Lily Cattlin was again in action last month in the National Open Water Championships. She becomes the inaugural holder of the 5k record for our under 15 girls. She adds this record to the 3k record we created for her earlier in the year. She recorded a time of 1h 14m 45s. Well done to Lily!

Another record was broken at the Swim England Summer Nationals yesterday with Maddie Johnson adding to her record count with a time of 2:23.49 knocking a fraction of time from the previous record held by Debbie Cocking since July 2016. Maddie also finished first in the final and was awarded the gold medal in the process.

Luke Booth was again in record-breaking form at the Swim England Summer Nationals yesterday with a time of 4:03.57 in the final of the 400m freestyle finishing 5th in the process. This tops off another great record-breaking season for Luke, a season in which he has broken many of his own previous records.

Luke Booth continued his record-breaking form at Ponds Forge yesterday. This week sees some of our swimmers take to the water in the Aquatics GB Summer Championships. Luke represented the club in the Open 800m Freestyle event and finished with a time of 8:24.20, knocking over a second of a time he had set previously. Well done to Luke and good luck to all those still to swim.

Oscar Gavelle and Lily Cattlin took part in the Yorkshire and Regional Open Water Championships in Sale, Greater Manchester at the weekend. Each swam the 3000m in the boys and girls categories respectively.

They each achieved new club records in the process; Oscar beating his own record from last year setting a time of 35 min 28 sec. Lily set a new record as she is the first Metro girl to have taken part in such an event and her time was 39 min 12 sec.

Both came 2nd place in their respective age groups and proudly took home silver medals.

Well done to both swimmers for this exceptional achievement!

Our swimmers were again in action at the Barnsley Minots Sprint League at the weekend. The report from James Guy can be seen below:

Another great afternoon of Sprint Racing.

Result

1st: Metro-146

2nd: CoSSS-133

3rd: STOCKSBRIDGE-118

4th: Adwick-92.

Well done to all and thanks for all who helped at event and those who helped to get team together

Let’s go Metro.

Lily Cattlin continued her great form in the long distance events smashing again her own record in the under 15 girls long course 1500m freestyle. Her record time is now 18:52.76 and was achieved at the North East Regional Championships last weekend. Keep up the great work, Lily!

Luke Booth and Lily Cattlin were again in record breaking form at the weekend, each breaking records they had previously set themselves.

Luke knocked almost 5s of his own record in the 800m freestyle at the GB Aquatics Championships in London with a time of 8:25.87.

Lily knocked time from her own 1500m freestyle record at the Derby Excel April Meet going under 19 minutes for the first time with a new record of 18:59.35.

Well done to both swimmers!