March Marlins at the Fenland Open Meet

March Marlins Co hosted and took part in the Fenland Open Meet  this weekend taking 13 swimmers with some fantastic swims bringing home 12 trophies in total and 20 new personal bests and 1 top Boy. Adam Lifshack (13yrs) fought hard in the first session to win first place in 100 M breaststroke, and 100M Freestyle (New PB), in the second session of the day he was piped into second place for 100M Butterfly (New PB) and 100M Backstroke, he was crowned overall top 13 year boy. Daniel Riches (9yrs) swam to first  place in 50 M Butterfly (New PB), ) and 50M breaststroke (New PB) New personal best times in 50 M freestyle. Luke Cable (10 yrs) swam to fourth place in 50 M breaststroke and new personal bests in 50M Backstroke and 50 M Freestyle. Emily Morris (14 yrs) swam to fifth place in 100M Butterfly and sixth place in 100M Freestyle ( New PB) and 100M Backstroke, she also set new personal bests in 100M Breaststroke. Charlotte Riches (13 yrs) swam sixth place in 100 M backstroke ( New PB) and 100M Breaststroke and gained a new personal best in 100M Butterfly. Siobhan Halliday(9yrs) swam to sixth place in 50 M Butterfly ( New PB) and set a new personal best in 50 M Backstroke. New personal bests for Kiahra Cottam in 50M Butterfly, and 50M Breaststroke Jess Cable  100 M Backstroke and 100 M Freestyle, Richard Shaw 100 M Freestyle, Sam Vardon 50M Freestyle.
Also swimming on the day were Graham Shaw, James Vardon and Richard Petersen 

March Marlins at the West Norfolk Open Meet  

March Marlins took part in the West Norfolk Open Meet at Kings Lynn this weekend taking 12 swimmers with some fantastic swims bringing home 15 medals in total and 28 new personal bests. Adam Lifshack (13yrs) snatched first place in 50M breaststroke, and 100M Individual Medley, second place for 50M Butterfly (New PB) and 50M freestyle and fourth place in 50 M backstroke (New PB). Daniel Riches (9yrs) was successful in gaining first place in 50 M Butterfly (New PB), second on 100 M Individual Medley (New PB) and 50M breaststroke (New PB), fourth in 50 M freestyle, and fifth place in 50 M backstroke. Luke Cable (10 yrs) swam to second place in 100 M Individual Medley (New PB), third in 50M breaststroke and fourth place in 50 M backstroke. Charlotte Riches (13 yrs) swam to fifth place in 50M breaststroke and sixth place in 50 M backstroke and 50M Butterfly. New personal bests for Kiahra Cottam in 50M Freestyle, Gemma McGowen 50M  Backstroke, 25 M Freestyle and 50 M Butterfly, Siobhan Halliday 50 M Breaststroke, 50 M Butterfly and 100 M Individual Medley, Katie McGowen 50 M Backstroke and 50 M Butterfly, 100M Individual Medley and 25 M Freestyle, Jess Cable  50 M Backstroke and 25 M Freestyle, Richard Shaw 50 M Butterfly, 50 M Backstroke, 50M breaststroke and 100M Individual Medley, Graham Shaw 50 M Backstroke, 25 M Freestyle, 50M breaststroke, Adam lifshack 25 M Freestyle, Luke Cable 25 M Freestyle.

March Marlins at the Cambridgeshire County Championship

March Marlins took part in the Cambridgeshire County Championships over the last 2  weekends taking 5 swimmers but winning 7 medals in total. The first weekend action involved Luke Cable winning gold in 100M Backstroke and bronze in 200 Backstroke and getting to the final in 50 freestyle and 50M backstroke and coming in sixth and fifth respectively. Luke also took part in 100M IM and made the final and came in fourth. Luke gained new personal best times in all swims. Adam Lifshack made the final of 50M freestyle and was piped into silver by 11 hundredths of a second, and he also made the 100M freestyle and 100M IM finals coming  sixth in both events, 800M freestyle he got bronze and sixth place in 200M freestyle. Adam gained new personal best times in all swims. Sam Vardon took part in 50 M freestyle and just missed out on the finals.Emily Morris took part in 50M butterfly making the final and came in fifth with a new  personal best time. Charlotte Riches took part in 50 M Breaststroke gained a new personal best time.
This weekend Adam Lifshack took part in 200M breaststroke coming home in silver position and making the finals for the 50 M and 100M Breaststroke and coming home in silver position in both events with new personal bests. Luke Cable made the 50 breaststroke final and came home fourth with new personal best. Charlotte Riches took part in 100M freestyle and 50 M freestyle gaining new personal bests in both events. Emily Morris took part in 50M backstroke setting a new personal best .Marlins had 3 relay teams in the final session of the counties, with all swimmers succeeding in competing and setting new personal best times, see photo.

