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Girls’ Swimming
The Christmas term saw four swimming fixtures, our first being against Queen Margaret’s which came down to just one point, with our girls winning 102 points to 101 points. Unfortunately we lost our next match against Harrogate Ladies College (190 v 208) but went on to victories against GSAL (229 v 223) and Ripon Grammar School (388 v 297).
The John Parry Relays is held annually with schools from across the North of England competing. This year the event was held here at St Peter’s.
The U15 girls swam extremely well and made it through to the finals for both the Medley and the Freestyle relay events. Without exception, all the girls managed to improve their times from the heats to the finals. There were some impressive personal swims, especially against girls who are regular club swimmers. With lots of other sport happening that day, our U18 girls were a little lacking in numbers. However, the girls more than rose to the occasion, with younger swimmers stepping up and competing against girls 4/5 years older. Not only did they swim against some very strong competition, they also improved on personal times from heats to finals.
During the Easter term, the girls had three swimming fixtures; against Ripon Grammar, Harrogate Ladies College and Ampleforth College. Sadly we lost the match against Ripon Grammar by just 4 points, but we made up for it with convincing victories over HLC and Ampleforth.
This term also saw a team of four girls travel to the Olympic Pool in London, for the Bath & Otter Cup. This is a national event with over 80 schools taking part, so it was a fantastic achievement for the girls to make the final of the 4x50m Freestyle relay. The team was made up of Charlotte Deniz, Eliza Allison, Sophie Adeley and girls’ swimming captain Ellie Spencer.
To finish the swimming year off in style, we held the Girls Inter-House Swimming Gala, and after some very competitive and closely contested races, the top three Houses were: 1st School 73 points 2nd Grove 55 points 3rd Rise 53 points
And a number of school records were broken and set: 25m Junior Freestyle: Melissa Bell (Clifton) 14.18s (prev 14.38s)
50m Junior Butterfly: Kate Pearson (Clifton) 37.71s (new event)
50m Junior Freestyle: Charlotte Deniz (School) 50m Junior Backstroke: Charlotte Deniz (School) 31.14s (prev 31.28s)
32.94s (prev 33.81s)
4x 25m Mixed Junior/Senior Medley Relay: School 1.13.86 (new event)
Swimming team representatives: U14s: Eliza Allison, Charlotte Deniz, Jess England, Rosy Jones, Abbey White U15s: Melissa Bell, Kate Moodycliffe, Charley Munns, Kate Pearson, Diana Seo, Holly Turnbull Seniors: Sophie Adeley, Maddy Bennison, Sophie Bone, Lydia Gill, Ellie Spencer
Charlotte Jones
