Fionnuala and Annie make Big Waves at Annual Club Gala.
Castlebar Swimming Club hosted their Annual Invitation Gala, which was sponsored by permanent tsb on Sunday 21st March 2004. The gala attracted a huge entry from all the top clubs in Connacht including Athlone, Ballina, Claremorris, Galway, Longford, Roscommon, Shark, Tuam and Westport.
PERFORMANCES OF THE DAY must go to Fionnuala Quinn who came from behind and won her U 14 Breaststroke event making a Division 1 time and Annie McCormack with a an excellent personal best time to win gold in U12 100m Freestyle.
Other sterling performances were recorded from the following:
GOLD MEDAL WINNERS – Laura English – 100m Fly & 100m Freestyle Colm Garrick – Senior 100m Backstroke & 100m Freestyle Darragh Quinn –Senior 100m Fly John White – U 16 100m Backstroke Dara Dever – Senior 100m Breaststroke Annie McCormack – U12 100m Freestyle Fionnuala Quinn – U14 Breaststroke Laura Keaveney – U16 100m Freestyle Doireann Dever – Senior 100m Breaststroke
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS - Sarah Caulfield - U16 100m Backstroke & U16 100m Freestyle Annie McCormack - U12 100m Fly Aisling Bourke - U14 100m Fly John White - U16 100m Freestyle Laura Keaveney - U16 100m Breaststroke Jimmy Wiseman - Senior 100m Freestyle
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS - Conal Joyce - U14 100m Fly Stephanie Ford - U14 100m Fly Sally Cunniffe - U12 100m Backstroke Natalie Bourke - U14 100m Backstroke James Sweeney - U14 100m Breaststroke Darragh Quinn – Senior 100m Backstroke Fergus Sweeney - U16 100m Breaststroke
Other swimmers, who competed, included Meabh Garrick, Aisling Walls, Rory Grier-Gavin, and Elaine Joyce bringing the total number of swimmers from the club to 32.
Gold for Relay Teams. The Girls U 16 relay team of Elenor Grier-Gavin, Sarah Caulfield, Laura Keaveney and Aisling Bourke took gold in the 4x50m Freestyle and the Senior boys relay team of Colm Garrick, Jimmy Wiseman, Darragh Quinn and Brian Moran also took gold in the 4x50m Freestyle.
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