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Work experience with the ASA... The Youth Sport Trust and ASA are looking to recruit one young person, who ideally would be between 18 and 25-years-old, to become a Young Official Development Officer within swimming – but they must get their application in by Friday 26th June 2009. Yvette Heywood, the ASA’s
Volunteer Manager, said: “This is a brilliant opportunity
for a young person to enhance their contacts within the swimming
industry. Jon and Ben Selected to Swim for GB.... Jonathan Fox and Ben Procter have both been selected to swim for Great Britain in the European Swimming Championships to take place in Reykjavik Iceland from 18th to 24th October 2009. The events that they will be competing in will be decided later in consultation with their coach [Phil Goldman] and British Swimming.. The selection was expected after their fine performance at the trials last week where they, along with club colleague Jessica Keast, all became National Champions. Phil Goldman [coach] said "Jon has a busy time with competing at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester over the bank holiday, and then he is in Germany with the British team at the end of the week arriving back in Newquay on the 31st". Ben will be in the Czech Republic for the World Global Games between July 5th and 16th after which both boys will compete at the National Youth Championships at Sheffield from July 27th for the week. Jessica will be targeting the National Short Course Championships at the beginning of November as her next major goal, where Jon and Ben will join her after their exploits in Iceland... The International British D.S.E Swimming Championships. The International British D.S.E Swimming Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, sponsored by the Nationwide Building Society, was a magnificent event for the Newquay Cormorants swimmers who produced a brilliant set of results. The event was also the qualifying event for the European Long Course Championships to be held in Iceland in October. Ben Procter stole the show and was unstoppable. The 19 year old broke 5 British records on his way to claiming gold in the 100 meters free, fly, back, 200 I.M.and the 50 free. Ben said his training had gone completely to plan with a good taper and he and his coach knew he was in for some very fast times. He will swim for Great Britain in the World Global Games in the Czech Republic as his next major event and will be a leading contender for the podium. Ben (Lane 4)
Jessica Keast claimed her first major gold medal with a massive swim in the 200 meters freestyle . Jess said "My coach stepped up my work since the new year to 6 sessions a week and its really starting to pay off and I was able to swim the race at even pace, having Phil with me helped me plan the race and I am delighted". Jonathan Fox, our silver medalist from Beijing in the S7 100 meters backstroke, was just half second outside his European record in claiming gold he was pleased with his performance after just coming back from Altitude training. Jon is back up to Manchester on Friday for the Paralympic World Cup and his events are scheduled to be televised Newquay's Matt Whorwood who is training at Swansea University where he is also studying, finished the programme with an excellent silver medal behind the gold medalist from Beijing Sasha Kindred in the 200 I.M. Highest Ever Club Points and a World Record in Bad Bergzabern... Newquay Cormorants achieved their highest ever finishing position at the very prestigious International Club Competition held for the 30th time in Bad Bergzabern Southern Germany. The Cormorants team put up the
best performance from a U.K. team in the history of the event
gaining 59 points and taking 10th place behind the overall winners
China Swim Assn. Emily Harbisher in the 12 years age band took a well earned 5th place in the breaststroke, sister Natalie in the 15 years age group had a very good weekend picking up three 3rd places a 4th and a 5th . In the same age band Brogan Parsons worked hard in taking 3rd in the breaststroke. Emily Andrew had some good P.Bs without getting in the points in the 12 years band. Rhiannon Jones, Brogan Parsons and the Harbisher sisters added valuable points in the 4 x 100 medley team taking 6th. Ben Procter who although has a S14 disability class swam outstandingly in the able bodied programme smashing the World record for the 100 butterfly and also breaking the British Record for Backstroke. He PB'd in his other 3 events and collected 17 individual points! Frazer Fox in the 16 years age
group pulled out a 57.33 to take 6th place in the freestyle. The final points score came from the 10 x 50 mixed team Fox, Procter. Roberts, Russell, and Benney with Natalie and Emily Harbisher, Brogan Parsons, Rhiannon Jones and Grace White putting up a super team performance in taking 5th place. Another honour that came
Newquay's way was after the event had finished. At about 9.00
