Text Box: Southern Junior League

Date: 19/04/2008

Time: Weston super Mare

        17:30 warm up

Date: 17/05/2008

Time: Bournemouth—Littledown

            

 

Date: 21/06/2008

Time: TBA

Southern Junior League Galas

This is, like the Speedo League,  a National Competition. and is for swimmers between 9 and 12. The top teams from the Southern League are selected to compete in the National Final against the top teams from other areas. There are 3 galas to determine the top teams for selection and they are normally held in April, May and June. 

 

 

The League Rules can be downloaded HERE

 

 

Text Box: Southwold Swimming Club
Text Box: The National Speedo Swimming League

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Southern Junior League Round 1 -  Weston 19th April 2008

The first round of the Southern Junior League saw an excellent display of both swimming and team spirit. We were up against some of the strongest junior teams in the area with 2 teams from last year's A Final. We started with a strong relay display to keep within 2 points of Yeovil and open a 7 point gap on Weston-Super-Mare and a 9 point gap on Bristol Henleaze. Weston came back strongly to overhaul us on the first group of individual races taking a slight lead. We held on and by the time of the last group of relays we had crept to a 7 point advantage. Yeovil were now 40 points ahead and out of reach. The second batch of relays were strongly contested with Yeovil winning 6 of the possible 9, Weston winning 2 and us only 1 (10 Year Girls Freestyle) but we finished 2nd to Yeovil on many of the others and we stretched our lead to 13 points in the end.

Final Points:

Yeovil - 253

Southwold - 206

Weston - 193

Bristol Henleaze - 159

Warminster - 114

Melksham - 75

 

Wins for:

Bethan Tomlinson - 50 Fly/50 Free

Lucy Jenkinson - 50 Back

Girls 10 Year Medley and Freestyle relay team (Lucy Jenkinson, Eleanor Aris, Charlotte Moore, Rebecca Bradford) Girls 12 Year Medley relay team (Bethan Tomlinson, Maddie Hopkinson-Buss, Susannah Hall, Rebecca Robinson)

 

Places: 6 - 1sts, 17 - 2nds, 13 - 3rds, 9 - 4ths, 2 - 5ths, 2 - 6ths

Well done everyone!

Keith

 

Results can be found HERE and on the Hy-Tek website HERE

 Details of the Round 1 draw can be found HERE

 

Please ensure that  you always arrive at the pool where a gala is taking place at least 15 minutes before the warm up starts.

Click HERE for 2007 SJL reports