Castlebar Swimming Club
Castlebar Swimming Club News Update - 26 Mar 2004
By Linda McCaffrey
26, Mar 2004 - 01:40

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.