Congratualtions to Steph and welcome to Yasmine from everyone at March Marlins

March Marlins on the Up

March Marlins finished 2009 with an excellent result by winning The Patterns Transport Gala held by Wisbech at Whittlesey Manor Leisure Centre on Saturday 21st of November 2009 . Marlins racked up 31 personal best times , twelve 1st places , eleven 2nd places , eleven 3rd places , Six 4th places , three 5th places.Personal best went to Monica young in 50m freestyle , 50m backstroke. Thomas Cave in 50m freestyle , 25m butterfly. Chloe Richardson in 25m breaststroke, 25m backstroke. Sam Vardon in 25m breaststroke. Ty Veness in 25m backstroke. Rebecca Page-Mitchell in 25m Breaststroke. Graham Shaw in 25m Butterfly , 25m Breaststroke. Anna Dubois in 50m Freestyle , 50m Butterfly. Jack Biggs in 50m Freestyle , 50m Backstroke. Megan Fitzsimons in 25m Backstroke , 50m Backstroke. Jake Wallington in 25m Backstroke. Katie Mcgowen in  25m Butterfly. Charlie Revell in 25m Butterfly , 25m Freestyle. Rebecca Fitzsimons in 25m Backstroke. Chanti Odd in 50m Breaststroke , 50m Butterfly. Richard Shaw in 50m Breaststroke , 50m Butterfly. Matt Murphy in 50m Backstroke , 25m Freestyle. Kahra Cottam in 25m Freestyle , 25m Breaststroke. James Vardon in 50m Breaststroke. 1st places went to Thomas Cave , Ty Veness , Rebecca Page-Mitchell , Graham Shaw (2) , Anna Dubois, Megan Fitzsimons, Jake Wallington , Chanti Odd , Jessie Trea-Goffe , James Vardon , Rebecca Fitzsimons.
2nd Places went to Sam Vardon (2) , Richard Shaw , Matt Murphy, kahra Cottam , Charlie Revell , Rebecca Page-Mitchell and two relay teams. 3rd places went to Jack Biggs ,Charlie Revell , Chanti Odd, Matt Murphy , Aaron Kiel , Katie Mcgowen , Thomas Cave plus 4 of the relays. 4th places went to Jake wallington , Rebecca Fitzsimons , Richard Shaw , Jack Biggs , Anna Dubois and 1 relay team. 5th places went to Georgia Biggs and two relay teams.

JFL B Final for Marlins

March Marlins jointly hosted the Junior Fenland League B Final on Saturday 17th October along with Huntingdon Swimming Club at March.  The marlins have worked fantastically hard this year with exceptional swimming from all the team and lots of personal bests achieved.  This hard work and enthusiasm helped them reach the B Final for the first time in 10 years and on the night 15 Personal Bests were gained. Brothers James and Sam Vardon gained 5 personal bests between them during the evening, Sam with a 6 second pb in the 50m backstroke not to be beat by James gaining a 4 second pb in the 100m IM.  Zoe Johnson claimed a 7 second pb in the 50m backstroke plus another pb in the 100m IM.  Other pb’s were reached by Megan Fitzsimons (2), Lucy Halls (2), Kara Cottam (1), Chanti Odd (1), Aaron Keil (1) and Jamie Wilson (1). 1st Places went to Jacob Halls and Sam Vardon (2), 2nd Places - Jacob Halls, Marc Johnson, Jess Cable and Daniel Riches and 3rd places – Zoe Johnson, Daniel Riches, Kara Cottam and Sam Vardon.

Julia Keil was presented with a bouquet of flowers from everyone at the club for all the hard work that she does with the swimshop and also for all the organising of the fundraising this year.

Winning Weekend with Another First Place for March Marlins

March Marlins had a fantastic weekend of outstanding swims starting with the Norwich and Peterborough Gala on Saturday 10th October racing against Huntingdon and St Neots and concluding with a Open Meet at Downham Market on Sunday. At the Gala the Marlins team worked together and swam their hardest, breaking 21 personal bests to win with a final score of March 110 points (14 1st Places), Huntingdon 110 points (12 first places) and St Neots 106 points.

Marc Johnson gained three personal best times which included a brilliant 10, 2 and 3 second pb, along with Sarah Watson gaining a 7 and 6 second pb. Other superb pb’s gained were Megan Fitzsimons (2) including a 4 second pb, Charlotte Riches (2), Amy Kenning (2), Zoe Johnson (2), Richard Petersen (3), Emily Morris (1), Aaron Keil (2), Adam Lifshak (1) and Daniel Riches (1).

The Marlins won a brilliant 14 first places, Charlotte Riches (2), Amy Etherington (1), Richard Petersen (2), Sam Murphy (1), Emily Morris (1), Sarah Watson (1), Daniel Riches (2), Marc Johnson(2), Hannah Lifshak (1) and Adam Lifshak 91). Second places went to Megan Fitzsimons (1) Jacob Halls (1), Luke Cable (1), Jess Cable (1), Aaron Keil (2), Sarah Watson (1), Jess Trea-Goffee (1), Hannah Lifshak (1) and Richard Petersen (1). Third places went to Aaron Keil, Zoe Johnson, Jess Trea-Goffe, Luke Cable, Jacob Halls, Kara Cottam, Megan Fitzsimons, Amy Kenning, Marc Johnson and Jess Cable.

