Larbert Swimmers Sink the Opposition

This past Thursday the LHS swim team travelled to Grangemouth swimming centre for the annual schools swimming gala. There was a lot to compete for as Larbert had won the overall title the past two years and were hoping to retain the trophy.  Larbert swam extremely well and won lots of medals, gold silver and bronze.  In the end Larbert walked away with the hat trick of titles taking trophy home once again.

 

The Gala started off with the Relay races and Larbert got off to a great start with the S1 and S2 boys winning bronze and the S1 & S2 girls winning Gold. The relay events finished off with the S5 and S6 girls also winning gold.  Larbert were doing fantastically well and kept it going in the singles events.  The first Singles event was the Back stroke and Larbert High’s James Ablett  won a silver medal. Larbert were on fire at this point and Kimmy Buchanan and Nina Johnstone followed up James’ success by swimming into first and second place.  The next event was the breast stroke and straight away back stroke gold medallist Kimmy Buchanan bagged gold and Holly Newlands won silver in the same race

 

It was sink or swim time for the Larbert Swim Team

So far, the gala had been a great success for LHS. The poolside was hot and the swimmers were ready to get back in action. At the halfway point Larbert were in the lead by 17 points, but could they continue their form after the break?

The 2^nd half of the events went in Larbert’s favour with lots more medals.  It was time for the butterfly.  Daniel Woods bagged a bronze and Julie Nimmo earned silver, at this point LHS were still leading with a total of 204 points!

The day was coming to an end but there were still 2 more events to take place. It was the freestyle events. Larbert kicked off the freestyle events brilliantly with Nina Johnston bagging her 2^nd medal of the day and Daniel Woods swam into 2^nd place. Larbert were on fire Lucy Allan added to the occasion by bagging gold in the freestyle!

Larbert Dive to success at the Schools Swimming Gala

 

The last event was crucial as it was the mixed relay and this event was worth double points. At this point in the day LHS were still in the lead on 284 points! St Mungos were 2^nd with 266 points and in 3^rd place were Denny with 216 points.  It could have still gone either way.  The first mixed event was the S1 and S2 team of 8. The 8 swimmers made it into first place and getting the extra points to top things off. Next up was the seniors who finished in a tight 3^rd place.

 

All the events were over and Larbert had retained the trophy for the third year running.  Overall it was a great day and the Larbert Swimming Team was left celebrating their third success in a row.

by Cammy Dick