<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Romford Town Swimming Club</title> <style type="text/css"> body{ color: #0000ff; margin:0; padding:0; } h2 { margin-top: 10px; } h3 { margin-top: 15x; margin-bottom: 5px; } #maincontainer{ width: 840px; /*Width of main container*/ margin: 0 auto; /*Center container on page*/ } #topsection{ background-color: #ffcc33; height: 92px; /*Height of top section*/ text-align: center; } #topsection h1{ font: bold 50px Trebuchet MS; margin: 0; text-align: center; padding-top: 3px; } #topsection h3{ margin: 0; text-align: right; margin-right: 110px } #contentwrapper{ float: left; width: 100%; } #contentcolumn{ margin-top: 25px; margin-left: 200px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/ text-align: left; } #leftcolumn{ float: left; width: 200px; /*Width of left column*/ margin-left: -840px; /*Set left margin to -(MainContainerWidth)*/ xxxbackground: #ffcc33; } #subpagecontent{ font: 15px helvetica; color: #0000ff; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 25px; text-align: left; } #comment{ clear: both; width: 100%; font: italic 15px helvetica; color: red; margin-left: 10px; text-align: left; padding: 4px 0; } #footer{ clear: both; width: 100%; color: black; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; xpadding: 4px 0; } .innertube{ margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/ margin-top: 0; } /*Credits: Dynamic Drive CSS Library */ /*URL: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/ */ .indentmenu{ font: 13px Arial; width: 840px; xxxwidth: 100%; /*leave this value as is in most cases*/ } .indentmenu ul{ margin: 0; padding: 0; float: left; width: auto; /*width of menu*/ border: 1px solid black; border-width: 1px 0; background: blue url(../images/button_color_gold_1.gif) center center repeat-x; } .indentmenu ul li{ display: inline; } .indentmenu ul li a{ float: left; text-align: center; color: yellow; /*text color*/ padding: 7px 11px; xwidth: 88px; text-decoration: none; border-right: 1px solid black; /*divider between menu items*/ border-left: 1px solid black; } .indentmenu ul li a:visited{ color: white; } .indentmenu ul li a:hover, .indentmenu ul li .current{ color: white !important; /*text color of selected and active item*/ padding-top: 8px; /*shift text down 1px for selected and active item*/ padding-bottom: 6px; /*shift text down 1px for selected and active item*/ background: blue url(../images/button_color_gold_5.gif) center center repeat-x; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="maincontainer"> <div id="topsection"> <img src="../images/logo.jpg" alt="RTSC Logo" align = "right" /> <h1>Romford Town Swimming Club</h1> <h3><em>established 1900</em></h3> </div> <div class="indentmenu"> <ul> <li><a href="../index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="../learn to swim.html">Learn to Swim</a></li> <li><a href="../squads.html">Squads</a></li> <li><a href="../masters.html">Masters</a></li> <li><a href="../fixture list.html">Club Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="../achievements.html">About RTSC</a></li> <li><a href="../locations.html">Where We Swim</a></li> <li><a href="../contacts.html">Contacts</a></li> <li><a href="../links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:romfordtownsc@aol.com">Email</a></li> </ul> <br style="clear: left" /> </div> <br /> <div id="contentwrapper"> <div id="subpagecontent"> <h1>RTSC Gala Reports</h1> <h2><font color="#000000"><em>22nd June - Killerwhales Summer Meet 2008</font></em></h2> <h3>It's a Summer Christmas Birthday Celebration for Town's youngsters</h3> <p>Romford Town's young team didn't have to travel too far on this occasion for Sunday's Killerwhale Summer Open competition, which was held at Thurrock's Blackshots Pool. With medals on offer for the top six in each age group there where many happy swimmers by the end of the day.