Essex Winter Swimming Championships
Basildon Sporting Village
28th – 29th October 2017
The swimmers from Basildon & Phoenix SC were in excellent form at the Essex Winter Championships which were held at the Basildon Sporting Village on the weekend of 28/29 of October. The long course competition comes after a 10 week period of training since the summer break and the swimmers achieved many personal best times on the way to collecting a huge haul of 14 Gold medals, 14 Silver medals and 11 Bronze medals. The club were clear winners of the Top Club Trophy when amassing 414.5 points. Runners up were Colchester SC with 168.5 points and Chelmsford SC with 130 points
Gold Medals (14):
Ellie Wheeler (5) 400 IM, 200 IM, 400 Free, 800 Free, 200 Back
Tyler Berry (3) 200 Free, 400 Free, 200 Back
Gus Veasey (3) 200 IM, 400 IM, 100 Back
Sam Bryan 200 Breast
Sam Perks 50 Back
Vejune Petraityte 200 Breast
Silver Medals (14):
Reece Nicholls (2) 400 Free, 200 Free
Sam Bryan (2) 200 Fly, 100 Breast
Emily Lane (3) 50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Back
Tyler Berry (3) 50 Back, 100 Back, 100 Free
Vejune Petraityte 100 Breast
Rebecca Howell 400 Free
Sam Perks 50 Fly
Macy Lawrence 50 Free
Bronze Medals (11):
Ellie Wheeler 200 Free
Sam Bryan 50 Breast
James Cooper (3) 100 Back, 100 Free, 200 Free
Rebecca Howell 800 Free
Harvey Jolly 50 Free
Sam Perks 100 Fly
Liam Brennan 400 IM
Vejune Petraityte 50 Breast
Georgia Pease 100 Fly
