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- 17 October - Reading Open Meet On the 17th October, 16 swimmers from Slough and Eton Dolphins took part in the Reading B Grade gala at Reading’s Central Pool. This was the first open meet of the season for the club, all swimmers swam well and it proved very successful with 59 PBs from 77 swims. The meet started with three PBs in the first event the boys 200m Individual Medley including an 18sec PB for Daniel Stevens. Exceptional performances followed in the Girls 100m Breaststroke with all the girls bettering their previous times. Special mention goes to Emma Adams for a time of 1:51.44, a 23second PB. Good performances continued in the Boys 50m Free with Edward Williams and Daniel Butt breaking the 30second mark for the first time. The girls 100m Backstroke promised much and good swims were delivered by Laura Saunders, Millie and Elise Bell. Nicole Stevens also continued her impressive form in the backstroke with a six second PB. Dan Stevens continued the good form in the 100m Fly with an 11 second PB in a time of 1:21.52. The girls continued to perform well in the 100m Freestyle especially Olivia Kelly, setting a new best time of 1:15.09 and Kristy Robinson setting a new PB by almost eight seconds. The second session began with the girls 200m Individual Medley, Olivia Kelly, Jamie Hertel and Abigail Fricker had good swims setting new PBs in times of 3:09.06, 3:12.42 and 3:35.03 respectively. Robert Walker had a good swim in the Boys 100m Breaststroke with a new PB of 1:35.13 along with Ed Williams who also improved his PB by winning his age group in a time of 1:22.37 and Harrison Saunders set a new PB by seven seconds. The swimmers continued to perform well including the last event the Boys 100m Freestyle with new PBs for Robert Walker, Daniel Butt, Daniel Stevens and Joshua Rank who won his age group in a time of 1:05.50. The oldest swimmer of the group competing in the 15 years and over, Craig Stevens, impressively won his age group for the 200m IM, 100m Fly, 100m Breaststroke but was narrowly beaten in his other event the 100m Backstroke. The meet provided a glimpse of the potential of the swimmers and promise for the rest of season. Well done to all the swimmers who took part, the hard work must continue.
- 26 September - Diddy Gala - Small Squad Big Hearts
Slough and Eton kicked off the season at the Bracknell and Wokingham Diddy Gala. This 13 years and under team was the smallest at the competition with only 16 swimmers. Most of who had the task of swimming up different age groups.
The gala kicked off with a win for the dolphins in the girls 11 and under Medley consisting of Laura Saunders, Emma Admans, Jamie Hertel and Tilly Simmonds. Other Victories included Nicol Stevens (50 back), Ed Williams leading as team captain for the gala (50 Free and 50 Fly), Under 10 Girls Medley and Free Events (Nicole, Kristy, Abigal and Millie) and Jamie (50 Back).
As the gala went on the squad stuck together well realising that it was more of a training session due to the small size of the squad. Our tiredness began to show in towards the end of the gala and a number of swimmers commented that they intend to do more training sessions over the next season.
Everybody performed really well from Ed our only 13 year old swimmer to young Dylan aged 8. Special thanks to Harry and Ben who swam every event. Fantastic performances by Laura; who was asked to substitute a teammate who could not make the event, swimming a massive 8 events.
Squad: Emma Admans, Elise Bell, Millie Bell, Abigail Fricker, Jamie Hertel, Olivia Kelly, Kristy Robinson, Laura Saunders, Tilly Simmonds, Nicole Stevens, Jeremy Chorley, Ben Harris, Harry Laflin, Dylan Philpott, Harrison Saunders and Edward Williams
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