COPS are record-breakers at national championships
They returned with one bronze medal, they broke a staggering 13 East Region records and they set 26 new personal best (PB) times to qualify for 17 finals.
Myles Robinson-Young (14) was the medallist, setting a new PB of 4:01.71 to take third place in the junior 400m freestyle. He also went on to set a new PB in the 200m freestyle of 1:54.92.
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Hide AdEighteen year-old Mollie Allen claimed four of the new East Region records and she qualified for four B finals after setting five new PBs.
She finished in the top three in two of those B finals, claiming second spot in the 50m backstroke in 27.89 and third place in the 100m backstroke in 60.24.
Allen also qualified for the B final of the 100m freestyle, where she finished ninth in 56.73, while in the B final of the 100m individual medley she posted a time of 63.12.
Rebecca Burton was another 18 year-old in record-breaking form. She claimed a new East record to make the A final of the 50m breaststroke where she finished eighth with another record time of 31.71.
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Hide AdBurton then set another East record time of 69.09 to qualify for the A final of the 100m breaststroke, where she placed 10th, and she set new PB times to qualify for the B finals in the 100m individual medley and the 200m breaststroke. She finished ninth and seventh in those respectively.
Other individual East records came from 16 year-olds Jamie Scholes and Rachel Wellings.
Scholes set his new record to qualify for the B final of the 200m backstroke and then lowered it again to 1:58.78 to finish in second place.
Wellings posted a record time of 61.01 to qualify for the B final of the 100m backstroke where she finished ninth.
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Hide AdThe women’s 4x100m freestyle team of Allen, Wellings Bethany Saunders (17) and Poppy Richardson (15) set a new East record of 3:48.32 on their way to ninth place in the final while the 4x100m medley team of Wellings, Burton, Richardson and Allen smashed another East record when taking eighth place in 4:09.24.
The men’s 4x200m freestyle team of Scholes, Dan Leigh (17), Robinson-Young and Tom Wiggins (17) were fourth in a new club record best of 7:40.99.
COPS’ other finalist was Poppy Richardson. She was 10th in the B final of the 200m butterfly with a PB.
Also swimming for COPS were Mia Leech (14), Amelia Monaghan (14) and Harvey Norman (15).