pm Golds for Newquay Swimmers in both the DSE British Junior Championships & the Counties... With the Cormorants swimmers competing on two different fronts over the weekend the stage was set for the Fox boys with paralympian Jonathan at the D.S.E. British Junior Swimming Championships at Sheffield, and younger brother 15 year old Frazer at the Cornwall Counties second weekend of the Swimming Championships. Jonathan was in outstanding form
after his recent injury and took gold in all four events he competed
in, smashing the World records in both the 50 and 100 meters backstroke. Younger brother Frazer added the 100 and 200 meters Junior County freestyle titles to his 400 and 800 meters titles from last week, again re-writing the county records book. Jarrad Benney was also in excellent
shape adding the 400 I.M. County Junior title to his 200 fly title,
and as a late developer is starting to show his potential. Coach
Phil Goldman said that the development and improvement of the
15 to 19 years boy's age range is very pleasing and he puts the
strength of this down to the the influence of the paralympic training
programme that the boys are accessing. Natalie Harbisher completely dominated the County Senior and Junior 200 meters butterfly with a massive swim, and had taken the gold and put it away before the silver medalist had finished such was her dominance. In the age groups of the same event
Newquay showed their strength with Millie Sander 11 yrs &
Emily Harbisher 12 yrs both taking gold, with Jordan Holroyd in
the 10 yrs claiming silver. Brogan Parsons produced a massive personal best in claiming a Championship 100 meters breaststroke bronze and gave a performance that will threaten the opposition in Germany where she competes in the 14 yrs age group in ten days time. The brothers Angus and Dylon Scotney
also got among the age group medals in the 50 metrers breast with
Dylon gaining gold, and Angus the bronze in the 12yrs and 10 years
ages respectively. Jessica Keast who was up in Sheffield
with Jon Fox contributed to the very successful weekend with a
10 second improvement in time in the 50 meters backstroke, taking
gold in the S5 disability class. Her main target is the European
trials and international long course British Championships in
May.
Jon and Ben Smash World and British Records at the County Champs!... The Cormorants picked up a good quota of medals in the first half of the county swimming championships held at Penzance and Bodmin over the weekend, (28th Feb-1st Mar). Many of the performances of the team were very impressive in accumulating 10 Gold 17 Silver and 6 Bronze medal swims. Jonathan Fox was in Record breaking form taking the World and British record of 11 times Paralympic gold medallist Dave Roberts in the 50 meters backstroke class S7. Ben Procter took second place in the 100 meters Men's Championship and in so doing smashed the World record for the event for Disability class S14 and added the British record in the 50 meters backstroke. Pascal Latham S14 and Jessica Keast S5 SB4 also produced life time bests in gaining gold in their respective events. Jonathan and Jessica are at the D S E National Junior Short Course next weekend representing the South West in Sheffield. Emily Harbisher was in dominant mood collecting 5 golds and 3 silver from the 8 events she contested. Her best performances came in the multi stroke events where she completely outshone the opposition in both the 200 and 400 meters 12 years age band. Jordan Holroyd in the 10 years age group has improved alarmingly with a super 200 back gold medal performance some three and a half seconds inside last years winning time. The young lady added 2 Silver and a Bronze to her growing collection. 11 year old Millie Sander collected gold in the 400 meters I.M. with a time that says 'National Swimmer' for the event in the future. She also gained a pair of Silver and a pair of bronze medals for the mantelpiece. Frazer Fox took the 400 meters freestyle Junior title( 15 AND UNDER) and was second in the Junior 50 meters free both times will take him to the South West Regions Championships later in the year. Team mate Cameron Russell took the 50 meters Junior title with a very aggressive swim making it a one two in the event. Cameron also has a date at the Regional Champs and is looking to medal . The final gold winning performance of the weekend was produced by 11 year old Jack Semmonds who had an inspired swim in the 200 meters breaststroke and gave a clean pair of heels to his opposition . Natalie Harbisher and Ellen Jenkin also made the medal table. Natalie gained 3 silvers in the 14 and overs, and Ellen bronze in the 200 meters free in a time that would have won last year's 10 yrs event. Angus Scotney captured 2 silver and 1 bronze in the 10 years age band, brother Dylon gained 2 silver in the 12 years group. There was silver for Jarrad Benney in the 200 meters Junior Championship and bronze for Joss Boylan in the 50 meters freestyle.
