News from the National Youth Championships Day 1

On day one at the National Youth Championships Ten Derventio Excel swimmers were in action.

First up was Jodie Hawksworth who posted personal best times in both the 200m I.M. heat and semi final showing a great start for the Breaststroke specialist.

Kev Wallbank also posted a personal best in the heats of the 100m Backstroke kicking his busy schedule of to a flying start.

Fifteen year old James Latham also had great heat and semi final swims in the 200m Breaststroke posting two personal best times he has qualified for tommorrow nights 15/16 years Final.

Fourteen year old Butterfly specialist Hannah Jones also kicked off her campaign with two personal best times in the heats and semis to qualify in tommorrow nights 14/15 years Final with room for improvement in sixth position.

Ben Goodall swam a solid 400m Freestyle heat finishing just short of his personal best time following this with the 200m Breaststroke in which he went out fast and came back at the field on the second 100m again just outside his personal best. With Bens more favourite events later on in the week this will have prepared him nicely.

Emily Allsopp swam a great heat swim in the 200m Backstroke just outside her personal best time to qualify for the semi final in thirtheenth place. In the semi final Emily went out fast but failed to hang on and was just short of the time set in the heats. Emily has the 100m Backstroke and Relay events to come in which the front end speed from todays races looks promising.

Lucy Wood also swam in the 200m Backstroke in which she went out at the 100m mark at a blistering pace but did not manage to hold onto her trade mark strong finish and was outside her personal best time. Lucy will now look forward to the 100m Backstroke after the first half of todays race.

Three girls were in action in the 100m Freestyle Tyler-Ann Black, Evie Keane and Fran Marshall all narrowly missed their personal best times but with the first swim out of the way they will be looking forward to other Individual and Relay events this week.