Midland District BAGCAT Championships 2010
(BAGCATS 10 - 13 yrs Girls & 10 - 14 yrs Boys)
12^th & 13^th June 2010

Final Weekend at the Midlands!

Event	Names	Age	Times 50m	Converted 25m	Age group Placing	Notes
Boys 10/11 Yrs 200m Breaststroke	Jordan Bull	11	3:21.83 PB	3.19.23	20th	New County Record

Jordan Bull   Deepings youngest swimmer  produced yet another gutsy swim to record his first ever long course PB in the 200m Breaststroke ... and what a good ‘stage’ on which to do it -The Midlands Championships!  Jordan first qualified for this event at Lincolnshire’s County Championships back in March, where he smashed his previous best by more than 13 seconds and he was propelled up the rankings and is currently top of the boy’s 11 year old rankings in this event. Over the weekend he set a new long course PB which is another New Long Course Record.  Jordan also set one in his 100m Breaststroke too for the 11 year old age group, subject to ratification of course,  an excellent achievement.  What is remarkable is that Jordan has only swum this event twice this year once at the Counties and now at the Midlands.  We would like to congratulate him on his achievements - hopefully we will see more from him next year.  Well done!

 Total BAGCAT Points 2010

Place d	Name	Ag e	Club	100 s	For m	Medl ey	Fre e	Tot al
54th	Jordan Bull	11	Deeping s	226	250			476
48th	Alex Wray	12	Deeping s			311		311
73rd	Kelda McKnight	13	Deeping s		432			432
43rd	Marcus Cook	14	Deeping s	418	447			865

Round Up of This Year’s Midlands Youth & BAGCAT Championships.

Deepings sent a Senior Squad of six and a Junior Squad of four to the City of Coventry to compete at this year’s Midlands District Championships, all the squad raced well and achieved some great results.  Although the results this year did not quite match up to last year, we have to be encouraged by the fact we had some new juniors at the Midlands (Jordan Bull and Kelda McKnight) both performed very well, and that Alex Wray (who swam the 200m IM last year too) improved on his BAGCAT rankings by 7 places - all excellent news. Hopefully they will be back next year with more qualifying times in other events. 

Unfortunately Marcus Cook our top junior swimmer had to withdrawn from the Championships and like David Beckham had to sit this one out. He has struggled with illness and injury all year but is hoping to be well enough to compete at the Nationals at the end of July. Marcus already has a qualifying time in the 400IM.  Let’s hope he stays fit and well, and I’m told he is already looking ahead to next season.

Our senior swimmers doubled their numbers this year and are going from strength to strength. It was fantastic to see some new names swimming this long course Championships - Oliver Perkins & Laura Swain who qualified for the first time and Thomas Freeman& Luke DeMoya who recently joined us from other clubs. We had a record number of New County Long Course Record that has gone off for ratification too.  We had three swimmers make finals Laura Swain, Tom Lane and Lauren Wray who made four.

All our swimmers gave 100% to their performance, but like all sports there are highs and lows. The club is very proud of all of all our swimmers and of what they have all achieved. It’s onward and upward, and we look forward to seeing how many squad members can qualify for next years Midland Championships. For those going to the Nationals, we wish you well!

Swimmers’ achievements at a glance over all of this year’s Midland Championship events:

Thomas Freeman Swimming under the Deepings banner for the first time = Swam 2 Youth Group Events - Finished 11^th & 36^th.

 He achieved a New County Long Course Record (to be ratified)

Luke DeMoya Swimming under the Deepings banner for the first time = Swam 2 Youth Group Events finished 10^th & 15^th. Achieved 2 New County Long Course Record (to be ratified)

Lauren Wray = Swam 6 Youth Events (1 more event than last year).  Made 4 finals finished 4th, 6^th, 6^th & 8^th in those. He finished 18^th in both her other two events.  Achieved 2 Long Course PBs & 3 New County Long Course Record (to be ratified)

Tom Lane Swam 4 Youth Group Events (2 fewer than last year) = Made 1 Final - Finished 6^th.  In his other remaining events he Finished 14^th, 15^th & 22^nd.   Achieved - 2 Long Course PBs, 1 Converted & 4 New County Long Course Record (to be ratified)

Laura Swain 1^st time at the Midlands for us – Swam 1 event and made a final. Achieved a PB and a converted PB as well & a New County Long Course Record (to be ratified)

Marcus Cook   = Swam 3 BAGCAT events his highest placed swim was in the 200m Breaststroke where he finished 9^th (Finished 10^th and 11^th in his other two events). He had to withdraw from the Championship due to illness.

Jordan Bull = 1^st time at the Midlands, Swam 2 BAGCAT Events -finished 20^th & 25^th.  Achieved 2 Long Course PBs, 2 New County Long Course County Record s & was Placed 54^th in his age group in the BAGCAT awards.

Alex Wray 2^nd time at the Midlands = Swam 1 BAGCAT Event the 200m IM (the same event as last year) finished 25^th. 

Achieved - 1 Long Course PB, 1 New Long Course County Record & Placed 48^th in his age group in the BAGCAT awards an improved 7 places on last year’s rankings.

Kelda McKnight = 1^st time at the Midlands, Swam 1 BAGCAT Event finished 34^th and was Placed 73^rd in her age group in the BAGCAT awards table.                                                             

Congratulations swimmers