the weekend just gone. The meet was dominated by Mid Beds swimmers and we ended up taking home best club. Well done to all 19 Mid Beds swimmers who competed over the weekend.
Click Here for the Results
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Well done to all. Agonisingly close for Alice Marchant who was 0.92 off her 1500m free national time and to Harriet Brettle who was 0.4 off her 100m back national time. In all 71 personal bests, 70 East Region Qualifying times and 17 national qualifying times.
Click Here for the Radford Results Click Here For the Premier Meet Results
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This Saturdays (21st) session is now back on, and is open to all squads! But the session on Sunday 22nd at Flitwick remains cancelled.
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Some great swims last friday at the Norwich Long Course Meet, held at UEA Norwich! Kimberly Stokes, Alice Marchant, Alex Raine and Christian Stokes all competed in the 800m and 1500 respectively! Alex Raine successfully achieving his national time! Well Done Alex!
Click Here for the Results
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Well Done to all those who competed at the weekend at Nuneaton! some amazing swims and some very very unlucky ones! Special mention to Charlotte Harrison who added 3 more regional qualifying times to her tally! Overall 10 East Region Qualifying times and 40 PB's!
Click Here for the Results1
Well Done to all Mid Beds Huntingdon swimmers who recently competed at the Cambridgeshire Counties. Tamara Richards, Chelsea Prouten, Lianne Griffiths, Charlotte Harrison, Chloe Gibson, Kristen Chadband and Harriet Lee. Special mention to Kristen and Charlotte for achieving there first ever East Region Times!
Awaiting the Results
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Click Here for Beds ASA link to results. Mid Beds results Click Here.
- Land Training cancelled on Friday 30th March
- Saturday 31st March Saxon 0730-0930
- Sunday 1st April Flitwick 0700-0900
- Good Friday 6th April 1600-1800 Black Squad
- Easter Monday 9th April 1600-1800 Black & Yellow Squads
- Easter Monday No Morning Training
- Saturday 14th April 0730-0930
- Sunday 15th April 0700-0900
- Monday 7th May all training
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New
Membership Forms
The Committee has published new membership forms for Squad. All forms to be returned to Clare Ingledew by 31st March. Please click on the following links to access them
covering letter | swimming membership letter |medical form | associate membership form | parents code of conduct
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Please look out for the meets for the rest of the season. A spreadsheet will be sent out by the coaches containing a list of swimmers that they would like to enter as well as the events
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East Youth May 5, 6 & 7 Entries to Vix by 2nd April (meet info sent out)
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Hatfield Open May 19 & 20 Entries to Ash by 11th April (this will be sent out by email after the counties)
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No Frills May 26 & 27 Entries to Vix by 9th April (this will be sent out by email after the counties)
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Northampton July 14 & 15 Meet info out soon
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Mid Beds swimmer swam outstandingly at the first session of the Beds Counties. Collecting 17 medals and claiming the top spot 9 times, they also claimed 23 East Region 1500m Freestyle qualifying times and 18 800m Freestyle qualifying times in the process. Special mentions to Sophie Thrussell and Josh Farrell who claimed their first Regional qualifying times of the season. Also a big congratulations to Harriet Brettle who claimed her 400m Freestyle National Qualifying time during the 1500, whilst also setting 4 new Bedfordshire County Records in the Junior 800m & 1500m Freestyle, and the Senior 800m and 1500 Freestyle (subject to ratification) Click Here for Results.
Click Here for Beds ASA link to results.
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