Volunteer Heroes

Desk Support

Sandra Eales, Josie Blacklock & Dot Grogan

Lifeguards

Neil Sellars, Glynn Walker and Nigel Clark

In Water Support

Andy Blacklock and Aaron Walker

Poolside assistants

Ankur Desai, Vicky Hazlett, Rachel Shentall, Steve Hazlett and Josh Greenhalgh

Teachers and coaches

Jill Greenhalgh, Chelsea Eales, Farrah Gaskell, Jacob Greenhalgh, Phil Gaukrodger, Ian Gordon, Jordan Allerton, Oliver Dean and Clive Greenhalgh

Of our team the following people contributed over 100 hours volunteer time - the currency of our club:

Josie Blacklock
Sandra Eales
Ian Gordon
Clive Greenhalgh
Jacob Greenhalgh
Jill Greenhalgh
Neil Sellars
Glynn Walker

Well done guys - keep up the sterling work!

RASCALS at Ponds Forge for the Barnsley Extravaganza

This is the first time the club has entered the Xmas meet at Ponds Forge but we came away with a hat full of personal bests, medals and experience for these bigger events.

With this being double age groups it is difficult for everyone to win medals so hitting the heights of multiple personal bests is the way to go. Our youngest on the day was Lucy Pickard and she came away with three personal bests and doesn’t appear overawed by the occasion. In the 11 year olds we had Freddie, Joseph and Emma Masterman; Freddie came away from the event with one personal best and loads of experience, Emma aced both her events and knocked off loads of time from her personal bests, Joseph has been prolific this year in terms of PBs with 43 and just missed out today.

In the 14 year old we had Josh Greenhalgh who capped off a brilliant year with two personal bests, three medals and top boy in the 13/14 age group. Our 15 year old team was Rachel and she enjoyed the butterfly 50m so much she achieved a personal best alongside two others and a medal in the breaststroke. The oldest swimmers were Jack Gilkes, Chelsea and Jacob; Jack was the spot prize king on the day winning two prizes and getting a personal best in the backstroke; Chelsea is now back in serious training and it shows - she got one personal best and won three medals, finally Jacob got over his initial early morning nerves and recorded three personal bests and won one medal.

All in all there were 29 personal bests, seven medals and one best in age – well done swimmers.

Many thanks once again to the Team Managers; Sandra, Jill and Clive

Borough of Barnsley Open 2011 Results

Short of numbers but not in team spirit - final team gala of the season

With only 22 swimmers a Pocklington gala is difficult and it asks a lot of the swimmers to swim up in relays and still swim in their own age groups, but our swimmers did a great job all the same.

There were a bag full of first places and some really near misses - the training does pay off when a swimmer knows they can sprint the last length of four. On the day there were victories for Lauren Walker, Katie Pendlebury, Michael Foulstone, Andy Blacklock, Rachel Grashion; we also had victories in four relays. We may not have won but we swam well and tried our best.

This was Andy and Laura's last gala and the club and swimmers would like to thank them for their efforts over the years, in Andy's case it has been 12 years which has been a massive commitment to the sport and the club.

The final result was Pocklington 168, Knottingley 131, Rossington 118.

Well done to all the swimmers and many thanks to our volunteers for making the gala possible - Sandra, Glynn, Jill and Clive as well as our taxi service parents. :)

Pocklington Results v Pocklington & Knottingley