</p> <p>Having celebrated her 11th birthday only three days earlier, Victoria Christmas had a number of other reasons to celebrate as she kicked off with 2nd spot in the 100 metres Individual Medley with team mate Rosie Webber not far behind in 5th. Christmas and Webber added further medals in the 50 metres Backstroke finishing 6th and 4th respectively. Webber's sister Maddie was the first 9 year old to secure a medal with 4th place in the same girls Backstroke event and Rose Merritt was 6th in the 10 years age group.</p> <p>In the Girls 200 metres IM event Sophie Thompson took the bronze and Lindsay McLachlan 5th place in the 12 years age group. 13 years old Jodie Ward was 2nd in her age category with the first of a number of good swims in Personal Best times. </p> <p> In the Boys 50 metres Breaststroke, 10 years old Luke Sheridan turned in the first of many fine performances to take silver with a four seconds PB. In the age group above, Tony Bass followed suit by also taking 2nd place. In the 12 years age group, Joshua Rogers collected the first of his three medals with a PB time over 100 metres Breaststroke. 13 years old Michael Fearon had a strong swim to take 5th place as well in his age group. Shortly after, Rogers finished 5th in the 100 metres Freestyle and Fearon gaining his second medal of the morning with 6th place in his age group. In the 16 years category Sam Whitehead produced a powerful swim to dip under the 60 seconds mark for the first time, setting a PB of 59.36secs. </p> <p>Town's first gold of the day came from 13 year old Rachel Welsh who produced a commanding display over 100 metres Backstroke with a PB time of 1min 12.82secs. Like red buses you can wait a while then two turn up together, as in the very next event 10 years old Luke Sheridan won the 50 metres Freestyle. Also in the 50 metres Freestyle, 9 years old Oliver Coles cracked the 40 seconds barrier for the first time to come away with 6th place and there was another 6th place for 11 years old Samuel Allsop. </p> <p>Rosie Webber added to her earlier successes with 4th spot in the 50 metres Breaststroke before the girls 100 metres Butterfly rounded off the morning's competition and with it came two more bronze medals for Romford's Sophie Thompson and Jodi Ward.</p> <p>Luke Sheridan got the afternoon session off to a marvellous start with 1st place in the boys 100 metres IM with Samuel Allsop adding another medal to his collection with 6th. In the 50 metres Butterfly Sheridan was unlucky not to add another gold, having to settle for the runner up spot on a fingertip finish. He did, however, turn the tables on his Thurrock rival over 50 metres Backstroke as he returned to winning ways. Allsop produced a strong swim to take 4th place among the 11 year olds in the Butterfly and 6th place in the Backstroke.</p> <p> In the 200 metres IM event Joshua Rogers set another PB to take silver with team mates Michael Fearon and Conor Toolis finishing 5th and 6th in the age group above. Andrew Ward took 5th place in the 15 years age group. </p> <p>There were two 5th place finishes in the girls 50 metres Freestyle for Maddie Webber and Victoria Christmas. Only weak turns in the 100 metres Freestyle stopped Rachel Welsh emulating her Backstroke success and she had to settle for 2nd place this time round. Rachel later took 4 seconds off of her previous best for 6th place in the 100 metres Breaststroke. 13 year old Alex Rose also set a PB to take 4th place in the same event.</p> <p> 13 years old Conor Toolis set another PB mark in taking 5th place over 100 metres Butterfly and 16 years old Sam Whitehead had another powerful swim to take 3rd place. Andrew Ward was 6th in the 15 year category. 9 years old Maddie Webber saved her best till last, coming through to snatch silver with a 2 second PB over 50 metres Breaststroke. In the final event Sam Whitehead dipped under 1 minute 10 seconds for the 100m Backstroke to take 6th place, with Andrew Ward again 6th placed 15 year old. </p> <p>Well done to all</p> <em>Gary Rogers<em> </div> <div id="footer"> <hr /> Last Updated: 25-Jun-2008<br /> Webmaster: Alan Ward<br /> &#169 2008 RTSC </div> </body> </html>