Twenty one swimmers represented Clevedon Swimming Club at the annual Somerset Sprints competition at Hutton Moor on Sunday 1st October. Between them they got through to a remarkable 19 finals - swimming against the best swimmers in the county and in one instance the World!. A surprise competitor was Matthew Clay, the current Commonwealth Gold medallist at 50m Backstroke, swimming for his home club - Chard. He gave a magnificent display of sprint swimming that will stay in the squad's memories for a very long time.

Clevedon's finalists were: Hayley Burston, Bethan Clinton, Sophie Feboul (4), Jenni Gilbert (2), George Harris (2), Sophie Hicks, Eleena Ibal (4), Chelsie Kirman, Laura Neal, Stephanie Reynolds, and Amber Summerell. Special congratulations are due to Sophie and Ellena who reached finals in all four strokes.

Highlights included podium finishes from Sophie Feboul who won Bronze in the 50m Butterfly and Amber Summerell who took the Silver in the 50m Breaststroke. Also outstanding was the girls 11 - 12 yrs Breastroke final where Clevedon had no fewer than 3 swimmers! Competing against Millfield School and the excellent Taunton Deane club, to name but two, the team did extremely well and were clearly delighted with their success.

PB's were achieved by: Danielle Appleford, Hayley Burston, Jo Cox, Sophie Feboul, Jenni Gilbert, Rosemary Harris, Sophie Hicks, Emma Hopkins, Lisa Hutchinson, Ellena Ibal, Tom Jones, Chelsie Kirman, Ruby Lynch, Laura Neal, Rebecca Parsons, Stphanie Reynolds, Tom Riddell Amber Summerell and Kelly Waygood.

Graham Feboul