Trident Swim Club on fire at the Connacht Short Course Regional Championship

Trident Swim Club were on fire over the weekend at the Connacht Short Course Regional Championship. We had a squad of 11 swimmers, our youngest swimmer being Emily Quinn, in Castlebar for a great weekend of racing. Unfortunately Molly, Miya and Alicia had to cry off due to illness.

Friday evening saw three swimmers Conor Lanigan, Clara Doherty and Grace Quinn all competing in the 400m Individual Medley. Conor was crowned Connacht Champion, taking 1st place with a great PB, Clara took silver medal with a PB also.

The mixed freestyle relay got Saturday racing underway, Trident took the silver medal with strong swims from Grace, Ella McKeon, Conor and Eoghan Rynn. Clara was crowned Connacht Champion for the 400m Freestyle , in the same race Phoebe swam a new PB to finish 4th. At the end of the morning session we had lots of Trident swimmers progressing to the Finals that evening.

Individual medal winners.

Eoghan and Conor had finals for 100 IM, 50 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, and 100m Butterfly.

Clara 200 IM, 100 Free, 50 Backstroke.

Aoibheann 50 Butterfly, 200 IM

Joanna Pereguda 50 Butterfly, 200 IM, 50 Backstroke

Ella 200 Backstroke, 100 Freestyle, 50 Backstroke

Grace 100 breaststroke, 100 Freestyle

Phoebe Lynott 200 IM, 100 Freestyle.

The coaches, Helen and Bernice had to be on their toes to keep up with all the great racing, PB's and medals flooding in. Eoghan and Conor were placed 2nd and 3rd in the 100IM and repeated their placings in the 50m Freestyle. Clara placed 3rd the in 200IM. Eoghan was crowned Connacht Champion for 100m Butterfly and Clara placed 3rd in the 100m Freestyle. All the medal placing times qualified them for Irish Winter Nationals. Phoebe was 4th in the 200IM and qualified for Irish Winter Nationals.

Sunday morning saw Conor have a great race in the 400m freestyle to finish 2nd with a 8 sec PB. Luke Ruddy had a great race in the 200m Backstroke with a 8 sec PB.

The Relay team

There was going to be no rest for the coaches as the qualification for the evening finals were rolling in:

Eoghan, 50 Butterfly, 200 IM, 100 Freestyle, 50 Back

Conor 50m Butterfly, 100n Freestyle.

Clara 100 IM, 50 Free, 200 Breast 200 Freestyle

Aoibheann 100 Butterfly,

Joanna 100IM, 50 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, 200 Freestyle

Ella 50 free, 100 Back

Grace 50 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 50 Breaststroke

Phoebe 50 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly

Sophie McKeon 100 IM, 50 Breaststroke.

Again we were treated to some super racing in the Finals. Clara placed 3rd in 100 IM, 50m Butterfly saw Eoghan take silver and Conor Bronze, Joanna placed 2nd in the 50m freestyle.

Eoghan was Connacht Champion both for 200 IM and 50 Backstroke. Clara placed 3rd in 200m Freestyle, Phoebe had a great race in the 100m Butterfly placing 3rd. Conor picked up a silver medal in the 100m freestyle.

Congratulations to all our swimmers on a great weekend of racing. Thanks to all the parents who helped out with timekeeping duties and to our newest Connacht Official Fiona Rynn. Good luck to Conor, Eoghan, Clara, Phoebe and Ella in their preparations for Winter Nationals.