team-news

Carys Selected for the Scottish Under 15’s Girls Water Polo Squad

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:48:57 +0100

Carys has been selected for the Scottish Under 15’s Girls Water Polo Squad. she will be playing in an Inter Regional Tournament against teams from all over the UK this week-end in Birmingham.

Congratulations and good luck from your swimming squad team mates.

Hogarth Leads Scottish Schools Medal Haul

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:35:12 +0100

Emma Hogarth (Hoagie) continued her strong season by securing for herself the number one spot in the country for the 12 yr old girls 50 free with a heat time of 30.99. Emma then went on to take the Scottish Schools Gold 50 free title with a final time of 31.11. This is a great result for her School (Danderhall) and Portobello ASC. Rory McKay took silver in the 100 Fly with a 1:02.74 only narrowly missing out on top spot by 0.39. John Macdonald collected a bronze for his 2:27.15 200 IM. Great Job Emma,Rory,John the whole club is extremely proud of you all.

Ciaran To Compete In London Olympic Pool

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:34:45 +0100

Ciaran Mcgeever has been selected to represent Scotland (South/East) at the Sainsbury’s UK School Games in London from the 6th-9th of May. The Games have stupidly been placed during the Scottish exam period, so Ciaran will also be sitting one of his exams in London. We hope that this will not spoil his enjoyment of what will be a great experience for him. Ciaran will be competing in the London Olympic pool, perhaps he can set a pool record before all the Olympians get there. We wish Ciaran the very best of luck for his swims and his exam.

Portobello ASC Promoted to Lothian Leagues Division 1

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:05:12 +0100

Congratulations to all the Porty swimmers who were in attendendance at the Lothian Leagues Club Championships.
Portobello walked away with some great individual performances as well as Division 2 winning shield to boot, this will see us fight it out in the Top Division next year. Great effort from the whole team including our coaching staff who made it all possible.

Go Porty!!

TRANENT XMAS GALA, Sat Dec 10 @ Prestonpans

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:58:09 +0100

A fun day at Prestonpans, with judges wearing santa hats and lots of medals being won. We only had three swimmers in the morning but we had 17 competing in the afternoon - and, we had 5 coaches there in the afternoon which must be a record.

Ella and Gigi set the tone in the morning session, with Ella winning a full set of medals (Gold, Silver and Bronze) while Gigi won a Silver and 3 Bronze.

In the afternoon it was generally the older swimmers who won the most. JJ had an excellent session, winning 4 Golds and a Silver (and it was Scott who won the only race that JJ didn't win). Michelle also had an excellent time, collecting 4 Golds from 4 swims. Benji and Scott also won four medals from 4 swims, Benji winning 2 Golds and 2 Silvers while Scott won a Gold, 2 Silvers and a Bronze. Morgan was our top 11 yr old, winning a Gold and 3 Silvers. Fi and Laura both won 2 Silvers and 2 Bronzes each and Grace won a Silver and a Bronze. Kitty and Ben both collected a pair of Bronzes and Ellie and Louise collected one medal (a Gold for each of them). Finally, in an exciting relay race at the end of the day our A team (Morgan, Kitty, JJ and Scott) won the Gold.

EAST DISTRICTS CHAMPS, Dec 3/4 @ Glenrothes

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:47:51 +0100

This was the 200m event weekend and we had a dozen swimmers who qualified (although a couple missed the meet due to injuries).
We had four different swimmers who made finals, which is an excellent achievement, and two (Rory and Iona) who collected medals. Well done to both of them, Rory had a fantastic last 50m in the fly moving up from 5th to 3rd in the final section of the race (and almost catching 2nd place too). Rory also made the back final, JJ had a great swim in the heats of the breast to make the final and Ciaran made two finals (fly and free) and was first reserve in his other event (back).

HADDINGTON PRESIDENT'S MEET, Fri Dec 2 @ Haddington

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:16:56 +0100

As current holders, we took a full team (big thanks to Alfie and Robin for standing in at the eleventh hour) to Haddington. Its a strange event for spectators as there is no scoreboard and the swimmers who finish first don't always win top points if they are too fast (outside the timeband). We were lying 4th (of 4 teams) after the first two events, third after the third event and second after the penultimate event. However, we couldn't sustain that improvement and slipped back to finish 3rd at the end (although only 7 points behind the wimmers, so it was very close).

Our top points scorer was Sam (8 points) with Michele, Sarah, Gigi and Robin scoring 7 points each. In terms of individual swims, Stuart had the best night with a PB in all three events. Anna, Sarah and Kitty recorded two PBs and even 'special guest' Gavin got a PB in the 50m free.

CLUB TROPHIES, Sun Nov 27 @ Porty Pool

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:14:05 +0100

We had a good turn-out for this year's trophy events and a full compliment of officials to cover all five lanes. The Open events produced some excellent races, with the boys 100m breast and the girls 100m IM being the most exciting. Both of the 100m IM trophies were retained by last year's winners (Iona and John), as was the 100m fly for boys (Rory M). New winners were Nieve (100m back and fly) and JJ (100m breast, breaking a run of six years where the winners name began with S).

In the PB events, the trophies and medals are awarded to those who beat their current PB by the biggest margin. The girls 100m breast was very close with Zoe winning just ahead of Gigi and Sophie. The boys 100m back was retained by Stuart, who had set a new PB only a month earlier so he did well to win ahead of Ciaran and Benji. The final events were the 100m free where Benji won the boys event ahead of JJ and Scott. The girls 100m free was very close, with Gigi just edging Emma out of first place and Lucy picking up the bronze.

COVERDALE TROPHY, 25 Nov @ Porty Pool

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:17:58 +0100

We hosted this round of the Coverdale Novice trophy and the pool was filled with shouting and cheering as an exciting night of races took place. We had an undersized team as some swimmers weren't available which meant that we dropped a lot of points due to empty lanes. However, the swimmers who were there did really well and some picked up a lot of points for the team, especially Olivia (32 points), Ella (23 points), Rory C (21 points) and Ollie and Abbie M who both picked up 12 points for winning a race each.

Thanks to Gavin for looking after the team and a special mention to Pamela who had the hardest ever marshalling job ( no updated start sheets and about 70 or 80 very young, inexperienced swimmers to organise).

EDINBURGH SCHOOLS, 20 Nov @ Ainslie Park

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:10:27 +0100

26 Porty swimmers were competing in this year's Schools champs, representing their schools in individual and relay events. Our older boys led the way, with Ciaran, Rory and John all picking up 2 Golds each from two events. Iona and Emma both won a Gold and a Silver each and Scott and Nieve both won a Silver and a Bronze. JJ, Fi and Ellie all won Silver and Kathryn collected a bronze.

Benji helped his school team to relay Gold, John + Ciaran were half of the Portobello High team that won Silver and Thomas was also in a Silver winning team. Gigi led her school team out for a Bronze and the Portobello High team that won Bronze in the 14/15 girls comprised Nieve, Fi, Laura and Iona.

We now wait to hear who has qualified for Scottish Schools, which is much harder this year as only 12 swimmers (6 for 5th/6th yrs) from the whole of Scotland will go forward to the Finals in East Kilbride.

Well done swimmers.