Basingstoke Bluefins’ Michelle Matson explains why team spirit is so important for Masters.

Pink hats, t-shirts, nail polish and all the rest of it are so much more to our team than vanity; they represent fun, friendship and a very strong sense of team spirit.

Although our team name suggests we should perhaps be wearing blue, pink happened by accident to begin with.

Open water swimming became popular in our Masters squad and for safety and visibility in the lakes we had our logo printed on fluorescent pink hats. They proved so popular swimmers were wearing them in the pool too.

Being a part of such a strong team is what swimming is all about to me. Masters meets are taken seriously, despite the pinkness, and so many of us not only attend all of our Masters training sessions but also do our own training in public sessions as well as gym sessions.

Of course enjoying each other’s company is such a huge part of our team and more importantly being behind every swimmer and every swim they do is too. We particularly enjoy meets like British and National Championship, where we can all get together over dinner because let’s face it, food is the quickest way to please a swimmer – other than a PB!

Team spirit starts far away from the pool. It’s sharing car journeys to the pool, eating a meal together, staying at the same hotel and most definitely wearing pink! Then there’s being at every session to watch every swimmer, swim every race and that’s before relays are even mentioned.

Some relays are competitive and others are for fun and about giving everyone a chance to feel a part of the pinkness and therefore a part of the team. For me, relays are the most important part of a meet.

They are a chance to actually represent my team and stand as a unit behind the blocks. Relays are my main focus in training because when I’m finding a set particularly tough, I just think about letting my team mates down and it makes it easier to get through.

So putting on the pink nail polish at home is just the start of all the excitement and on Monday mornings, when normality resumes, the flashes of pink left on my nails reminds me of the great meet and fab time I had with all my chlorine buddies. Never underestimate the value of being a part of a great team!

As featured on the ASA Masters Swimming Hub

A great success with all swimmers coming home with Gold medals. There is no doubt this is a great meet in the best pool in the country. Steve Greenfield, Ian Cameron, Olly Espinasse, Spencer Turner and Fleur Parker travelled to the wonderful Ponds Forge pool in Sheffield just before Xmas to attend this meet.

Bluefins were on fine form and a great day. A couple of highlights were the men having a head to head showdown over 100IM. Olly took it with Spencer and Ian literally touching together, followed by Steve. The men also did 2 relays and absolutely stormed it! Winning both by over 2 seconds..

Full results:

Ian Cameron – Gold 400 Free and 100IM
Olly Espinasse – Gold 100 Fly, Silver 100 IM
Steve Greenfield – Gold 100 Back & 100 IM
Spencer Turner - Gold 50 Free and I00 IM
Fleur Parker – Gold 50 Free
Men 100 F/S Relay – Gold
Mens 100  Medley Relay - Gold

Last weekend saw Bluefins travel to Barnet for the ‘distance’ meet. An interesting place to find, but a great meet. Steve Greenfield, Steve Canning, Spencer Turner, Michelle Matson, Sarah Adams, Jo Taylor and Fleur Parker were all in attendance.

Steve Canning started the weekend on the Saturday by a great swim in the 800 Freestyle – taking Gold! Steve then went on to swim the 400 – as Breaststroke and indeed the 200 Free where he picked up bronze. Steve was a great form all weekend and think he really enjoyed himself.  

Kicking off on Sunday was the 400 Freestyle. First up this time was the ladies, with Michelle, Jo and Fleur swimming in the same heat, followed by the Distance Queen aka Ladies Captain Sarah in the final heat. Sarah, Fleur and Jo all won Gold with Michelle picking up Silver.  Sarah finally broke the 5 minute barrier with a cracking 4:56 and a club record.

Steve Greenfield was up next winning the 400 freestyle in what can only be described as a comfortable swim! Spencer was seeded 2nd overall (Top in his age group) to the one and only Paul Palmer – ex Olympian. Spencer went out with Paul and swam a brilliant PB and club record, taking Gold. Paul was great to watch and indeed his first race in 12 years – and Spencer chased him J.