Five March Marlins swimmers took part in the west Norfolk open meet, all performed well obtaining between them 14 top 3 places and 9 personnel bests. Charlotte Riches started the medals with a 2nd in the 100 metres Individual Medley with a new personnel best ,then carried on to take a first in 50 metres Front crawl and 25 metres front crawl, before lunch. Then for the afternoon took a third in both the 50 metre butterfly and the 50 metre backstroke and ending the day with a 2nd in 50 metres Breast stroke. Luke Cable continued the trend with a 2nd in 50 metres Breast stroke, 100 metres Individual Medley (p.b) and.25 metres Front crawl . He also gained 3rds in 50 metres Butterfly and 50 metres Front crawl. Adam Lifshack also in the medals with some very close swims gaining a personnel best in 50 metres Butterfly , 50 metres Front Crawl, and 100 metres Individual Medley, 1st in 50 metres Breast Stroke, a 2nd in 25 metres Front crawl and a 3rd in 50 metres Back Crawl, Jessica Cable was on form gaining Personnel Bests in 50 metres Front crawl, 25 metres Front Crawl, and 50 metres Back Crawl. Daniel Riches not to be outdone swam to a new personnel beast in 25 metres Front crawl .

Five March Marlins competed in the Bishop Stortford competing against swimmers from all over Essex and as far a field as Germany. March swam well gaining eight personnel bests and 6 top six places.
Luke Cable had an impressive day gaining a 3rd in 200mtrd freestyle with a new personnel best, a 4th in 50mtrs free, a 5th in 200mtrs Individual Medley , a 6th in 50mtrs Butterfly ,also gaining a personnel best in 100mtrs Individual Medley.
Adam Lifshack was in the medals gaining a 5th in 100mtrs breaststroke, and a 5th in 50 breaststroke with a new personnel best..
Daniel Riches the youngest member of March Marlins to compete this weekend stepped up to the mark gaining 2 new personnel bests in 50 breaststroke and 50bmtrs back stroke.
Charlotte Riches missed out on the medals by 0.2 seconds, in 100mtrs Breaststroke and the same in 50 breaststroke but gaining new personnel best. Also gaining  new personnel best in 50 freestyle.
Jessica Cable is our final swimmer who had excellent swims gaining new personnel bests in 50mtrs backstroke.

March Marlins took part in the ICENI open meet at Dereham this weekend taking Jess Cable, Emily Morris, Charlotte Riches, Daniel Riches, Luke Cable, Richard Petersen, Kahra Cottam and Adam Lifshack. They swam in a total of 31 individual events and with outstanding effort brought home 7 medals in total and 12 new personal bests were set on the day.The boys were the most successful Marlins, Adam Lifshack winning ICENI GOLD in 100 M breaststroke and Luke Cable winning ICENI SILVER in 50M Breaststroke. Adam also came in sixth in 200 M Individual Medley, fourth in 100M Backstroke and fourth in 100M Freestyle. Luke Cable was also placed sixth in 50M Butterfly and sixth place in 50M Backstroke.Leading the personal best rush was Jess Cable setting new times for every race she swam starting with 100M Breaststroke, 100M Backstroke, 200m Individual Medley, and 100M Freestyle. Daniel Riches was close on her heals setting new personal bests in 100M Individual Medley and 50M Backstroke. Luke Cable set a new personal best in 100M Individual Medley, Richard Petersen set new personal bests in 200M Individual medley, 100M Breaststroke and 100 M Backstroke. Adam Lifshack set new personal best in 100 Butterfly and Kahra Cottam in 100M Individual Medley.
Swimming well on the day and gaining times very close to their personal bests were Charlotte Riches and Emily Morris.

March Marlins came third in the Gala with impressive swims by all. Well done to all the swimmers. More details to follow.

March Marlins took six swimmers to the Cambridge open meet on the 19th July,
Chanti Odd first ever open meet went off well gaining herself two new personnel bests in 100 metres freestyle and 50 metres breaststroke.
Chloe Richardson was the youngest 9yr old who gained a new personnel best in 50 breast stroke.
Luke Cable also 9 went against strong competition gaining a 6th in 200 Front Crawl ,5th in 50metre breast stroke, and a 5th in 200 Individual Medley (P.b),
Jess Cable not to be out done had a brilliant day with a personnel bests in 200 metres freestyle,50metres back crawl,50 metres butterfly,200 metres Individual Medley,also gaining a 6th place in50 metres breast stroke.
Charlotte Riches had a good day gaining a 6th in 100metres freestyle, a 2nd in 50 breast stroke, a 2nd in 50metre freestyle ,and a 3rd in 100 metres breast stroke.
Adam Lifshack had some good swims  gaining a new personnel best in 50metre breast stroke and a 4th place, also a 4th place  in 100 metres breast stroke .
Well done to all swimmers who took part.

1st Place for March Marlins

Well done to Charlotte Riches

2nd Place for the Junior squad

Altogether there were 20 personal best times, five first places, nine second places (including the parents’ relay), eleven third places and eight fourth places. The winners were Anna Dubois (2), Daniel Riches, Graham Shaw and Jake Wallington.