Camden's victory places us top of the league after round two
Camden Swiss Cottage swimmers were made to work hard for their victory in the second round of the National Arena Swimming league at the weekend as the University of East Anglia City of Norwich team chased them hard all the way. Early on in the event only a few points separated the teams. The Camden team worked hard and soon opened up a gap to win by 30points that was pleasing to the coaching staff of Camden.
Director of swimming Dave Hobbs went on to say ‘considering Norwich are a city team attached to a university we were pleased that out of the 50 events in the programme Camden came away with 29 wins and 16 second places to give us a total points score of 371’. We were delighted after being put under pressure early on the swimmers responded well, it is always great to see the level of commitment and just how tough we can be.We now sit top of the league for the first time in our history. It will be a battle to beat teams like Ipswich and Hatfield in the final but we will fight hard for every point.'
The National league is one of the most important team swimming championships in the UK. 400 teams from England and Wales, comprising more than 16,000 swimmers, compete each year in the League around the country.
There were numerous strong individual performances from the team. Double wins went to Emily House (10) swimming a year out of age took two first place in the 50m butterfly (34.99 seconds) and the 50m freestyle (31.51 seconds) not to be out done Robert Dos Santos (11) also put in two winning individual performances in the 50m butterfly (34.44 seconds and the 50m backstroke (36.24 seconds). At the opposite end of the age group in the open category Harry Needs and Devon Robins both posted double victories. 17 year old Harry Needs swam 56.50 on the 100m butterfly and smashed his best time on the 100m breaststroke by knocking over a second off with 1.06.24. Devon opened the competition with a win in event one on the 200 Individual Medley with 2.24.11 and swimming the 100m freestyle swam 1.00.46 to earn a narrow PB. The other double winner was Leo Jaggs swimming in the boys 15 and under age group in the 100m butterfly with 59.84 (watch below) and the 100m freestyle in 53.30.
Other Individual winners were in the 15 and under age groups Rosie Hughes breaking the 1.06 barrier for the first time on the 100m backstroke in 1.05.76, Alex Burgess narrow PB also on the 100m backstroke 1.02.67. Reut Benaim 100m butterfly 1.04.55, Sophie Rittenhouse 100m backstroke 1.04.63, Lauren Chappel 1.05.32 100m butterfly, Billy Bradley 1.09.74 100m butterfly 13 and under, Kelly Hookway 100m freestyle 1.01.06, Sarah Taylor Reid 100m breaststroke 1.18.99 in the 15 and under age group and Felix Samuels 52.20 to win the 100m freestyle.
Other impressive swims with good personal best were Will Rittenhouse smashing his best time by over 2 seconds with 1.09.29 for the 100m backstroke taking 2nd place and Vincent Neeves (Watch him swim below) with 1.01.76 taking 1.75 off his previous best.
The event took place in Enfield at the Southbury road pool final results were:
1st Camden Swiss Cottage 371
2nd UEA City of Norwich 341
3rd Greenwich Bor.Mar 242
4th Edmonton Phoenix 233
5th Harrow & Wealdstone 177
6th Griffins of Enfield 156
7th Sutton & Cheam 148
8th Bexley 122
The London league final round will takes place in 12th December at 4.00pm Crystal Palace with the following teams:
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