Another fantastic weekend of swimming from all the swimmers at the final round of the East District age group championships.  An amazing 8 East District champions, numerous medalists and finalists all helped Hearts into second place in the team competition.  Well done to all.  Full results below.  Thanks as well to all the parents who helped as officials, marshals, announcers and on the door.  Final thanks to the coaches who were poolside all weekend – Phil, Trish, Michal and Jill.

We also had two overall age group champions: Jack McGill in the boys 14 years and Katie Taylor in the girls 17+ years.

• Jack McGill, East District champion 14 years 200m Individual Medley
• Ellie Reilly, silver 15 years 200m Individual Medley
• Kate Taylor, bronze 17+ years 200m Individual Medley
• Ellie Reilly, East District champion 15 years 50m breaststroke
• Jack Brown, bronze 13 years 50m breaststroke
• Kate Carruthers, silver 11-12 years 100m backstroke
• Holly McGill, silver 13 years 100m backstroke
• Rowan Saunders, silver 14 years 100m backstroke
• Ellie Reilly, bronze 15 years 100m backstroke
• Rory Young, bronze 16 years 100m backstroke
• Kate Carruthers, East District champion 11-12 years 50m butterfly
• Emma Russell, East District champion 15 years 50m butterfly
• Keanna MacInnes, East District champion 17+ years 50m butterfly
• Jack McGill, silver 14 years 100m freestyle
• Kate Carruthers, silver 11-12 years 100m freestyle
• Emma Russell, East District champion 15 years 100m freestyle
• Ellie Reilly, East District champion 15 years 100m breastroke
• Kate Carruthers, silver 11-12 years 50m backstroke
• Holly McGill, silver 13 years 50m backstroke
• Rowan Saunders, bronze 14 years 50m backstroke
• Kate Carruthers, bronze 11-12 years 100m butterfly
• Emma Russell, silver 15 years 100m butterfly
• Keanna MacInnes, silver 17+ years 100m butterfly
• Kate Carruthers, silver 11-12 years 50m freestyle
• Emma Russell, silver 15 years 50m freestyle
• Boys 13-14 years 200m medley relay, bronze
• Girls 13-14 years 200m medley relay, bronze
• Boys 17+ years 200m medley relay, bronze
• Girls 17+ years 200m medley relay, silver
• Girls 11-12 years 200m freestyle relay, bronze
• Boys 15-16 years 200m freestyle relay, silver
• Girls 15-16 years 200m freestyle relay, silver
• Girls 15-16 years 200m medley relay, East District champions
• Girls 17+ years 200m freestyle relay, silver
• Boys 17+ years 200m freestyle relay, bronze

Another successful weekend of swimming at East Districts round 2, with 5 individual swimmers coming home as East District champion. This weekend saw each event swum over 200m , plus the boys 800m free and relays postponed from round 1.

• Jack McGill 14 years East District champion 800m free
• Finlay Saunders 17-18 years East District champion 800m free, Angus Rutherford silver.
• Emma Russell 15 years East District champion 200m free, Ellie Reilly bronze.
• Katie Taylor, bronze 17-18 years 200m free.
• Ellie Reilly 15 years East District champion 200m breaststroke
• Jack McGill 14 years East District champion 200m free
• Jack McGill 14 years bronze 200m butterfly
• Holly McGill 13 years silver 200m backstroke
• Emma Russell 15 years bronze 200m backstroke
• Katie Taylor 17-18 years silver 200m backstroke
• Jack Brown silver and Fionnlagh McGuire bronze 13 years 200m backstroke
• Jack McGill 14 years bronze 200m backstroke
• Finlay Saunders 17-18 years bronze 200m backstroke
• Ellie Reilly 15 years silver 200m butterfly
• Luci Robertson 16 years silver 200m butterfly
• Katie Taylor 17-18 years East District champion 200m butterfly

Plus plenty of personal bests and coloured pens for positions 4 to 8!

On the 23rd December 2017 a festive bunch of swimmers and parents descended on Tesco Colinton for a full day of bag packing.   We had a great day, everyone including the shoppers were definitely in the festive mood.  As a result we made a whopping £1300!

The income from monthly training fees doesn’t fully cover the cost of pool hire, coaching and lifeguards.  We depend on other income from other sources, but predominately fundraising.  Please help your club by getting involved.  Don’t just rely on someone else doing this.  Out of 130 competitive swimmers in the club only 30 came along to this day.

Well done to everyone who came along and gave up some of their time on a busy day.  Hopefully see many more of you next time!

Adam Funnell and Holly Thorley win the 2017 10 and under IM cups at the club Xmas fun day.

The age group winners were:

Boys

• 9 – Josh Elliot
• 10 – Sam Harkness
• 11 – Joseph Robertson
• 12 – Jack Brown
• 13 – Jack McGill
• 14 – Jacob Silverston
• 15 – Rory Young
• 16 – Angus Rutherford

Girls

• 9 – Layla Wedderspoon
• 10 – Eve Chalmers
• 11- Kate Carruthers
• 12 – Holly Lumsden
• 13 – Rowan Saunders
• 14 – Emma Russell
• 15 – Luci Robertson
• 16 – Keanna MacInnes

Great results at Scottish National Short Course Open 8-10 December 2017 including:

• 200m Fly gold in a Scottish Senior and Scottish junior record (2:07.90) and junior title for Keanna MacInnes
• 100m Breaststroke 14 year Scottish Age group record 1:09.73 for Ellie Reilly
• 100m Fly silver and junior title for Keanna MacInnes
• 400m IM bronze and junior title for Keanna MacInnes
• 4x50m medley relay junior title Anna MacFarlane, Ellie Reilly, Keanna MacInnes and Emma Russell
• Plus individual swims from Louise MacArthur, Mary Mackie, Emma Russell, Luci Robertson, Angus Rutherford, Finlay Saunders, Katie Taylor, Alice Walker-Stewart and Rory Young

Katie Taylor, Keanna MacInnes, Emma Russell and Ellie Reilly at the 2017 Edinburgh Sports Awards where Hearts were nominated in 4 categories.

• 7 East District age group champions and an East District age group 1500m freestyle record for Emma Russell (17:42.97) at Glenrothes.

Keanna MacInnes selected for Team Scotland for Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Two golds (1.25k and 2.5k) and a bronze (5k) for Keanna MacInnes at the 13th Cyprus Open Water Marathon.

New Scottish age group record of 00:57.14 for Emma Russell in 100m free at the National County Team Championships