Stowmarket at the Junior

Summer league Round 2
Stowmarket Swimming Club team arrived at a sunny Bungay pool for the second round of this year’s Suffolk Junior Summer League on Saturday evening. As last month the first swimmers set the bar high, with the first three all gaining personal best times. Elysia Golding and Ruairidh Penman both achieved new best times in the 13/U 4x25m individual medley with Elysia taking more than 3 seconds off her old best time and Ruairidh reducing his best effort at the distance by a massive7 seconds!

Roma, in her first time at a league race, kept her head and despite her goggles coming off stayed focussed to reduce her PB by 1.5 seconds to come 2nd in the 10/U 50m Back stroke in 41.95

There were a number of excellent races with swimmers all showing their winning spirit. Robert Borrett was entered in three races and swam faster than ever before in all them, achieving personal best times in the 11/U 50m Freestyle, 50m Fly, and 50m Backstroke. Eilisch Hopkins having taken 6 seconds off her 13/U100 Fly in the last round reduced it by another two seconds, and the followed it up with a huge 5 second pruning of her previous 100 Free time.

The final placings on the night were 1st Lowestoft and Oulton Broad, 2nd Stowmarket, 3rd Gt Yarmouth, and joint 4th Deben and Beccles.