All over the country on Saturday night Speedo League Gala's were being held amongst the hundreds of swimming Clubs across England.  BRSC competed away at "The Spectrum" in Guildford, against local rivals Chichester Cormorants, Feltham, Basingstoke Blue-Fins, Farnham, and Rushmoor Royals 'B'. 

We came a close third despite being in second place up to the final 8 events where they were over taken by Farnham who usually beat Bognor convincingly. 

Our high score against Farnham was due to a great team performance. There were many great individual swims for Bognor where there is ever growing talent with increasing numbers of swimmers reaching County and Regional levels. 

Eleven year Sam Rowe streaked ahead to win the 50m breaststroke in 44.61.  Twelve year old Ellie Loveman won the 100m breaststroke by half a length and  Katie Addison showed her versatility in the water by winning the fifteen and under 100m breaststroke and 100m Freestyle and also the Ladies Open backstroke.

Brothers George and Jack Smith also came away with wins and personal best times, George in the 10-11 year 50m backstroke and Jack in the 13 and under 100m breaststroke and Butterfly.  Nick Salerno was again looking impressive this time in his favourite strokes Butterfly and Freestyle where he won the 10-11yr 50m.

Sophie Trotter recorded good times in the Ladies Individual Medley and her relay performances were again outstanding as we gained several valuable places thanks to Sophie's sprinting skills. Becky Newman swam near her best when she won the 15 and under 100m Backstroke.

Sam Webb swam the most swims of the night competing in the 13, 15 and Open Age Groups. Sam clocked up two individual wins but also swam some excellent relay legs where his competitiveness leads to exceptional take-overs. 

There were many seasonal best times for swimmers in the relays and some of the best came from Abby Rowe (9), Amber Mitchell (10), Darcy Stockdale-Cunningham (10), Bethany Lambourne (11), Jacob Loveman (9), Rosemarie Miller (12), Harriet Lambourne (13), Georgina Highfield (12), Bradley Wilde (12), Josh Todd (15), Lucy Knight (14), Vanessa Knight (16), William Addison (12), and Rosie Sanford (14).  Bognor also could not have done without the support from Open swimmers Dave Loveman, Claire Foweraker and Kevin Adams who have all come back out of retirement to help out the squad.

Chief Coach Chris Adams was delighted with the team performance particularly in the relays were the swimmers were technically more competitive.

Here are the final team standings.