Steve Greenfield swam a great 200 Backstroke, taking Gold and a seasons best time – again looking very comfortable (how does he do it!) Fleur, Jo and Spencer were up next in the 100 Breaststroke – with Fleur taking Gold, Spencer Silver and Jo Bronze.

Our Bluefins Ex British Record holders team of Michelle, Jo, Sarah and Fleur fancied their chances on the Ladies 4x100 Freestyle relay against the team they lost their record to at Swansea. All swam brilliantly and were up for the challenge. Michelle kicked the relay off on the first leg – with a storming 1.04, giving the team a superb lead after an truly gutsy swim. Jo, Sarah and Fleur then followed and the lead continued to grow with the ladies taking the Gold in a time of 4:32.62, 9 seconds ahead of their rivals.

200 Freestyle saw a number of the team in – Jo, Michelle, Fleur, Spencer & Steve. Spencer and Fleur picked up Gold’s, Michelle Silver, Steve and Jo Bronze – great effort from the fins on this one.

Catherine Shearn swam the 100 Fly, winning Gold and beating her entry time.. great swim!

As always another great days racing from the fins… Next up is Rushmoor on Saturday 26th for a Long course meet. This will see Catherine warming up ready for her trip to the World Championships in Montreal over the summer. In addition - Steve Greenfield, Neil Mitchell, Steve Canning, Mark Straw, Michelle Matson, Sharon Lock, Emma Oliver and Fleur Parker are all competing.

Mid June saw 12 Bluefins travel to Swansea for the British Gas Masters & Senior Age Group Championships. The pool was already deemed as one of the best and it didn’t disappoint -  what a lovely 50m pool. The championships started Friday and ran through to Sunday early evening.

Bluefins were out to impress and they didn’t fail. With what can only be deemed as an extremely successful weekend with our best medal haul at Long Course Nationals and indeed so many personal best times were not only broken but in some instances – smashed!

Starting off the weekend was Mark Straw in his first 1500m, he took nearly a minute off his entry time and picked up a bronze – awesome start to the weekend. Mark then went on to pick up silver in the 800 Freestyle. The rest of the Bluefins crew arrived for the late session on Friday to take on their events. Captain Neil Mitchell was on fine form, practically hitting a Personal Best every time he left the blocks – he swam no fewer than 9 individuals plus relays. His best placing was Bronze in the 50 Back, although possibly the best race was his 400IM – massive PB and cracking swim.

Spencer Turner then started what can only be described as not only his best Nationals result ever, but that by any Bluefins Individual. Spencer won the 200, 400 and 800 Free and picked up Silver in the 100 Free, setting numerous PBs throughout the weekend. Chasing down the Golds was also Coach Steve Greenfield – winning the 50 back to go alongside a silver in the 50 Free and a Bronze in the 200 Back. The 50 Back was a PB for Steve, getting closer now to that British Record.

Our newest Bluefin – Keith Spence was on fine form and has certainly been knocking out more PBs since becoming a ‘fin’. He also looked superb in the new black/pink race skins keeping up with the Bluefins new ‘Pink’ kit. Keith finished in the Top 10 in all 7 events. Andy ‘Tiger’ Taylor opted for the 50s (excl Back) and swam well throughout the weekend, in addition offering lots of support to the fins.

Not to be outdone and always up for a challenge were the Bluefins ladies. Catherine Shearn had a great meet – doing her usual 50, 100, 200 Fly and an 800 free. Catherine picked up silver for the 200 and bronze in the 100. She was also part of a relay that were unfortunately DQ’d where she swam an amazing gutsy 100 Fly.

Ladies Captain - Sarah Adams, aka Distance Queen had a busy weekend picking up Bronze in the 800 Free and a 4^th in the 400 Free. Jo Taylor was on fine form – again with so many best times. She also picked up 4 Bronzes for the 200 IM, 100, 400 and 800 Free. Michelle Matson won her first National title in the 200 fly – a great event to watch when she and Catherine went head to head and neither could see each other – superb as a spectator. Fleur Parker set a PB long course for 100 Free, picking up Bronze to go with another Bronze in the 100 Back and Silver in the 200.

