ESSA International Team 2004

INTERNATIONAL 2004

ENGLISH SCHOOLS TEAM ISF-EUROPEAN GAMES
ITALY 24^th– 30^th MAY 2004

ISF European Schools Games - Milan 26th May 2004 - Schools Competition - Millfield School

	Event	Name	PB	Heat	%	Rank	Final	%	Rank	Improvement

	50 Breast	Emily Shaw	38.09 (sc)	39.80	PBLC	11th
		Alex Holderness		36.67	1%	5th	36.09	PBLC	4th	-0.58
		Gemma Carmichael		43.19	PBLC	15th

		Matthew Hall	34.98	34.46	-1.49	8th	34.62	0.46	7th	0.16
		Louis Mech		37.47	PBLC	11th
		Gareth Cotter-Stone	35.28	34.10	-3.34	7th	33.92	-0.53	6th	-0.18

	50 Back	Emily Walker	33.28	32.88	-1.20	5th	33.29	1.25	6th	0.41
		Gemma Carmichael	38.84	36.93	-4.92	17th
		Katherine Bowe	32.3 (sc)	32.72	PBLC	4th	32.8	0.24	5th	0.08

		Matthew Hall	31.64	31.96	1.01	9th
		Louis Mech	32.86 (SC)	32.31	PBLC	11th
		Dane Baker	32.32 (sc)	32.55	PBLC	12th

	50 Free	Alex Holderness		29.40	PBLC	10th
		Emily Shaw	28.10	28.03	-0.25	3rd	27.92	-0.39	3rd	-0.11
		Charlotte Bufton	30.70	29.34	-4.43	8th	29.48	0.48	8th	0.14

		Chris Gabbett	27.34	26.53	-2.96	10th
		Shane Traill	26.41	26.19	-0.83	6th	26.2	0.04	7th	0.01
		Dane Baker	27.79 (sc)	27.11	PBLC	12th

	50 Fly	Emily Walker	31.94 (sc)	32.38	PBLC	12th
		Katherine Bowe		31.75	PBLC	10th
		Charlotte Bufton	31.31 (sc)	31.07	PBLC	7th	31.09	0.06	7th	0.02

		Shane Traill	29.78 (sc)	29.62	PBLC	14th
		Chris Gabbett	29.22	28.20	PBLC	10th
		Gareth Cotter-Stone	28.51	28.15	-1.26	9th

	4 x 50 Medley Relay (All relays manual splits)
		Katherine Bowe		32.70
		Alex Holderness		35.50			2.06.99		4th
		Charlotte Bufton		31.50
		Emily Shaw		27.05

		Matthew Hall		31.95
		Gareth Cotter-Stone		33.16			1.58.30		5th
		Chris Gabbett		27.85
		Shane Traill		25.20

	6 x 50 Free Relay
		Emily Shaw		28.10
		Gemma Carmichael		30.00
		Alex Holderness		28.80			2.55.28		3rd
		Katherine Bowe		29.00
		Charlotte Bufton		29.30
		Emily Walker		29.50

		Gareth Cotter-Stone		26.70
		Chris Gabbett		25.80
		Louis Mech		26.40			2.38.61		5th
		Matthew Hall		27.00
		Dane Baker		26.90
		Shane Traill		25.40

	Notes:	Heats: 24 swims - 22 PB's, 2 within 1%. 6 out of 8 finals made - 8 finalists.
		Finals: 9 swims - 3 PB's, 5 within 1%, 1 within 2%.
		2 Bronze Medals - Emily Shaw 50 Free, Girls 6 x 50m Free Relay
	Compiled by Richard Thorp (ESSA Coach) 26/5/04

ISF European Schools Games – Brescia 26^th / 27^th May 2004 – Coaches Report

Twenty-four swimmers and 5 staff, travelled to Italy to compete in the European Schools’ Championships in the last week of May. Millfield represented the ESSA in the Schools’ event whilst selected swimmers (6 boys, 6 girls) swam in the National Team event. Training took place from Tuesday to Sunday with all the team swimming both into and out of the meet. Although there were only 9 nations represented, the standard of competition was high in both competitions with the medals being decided by performances comparable to the World Class Potential standard. The ESSA team was a mixture of experience and youth with most swimmers having to compete against swimmers 2 yrs older.

The Schools’ Team event was swum on Wednesday with the girls finishing a credible 4^th overall and the boys 5^th. In the heats 22 out of the 24 swims were personal best times and 8 swimmers qualified for 6 out of the 8 finals. The two highlights were Bronze medals from Emily Shaw (50 Free) and the girls 6 x 50 Free Relay team.

On Thursday the selected swimmers had their chance to impress and the girls finished 4^th overall with the boys 5^th. In the heats 9 out of 23 swims were personal bests with a further 12 swims within 3% of best times and 11 swimmers qualified for 9 out of 10 finals. Edward Downes (Maxwell) was the pick of the crop with a hard fought gold in the 200 IM and Chloe Winter (Haslemere) also got amongst the medals with a bronze in the 100 Back. Mention also to Anthony James (Plymouth Leander) who swam 58.79 in the 100 Fly to break the British Age Group 14yr Standard Time set recently by British Swimming.

All the swimmers were a credit to their schools, ESSA and their home clubs.

A huge thank you to “Sacla” Italy for their very generous sponsorship of the team.

Selected Team:

Chloe Ross, Rachael Gatford (Beckenham), Chloe Winter (Haslemere), Elspeth Taylor ( University of Bath ), Claire Manton ( Brighton ), Amy Spencer (City of Sheffield ). Ed Downes (Maxwell), Sean Downey ( Luton ), Anthony James ( Plymouth Leander), Jo sh Clinch ( Basingstoke ), Chris Fox ( Wolverhampton ), Ashley Davies (Cleethorpes & District).

Millfield School Team:

Emily Shaw, Emily Walker, Gemma Carmichael, Katherine Bowe, Alex Holderness, Charlotte Bufton. Chris Gabbett, Gareth Cotter-Stone, Dane Baker, Louis Mech, Matthew Hall, Shane Traill.

Finally a mention to the hard work of all the team staff both on and off poolside during the week (Tim Hartley, Richard Thorp, Lis Hartley , Lin Skirton and Jo hn Stiven ). A big thank-you also to Claire and Marie for all their hard work in getting the team to Italy for the meet.