Swimmers from the Borough of Kirklees took part in the North East Region Bagcat (the British Age Group Categories) Championships held at Ponds Forge in June 2008.

This meet was the last chance for swimmers to qualify for the year's National Championships.

A number of swimmers rose to the challenge and performed very well, achieving personal best times, national times and club records.

The 2 most successful swimmers were Ryan Flanagan and Abby Mae Parkinson.Both were overall winners of their age groups for 2008 with Ryan winning 2 golds,2 silver and 6 top 10 places in the 13 years age group. Abby Mae in the meantime picked up 7 gold,2 silver and 1 bronze to totally dominate the 10 years age group.

Other winners included Rebecca Whalley, who also set a club record in the 12 years 400 IM, Regen Gregg, Kieron Robinson and Jamie Brown.

First time qualifiers for this years National Bagcat Championships are George Flesher, Jamie Brown, Daniel Valerio and Harmonie Waterman.

BoK now have 18 swimmers qualified for this years National Youth and Bagcat Championships along with 3 teams.

Full Results, 9th June 2008

Gold medals

Name	Age	Events
Jamie Brown	12	1500 Freestyle (800 split*)
Regen Gregg	11	100 Breast Stroke
Abby Parkinson	10	400 Individual Medley, 200 Fly, 200 Freestyle

Silver medals

Name	Age	Events
Alex Binns	11	1500 Freestyle
Ryan Flanagan	13	200 Fly
Kieron Robinson	14	400 Individual Medley
Abby Parkinson	10	100 Back Stroke

Bronze medals

Name	Age	Events
Rebecca Whalley	12	400 Individual Medley (Club Record), 100 Breast Stroke
George Flesher	11	100 Breast Stroke
James Davies	12	100 Back Stroke

Top 10

Name	Age	Events
Alex Durkin	12	200/500 Freestyle, 200 Fly, 100 Back Stroke
Helen Clark	11	100 Breast Stroke
Joshua Woodcock-Shaw	13	1500 Freestyle
Nadiah Kazzan	11	100 Breast Stroke
Matthew Hinchliffe	13	1500 Freestyle
Nicciy Patel	14	1500 Freestyle
Boys Team	Various	400/800 Freestyle
Girls Team	Various	400/800 Freestyle
Nathan Rudge	14	200 Fly, 400 Individual Medley
Daniel Valerio	12	400 Individual Medley
Ellie McGrath	12	100 Back Stroke
Beth Sanderson	12	200 Fly
Alexandra Fisher	12	100 Back Stroke
Rebekah Simm	12	200 Fly
Conal Spencer	11	100 Breast Stroke
Jamie Brown	12	200 Freestyle, 100 Back Stroke
Thomas Mahoney	12	100 Breast Stroke
Fiona Finchett	12	100 Breast Stroke
Ryan Flanagan	13	100 Breast/Back Stroke, 200 Freestyle
Kieron Robinson	14	100 Breast/Back Stroke
Harmonie Waterman	11	200 Fly
George Flesher	11	400 Individual Medley (Club Record)
James Matthews	11	100 Back Stroke, 200 Freestyle
Nick Royston	10	400 Individual Medley, 200 Fly

Full Results, 16th June 2008

Gold medals

Name	Age	Events
Kieron Robinson	14	200 Back Stroke
Abby Mae Parkinson	10	400 Freestyle, 200 Individual Medley, 100 Fly, 200 Back Stroke
Rebecca Whalley	12	200 Breast Stroke
Ryan Flanagan	13	200 Back Stroke/Fly
Regen Gregg	11	200 Breast Stroke

Silver medals

Name	Age	Events
Ryan Flanagan	13	200 Back Stroke/Fly, 400 Freestyle
Rebecca Whalley	12	200 Individual Medley
Nicciy Patel	14	800 Freestyle
George Flesher	11	200 Back Stroke
Abby Mae Parkinson	10	100 Freestyle
Kieron Robinson	14	200 Breast Stroke

Bronze medals

Name	Age	Events
Jamie Brown	12	200 Back Stroke
Nick Royston	10	100 Fly
Kieron Robinson	14	200 Individual Medley
Daniel Valerio	12	100 Fly
Kyle Chisholm	10	100 Freestyle
Abby Mae Parkinson	10	200 Breast Stroke