Jean Hanna enjoyed the weekend’s events and did great in both the 200 Free when she picked up 4^th and the 400 Free finishing in 5^th. Be great to see Jean at some more Nationals in the future.

As always the relays not only proved to be a great success, but a lot of fun, with some very close finishes.

GOLD                    Ladies 4 * 50 Medley                      Sarah, Fleur, Michelle & Jo – last minute change to the team and still a brilliant Gold!

GOLD                    Ladies 4 * 100 Freestyle                Catherine, Jean, Jo & Fleur – terrific swim from Catherine with lifetime PB

GOLD                    Mixed 4 * 50 Freestyle                  Spencer, Steve, Michelle & Fleur – the Eindhoven team didn’t disappoint with a nail biting touch finish to take Gold! PB also to Spencer for his swim in this one

SILVER                  Ladies 4 * 50 Freestyle                   Sarah, Michelle, Jo & Fleur  - Great long course split of 27 for Fleur in this one

SILVER                  Ladies 4 * 200 Freestyle                Michelle, Jo, Sarah, Fleur – the team broke their own PB/British record by 5 seconds – unfortunately they lost the Gold and record to another team…

SILVER                  Mixed 4 * 100 Freestyle                Michelle, Neil, Spencer, Fleur – Great team swim, Spencer went a second quicker here than in his individual

BRONZE               Mixed 4 * 100 Medley                   Michelle, Keith, Neil and Jo – Keith’s first National medal – awesome team swim

BRONZE               Mixed 4 * 200 Freestyle                Andy, Jo, Mark, Michelle – super team swim including Team Tiger Taylor swimming together

All in all a super weekend – some outstanding swims and lots of laughs. For those of you yet to come to a big meet – why not join us in October at Sheffield?

Bluefins Masters win our first Top Team trophy at the 13th Royal Navy Masters Open Meet.

Sunday 30^th March saw 25 Bluefin’s travel to the Royal Navy Masters meet, held in the amazing Millfield School, Somerset. We set out with one goal – to bring home Top Team and we did it!!! Congratulations to the entire team that went – a fantastic achievement and our first, outside of winning the Hampshire’s.

Swimmers attending: Tony, James, Mark, Simon, Keith, Steve Canning, Olly, Joe, Matt, Jack, Steve, Jean, Spencer, Neil, Steve Greenfield, Emma, Zoe, Michelle, Jo, Andy, Sarah, Frank, Catherine, Bryn & Fleur.

Not to be content on just winning the overall team award, Spencer, Neil and Emma also picked up Top Age Group Awards – Spencer for the 4^th year running.

We had so many great swims, but a few stood out that need a special mention. Olly sticking to his 50m swims picked up 3 Gold’s and 3 meet records. We had Matt, Jack, Keith and Joe for the first bluefins outing and we hope they had a great day and come back for more. All swam really well – Keith picked up a PB so hopefully that’s good enough to put the Bluefin’s hat on again. Matt and Jack both swam better than they expected with some pretty outstanding times. Jack played his part well in the very competitive 120 v 160 relay teams. Joe swam an amazing 29 without a tumble turn – question is how quick is he going to go once he’s got that working??

Neil swam a staggering amount of races and hit PBs over 50 Free and 50 Breast to show the gym is definitely worth it and Spencer also set PBs in a great 400 free and 50 Back. Spencer also went on to set 4 meet records – not bad for a days work! In that same event, James listened perfectly to Tony and did an amazing 400 free and of course waved on to his adoring fans. Not to be outdone Tony and Mark both swam well in the same race and indeed over all other swims that day. The rivalry was excellent with Mark winning on all until the last race. The 100 free… Tony had waited all day to beat Mark and he did by 0.01!!!! Amazing race to watch. It seems the Bluefins like rivalry – Bryn and Spencer in the 50 breaststroke – great race and amazing to watch, with Bryn just nipping it!

