Last weekend saw several Long Eaton swimmers compete at Midland Youth Championships under both Long Eaton and DX. For a full list of results as they happened check out our twitter @LESCnews (which has just been retweeted by USA swimming and a club in Australia).
Whilst we sat next to our team mates based at DX (swimmers represent DX at Regional and National competitions and their home club at other meets including team galas and Club Championships etc), it was clear to see that outside the big 5 County Squads (Nova, City of Leicester, City of Birmingham, Northampton and DX) we had one of the largest club representations there.
Competing at Corby, which, long course, is not as fast a pool as Ponds Forge, etc., I took the coaching decision not to taper for this event. This did not detract from our performance as a club at this meet as we made 4 finals (Helen Gorman 100 and 200 Breast, Hannah Dowell 50 Free, Jo Parker 50 Back) and collected 4 firsts with Helen winning the 100 and 200 breast in the 19 and over age group and the "legend" himself, Gregory Cox, winning the 50 breast and 100 free in the S14 category. This gave us our most successful Regional Championships ever and with DX having their most succesful Championships ever support by Long Eaton-based swimmers, this is further proof that, for Derbyshire swimmers, the Partnership and Pathway between DX and Long Eaton are working well.
