Lakelanders Resume National and Regional Competitions
03 Aug 2021
The Swim Ireland Summer Meet was moved from Dublin's NAC to the Bangor venue but with spectators still not permitted. 16yr old Ellie Mc Cartney, who was competing against swimmers up to 9 years older than her, smashed her 200m Breaststroke Personal Best for the for the first time in almost 2 years finishing third in the Open race in 2:36.12. She also finished third in the 100m Breaststroke. Ellie recorded the fastest time in the women's 400m Individual Medley (5:08.85) as well as another PB in the 200m Freestyle (2:09.55). On the final day Ellie swam to another third place in the 200m IM and another fantastic best ever time of 2:22.44. Although swimming against ages much older than herself, Ellie finished top in her age group in 100m and 200m Breaststroke, 200m and 400 Individual Medley. After a topsy-turvey pandemic-affected season it was great to see Ellie back to her best and ready to rest now in preparation for another busy season ahead in 2021-22.
Dara Ronan (17) had a successful meet and was pleased with his performances. Dara progressed through to finals in all three of his events, finishing in second place in the 50m Butterfly with a 0.56 second PB, second place in the 200m Butterfly and third in the 100m Butterfly with a 0.11 second PB in the competitive 17-18 age group. Dara had the great experience of swimming alongside Irish Paralympian Butterfly record-holder, Barry McClements who we'll all hopefully hear more from when he takes part Tokyo Paralympian Games shortly.
Cora Rooney (16) competed in three events across the three day competition, finishing in fourth place in the 50m Backstroke and the fastest in her age group. Cora had an impressive swim in the 50m Butterfly where she improved her ranking from the 5th seed to a second place finish with a PB of 1.18 seconds and again the fastest in her age group.
Day 1 of the Swim Ulster Summer Swim Festival last weekend saw the 3 Lakelanders' swimmers demonstrate the great progress they've made despite the challenges of lockdown, to finish with a number of well-deserved PBs across their events.
First up for the Lakelanders was Ellie Dunlop (12) who produced a strong swim to finish in second place in the 100m Breaststroke with a 6.2 second PB. Ellie followed this with a third place finish in the 100 Backstroke with a 2.62 second PB and in her final race of the afternoon she produced another PB finishing in fourth place 200m Individual Medley with a 5.33 second time improvement.
Hannah Lynch (12) finished in third place in the 50m Freestyle with a PB of 1.43 seconds. Hannah followed this with a very strong swim in the 200, Individual Medley where she finished in third place with an impressive 19.17 second PB, Hannah also completed the 50m Butterfly event where she was close to her PB.
Hayden James (14) had a very successful meet. Swimming in the 200m Freestyle he knocked a whopping 10.31 seconds of his previous time placing him in fourth position. Hayden then swam in the 50m Freestyle earning him a 2 second PB placing him seventh in his age group.
As restrictions have gradually eased recently, the local Enniskillen Lakelanders were able to finally resume training for a short period before the end of the normal annual season, but due to the lack of training during the majority of the 2020-21 season and the timing of these events, the numbers taking part were quite low compared to pre pandemic levels of participation. However the Lakelanders' volunteer committee are currently hard at work preparing for the new season which starts in September.
Lakelanders Chairperson, Sara Lannon expressed her pride in seeing club members once again keeping the spirit of swimming competition alive saying, 'after such a tough period for everyone, it's truly wonderful to see our swimmers back at training and getting back to competing against the best in the Ulster and in Ireland. We're all looking forward to the start of the new season in September when I'm confident we can continue moving the club and our swimmers back to pre-covid normality'.
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