TWO of the Guernsey Swimming Club’s rising stars have taken part in the ASA South East Regional Championships.
Nicole Hewlett, 13, and 12-year-old Kristina Neves both swam in the competition that was held over two weekends at the K2 Centre, Crawley recently.
Neves (pictured) came back with six gold medals from the nine races she entered.
In the 200m butterfly she came up against Emma Day of Guildford, who had got the better of her in the 100m butterfly.
It was always going to be a close race but the Sarnian came out on top with a very good time of 2min. 27.27sec., which was a new regional record.
Another top race for Neves was the 200m freestyle.
In the heats, she had a personal best time of 2-12.92, which was another regional record.
She went on to dominate the final from the start, winning by more than three seconds and smashing her own record in a time of 2-11.08.
Neves finished second in the BAGCAT points standings behind Day.
Her next competition is the British National Championships held in Sheffield later this month.
She will be competing in nine races and is ranked first in six of them.
Hewlett swam in five events at the regionals and had personal best times in all of them.
These were the 200m individual medley, the 200m and 100m freestyle and the 200m and 100m breaststroke.
It was in the 100m breaststroke where she set a very good time of 1min.19.40sec. but agonisingly just missed out on the national qualifying time of 1-19.14.
Hewlett finished 12th overall in the BAGCAT points.ASA South-East Regional Championships: GSC members in action at K2
Article posted on 9th July, 2009 - 2.29pm
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