Report on North London Graded League Gala hosted by Anaconda held at Park Road pool on Saturday 30th January 2010

Swimmers:-
Leyla, Mathilda W, Billie, Carlotta, Grace BS, Gemma, Nadia, Leah, Lilian, Matilda O, Laure-Alizee, Alice L, Grace B, Claudia
Max O, Max D, Thomas, Theo, Pablo R, Sammy, Sean, Oisin, Erwann, Ilyam, Hector

This was our first North London Graded League Gala of the year, held at Park road Pool. We came second in the end, after leading almost all the way through the gala the last few relays are always very difficult to judge!

Many thanks to Sarah and Chelsea, Chock, Alex, Christophe, Rachael and Ella for their considerable work poolside, and to all parents for supporting the team so whole-heartedly.

The results can be found here. There are so many placings that I am not going to list them individually here. The placings are all in the last column. We had 6 upgrades which means you swam faster than we thought you would! 8 first places, 10 Second places and 17 3rd places. This is really excellent swimming.

All the times in RED are Personal Best times – and as you can see there were LOADS of them in this gala – so well done to everyone for that. This is a really fantastic thing to see in our first team gala of the year.

The times in BLUE are unofficial Personal best times – taken from splits timed by us. They cannot be used as they are not completely accurate, but we use them as indicators in future galas. Lots of these as well – so well done to everyone who achieved so much in one evening.

It’s always difficult to choose swimmers of the gala – but this time they are BILLIE for two great 100m swims and a huge Personal Best time on her 100m Front Crawl, and ILYAM for some fantastic swims, and for being the only one who showered before he got into the pool.

Well done also to Ilyam, Pablo R, Grace and Hector for swimming in their first external gala for Clissold.

We look forward to great success in the league this year.
—Karen Patrick