City of Oxford City Leisure Open Meet Dec 4/5th 2005

A small but effective team of Amersham swimmers attended the 2 day open meet at the City of Oxford club last weekend.  Swimming against 28 other clubs and with event entries of up to 130 swimmers, our team showed their quality in collecting a large haul of medals and PBs.

Star of the show was Katherine Shaw who collected seven Gold and one silver from her eight entries.  Dan Shinnie left with two gold three silver and one bronze in the highly competitive boys 14 & under category and in the process of winning his gold medals, set 2 new Amersham club records for 50m Backstroke and 100m IM.

Other medalists included Olivia Bailey (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) and Lauren Wye (1 silver). In addition to these medals there were a number of top ten placings and plenty of PBs to go round among the rest of the team including Natalie Harasyn, Sophie Elphick, Sarah Pickin, Alessandra Quincey, Evie Lees, Max Elphick and Keiran Wye.