Bognor Swimmers had one of their best ever weekends at the Sussex County Age Group Championships on Saturday 18^th and Sunday 19^th February.  The Championships were held at the newly opened K2 Leisure Complex in Crawley which boasts Sussex’s first Olympic size 50m pool although the insertion of a boom meant the County event was held over 25m short-course.  

Elanor Loveman was the first ever winner in the new pool, swimming in the first heat of the first event and winning her heat comfortably in a new personal best time.

BRSC had a number of wins at the Counties, including a clean sweep of the 9 year old boys age group by George Smith in the 50m Fly, 50m Front-crawl and 50m backstroke.  Other nine year olds swimming well were Abby Rowe 4^th 50m Fly and 4^th 200m Breaststroke, and Jacob Loveman 5^th 200m Breaststroke, 15^th 50m Freestyle and 50m Backstroke.  

Harriet Lambourne was once again in fine form, winning all her 12 year old events including 100m Backstroke, 200m Freestyle, 100m Fly (National Qualifying time), 400m Individual Medley (I.M.), 200m Breaststroke, and 400m Freestyle.  Amazingly Harriet also won the Junior (under sixteen) cup in the 100m Fly at only 12 years of age.  

Jack Smith (11) won the 400m Freestyle and 400m I.M. for 11 year olds.  Sophie Trotter came away with three County titles in the Under Sixteen 4x1 I.M. and 200m Breaststroke and the Open 400m I.M., where she lead Bognor’s only County one-two in living memory, with Harriet Lambourne a close second.  Georgina Highfield was close to her National qualifying time in both the 200m breaststroke which she won and the 400m I.M. where she was second to Littlehampton’s Alexander Hunter.

There were plenty of top three places for other Bognor swimmers with Nick Salerno 3^rd in the 10 years 50m Fly and 400m I.M., Becky Newman 3^rd in the 13 years 100m fly, and Elanor Loveman 3^rd in the 11 year 400m I.M. and 200m Breaststroke.  

Katie Addison (13) and Sam Rowe (10) managed to swim Regional Qualifying times and William Addison (11) came away from the event with personal best times.  

Coach Chris Adams, pictured above with County Champions Harriet Lambourne and Sophie Trotter, was very pleased with the weekends performances and proud that the Ladies Junior and Senior Teams were leading the County Competition at this half way stage.