News 2011.

Newquay Open

Newquay Cormorants held their first ever Open Swimming Event at the Dragon Centre on Sunday 8th May 2011

The Event had been made possible to hold with the fine sponsorship from the Lions and and some 18 local business within the Newquay Town.

The Cormorants would like to thank :

The competition was a huge success with many competitors commenting on the excellent run event.

With over 600 entries it was a highly competitive day , The Cormorants were in sparkling form collecting 18 gold 9 silver and 9 bronze.

Top performance went to rising star Erin Caff who who collected a nap hand of Gold with top performances for a nine year old in England in the 50 and 200 breast and freestyle event and taking her fifth gold in the 50 butterfly.

Close on her heels was 13 year old Jordan Holroyd who claimed 4 gold and 2 bronze her back stroke is emerging as one of the best prospects in the South West

Hayden Yewen in the 9 age band showed what the future holds for him with gold medal performances inb both the 50 and 200 backstroke and added 2 silvers to a fine performance.

Immy Miller had a very sound all round performance collecting 2 gold 2 silver and 3 bronze in a very busy day for the 10 year old who shows a mark of quality in the butterfly events.

The brother and sister combination of Angela and John Stafferi made it a good family double with both taking a brace of golds each John in the 50 and 200 backstroke 11 years age group and Angela in the 50 and 200 meters 10 years breaststroke. The children were born in the Philippines and would have dual Nationality if either later makes the International level.

Ellen Jenkin added to the gold tally with a swim of pure quality in the 200 meters freestyle and at the end of the 8 length event got home by coming through in the last 10 meters to win from county age group champion Molly Moules by a tenth of a second with both swimmers gaining a standing ovation

In the 11 years age band Kezia Woodhouse took silver in a personal best time for the 50 backstroke and Vincenzo Thomas did like wise in grabbing the bronze in the 50 breast.

Ryan Hewitt took 2 silvers in the 9 years events and to complete the medal total Isabel Pickup gained bronze in the 11 years age group.

Phil Goldman Newquay's Head coach said "It was a great days competition and many swimmers found the day first class as for our own swimmers there was many best times from a team that were inspired .From my own point of view we went there to get 4 swimmers qualified for the South West region Age Group that I had pinpointed for the Championships taking place in 5 weeks time and I was delighted to see us achieve that objective "

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County Age Groups March 2011

With County age group swimming championships attracting a larger entry than in the last few years the Newquay swimmers had to pull out all the stops. The performance had to be above the norm to make the medal podium.

Leading the pursuance of gold was James Allinson who captured 5 gold and 3 silver on his way to being crowned top 11 year old boy in the County.

9 year old Erin Caff also had a great championships collecting 2 gold 2 silver and 2 bronze.

The overall performance of the two youngsters was outstanding.

Cameron Russell added to the gold total and is proving himself as the fastest sprinter in the county at senior level.

9 year old Ryan Hewitt collected 1 silver and 1 bronze and with only a short preparation made the result more pleasing.

Jordan Holroyd 3 silver and 4 bronze in the 12 years age group and there was a handful of bronze medals for 10 year old Dillon Bygrave.

Hayden Yewen, who was not 9 till the final day of the championship meant that he is the youngest competitor, took silver in the 200 medley, one of the toughest events.

Phil Goldman the Newquay coach said that the results were very encouraging and it should be noted the massive number of personal best performances that never made the medals by the whole team should be applauded

He added "As we are always looking to improve our training strategy I am in the middle of reviewing the programme and will be submitting an improved plan next week to be implemented after Easter, so that all swimmers can obtain the correct level of training that they require."

It might be an interesting point to the people of Newquay to know that the club pays around £30,000 a year for the use of the waterworld pool. A massive amount of money to find for a club that membership is 90%under 14 years old.

To try and help with this massive commitment the club is having their first ever Open meet which it is hope will help with the funds required to meet there ever increasing bills .

Anyone who would like to sponsor a race or help with the fund raising should contact the secretary on 01637 876030

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New kid on the block

Joseph Schenk is the new kid on the block emerging from the Newquay Cormorants growing list of top quality swimmers that is making there presence felt on the World scene .

Joseph who is a s14 class swim had his first taste of success at the D S E British Junior Championships held in Sheffield over the weekend.

Joseph who is 16 years old still has two more years as junior and is already sending shock waves through the sport that he has arrived .

He gained 1 gold 2 silver and 1 bronze at the Championships at his first appearance.

It was not just the medals that he claimed but the manner of how he claimed them, with massive personal best times in all his events. The 200 metres freestyle is his target event at World level and that he has now improved from 2:27.0 to 2:11.0. The European qualifying time at present is 2:07.0

Coach Phil Goldman said that Joseph had only been with him since 1st September and had made an impact on the world scene in just a few months .
He added that if he continues to improve at the rate he is doing then he could have an outside chance of making London 2012.

His target is to be in the training programme but his major goal is to be a medalist in Rio in 2016 when he will be at the right age of 20 .

It is not usually possible to reach that level in less than 4 years; Joseph has a remarkable will to train and that has helped speed up his improvement

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Cormorants reign in Division 2

Newquay Cormorants youngster's were in devastating form in the final of the Cornwall County Junior swimming league Div 2

The event is the pinnacle of junior team swimming in the county for 9 year to 12 years age groups.

The club were very consistent in their age group performance winning 18 and also being second 18 times in the 48 event programme. There was personal best times for all but one of the 23 strong team (12 girls and 11 boys).

The Bodmin Dragon Leisure Centre was completely full with a very noisy mass of spectator's who were entertained to a very good and exciting competition.

Head coach Phil Goldman said that you could not pick out one swimmer they all performed as a team and that gave us the superiority that showed in the final points score with the club taking top spot by a very handsome 30 points.

He added that the club development structure that we put into place about 18 months ago as now started to take effect and for next year we should be even stronger with a good intake of very keen young swimmers.

Next year will see the team compete in Division 1

Full results

Newquay 225

St Austell 195

Carn Brea 192.5

Helston 131

Caradon 107

Camelford 64.5

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