I was well impressed this year with our Nationals TEAM performances. Across the board we swam PB after PB with over 59 PB's from 101 swims (That's all the heat swims and all the final and relay swims). There were a small number of medals this year but a couple of impressive results in Shane Faul's 200IM 3 second PB effort from Lane 8 and a fantastic 4 x 200FTR from the Men (Andy 2:01.1, Ian 1:58, Stephen 2:04, Shane 1:57) to get a great TEAM medal. There were also over 20 Top 8 finishes.
Ian Thom had a great meet with all 6 events he swam in getting to the 'A' final and demolishing his freestyle PB's in every distance he swam. Andy Farrell also demolished his freestyle PB's with some great swims. After cool Heat swims Shane Faul made finals and time and time again delivered some spectacular swims in the final swim with big PB's across his swims. Amy McSherry swam well and back to her best after her recent injury and continued as always to impress us in her swims. Laura Martin swam PB's in EVERYTHING also as she really finished the year in style with her most impressive set of swims this season. Ailish McLaughlin tabled a solid set of sprint swims to see her finish a strong year with good efforts. Niamh Murphy had a typically imressive set of performances but carrying a slight injury in to the middle of the meet she swam PB's and made some good finals with her most impressive swim being her win in the 'B' final of the 200IM. The Sterling performances from the Girls was Niamh Bergin's demolition of her PB's culminating in a 'B' final swim of 2:13.99 in the 200Free. Niamh swam a PB on the split of her 400 Heats (4:50, 2:20), followed that with another PB in the 400 Final (4:46, 2:18) and then swam a 2:15 in the heats of the 200 to finish with a 2:13.99 swim in the 'B' Final before she heads off to Greece for the European Youth Waterpolo Championships.
The Boys also swam well with Stephen Higgins posting PB's in everything, Dylan Farrell and Finbar McTiernan also knocking seconds of their more recent swims from LC Age Groups. Dylan's impressive 57. off the relay set a new standard in the 100Free for our boys and was matched by a 57 from Finbar and Stephen blasting through the sub 60 barrier and barely stopping at 59.1 (Also swimming 59.8 to his feet on the 200FC Relay). Finbar swam well in his favoured Backcrawl events making 'A' finals in his 100 and a 'B' final in the 200. We aere also graced witht he presence of Andrew Clarke and Sean Carey who made a Welcome return to the water and Cian Murphy who gave his 100Free one last go for the season.
Not to be outdone, Peter Sherry swam on Thursday and made the Semi's of the 100BF and showed the younger lads how to do it. A big thank you too to Helen Kelly and Eoghan Dillon who made the journey to Lisburn to show their support.
All in all it was a great finish to the season.
As always I'm extremely proud of this team and of the team that swam Age Groups. This volume of PB's at the end of the season makes all of your work worthwhile.
Next season WE GET BETTER, we WILL be FASTER and TOUGHER in both training and competition and will help to continue to build this TEAM up to being the strongest club team we can be.
Well done one and all on a 100% fantastic year.
Thank you all for your positivity, determination and smiles !!!
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