Zoe decided to swim an entire decathlon in the day (mad lady) but the interesting suits – spider woman and a cow ensure we knew where she was at all times. Comment of the day after getting out of the 400 – ‘I don’t like sprints’. Emma also was up for an amazing amount of events (even if a little hung over from the night before). She swam brilliantly all day, setting PBs race after race, the most memorable being 1.18 in the 100 Breast (twice) – 3 seconds quicker than she went at the same meet the year before. Emma also set 2 meet records.

The Bluefins relays were out in force again picking up some valuable points, more rivalry and a meet record.

Team Taylor were on fine form as always – in and out of the pool. Everyone had a great day with a spot of swimming and of course bringing home the trophy! Huge thanks to Michelle for arranging all the relays that as always proved very successful.

Well done to everyone that swam – superb team effort! Don’t forget to check out are website to see if you have broken a club record – with so many amazing swims, I think there should be quite a few.

Male Age Group Winners

Female Age Group Winners

Team Results

Bluefins Results

Claim your Club Record?

On Saturday Spencer, Steve, Emma, Neil, Catherine, Mark, Olly, Michelle and Fleur were competing at the Bracknell meet. A great (although very long) day at the pool with more fantastic swims. Overall as a team we finished in 8th place out of 72 teams. Top individual places saw Spencer as our highest ranked male in 38th place followed by Neil in 42nd place. For the ladies Fleur finished in 3rd with Michelle next in 7th.

Some excellent swims and a great medal tally totally 26 medals including a new Hampshire Record!

Catherine - Gold 100 & 200 fly (Hampshire Record!), Silver in 50 fly

Mark - Bronze 100 & 200 Free and 2 in relays

Olly  - Gold 100 Free (now has his 100m badge – well done Olly)

Spencer - Gold 50 & 100 Free, 100 IM

Neil - Gold 50 Breast

Steve - Gold 100 Free, & 50 Fly

Emma - Gold 50 Breast

Michelle - Silver 50 Free, 200 IM & 50 Fly, Bronze 100 Fly & 100 Free

Fleur - Gold 50 Free, 100IM, 50 Breast, 50 Fly, Silver 200 Back & 100 Free

Basingstoke Bluefins Masters win the Senior Team of the Year at the Basingstoke and Deane Sports Awards 2014, held at the Apollo Hotel on 28th February. The Masters squad had previous wins back in 2010 and 2011.

In addition to the main team award Michelle, Steve, Zoe, Rachel and Fleur were nominated in the senior sportsperson categories with Fleur picking up 3rd place. James Scott was also nominated for Senior disability – a very well deserved nomination and James was accompanied by Felicity for the evening. Rachel also won outstanding achievement award for her amazing Arch to Arc challenge – one absolutely amazing athlete who is now training for a double channel swim (maybe slightly mad). Michelle, Zoe, Steve and Brendan along with some of the performance squad also won scholarships to the Aquadrome.

Well done to all Bluefins Masters Swimmers – everyone in the squad has made it what it is and enabled us to win this award. An absolutely fantastic achievement showing what a great team we have!

Such an amazing lot of swims this weekend at the SER champs at Crawley.

Our Bluefins male team of Dave, Steve, Olly and Andy all had a great weekend. Dave Davenport was consistent over the weekend with no sign of injury which was great to see. All his races were faster than he swam at Plymouth last year so he was delighted. He picked up Gold in 100, 400, 800 Free and Silver in the 200 Free. Coach Steve swam 50 Free and 50 Back both in very fast times picking up 2 Gold medals. Olly picked up Gold in the 50 Fly winning overall ages as well. Andy (part of team Taylor) swam well over the weekend and offered lots of support to all.

Not to be outdone, the ladies were on top form too...

