Our Aquasprint team started their season off with a gala against Olympia, Belfast. The excited team travelled to Grove in Belfast for their first encounter of the year.
Team captains had been selected, Owen Fitzpatrick and Ellie Mulligan were ready to lead the squad to victory.
And that’s just what they did. A great gala and a great win for Team Sliabh Beagh with the final score being 258 – 142 which is a great start to the campaign.
The Lisbon International meet held in Jamor on the outskirts of Lisbon was an early long-course swimming opportunity for Adam Lynch and Darragh Hughes who swim in our Senior Performance
Squad. With the appeal of an extra International meet; over 700 swimmers & 13 countries were represented at this year’s event from Italy, Switzerland, Ukraine, Spain, the UK, Romania,
Ireland & with over 30 club teams from the home country Portugal, the competition was a truly top-level European event in 2023.
With the boys racing in their top Breaststroke & Fly events, they held their own against World Class opposition finishing in the top 40 in each of their events which had on average 90-100 entrants.
Congrats to the two lads on their great performance in this meet and thanks to Head Coach Pearse for his advice and support to the boys in Lisbon and also to Michelle Lynch for the Mammy support!
On Sunday, February 12th we had a group of swimmers attend this gala held in the long course pool in the National Aquatic Centre. Swimmers who attended were Eimear Duffy, Owen Fitzpatrick, Riya George, Rebekah Gillis, Sean Greenan, Kristupas Januskevic, Justas
Jarusas, Tadgh Lennon, Aoibhín MacCinna, Katherine Ryan, Hannah Sheridan, Ridas Zelvys and Edvardas Zumaras.
Special mention goes to our medal winners on the day: Riya, bronze in 100fly, Owen, Gold in 200bk and 100fr and 100bk, Katherine, bronze in 200bk. Terrific swimming guys. We had a great day with our athletes achieving thirty- three personal best times between
them. We also achieved some Qualifying Times for Summer National competitions. Terrific swimming everyone, a long day for the parents but all the hard work is paying off now.
Coach Deirdre accompanied the swimmers on the day and we thank
her for her support and encouragement to the swimmers.
Our Club hosted a masters gala which was held on the 11th February in Coral Leisure. We had a great number of other clubs attend this meet, with swimmers from 20 clubs visiting.
Our own swimmers were Carmel O’Hare, Declan Connolly, Eithne Duffy, Brenda Healy, Marc Hearty, JP McAree, Sean McCabe, Peadar McGuinness, Thomas Neeson, Inge Nysten, Joe
Shiels and Marcin Tobiasz. Our swimmers competed well and earned lots of personal best times and medals at this meet.
There was a great atmosphere and the feedback from the other clubs was very positive indeed. Congratulations to all the swimmers who attended this Meet and we are delighted you enjoyed the experience.
Thanks to all who gave up their time to help on the
day especially to Eamon O’Hara without whom this would not have taken place.
Congratulations to Hannah Sheridan and Hannah Skeath on their recent qualification as Level 2 Swimming Teachers. Both girls are currently working part-time at Coral Leisure Centre as swimming instructors.
