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A fun gala and the club championships finished off the year for Wick ASC.
A fun gala and the club championships finished off the year for Wick ASC.

WICK Amateur Swimming Club finished off its swimming year with a fun gala and the club’s championships.

The fun gala was for younger swimmers just starting their swimming careers and a series of races let them show off their new-found skills and have great fun at the same time.

The annual club championships were much more serious with over 60 swimmers competing at four different age groups for medals and trophies. They raced over the four individual strokes to decide the overall winner with a separate trophy going to the winner of the 100m individual medley.

In the nine-and-under age group, Ben Sinclair, Robbie Gunn and Grant Aitkenhead were finely matched with all their races over the shorter 25m distance being decided by fractions of a second.

When the dust settled Ben won two golds for back and fly and also two silvers to win the overall age group just ahead of Robbie, who had won gold in the free and breaststroke along with a silver and a bronze. Also achieving places in this age group were Cameron Carter, Angus Hendry and Jack Gill.

For the girls, Morven Coghill was in fine form winning the front crawl and butterfly with silvers in her other two strokes to take the overall award. Morven did not have everything her own way with Carly Sinclair winning gold in the breaststroke along with silver for her front crawl. Bryony Munro was the winner of the backstroke and she also came fourth in her freestyle.

Emma Hamilton and Sarah Hamilton also won a place on the podium at this age group.

Scott Bremner swam well to take the gold in the boys’ 10

Darren Taylor did well to win silver in the free and breaststroke, and Declan Gunn did well to take the silver in the backstroke. Ian Fishenden continues to improve with bronze in the free and breast as well as a fourth place for his backstroke. Ross Gunn swam well to take fourth in the free and breaststroke.

For the girls, Ashley Bartholomew was in unstoppable form with a clean sweep of gold medals.

Katie Coghill was never far behind with silver medals for the free, back and breaststroke with Gemma Sutherland producing a fine butterfly swim to take the silver along with two bronze medals.

Isla Miller and Ashlyn Sinclair also did well to win medals in a competitive age group.

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For the girls, Stacey Webster swam well to win gold in the free, back and fly events along with silver for her breaststroke. She was pushed all the way by Carla Bartholomew who finished with three silvers and a bronze.

Robyn Aitkenhead got her reward for all her hard training with the gold for her breaststroke. Jade Sinclair also won a place on the podium.

For the senior boys, Christopher Manson was in fine form with three gold medals which included two new meet records for his front and back crawl. Scott Taylor prevented the clean sweep with gold in his butterfly as well as winning silver medals for his other swims. Sweyn Linklater and Mathew Sinclair both competed well to win medals.

For the girls, there were some competitive races with Shannon MacKenzie and Stephanie Webster producing some close finishes. Stephanie took three golds and Shannon one gold for the breaststroke. Eve Strachan and Robyn Hughes also did well to get places on the podium.

Swimmers then had to muster one more effort to race in the 100m individual medley to show their all-round ability over the four strokes. After some close races the winners were: Ben Sinclair, 8

The medals and trophies were presented at the club’s end-of-year disco at Staxigoe Hall.

The club is very fortunate to have a growing band of people who offer their services despite no longer having children swimming in the club. Three of these people – Valerie Gerrie, Fiona Bremner and Kenny Shuttleworth – were on hand on the night to make the presentations.


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