Tigersharks descended on Millfield School in Street for the Taunton Deane LC Open Meet. Despite a very long and hot weekend the young sharks once again produced some outstanding swims.

The highlight of the weekend came when Shaun Bracey (15) stormed to victory in the 200m Backstroke smashing through the National Qualifying time with relative ease. Shaun also qualified for the final of the 50m Skins event where he placed 4 th out of 8 swimmers.

Aaron Lee, Sophie Hawkins and Alex Jones were on top form. Alex Jones cemented his previous 100, 200 and 400m Frontcrawl NQT's and narrowly missed out on his 200m Backstroke time by just 0.10 of a second.

Sophie Hawkins (12) has been outstanding over the past two months improving her Frontcrawl swimming dramatically. In the 100m event Sophie blasted through her swim recording a time of 1:05.92 just an agonising 0.35 of a second off her first National Qualifying time. Not to be out done team mate Aaron Lee who has also made dramatic strides this year swam an outstanding 100m Backstroke to reduce his time to 1:07.03 just 0.70 of a second outside of the required National Qualifying time. Both swimmers also closed in on their 100m Butterfly (Aaaron) and 200m Frontcrawl (Sophie) times reducing them to within a second and a second and a half of the times required.

Rosemary Broad (10) continues to astound her coach and team mates with her improvement over the distance events. Once again Rosemary took chunks out of her 200m and 400m Frontcrawl swims recording PB time of 4 and 8 seconds respectively on swims she had done only one week previously.

Joshua Wheeler (10) swimming in the eleven and under age group was undaunted and stormed to 2 nd place in the overall Bagcat competition with some truly astonishing swims. Mathew Jones and Sophie Hawkins both twelve took 3 rd place in the overall Bagcat event and Natalie Montezuma flew the flag for Tigersharks in the 13 years taking 1 st place.

James Magness and Dean Williamson both had productive weekends taking a clutch of Gold medals and Hannah Brown proved she was back on form with a clutch of personal best times and bronze medals.

Tigersharks are relishing the prospect of potentially taking a squad of fourteen swimmers to this year National Competition all credit to the swimmers, coaches and parents.