15th Westhill Invitational Meet - May 2009
The Westhill Team, Swimmers and Coaches, at the Meet.
The Results are available on the North District webite .
Thirty teams took part at the meet this year, including two from the Midland District. It proved to be a very exiciting competition with many races a close finish. 11 Meet Records were broken over the course of the weekend as follows:-
Westhill's James Yules broke Westhill's Michael Caldwell's 2007 record for the Boys 14-15 yrs 200M Freestyle by 2 seconds in 1:57.46. He also broke Sam George's 2008 record for the Boys 14-15 yrs 200M Breastroke in 5 tenths of a second in 2:27.23.
Ross Clark (Dundee City Aquatics) broke his own 2008 record for the Boys 16 & Over 100M Breastroke, setting a new benchmark at 1:04.12, and the same again for the 200M Breastroke in 2:22.60.
Orla Adams (Garioch) broke Kerry Buchan's 2003 record for the Girls 14 - 15 yrs 100M Breastroke by 3 tenths of a second taking it down to 1:14.23, and the same again by nearly a second to Kerry's 200M Breastroke 2003 record in 2:37.67.
Emily Jones (Garioch) broke Orla Adam's 2008 record for the Girls 12-13yrs 100M Breastroke by 3 seconds in 1:14.93. She then went on to break Sarah Hamilton's 2008 record for the Girls 12-13yrs 200m Individual Medley by 2 seconds in 2:22.09.
Joe Lipworth (Dundee City Aquatics) broke Westhill's Christopher Chasser's 2005 record for the Boys 14 -15 yrs 200M Individual Medley by nearly a whole second in 2:12.51.
Peter Stewart (Dundee City Aquatics) broke the longstanding Boys 16 & Over 100M Freestyle record set by Alasdair Pullan in 1997 by nearly 4 tenths of a second to set a new record of 51.56. He then went on to break the 2007 record for the Boys Open 100M Individual Medley set in 2007 by Chris Wilson by 4 hundredths of a second in 1:00.05.
Especially exciting were the relays, including the new medley event called the Russian Roulette Medley.
The rules were that each team comprised 1 boy and 1 girl aged 13 and Under, plus 1 boy and 1 girl aged 14+, and at the beginning of each race, each swimmer picked a stroke for that race from a non-transparent bag controlled by the judge on each lane, with no swapping allowed. The slowest 2 teams in the heat were eliminated, and the remaining teams re-selected their strokes for the next heat, and so on till the third and last heat with the fastest 2 teams. This time Garioch had the upper hand over Thurso.
Congratulations to all Westhill Swimmers competing and especially to those who won medals as follows (events are age group unless an Open event as read):-
BOYS:-
Craig Thomson (16 & Over) - Gold 200M Backstroke & 200M Butterfly, Bronze 400M Individual Medley Open
Michael Caldwell (16 & Over) - Gold 1500M Freestyle Open & 400M Freestyle Open, Silver 400M Individual Medley Open, Bronze 100M Freestyle, 100M Butterfly & 200M Backstroke
James Yule (14-15yrs) - Gold 400M Individual Medley Open, 200M Freestyle, 200M Breastroke, & 200M Butterfly, Silver 1500M Freestyle Open, 200M Individual Medley Open & 400M Freestyle Open,
Rhys Jones (14 -15) - Gold 100M Butterfly, Bronze 100M Freestyle
GIRLS:-
Hannah Fraser (16 & Over) - Bronze 200M Butterfly & 100M Backstroke
Shannen Murray (16 & Over) - Bronze 100M Breastroke
Claire Moir (14 -15 yrs) - Silver 50M Backstroke Open & 100M Backstroke, Bronze 200M Backstroke.
Jessica Christie (12 -13 yrs) - Bronze 200M Freestyle