Most noticeable performances came in the 2 relays (and the most amount of noise!!). The Ladies 4 x200 Freestyle relay of Michelle, Jo, Sarah and Fleur won Gold and set a British Record – breaking the previous one by 14 seconds. Bluefins first British Masters Record….. The team, still on a high went on to win the 4X50 Medley relay.Individually the ladies did well too - Catherine Shearn had some excellent swims winning Bronze in 50 & 100 Fly & silver in the 800 Free with times very close to lifetime PBs – a great start to the season. Lottie joined us for her first Masters meet and once she realised it was much more laid back, she picked up some lovely shiny medals - Gold 100 Free & 200 Breast, Bronze 50 Breast, 50 Free, 100 Breast. Jo (other half of team Taylor) still smiling from the relays was on superb form winning her first Gold Medal since her masters come back in the 800 Free. She also added Silver in the 100 Free &200 Free and Bronze for the 400 free & 200 IM – medals for all swims – excellent result!

Not to be outdone, Club Captain Sarah added 2 more Golds for the 100 Back and 50 Breast (swims she did purely for decathlon) to her relay Golds – a fine performance. Michelle still fighting back from injury added more medals to her collection with Silver in the 50 Back and Bronze for the 50 Breast and 50 Fly. She would have picked up another medal in the 200 Back, however there was a slight misjudgment of the flags – please do ask her next time you see her! (Plate awards have started for this year J). Fleur retained her 200 Back regional title, adding in silver for the 100 Back and Bronze in the 100 Free. Having finished in first place on the 50 Free (beating the arch rival), she was DQ for a flyer (and a noticeable one).

Another great weekend had by all – lots of laughter, people stuck in their costumes, flag problems, flyers, struggling on the 50 fly (where the comment was it felt like the entire team had jumped on my back) and lots of support and cheering for everyone.

September saw 6 Basingstoke Bluefin’s Swimmers  and one team manager/official photographer travel to Eindhoven for the European Masters Swimming Championships. Swimming were Coach Steve Greenfield, Mark Straw, Catherine Shearn, Spencer Turner, Michelle Matson & Fleur Parker along with Debbie Straw in her photographic and support role.

The week in the pool started off with Mark and Catherine in Eindhoven. Mark competed in the 200, 400 and 800 Freestyle along with 50 fly, achieving 18th, 13th, 14th and 27th respectively. Some great swim and excellent times.

Catherine started the ladies pursuit with 50, 100 & 200 Fly, swimming really well and clocking up some season best times – especially in the 50 Fly – showing great fight and determination. She came 37th, 19th & 9th respectively. Superb to see a Top 10 spot in the 200 Fly.

Part way through the week saw the arrival of the Bluefins Relay team – Steve, Spencer, Michelle & Fleur. The relay team swam brilliantly securing 5th in Europe and a personal best time by nearly 2 seconds. The team also went on to swim individual races..

Steve Greenfield on a limited amount of training showed he still has it just missing the medals with 4th in the 100 Backstroke and then 10th in the 50 Fly.

Spencer Turner swam a personal best in the 100 Free with an outstanding 57. 92 coming 12th. He also went on to finish 19th in the 50 Free and 16th in the 100 Backstroke.

Michelle Matson improved by 6 seconds on her 200 Breaststroke from previous competitions this season finishing with a Top 10 spot in 9th place. She also swam a seasons best in the 50 Fly, finishing in 17th.

Fleur Parker picked up a Bronze medal in the 200 Backstroke with a personal best time and came 5th, 4th & 5th respectively in the 50 Free, 100 Back and 100 Free.

Saturday morning saw the move from the pool to the Canal in the heart of Eindhoven. This event is certainly not a splash and dash race or for the weak hearted – 3k. Great to see 3 Bluefins up for the challenge and all swam amazingly well – Michelle, Catherine and Mark. The 3 hard core swimmers placed 14th, 17th & 15th.

Well done Bluefins – great to see some amazing results in Europe!

What an AMAZING weekend! 11 Bluefins travelled to Plymouth last weekend for the British Gas Masters & Seniors Long Course Championships. The event ran from Friday through to Sunday and saw all 11 swimmers coming home with at least one medal, and the best National medal haul seen by the Bluefins team with a total of 50 and 5 National Titles. Overall the team finished an impressive 8th in the country.

