Devon County Championships Feb – Mar

Katie Want and Nicola Porter qualified for the Devon County Championships. Katie for the 100m butterfly and Nicola both 50m & 100m breaststroke.

Royal Navy Open Masters competition – 27th March

5 swimmers from the club took part in the masters competition, this year the event took place at Millfield.

Ann Grantham won 1st in 50m & 100m freestyle and 2nd in 200m & 400m freestyle

June Porter gained a 2nd in 50m backstroke and 3rd in 50m breaststroke.

Zoe Porter won 1st in 50m backstroke, 2nd in 50m breaststroke and 3rd in 100m breaststroke

Caitlin O’Malley and Pete Redbourn also took part and Diego Walker was officiating.

Ann also received an award from the Navy (top swimmer) for achieving most points throughout the year.

Devon Sprint Gala - 3rd April

5 swimmers took part in the Devon Development sprint gala; Emily Walker, Alice Kellett, Katie Want, Gabriel Cox and George Moss.

RMB Stonehouse Barracks swimming Championships – 4th & 7th April

There were 12 records broken at the RMB swimming championships.

Caitlin O’Malley broke the 25m, 50m & 100m Butterfly, 100m Backstroke.

Jordan Roberts broke the 25m Backstroke and her twin sister Rhian broke the 25m Freestyle.

The girl’s team also broke the 4 x 1 Freestyle relay record.

In the men’s events Adam Bolton broke the 25m, 50m & 100m Freestyle, 25m Backstroke and 100m Butterfly records.  

Guernsey Masters Open competition – 8th April

Ann Grantham returned to her home island of Guernsey again to compete in their open competition (using her full name) She won a 1st in 50m freestyle, 2nd in 100m & 400m freestyle and 100m IM and 3rd in 200m freestyle.

Royal Navy West country Weekend - 9th & 12th May

Rhian Roberts broke the 4 x 25m Individual Medley record and the record for the mixed 8 x 1 Freestyle relay was also broken.

Devon Development Gala – 18th & 19th June

5 swimmers took part at Kingsbridge; Alice Kellett, Emily Walker, Allys Williams, George Moss & Katie Want.

Club Championships – 9th – 21st July

28 new records were set during the championships they were

Tia Want 25m backstroke

George Moss 50m backstroke, 100m butterfly, 800m freestyle & 200m IM

Ehren Duke 200m backstroke & 200m freestyle

Charlie Killick 200m backstroke, 200m breaststroke & 400m freestyle

Daniel Lowe 200m breaststroke

Molly Slater 200m breaststroke

Emily Walker 200m Breaststroke, 200m backstroke, 200m & 400m freestyle and 200m IM

Katie Want 200m backstroke, 200m & 800m freestyle

Nicola Porter 200m breaststroke

Rhian Roberts 100m butterfly & 50m freestyle.

Chris McArthur 200m IM

Steve Etchells 800m Freestyle

Caitlin O’Malley 200m butterfly, 800m freestyle & 200m IM

Devonport Royal interclub imps gala – 25th July

We were invited to take part in this gala and had 18 swimmers able to take part. Although we had to swim many swimmers up to cover all age groups the club team did really well.  The team were able to show off the club t-shirts & shorts donated by the RN.

Breakwater swim – 31st July

Caitlin O’Malley and Steve Echells represented the club is this swim.

Devon County Senior & Masters competition – September

Chloe Walker gained a 3rd in the 100m Backstroke

Nicola Porter gained a 2nd in the 50m & 100m breaststroke and 100m butterfly

Anne Grantham gained a 1st in the 50m & 100m freestyle

June Porter gained a 2nd in the 100m Backstroke & 50m Breaststroke, a 3rd in the 50m Freestyle & 50m Backstroke

Exeter Sprint competition – September

8 swimmers took part in this competition with some good PB’s; Emily Walker, Katie Want, Alice Kellett, George Moss, Gabriel Cox, Emma Lowe and Nicola & Zoe Porter.

RMB Stonehouse Open competitions – 3rd & 6th October

9 new records were set; Adam Bolton 100m Freestyle, Micky Nolan in 100m Backstroke, Rhian Roberts in 4 x 1 Individual medley, Caitlin O’Malley in 100m Backstroke & 200m Individual medley.  Also in both male and female 4 x2 medley and freestyle relays.

City of Plymouth Competition – 12th – 22nd October

8 swimmers took part in the competition at Central park with Diego & Helen Walker helping with the computer system. Swimmers were Alice Kellett, Gabriel Cox, George Moss, Allys Williams, Emily walker

Nicola Porter came 1st in the 100m Butterfly, 2nd in 50m breaststroke and 3rd in 50m & 100m Freestyle and 100m IM.

Chris McArthur came 3rd in 400m Freestyle

Katie Want came 3rd in 100m Butterfly.

British Gas ASA National Masters & senior age group competition – 28th October

Ann gained a 2nd place in the 100m freestyle.

Presentation evening – 25th November

As usual a successful presentation evening at the RMB Stonehouse with Aaron Richaus and Lauren Vertigan presenting the prizes. Both are swimmers from Plymouth Leander who swam in the Youth Games and hope to be Olympic contenders.

Drake skittles – 14th December

The competitive swimmers, older swimmers and parents held a skittles and pizza evening at the skittle alley in HMS Drake.