S wimming
Swimming at Sevenoaks continues to improve year
on year, with outstanding individual and team results
across home, county and national level galas.
The first major event of the season was the Kent
Schools’ Relays held in Margate, a regional qualifier
for the ESSA national team championships. The team
secured two golds, four silvers and three bronze
medals across three age groups for boys and girls.
We qualified an amazing nine teams from 12 to the
national finals which were taken from the fastest
30 teams for each age group qualifying from over
200 schools.
The ESSA championships took place at the Aquatics
Centre in Stratford. We took 20 swimmers across our
nine teams. They succeeded in reaching three finals
on the day, and achieved three seventh places, with
all teams swimming faster in the finals than the time
they qualified with.
In January the Kent Schools Individual Championships
were held in Margate. The boys came away with two
golds, one silver and four bronze medals. Louis Hayes
(Year 10) was fastest across all age groups with his
two gold medals. The girls achieved two gold, two
silver and two bronze medals, with Kara Dimond
(Year 9) the fastest swimmer across all age groups
with her gold medal. The boys’ team also retained the
Kent Cup for points scored in the competition, with
the girls coming fourth against stiff competition.
From top: Senior Boys, inter Boys, junior Boys.
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