ESP swimmers finish tough events
During the season, swimmers compete in many galas trying to qualify for the end of season national and regional championship events
COACHES, swimmers and parents of ESP are all exhausted after a long month of national events.
It is a long time since ESP Aquatics has been represented at all the regional and national championships around the country.
During the season, swimmers compete in many galas trying to qualify for the end of season national and regional championship events. These qualifying times give the swimmers goals to work for in training.
Once they qualify to swim at a particular national event, they need to further qualify with a top 10 place at a regional or national event to compete in a final. Points are only scored from swimmers that achieve a top 10 place in a final.
Savannah Mitchell and Kyle Mckenzie qualified for both the SA Junior and SA Youth National Championships in Durban. Kyle in his first major championship qualified as either a first or second reserve for the finals in four events.
Savannah finalled in the 200m breaststroke, scoring four points for ESP.
ESP next competed with a small team of nine swimmers at the SA Regional Level 3 Championships in Pretoria. The top point scorers for the ESP Aquatics team were Colette Fourie with 18 points, who swam four finals and won a bronze medal.
Second was Caitlin Stott with 16 points scored from five finals events.
Other ESP Level 3 Aquatic finalists were Murray Copeland (three finals), Bernalee Doster (three finals), Ashleigh Stock (three finals), Kerri-lyn Claase (two finals), Jonathan and Nicholas Smith (one final each).
The Level 2 Regional Championships at Delville in Germiston saw Savannah Sheerin finalling in 10 events and winning two gold, three silver and two bronze medals.
Savannah on her own scored a tally of 89 points.
This amazing team swam hard and ended up on the final count scoreboard in 10th position. More than 70 clubs took part.
Kailyn Murrin won two bronze medals and swam three finals scoring 23 points. Kerrin Burgess won a silver and qualified in four final events. Clayton Malaza won one bronze medal, qualifying for seven finals.
Other ESP finalists and point scorers were Storm Ryder (thre finals), Phillipa Austin (two finals) Brooklynn Bohler (one final), Morgan Corns (one final) and Zoe Stock (three finals).
The women 15 to 18 year relay teams won a bronze for the 4 x 50 free (Storm Ryder, Brooklyn Bohler, Kerrin Burgess and Savannah Sheerin), and a silver in the 4 x 50 medley relay team (Storm Ryder, Kailyn Murrin, Brooklyn Bohler and Savannah Sheerin).
