ULSTER GRAMMAR SCHOOLS Venue - Grove Baths - Belfast

on 26th November 2005

Several of our swimmers entered the Ulster Grammar Schools David Patton opened the first session for us and came in with a great pb. Sophie Maxwell got a good pb in her 50m backstroke, Phillippa Laverty was lined up to swim beside to our Ulster record holder/champ, Melanie Nocher, and still held her head to get a good pb, Patrick Traill got 5th in the heats and came 4th in the finals for good points for Dalriada in the 50m breaststroke, Sophie Maxwell went on to get 15th in the 50m breaststroke.  Ruth Acheson came in 8th in the senior 50m breaststroke.  Michael Monteith narrowly missed his 50m senior breaststroke final and came in 7th place, pipped by 35/100th of a second,  Rachel McElfatrick had a good race in the 50m butterfly. In the 50m Butterfly junior - Patrick Traill swam into 4th place in the heats and picked up 4th place in the finals.  Bruce Traill swam in 6th place and came 6th in the finals - still another two years to go in this group - points for final placings - Jillian Montgomery swam into 16th place in her 50m butterfly while Philliippa and Ruth were 11th and 12th in the senior fly.  Bruce Traill made 8th place in the 50m free and Karl Cooper picked up the first medal of the day - Bronze for 3rd place in the 50m free.  More points.  Jillian Montgomery then swam a 16th in the 50m free.  Karl got 4th in the 100IM heats and swam a slower race into 5th in the finals - more points.  David Patton had a good swim and pb in the 100IM,   With points fairly close at the end of the individuals Dalriada junior team swam into second place in the MTR heats and got Gold in the finals - they swam 2nd place in the freestyle and got the Silver in the finals - that put them just 7 points behind for the overall section cup - which they remained runners up for.

Great day - the junior relay team did especially well with points for anyone in the finals, great display of a set of gold medals and a set of silver medals, and Karl with a Bronze medal and then for the team to get the overall runner up in the boys junior section - fabulous !! The relay team were Karl Cooper, Patrick Traill, Bruce traill and David Patton

ALL IRELAND MINOR SCHOOLS FINALS

Venue - National Aquatic Centre Dublin

3rd December

IN the first session, which started at 9am for the warm ups, Rebecca Webb had qualified for frontcrawl and backcrawl and swam great pbs.   Andrew McCulloch - Qualified for Back and Front - got 7th place in the finals of the Backcrawl - two great pbs.

In the Second session  which we went straight through into, Bruce Traill thundered into both his finals - the 100IM and the backstroke. The Medley Team - (in swim order) Iain McCulloch, Mathew Glen, Bruce Traill and James Burnside - swam a great pb, but just missed out on a finals place.

Bruce converted his two first place finals into two Golds and the Freestyle relay team - swimming Mathew Glen, Iain McCulloch, James Burnside and Bruce Traill - stormed into a superb final in 6th placing - which they later converted - with 100% Pbs all round and a 4 second pb off their Grove time,  into a 5th place.

The team have worked hard in the last few months to get this result, and deserved the weekend away, the medals, certificates, recognition and praise.