Posted by Portobello ASC on Friday, February 10, 2012,
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. Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Friday, February 10, 2012,
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.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Friday, February 10, 2012,
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 C... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Thursday, February 9, 2012,
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!! Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Monday, December 12, 2011,
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 sessio... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, December 6, 2011,
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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Saturday, December 3, 2011,
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 fini... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Saturday, December 3, 2011,
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 P...
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Posted by Portobello ASC on Sunday, November 27, 2011,
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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Sunday, November 27, 2011,
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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Sunday, November 27, 2011,
A minibus with 7 swimmers, 2 officials and a coach set off on the
Friday afternoon on our first ever trip to Inverness. An excellent
weekend followed, with 5 sessions in two days and plenty of great swims.
The big story of the weekend was Golden Girl Gallacher - Ellie
had a superb meet and picked up three Golds medals, an exceptional
performance at a high calibre event. Iona picked up two fifth places
(100m + 200m breast), securing a bronze squad time in the process. Nieve
also made a b... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Sunday, November 27, 2011,
A really big squad attended the Lothian Graded meet this year and
kept David and Sue very busy on poolside. Seventeen different swimmers
made it to finals in at least one event, a truely excellent result -
well done to them all;
Ben, four finals including a Silver and a Bronze; Fi, 4 finals producing 3 Golds and a Silver, Kitty, 3 finals including a Gold and a Bronze, Gigi and
Thomas who both had 3 finals incling a Gold each, Anna C won 2 Golds, Laura
won a Gold and a Bronze, Fi won a G... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Sunday, November 27, 2011,
This was the distance weekend and we had five swimmers competing at
Glenrothes. We had some excellent PBs, especially in the 400m free
(Emma, Nieve and Rory). Ciaran produced our first top six (and therefore
our first point) in this season's EDAG champsby recording an excellent
PB in the 1500m.
Well done.
Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Sunday, November 27, 2011,
The second round of the Club Champs were held at Porty pool and we
had a good turnout of parents and friends cheering on the swimmers.
After 11 or 12 events (depending on age), the trophy winners were
decided;
9 + under - Ella Wood + Alfie Leishman
10/11 - Emma Hogarth + Ben Scott
12/13 - Anna Connelly/Rosanna Pollock (joint winners) + Stuart McBain
14/15 - Fi Corbett + Ciaran McGeever
16+ - Louise McMahon + Rory Mackay
Well done to everyone and thanks to all the officials and helpers... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Wednesday, October 5, 2011,
A very successful weekend for our swimmers: they all achieved PB times, and some gained medals. Eilidh
swam 2 PBs (200 free and 200 IM), as did Morgan (50 free and 100
free), Laura (50 free and 50 back), Jenna (100 back and 100 breast) and
Roseanna (50 free and 100 free). Emma swam 3 PBs (50 free, 100 free and 200 back), and Anna 4 PBs (50 free, 200 free, 50 back and 100 IM). The
Slaters had a great weekend, with Gigi gaining 5 PBs (50 free, 100
free, 100 back, 50 fly and 100 fly) and Kitt... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Wednesday, October 5, 2011,
Ciaran
McGeever has been selected for the East of Scotland squad to compete in
the British Gas National County Team Championships to be held in
Sheffield on 16th October. This
is a prestigious Short Course event which matches the top age group
swimmers in three age bands against some of the best in the UK.
The
competition is 100m in all strokes, with a 4x50m medley relay and a
6x50m Mixed Freestyle Relay with 2 boys and 2 girls from each age group. Ciaran will be swimming freestyle ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
This was the final chance of the season for a few of our swimmers
to secure bronze squad times or record new PBs. Once again, our top
performer was Ciaran who recorded a bronze squad time with every swim
(just missing a silver time by half a sec in the 200m free), won 4
golds and a silver and picked up the best boy trophy in the 13/14 age
group. Rosanna also had a great day on Sat, recording three bronze squad
times from three swims. Emma tackled two tough events (200m fly and
400m... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
2 LEAGUES TITLES AND 1 RUNNER-UP
As the 2011 Lothian Leagues came to an exciting conclusion,
we ended up winning two of the Leagues and finished 2nd in another. The
morning session saw some great swims from a number of swimmers - Eilidh
and Ben had excellent PBs in the 200m free, Gigi and Sophie had good
improvements in the 100m IM, Robin had a great swim in the 50m back (4.5
sec PB), Zoe took another 2.8 sec off her 50m fly best time and both
Emma and Thomas improved their 50m breast ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
A very good day at Leth Academy and a very productive afternoon in
particular. Gigi had an excellent day, winning two golds and a silver
from only three events. Jenna won a gold (winning the breast just ahead
of Gigi, so we got both gold and silver), Thomas won two silvers in his
only two events, with Sophie and Caitlyn both winning a bronze. The
relay team (Ella, Erin C, Gigi, Robin, Sophie and Thomas) also won a
bronze.
