Following on from their recent victory in the Woking Gala, the Teddington Swimming Club youngsters were in confident mood when they lined up to compete in the Northolt Junior Gala.

This confident mood, aligned with some excellent team performances carried the club to top spot which they shared with Acton SC.

In a dramatic finale the club won the team squadron relay to pull level with Acton but it had taken many determined swims to put the club in this position.

Helping in this final race were Joanne Cudmore, Nerys Hughes, Rachel Lambert, Hilary Wilson, Tony Adams, Sebastian Jory, Christopher Mears and Tom Ronan.

The tiddlers of the team had started the club on winning ways when the under nine year old boys team came back from the disappointment of disqualifications in the medley relay to win their freestyle relay, thanks to the squad of Alexander Bernard, Craig Lambert, Richard Haigh and Edward Hughes.

The under 10 year old boys continued the winning streak when their squad of Aran Roulston, Mark Claydon, Stephen Robinson and Stuart Adams won the medley relay. Aran also set a personal best time in winning his individual backstroke race.

The under 11 team proved to be biggest splash on the night when both the boys and the girls squad completed a clean sweep of the team races winning both their medley and freestyle races.

In top form for the girls were Helen Lamplough, Venetia Barrett, Cara Rillstone and Catherine Long and for the boys Jacob Hugh, Andrew Earland, Christopher Mears, Robert Haigh and Tom Ronan.

For good measure Christopher also proved to be a winner in his individual butterfly race.

The under 12 boys repeated this double winning performance with their team of Tony Adams, Joshua Davidson, Daniel Donohoe, Stuart Whyte and James Agar.

The girls could not repeat this success, but Kate Moran did manage a PB in her individual breaststroke race.

To ice the cake the club also enjoyed success in the mixed relay races when Alexander Bernard, Emma Walford, Sebastian Jory and Daisy Childs won the team medley.

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