Success for Friends’ pupils at the recent Ulster Minor Schools’ Swimming Championships

Pupils from Year 8 and 9 at Friends’ travelled to Ballymena recently to compete in the Ulster Schools Minor Swimming Championships.

The pupils had lots of success in both individual and relay competitions. Their coach, Mark McGrann, commended the commitment of all of the swimmers from Friends’, for even the less experienced, who didn’t bring home medals, put in tremendous performances.

In the girls’ events, Year 9 pupils Zoë Dickey and Victoria Hunter enjoyed individual success. Zoë was 4th in the 50m Backcrawl and a finalist in the 100m Individual Medley. Victoria achieved two first places, Gold in the 50m Butterfly and Gold in the 100m Individual Medley.

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The Girls’ Medley relay team of Year 9 pupils Zoë Dickey, Rosie Collins and Victoria Hunter, together with Year 8 pupil Rachael Ledbury, finished 4th and there was a 4th place in the final also for the girls’ Freestyle Relay team of Year 8 pupils Robyn Beattie and Katie Harvey along with Year 9 pupils Zoë Dickey and Victoria Hunter.

In the boys’ events Philip Cox won Gold in the 50m Backcrawl and Jamie Allison Gold in the 100m Individual Medley, with Jack Fleming gaining a Bronze.

Jamie Allison won Silver in the 50m Butterfly, with Charlie Kenny winning Bronze. Charlie Kenny gained another 3rd place from an outside lane in the 50m Freestyle final.

Year 8 pupil Paul Cox won Silver in his Individual Medley final and also finished 4th in the 50m Breaststroke final.

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To round off the day, the boys’ Year 9 team of Philip Cox, Jack Fleming, Charlie Kenny, Jamie Allison won gold in both the Medley and Freestyle Relay.

Four Friends’ pupils, Victoria Hunter, Alexandra Hunter, James Edgar and Christopher Loan, have been selected for warm weather training with the Ulster Schools’ Squad in Tenerife at the end of October.

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