Three swimmers from Bognor swimming club competed at Guildford in their level 1 summer licensed meet. Up and coming swimmer Elanor Loveman age 11 continues to make huge improvements in all her races and she was placed second in the 400IM, 100m breaststroke and 200m breaststroke. All these swims were personal bests and she is now getting ever closer to the very challenging times set for the national championships.

  Harriet Lambourne age 13 limited her races to the 400IM and 200m freestyle hoping to gain national times in both races. Unfortunately due to a number of swimmers dropping out of the 400IM she ended up with no one to push her and she missed out by 3/10ths of a second although she did gain a personal best time and the gold medal. It was a different story in the 200m freestyle where she set off at a fast pace and easily made the national qualifying time with a personal best and a second gold medal.

  Sophie Trotter age 16 has been tantalisingly close to three national times over the last couple of months and although she was unable to achieve them this time she still achieved a gold medal in the 100m breaststroke and a silver medal in the 50m freestyle against some strong opposition.

  Elanor and Harriet plus Jack Smith, George Smith, Sam Rowe, Rebecca Newman Georgina Highfield and Katie Addison have all qualified for the South East Region Age Group Championships to be held at the new 50m pool at Crawley during the first couple of weeks in June. This is an excellent achievement for the club as last year only two swimmers qualified for this event.