Annual Westhill Minnows Meet
On Saturday 17 September the 10th annual Minnows Meet took place at Westhill Pool.
This Meet is aimed at our younger swimmers aged 9 to 11 years. We set the entry times at a certain level in order to provide a good quality meet which encourages the young inexperienced swimmers. For many this was their first opportunity to take part in competitive swimming . Our club did not enter our more experienced swimmers to keep in the spirit of the meet's aim to bring on the younger group.
At the 3rd Minnows meet a young swimmer took part for the first time, swimming for Upper Deeside. That swimmer was Kerry Buchan who now has selection times for next year's Commonwealth Games to swim for Scotland! Who knows where this, the first competition for many, may take the swimmers in the future!
The individual events were 50m for all strokes with the frontcrawl and medley relays 4 x 25m.
Medals were awarded for 1st 2nd and 3rd places and ribbons for 4th 5th and 6th places in each age group and each stroke. Points were awarded: 1st - 6 points, 2nd - 5 points and so on to 6th - 1 point.
Lots of personal best times tumbled as Westhill swimmers won a clutch of individual medals and also achieved bronze in the boys 4 x 25metres freestyle relay event and silver in the girls 4 x 25metres medley relay event.
Individual medallists were ::
Laura Devlin: gold in the 10 years girls freestyle
Brandon Lees: silver in the 9 years boys backstroke and freestyle
Scott Caldwell: bronze in the 10 years boys breaststroke and freestyle
Ian Dixon: silver in the 10 years boys butterfly
Hannah Sherriff: silver in the 10 years girls butterfly
Matthew Smith: bronze in the 9 years boys breaststroke
There was a new award to the best local swimmer. The Gilbert Trophy was donated by former coach and swimmer Chris's Mum, Connie Gilbert and it was awarded to the best local swimmer at the competition. Most points were achieved by Brandon Lees.
The Peco trohpy for best team was won by Aberdeen Dolphins.
See our photo gallery of the meet.
A full set of results can be downloaded below.