Starting off the weekend on Friday afternoon was the grueling 1500m which saw Dave Davenport kick start the meet with a Silver medal. Dave then went on to secure 2 further bronze medals in the 200 and 400m Freestyle events. Dave was delighted with his times at his first National meet since coming back from injury. The 1500 also saw Spencer Turner start his weekend adventures winning bronze over the tough distance. He then went on to secure Silver in the 200 Freestyle and 3 more Bronze medals for 100 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke and 50 Breaststroke setting numerous personal bests along the way and no scars or injuries this time round.

Friday evening saw the start of the girls weekend with Michelle Matson winning Silver in the 200 Breaststroke. She then went on to win a further Silver in the 200 Backstroke. Catherine Shearn started what turned out to be a superb weekend of swimming with a seasons best time in the 100 Fly, she then carried on the weekend with more great times in the 50 and 200 Fly, also bringing home a Bronze medal on the difficult 200 Fly. Fleur Parker started the weekend with a Silver in the 50 Free and Bronze in the 100 Back, going on to win another Bronze for the 50 Backstroke and Gold for the 200 Backstroke retaining her British title for the 3rd year!

Mens Captain Neil Mitchell's busy weekend started on Friday evening with a Silver in the 200 Breaststroke and he added another the following day with the toughest event on the program - 400 IM. Olly Espinasse was up for a very fast 50 Dash weekend winning his first National title in a nail biting (for his team mates) race for 50 Fly and adding a Silver for the 50 Backstroke.

Mark Straw had a great weekend with some seasons best times and wife Debs was a great team support taking action photography of the team all weekend. Ladies Captain Sarah Adams was patient waiting for her races to start on Saturday afternoon and she went for all her distance events bringing home Silver in the 400 Free and a bronze over the longer 800 Free.

In addition to the above individual medals Bluefins entered a host of relays for the first time. These proved to be a huge success both for the swimmers in teams but also for the team mates on the side cheering each other on.

GOLD · Mixed 160+ 800 Freestyle Steve, Emma, Michelle, Mark
GOLD · Mixed 160+ 400m Freestyle Fleur, Neil, Michelle, Spencer
GOLD · Mixed 160+ 200m Freestyle Steve, Fleur, Sarah, Spencer

SILVER · Ladies 120 + 200m Medley Fleur, Emma, Catherine, Michelle
SILVER · Mixed 160+ 200m Medley Sarah, Spencer, Steve, Fleur 

BRONZE · Mens 160+ 200m Medley Olly, Neil, Steve, Mark
BRONZE · Ladies 120+ 200m Freestyle Sarah, Michelle, Emma, Fleur

Bluefins lifted the roof this weekend with the amount of support for the team and it paid off – a terrific weekend had by all – both in and out of the pool. Next stop National Short Course in Sheffield where team Bluefins hope to take an even bigger team and challenge for more medals. Go Bluefins!

Saturday 1st June saw 26 Bluefins swimmers travel to Aldershot to take part in the Hampshire Masters County Championships. The team had an amazing day retaining the Top Club award for the 4th Consecutive year.

Everyone swam exceptionally well with too many great swims to mention. It was a fun day at the pool and we even had a stand in for our Captain – Neil Mitchell in the form of a life size cardboard cut-out. The Trophy was presented by Jenny Ball to both Masters Captains – Sarah Adams and Neil Mitchell.

Bluefin’s swimmers swam an amazing 166 individual races and 12 relays. We won 66 Individual Gold Medals, 38 Silvers and 19 Bronze medals alongside 2 Gold and 4 Relay Silver medals.

Not to be content with the medal haul, Bluefins also set 8 new Hampshire County Championship records and an outstanding 45 new Club Records.

A truly great achievement for Team Bluefins.

