Category: Swimming

28th November 202428th November 2024

MASTERS

REBECCA NEWSON WINS SOUTH WEST MASTERS DECATHLON AWARD

Rebecca Newson of Exe Masters SC is the 2023 winner of the South West Region’s Masters Decathlon award.

Throughout 2023 Rebecca amassed a score of 6138 points to win the award and take an excellent twelfth place nationally.

In the female team category Rebecca joined forces with three other Exe Masters swimmers, Kim Sadler Katie Pateman and Sue Haigh to take fourth place in the team event.

In the open/men’s category Totnes SC with their team of Kalon and Simon Veale, Dan John and Bill Leitch also placed fourth nationally.

Rebecca is pictured with Jill Beard the Regional President

20th November 202420th November 2024

MASTERS

DEVON COUNTY MASTERS WIN NATIONAL INTER COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

The Devon President, Esther Rookes, flanked by the two ‘Swimmers of the Meet’ Helen Kula -Przezwanski and Rob Shaw, along with the rest of victorious Team Devon.

2024 NATIONAL INTER COUNTY COMPETITION

After the Devon team’s success in retaining the regional shield on 10th November at Millfield, their points were put forward for inclusion in the National Inter County event.

The team knew that they had put in a really strong performance but it was not until the national positions were revealed that we learned that Devon had once again won this prestigious national competition.

Devon amassed an incredible 1972 points to take the Championship, beating Surrey into second (1963.5 points) and Hampshire in third (1951.5 points)

It was an excellent team performance with so many standout swims.

Simon Veale had an exceptionally successful afternoon, dominating his age group. He put in three stellar individual performances; in the 65+ age group he secured three national first places with exceptional swims in the freestyle, backstroke and butterfly.

More excellent swims came from Zoe Cawsey, Helen Kula- Przezwanski and Warren Barrett. Zoe Cawsey claimed the top slot in the 25+ fly and freestyle, second place in breaststroke and third in backstroke; Helen Kula Przezwanski took first place in the 65+ freesyle and fly with a second place in the backstroke and Warren Barrett claimed two national firsts in the 35+ backstroke and fly.

Other podium places were gained by Kalon Veale, winning first place in the 25+ backstroke and third in the 18+ backstroke (not bad for a 33year old!) with Ben Winter taking first in the 55+ backstroke and third in the 55+ freestyle. Rob Shaw came first in the 35+ breaststroke and second in the freestyle, Freddie Clampett took second in the 18+ fly and Rebecca Newson was second in the 35+ fly. Katie Pateman placed third in the 35+ breaststroke, with Matt Henry third in the 25+ fly and Alex Goulden also third in the 35+ breaststroke.

There were many other great swims.

Marcus Smallbone and Charlie Smith in the 45+ age group both took fourth in the fly and the backstroke, with Jodie Dilks taking fourth place in the 18+ breaststroke, Sonny Trigg fourth place in the 25+ freestyle and Rebecca Newson fourth in the 35+ backstroke.

Rebecca Jenkinson, Darren Beer, Cameron Williams, Terry Windeatt, Jenni Henry, Graham Cridland and Tegan Drew all managed top-10 positions and their individual events.

As well as some fantastic individual swimming, Devon showed the strength and depth of its team this year by taking second place in four relays, third in four relays and gaining 13 other top 10 placings!

In fact looking at the results, there wasn’t a relay that didn’t feature a Devon team in the top 10 places.

Relays taking 2^nd place:

120-159 yrs medley relay women

Emma Challis

Katie Pateman

Rebecca Newson

Kim Sadler

100-119 yrs freestyle relay men

Sonny Trigg

Matthew Henry

Freddie Clampett

Clive Marquis

120-159 yrs freestyle relay men

Thomas Howe

Warren Barrett

Rob Shaw

Kalon Veale

120-119 yrs medley relay men

Kalon Veale

Cameron Williams

Warren Barrett

Matthew Henry

Relays taking 3^rd place:

120-159 yrs medley relay men

Kalon Veale

Warren Barrett

Rob Shaw

Thomas Howe

120-159 yrs freestyle relay women

Kim Sadler

Emma Challis

Katie Pateman

Emma Bickley

72- 99 yrs freestyle relay men

Cameron Williams

Freddie Clampett

Matthew Henry

Sonny Trigg

160-199 yrs medley relay women

Emma Challis

Katie Pateman

Rebecca Newson

Rebecca Jenkinson

Full Devon team 2024

Stuart Baker Warren Barrett

Jane Bickley Emma Bickley

Darren Beer Zoe Cawsey

Graham Cridland Emma Challis

Jodie Dilks Tegan Drew

Alex Goulden Pete Hayward

Matthew Henry Jenni Henry

Thomas Howe Rebecca Jenkinson

Helen Kula-Przezwanski–

Clive Marquis Matthew Mew

Rebecca Newson Andrea Norris

Katie Pateman Jamie Page

Kim Sadler Marcus Smallbone

Charlie Smith Rob Shaw

Nigel Travers-Griffin Sonny Trigg

Dolly Trigg Kate Veale

Kalon Veale Simon Veale

Terry Windeatt Cameron Williams

Ben Winter

The team’s thanks go to Kalon Veale for his skill (and perseverance) in team selection and to Devon President Esther Rookes, Jane Brimacombe and Sara Rolle who gave up their time to officiate and support Devon.

Also, thanks should go to Robert Clark for recording the team’s individual splits on the day.

The two swimmers chosen as ‘Devon Swimmers of the Meet’ were Rob Shaw for swimming two lifetime bests and Helen Kula-Przezwanski for winning all four of her individual events at Millfield.

But of course it was a team event, so many, many congratulations must go to every swimmer on the team who brought home this national trophy to Devon once again.

What a fantastic result.

Sue Haigh

Devon Masters Representative

Full results can be found on the Swim England website

2nd November 2024

Devon QT Apple V Android views

The QT for Devon Championships when viewed on an Apple device – rather than downloading and opening- are incorrect for example the17+ 100m Freestyle Female displays 01:05.0 as the QT when viewed on an Android device or if the file is opened it is displayed correctly as 01:05.8

The way the files are viewed by different operating systems are outside of our control.

30th October 2024

Devon County QT 2025 V3 update – 30/10/24

Following further communication from Swim England after the change to 16+ QT they have changed their minds and will now allow us to have a 17+ age Group.

The QT have been reverted to show the 17+ Age Group and these will be used for QT for 2025.

The Updated QT V3 can be found here

Closing date for entries will be Wednesday 18th December 2024 and the meet pack will be published and sent to all club contacts once the License has been granted.

15th October 2024

National Inter County Team Championships 2024

The Devon County Swim Team made the long journey up to Ponds Forge, in Sheffield to compete at the National County Team Champions. The selected team of 26 swimmers came from 7 clubs across the county.

On arriving at the pool, the atmosphere was electric – with lots of cheering, horns, etc – the noise became louder and louder with great cheering and support from all our swimmers for their teammates. The racing was preceded by a parade of the different counties in fancy dress.

Our 2 captains – Lacey & Matthew – paraded our flag along the poolside accompanied by cheering from our team in the stands opposite.

The racing started and our 2 captains led from the front by competing in the first two events and both achieving personal best times. This set the tone for the whole of the gala – many personal best times were set by the swimmers – in total 25 personal best times were set. They also achieved three first places.

Well done to the whole team for their achievements and the great camerardie between all the swimmers and thanks to Glenn, Lynn, Louis and Harry for their work with the team.