McCaffray makes it Gold

Congratulations to Rhiannon McCaffray who was crowned Scottish National age group champion in the 200m butterfly at the Scottich Nationals in Sunderland over the Easter holidays. Rhiannon made the final in all of the events she swam in (except for one DQ) but it was the 200m fly that was to be her crowning glory. Rhiannon has been a member of the Scottish youth development squad this year and has made a number of trips up north to attend camps and competitions. Rhiannon is now chasing a National youth qualifying time for this event as she is currently 0.8 of second off. Good luck to Rhiannon and keep up the hard work.

Hayley achieves NQT for the second year running

Well done to Hayley Alcock who has again qualified for the National youth championships in the 100m breaststroke. Hayley achieved the time in the same meet she did last year, the UEA Norwich open over the Easter weekend. Hayley swam a time of 1.17.05, long course, and will now compete in Sheffield in July. Well done to Hayley and good luck in the Nationals.

Bedfordshire County Championships

Here are some of the Modernian highlights from the first weekend of the Bedfordshire County Championships 2012

•  Junior champion 800m women's freestyle

•  Junior and senior champion, and second place in both, men's 200m backstroke

•  Junior and senior champion women's 200m backstroke

•  Junior and senior champion women's 100m breaststroke (in a new county record time) as well as 1st, 2nd & 3rd in the senior competition and 1st and 2nd in the junior competition

•  Junior and senior champion men's 200m butterfly

•  2nd place in junior and senior women's 200m butterfly, 1 second off a NQT

•  Senior champion men's 100m freestyle, 3 more under 14 boys under 60 seconds for the 100 freestyle

•  2nd place in senior and junior women's 200m individual medley

•  Junior and senior champion women's 100m individual medley

•  Junior and senior champion men's 50m butterfly

•  Junior and senior champion women's 50m breaststroke in new county record times and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the senior competition

•  Junior men’s 50m breaststroke

•  Winners men's 4x50m and 4x100m freestyle relay

•  Winners male 15-18 4x50m medley relay

•  Winners female 14-17 4x50m medley relay

•  Winners male 11-14 4x50m medley relay

•  Third place boys 10 and under 4x50m freestyle relay

•  Third place girls 11-13 4x50m freestyle relay

•  Second place women's 4x100m freestyle relay

Individual Age Group county champions were:

Nicola Pasquire, Joseph Munno, Oliver Maltby, Sam Briggs, Charlotte Ovenden, Patrick Keaveney, Bonnie Murphy, Hayley Alcock, Nicholas Stalley, David Carline, Bethany Dolan, Jamie Douglas and Rhiannon McCaffray.

Outstanding swims of note:

Marcel in the 50m and 100m freestyle relays, Bonnie Murphy in her 100m breaststroke, Hayley Alcock and Charlotte Ovenden in the 50m breaststroke, Rhiannon McCaffray in the 200m butterfly. Patrick Keaveney winning all of his events, Charlotte Ovenden winning most of her events, Sam Briggs winning most of his events, however, the swimmer of the competition so far has to be Oliver Maltby. Anyone who was there to see his 200m backstroke and his winning the skins event would have to agree!!