2013 RESULTS:

200m Freestyle
35/39 years Bryn Hughes 2:10.29 (age at date of competition 37)
40/44 years Spencer Turner 2:06.91 (age at date of competition 44)
60/64 years Dave Davenport 2:30.23 (age at date of comp 60)
35/39 years Sarah Adams 2:21.49 (age at Date of Comp 39)
55/59 years Jean Hanna 3:28.58 (age at Date of Comp 55)

100m Freestyle
35/39 Fleur Parker 1:02.28 (age at date of competition 37)
60/64 Dave Davenport 1:10.40 (age at date of comp 60)

100m Breaststroke
35/39 Bryn Hughes 1:13.89 (age at date of competition 37)

100m Individual Medley
35/39 Bryn Hughes 1:07.40 (age at date of competition 37)
40/44 Spencer Turner 1:08.29 (age at date of competition 44)
45/49 Joanna Taylor 1:24.83 (age at Date of Comp 46)

50m Breaststroke
35/39 Bryn Hughes 33.73 (age at date of competition 37)

50m Butterfly
50/54 years Steve Greenfield 31.14 (age at date of competition 54)
55/59 years Simon Hindshaw 32.56 (age at date of comp 55)
45/49 years Joanna Taylor 38.75 (age at Date of Comp 46)

50m Backstroke
50/54 Steve Greenfield 33.12 (age at date of comp 54)

50m Freestyle
25/29 Olly Espinasse 24.59 (age at date of comp 28)
50/54 Steve Greenfield 26.94 (age at date of comp 54)

25m Breaststroke
25/29 Jason Keeler 22.72 (age at date of competition 25)
35/39 Bryn Hughes 15.53 (age at date of competition 37)
40/44 Spencer Turner 15.83 (age at date of competition 44)
45/49 Andy Taylor 18.48 (age at date of comp 48)
50/54 Antony Scott 17.90 (age at date of comp 53)
30/34 Michelle Matson 18.65 (age at date of competition 34)
35/39 Fleur Parker 17.86 (age at date of competition 37)
40/44 Ana Ojeda Dopico 26.71 (age at date of competition 40)
55/59 Jean Hanna 31.10 (age at Date of Comp 55)

25m Butterfly
18/24 Gareth Waller 12.83 (age at date of comp 22)
25/29 Olly Espinasse 12.02 (age at date of comp 28)
35/39 Brett Cherrington 15.69 (age at date of comp 39)
40/44 Spencer Turner 14.64 (age at date of competition 44)
45/49 Andy Taylor 16.17 (age at date of comp 48)
55/59 Simon Hindshaw 15.34 (age at date of comp 55)

25m Backstroke
18/24 Laura Moseley 16.87 (age at date of competition 18)
30/34 Michelle Matson 16.88 (age at date of competition 34)
35/39 Fleur Parker 16.06 (age at date of competition 37)
40/44 Ana Ojeda Dopico 24.85 (age at date of competition 40)
45/49 Joanna Taylor 19.50 (age at Date of Comp 46)
18/24 Gareth Waller 14.07 (age at date of comp 22)
25/29 Olly Espinasse 13.62 (age at date of comp 28)
40/44 Spencer Turner 14.84 (age at date of competition 44)

25m Freestyle
18/24 Gareth Waller 12.03 (age at date of comp 22)
35/39 Brett Cherrington 14.18 (age at date of comp 39)
40/44 Spencer Turner 12.32 (age at date of competition 44)
55/59 Simon Hindshaw 14.27 (age at date of comp 55)

This was held on Sunday and we had 3 swimmers, Emma Oliver, Catherine Shearn and Sarah Adams. It looks like there were some really great swims yesterday and a few more records for Emma and another one for Sarah.

Sarah: 
3rd 400m freestyle 
3rd 100m backstroke

Emma:
1st 50m Breaststroke
1st 100m Breaststroke
1st 100m Butterfly

Catherine: 
2nd 50m Butterfly
3rd 100m Butterfly

New Masters Club Records
Sarah Adams: Age at Date of Competition 39 (35-39 age group)
400m Freestyle: 4:56.15

Emma Oliver: Age at Date of Competition 31 (30-34 age group)
50m Breaststroke: 36.63
100m Breaststroke: 1:22.34
100m Butterfly: 1:11.12