Swimming Results
Making Waves
Scotland Team Open Water Events August/September 2008
Congratulations to the following pupils who were selected to represent Scotland at Open Water swimming events in the Netherlands and Belgium at the end of August 2008:
- Glenn McIntosh S5
- Mark Deans S3
- Megan Donnelly S4
The triumphant trio returned with fantastic performances and personal best times. Mark had an awesome swim in the 3 kilometre race in Belgium breaking the existing record by 52 seconds.
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Mark Deans |
This success by the two boys continued last weekend when Glenn won the 2008 Scottish Open Water Grand Prix with his team-mate Mark coming second in the junior 16 & under age group.
Well done and keep up the great racing!
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Megan Donnelly |
Glenn McIntosh |
Mark Deans - S3
- 1st – 1 kilometre: Tilburg, Holland
- 1st – 3 kilometre: Hazelwinkle, Belgium (new record)
- 1st – 1 kilometre: Hazelwinkle Belgium
Megan Donnelly - S4
- 1st – 3 kilometre: Tilburg, Holland
- 1st – 3 kilometre: Hazelwinkle, Belgium
- 2nd – 1 kilometre: Hazelwinkle, Belgium
Glenn McIntosh - S5
- 1st – 1 kilometre: Tilburg, Holland
- 1st – 2 kilometre: Hazelwinkle, Belgium
- 1st – 3 kilometre: Hazelwinkle, Belgium
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Scottish National Age Groups April 2008
Glasgow School of Sport swimmers recently competed at the Scottish National Age Group Championships at Tollcross. The swimmers had a fantastic haul of medals and finalists. The swimmers competed for their home clubs: City of Glasgow, Ren 96 and South Lanarkshire however the performances show a clear indication that the links between the club and school programme are strengthening each year.
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Kirstin McKinley |
Mark Deans and David Morgan |
Kirstin McKinley S1 had an outstanding competition with an individual medal haul of Two Scottish National Titles in the 200m fly and the 800m free. Also Kirstin managed three silver, three bronze and two other final swims. Kirstin is showing great dedication to both her home and club programmes and with these results is definitely a swimmer to watch out for in the future.
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Callum Baxter |
Rachel Tedeschi |
David Morgan, Mark Deans and Callum Baxter all of S2 together showed the competition how the three boys all from different home clubs can pull together as they took a clean sweep Gold, silver and bronze in the 800m freestyle thirteen year old boys.This victory was sweetened by David setting a new Age group record. The boys all had a very good competition with over twenty top ten finishes between them.
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Cheryl Bond |
Rachel Tedeschi and Cheryl Bond |
Rachel Tedeschi S3 was another School of Sport swimmer to shine at the nationals. Her best performance came in the 1500m freestyle with a gold winning performance showing that she is tough over the distance events. Rachel kept up the momentum by winning a further three bronze medals and finishing top ten in four other events altogether a fantastic performance.
Cheryl Bond S5 took the silver in the 100m and 200m Butterfly events after her events she has set her sights to get back to the top and win the double next year. This is the attitude we are striving for from all the swimmers within the school.
The Scottish Age groups were attended by several English swimming clubs helping to push the standards of age group swimming higher than ever. I am delighted that the swimmers within the School of Sport are raising their personal standards to compete at the top level of age group swimming. I am expecting a larger group of swimmers to attend the British Nationals this summer so we can once again swim with the best in Britain. Well done to all the swimmers and parents for a great event last week.
Other medallists & top ten finalists included:
2008 intake - David Colley, Zoe Scott
S1 - Rachael Clark, Nicole Bond, Victoria Millburn, Sonn Breslin
S2 - Gant Gould
S3 - Megan Donnelly, Jamie McKinley
S4 - Glenn McIntosh, Grant McPherson
S5 - Kimmy Allan
Scottish Schools International Meet 2008 - Crawley
Following their recent outstanding performances in the pool, Cheryl Bond (S5) and Rachel Tedeschi (S3) were selected to compete for Scotland at the Scottish Schools International Meet.
The girls attended the competition in Crawley on the 7-9 March 2008 where both swam personal best times with Rachel winning an outstanding third place.
This competition was a team event against the home nations. Scotland finished second behind England which was an outstanding result for the team.