We also saw some excellent PBs from Ella (breast), Thomas
(free...
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Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
A relatively rare chance for some
of our swimmers to compete in a long course meet, this year's ED Open
was at Tollcross (which, of course, is not actually in the East). Our
top performer over the weekend was Ciaran, who won our one medal (in the
100m fly) and also secured a 4th place and two 5th places. Both John
and Iona just missed a medal, finishing 4th in the 200m back and 50m
breast respectively.
Ciaran recorded PBs in all but one of his events, Iona had two
PBs, Anna C, Nie...
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Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
We only had seven swimmers at this year's Total Swimmer meet but still
managed to have two finalists in this high standard event. Both Emma H
and Iona qualified for the 200m IM final in their respective age groups
with Emma collecting a bronze medal. The quality of our girls swimming
(Erin, Nieve, Jade, Morgan and Eilidh along with our two finalists) was
such that all events saw the majority of them recording a PB - in the
100m IM there were 6 PBs, 50m back had 6, so did 50m fly, 50m b... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
We had a sizeable group of swimmers at the LDD gala, two of whom
did very well in reaching some finals. Laura made four finals, taking a
gold and three silvers and Rosanna made two finals (back and fly).
There were numerous PBs
across the day, some into double figures in terms of number of secs
improvement. The biggest PBs were Grace (back), Sarah (fly), Anna S and
Stuart (back), Grace and Stuart (free), Kitty and Jenna (back), Louise
(free), Stuart (breast) and Sarah (free). Many thank...
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Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
I would like to
take this opportunity to officially welcome David Pennington
(pictured) to Portobello A.S.C. David has joined us from the University
of Edinburgh Performance squad where he enjoyed a long and successful
swimming career under some of the country’s finest and most free
thinking coaches. David’s enthusiasm for the sport of swimming along
with in depth knowledge of stroke mechanics and long term athlete
development all add up to one heck of a coach.
I am delighted to
h... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
Dear Parents and swimmers,
As you all know a couple of months ago
Portobello ASC enlisted the services of Darren Ward as our club
development officer with a view to improving all aspects of the swimming
section of our club. I am sure most of you will have met him or seen
him at sessions in the last couple of months. Since starting in
December Darren, and the management committee as a whole, have been
working tirelessly behind the scenes to evaluate where we as a club are,
where we wan... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
We had 9 PASC swimmers in total who qualified for the Finals this
year representing their schools, with no less than 5 swimmers making it
into the top 12 of their respective events. Despite the lack of
training in a long course pool there were still lots of PBs, most
notably Ellie G who came 10th overall in the 100m Back for 12-13 year
old girls. But it was Rory McKay who stole the day, taking the bronze
medal in the 100m Fly and was then straight into the pool for the 200m
Back whe... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
Our most important team competition of the year, this year we were
once again competing in the top division. After a hectic day of racing,
the final positions were decided by the relays and, by a tiny margin of
only 2 points, we finished 4th and will therefore be competing in Div 2
next year.
There were lots of exciting races but the best came at the end when
the excellent 14+ boys team of Scott, Rory M, John and Neilson won a
very noisy 4x 50m free race. The young girls team also took ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
It only comprises four relay races but the Telfer Cup
is an important part of the swim season - apart from anything else,the
trophy itself is one of the oldest in Scottish swimming. We managed to
get three of our 4 team in the medals which meant that we finished in
third place overall.
In terms of individual performances, there were excellent
swims from Jamie D and Ellie who both swam official PBs and from Laura,
JJ, Ciaran, Rory M and the legend that is Neilson. Well done ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Portobello ASC on Tuesday, June 28, 2011,
We had a small team at this development gala aimed at
younger swimmers. Other than the bizarre requirement for all swimmers to
wear the same yellow caps (which made warm-up a bit difficult to
monitor), the kids all had a great time.
We had three top 6 finishes (Elilidh in the back and breast, Thomas
in the breast) and several good PBs, best of which was Jenna who took
nearly 4 secs off her 50m free time. Other best swims were Holly in the
50m back, Erin in the 25m free and ... Continue reading ...
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