Two of Sedgefield 75 ASC’s swimmers were honoured to be selected as part of the England North swimming team at this year’s Sainsbury’s UK School Games. The games which took place from the 4th to the 7th of September 2014 in various locations around Manchester involved 1600 athletes from various sporting disciplines.
The swimming competition was held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre in the centre of the city and involved teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Sedgefield 75 ASC’s Hannah Featherstone aged 15 swam in three events. She took the bronze medal in the girls 200M freestyle event achieving a time of 2.05.74. She then swam in the girls 4 x 100M freestyle relay team swimming a very strong second leg of the relay in which the England North girls team took the gold medal. Hannah also competed in the girls 4 x 200M freestyle relay team in which she swam on the last leg of the event and brought the team home to take their second gold medal in the girls team events.
Matthew Bradley aged 16 was Sedgefield 75 ASC’s second swimmer to be chosen for the England North team. Matthew competed in the men’s 50M freestyle event taking the bronze medal in a time of 24.71 seconds. Matthew then swam the third leg of the men’s 4 x 100M freestyle taking the team into the lead after his swim and the team held on to take the gold medal in the event. Matthew also took part in the men’s individual 100M freestyle in which he achieved a time of 54.75.
The England North team fielded a strong squad and won overall in the swimming competition.
Both Hannah and Matthew were excited about the whole event and had a very exciting weekend in which they also got to spectate at the cycling events in the National Cycling Centre’s Velodrome and watched the England hockey squad beat Scotland in the final of the hockey competition.
Head Coach, John Moore, was pleased to see that two of his swimmers had been chosen for the prestigious event and could see the reward of hard work and training had paid off with some good personal times achieved by Hannah and Matthew at the very start of the 2014/2015 swimming season.