Top 10

Name	Age	Events
H Waterman	11	400 Freestyle (Club Record), 100 Freestyle, 200 Individual Medley
H Clark	11	200 Breast Stroke
R Whalley	12	400 Freestyle
N Kazzan	11	200 Breast Stroke
J Matthews	11	100/400 Freestyle, 200 Breast Stroke
F Finchett	12	200 Breast Stroke
M Stanbridge	11	100/400 Freestyle
G Flesher	11	200 Individual Medley
D Valerio	12	100 Freestyle, 200 Individual Medley
R Gregg	11	200 Individual Medley
R Simm	12	100 Fly, 200 Back Stroke/Fly
J Brown	12	400 Freestyle
B Sanderson	12	100 Fly
A Durkin	12	400 Freestyle
J Davies	12	200 Back Stroke
R Flanagan	13	100/200 Back Stroke, 200 Freestyle
J Woodcock-Shaw	13	200 Breast Stroke, 800 Freestyle
J Garlick	14	200 Breast Stroke
M Hinchliffe	13	800 Freestyle
K Chisholm	10	100 Fly, 400 Freestyle, 200 Back Stroke, 200 Individual Medley
M Wood	10	200 Breast Stroke
C Mack	13	1500 Freestyle
Girls Team	Various	400 Medley
Boys Team	Various	400 Medley
C Regan	13	1500 Freestyle
A Russell	10	200 Back Stroke
N Royston	10	200 Breast Stroke
J Reidy	10	200 Breast Stroke

Top Bagcat Awards

Top Bagcat Awards

Name	Age	Team
Abby Mae Parkinson	10	Girls
Ryan Flanagan	13	Boys

The championships

Martin Mosey, Swimming Development Officer in Kirklees Culture & Leisure Services took a small squad of swimmers to take part in the Scottish National Age Group Championships 2008 in Glasgow.

The team performed really well and came away with a number of medals and outstanding times. This was a very creditable performance as the bulk of the team only competed in 2 out of the 4 days.

Highlights

Lewis Dyson picked up 3 gold medals in very tough and competitive races.The pick of his swims was the 800 Freestyle where he improved his best time and set a new club record with a 8.42.26.

Katy Venters (following up her success at the British Championships) had a comfortable win in the 16-18 years 200 Backstroke in a time of 2.20.33.

Rebecca Green knocked an incredible 25 second off her best time to win the 15 years 1500 Freestyle in 18.03.52 and set her first national time for the year and a new club record.

Alicia Holdsworth, Mathew Marshall and Holly Scott all picked up silver medals with Holly swimming her first national qualifying times in the 100 and 200 Butterfly for the year.

BOK swimmers made a further 16 finals and made a big impact for such a small team of 11 swimmers.

Full results

Gold medals

Name	Age	Events
Lewis Dyson	15	200 Individual Medley, 400Freestyle, 800Freestyle(Club Record)
Katy Venters	16-18	200 Back Stroke
Rebecca Green	15	1500 Freestyle (National Qualifying Time)(Club Record)

Silver medals

Name	Age	Events
Alicia Holdsworth	14	200 Front Crawl
Matthew Marshall	16-18	200 Fly
Holly Scott	15	200 Fly (National Qualifying Time)

Finalists

Name	Age	Events
Lucy Foreman	15	100 & 200 Breast Stroke
Alicia Holdsworth	14	100 Back Stroke, 100 Front Crawl
Matthew Marshall	16-18	100 Butterfly
Abigail Hirstle	15	100 Freestyle, 100 & 200 Butterfly
Katy Venters	16-18	100 Freestyle
Holly Scott	15	100 Butterfly (National Qualifying Time)
Alex Garbiak	16-18	200 Freestyle (National Qualifying Time)
Girls 800 Freestyle Team (K Venters, A Holdsworth, A Hirstle, R Green)	Various	800 Freestyle
Rebecca Green	15	400 Individual Medley, 200 Back Stroke
Kieran Patel	16-18	800 Freestyle
Hollie Cottrell	16-18	200 Back Stroke

BOK swimmers came away with 8 medals and 6 new national qualifying times.

Katy Venters gained 2nd places in her main events the 100 and 200 Backstroke.

Mathew Marshall, who is only 16, took second place in the mens 200 Butterfly.

Mathew was also part of the 800 Freestyle team which took 2nd place and now qualify for the national championships in August.The other team members were Lewis Dyson, Steven Thornton, Alex Garbiak.

Lewis Dyson also picked up bronze medals in the 400, 800 Freestyle and Alex Garbiak a bronze in the 100 Backstroke.

Alex, Lewis, Mathew and Robert Carrigill swam into 3rd place in the 400 Freestyle team and hope that their time will be fast enough to get through to the national championships.

The club had a large number of swimmers travel to the Wrexham Meeting and had great success.

Ryan Flanagan dominated the 13 years boys age group winning 9 gold medals and picking up a new national qualifying time in the 400 Freestyle.

Abby Mae Parkinson continues to make good progress with her racing winning 7 gold medals in the 10 years age group.

Other multi gold medalists at this meeting were Regan Gregg, Kieron Robinson, James Matthews, Amy Royston, Nathan Rudge and George Flesher.