Over the weekend of Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th January, all squads were busy in action at two different long course competitions. The members of National Squad and a Regional Squad swimmer competed at the City of Sunderland New Year Meet and swimmers from Development, County, Junior Club, Club and Regional competed at the Rotherham Metro A & B Grade Meet in Sheffield.

These meets presented swimmers with the first opportunity of the season to race in a long course pool and give them some long course experience leading into the Yorkshire Championships in February and the national qualifying meets starting in March. The coaching team were very pleased with the technical performances from the swimmers which helped to bring in PB percentages of 67% and 83% and between all squads at both competitions York won 80 medals.

Please see the summary of each competition below:

City of Sunderland Meet

138 Swims
92 Long Course PBs
67% PBs

33 Medals

9 Gold
Nathan Bunkle (4) Mollie-Jo Garratt (3) Simon Robson (1) Toby Mayfield (1)

11 Silver
Emily Robson (3) Toby Mayfield (2) Freya Tyas (1) Mia Boyle (1) Mollie-Jo Garratt (1) Ollie Creighton (1) Oona Gregory (1) Simon Robson (1)

13 Bronze
Toby Mayfield (3) Mia Boyle (2) Olivia Thom (2) Simon Robson (2) Charlotte Deniz (1) Freya Tyas (1) Maddison Kirkman (1) Neola Thorpe (1)

2 British Championship Qualification Times – Mollie-Jo Garratt (100 & 200 Backstroke)

Rotherham Metro Meet

149 Swims
123 PBs
83% PBs

17 A Grade Medals

7 Gold
Jacob Hardisty (2) Rosanna Bycroft (2) Callum Aitken (1) Jamie Bleanch (1) Phillip Suddes (1)

5 Silver
Callum Aitken (3) Jacob Hardisty (1) Ruby Allitt (1)

5 Bronze
Lucas Edmonds (2) Eve Parkin (1) Phillip Suddes (1) Tristan Pemberton (1)

30 B Grade Medals

13 Gold
Libby Morrison (3) Ava Turner (2) Joe Scholefield (2) Annabelle Loft (1) Isla Yates (1) Lawrence Brewer (1) Phillip Suddes (1) Poppy Davis-Coyle (1) Tristan Pemberton (1)

8 Silver
Isla Yates (2) Ava Turner (1) Ethan Clifford (1) Eve Parkin (1) Gabriel Watson (1) Lawrence Brewer (1) Lucas Edmonds (1)

9 Bronze
Brooke Thomas-Durrant (2) Annabelle Loft (1) Isla Yates (1) Ava Turner (1) Callum Aitken (1) Clara McAllister (1) Lucas Edmonds (1) Nathan Carrington (1) Olivia McSeveny (1)

Nathan Carrington broke three GB Deaf Records in the Under 11s category in the 200 Breaststroke, 50 Fly and 200 Freestyle.