Ben Procter selected to swim for GB in the Global Games but struggles for finance.
Ben who lives with his retired grand-parents in Cubert nr Newquay in Cornwall, will be competing in the 50mts 100mts and 200mts freestyle, 50mts and 100mts backstroke, 50mts and 100mts butterfly and the 200mts I.M. His Coach, Phil Goldman, said "Ben has been selected for a very busy programme with 8 individual events and 2 team events and we are looking at the balance of the event schedule and it is likely he will withdraw from the I.M. which will leave him with two events each day and hopefully two finals." Ben will be in action this weekend at the County Championships at Penzance and Bodmin. Ben has one major problem, until the World Body F.I.N.A agree to placing the learning difficulty disability back into the Paralympic Programme U.K Sport will not financially support leaving Ben and his grand-parents to find the 1300 GBP he requires for the Games. If anyone would like to help with his financial problem it would be very much appreciated by contacting his coach Phil Goldman on +44 (0)7886822190 Roll of Honour - Request for information... A ROLL of HONOUR list is being
compiled by Jim Saulter for any Swimmers from Cornwall, County Swimming Championships - A Great start for the Cormorants...! The county swimming championships got off to a very positive start for the Newquay Cormorants with just nine entries in the long distance events they climbed the podium 9 times collecting 6 gold and 3 silver, and put down a marker to the rest of the county. In the individual events there was a double gold for both Millie Sander (11 years), and Emily Harbisher (12 years), in both the 800 meters and 1500 meters events. In the latter both created new competition records! Frazer Fox came out of the shadows of his brother, the Paralympian silver medalist Jon, in taking gold in the 800 meters Junior Championship in his first major race at this distance. Natalie Harbisher picked up the sixth medal in the individual events, taking silver in the 800 meters . All four swimmers claimed their place at the South West Regional Championships with the times they recorded. The sixth gold medal came from the males 15 to 18 years age group in the 4 x 200 freestyle team, the quartet of Frazer Fox, Callum Roberts, Ben Procter and Jarrod Benney, who won an exciting race by just 7 tenths of a second from the favorites for the event, City of Truro. The boys gave in every case a super team performance knocking lumps of time off anything they had done previously. The 13 and under team sporting three 12 year olds Emily Harbisher, Emily Andrew, Ellie Vercoe and 11 year old Millie Sander, produced a fine team performance in taking silver behind the much older Truro team. Coach Phil Goldman said that the youngsters did us proud and are all young enough to swim together in the event next year with a favorites chance. Not to be over phased by their
younger team mates, the Girls 14 to 17 years age group also took
silver with the quartet of Rhiannon Jones, Brogan Parsons, Charlotte
Scotland and Natalie Harbisher who will have another three years
in the age band together. March is a busy month for the
Cormorants, including a competition in Germany from March 19th
to 23rd in which they have 13 swimmers competing in a international
club competition some 200 kilometers south of Frankfurt in Bad
Bergzabern. Cormorants are Junior Champions of Cornwall! The Newquay Cormorants Juniors covered themselves in glory with one of the best displays of league swimming in the past 20 years of Junior League history. Phil Goldman [head coach] said "It was the smallest team I have ever coached for the event, but what they lacked in squad numbers was made up for with sheer quality." "We went into the event with the bare minimum but in every age group of the team they performed with quality and grit." The Junior League Champions of Cornwall is the most prestigious competition in Cornwall for team swimming for youngsters 9 yrs to 12yrs age groups. The winning performance broke the strangle hold that City of Truro had on the Junior League Championship which they had won for the last 5 years. Newquay had a massive 52 point turn around with Truro on last years league results to run out comfortable winners by 21 points The full result of the
championship final
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