Three New Ross Swimmers swept the boards in the Butterfly Finals at the Leinster Age and Open Long Course Championship in the NAC over the June Bank Holiday weekend. Evan Bailey from Mount Garrett, Ruth Kelly from Old Ross and Eva Bayley from Clonroche broke their personal best times in their age groups to secure gold in Dublin. 

Senior swimmers; Denis Kilbride, Brothers Cian and Cillian Foley, Danielle Colfer, Min Allen and Sadhbh Bailey also gained podium places at the event.  Laura Connell, Jessica Tootill and  Roisin Breen added to the success of the weekend by securing their place at the Irish National Age Groups Division Two.

Junior swimmers, Ciara Ryan, Shauna Bowe, Leagh Bailey, Olivia Pinczurra,  Brother and Sister Cael and Nicole Colfer along with their fellow Rathgerohue team mate Donnacha McCarthy and Tiernan Foley had a stormer of a weekend, with podium finishes, personal best times and some cracking relay events.

Overall this team of twenty brought home :10 gold, 9 silver, 7 bronze  and 52 top ten positions!

Success at regional level means that swimmers have now qualified for the final two National events of the 2018/2019 Season; Irish National Age Group Division 2 to be held in UL between the 11 and 14^th of July and the Irish Summer Long Course Championship Division 1 which will take place in the National Aquatic Centre Dublin, from July  24^th to July 28^th.  Back now on home turf the team have a busy two month training programme to prepare for these events.

Meanwhile,  our B& C squads are making preparations for the final Round Robin of the season to be held at the Apex as well as attending the Wexford Small Fry meet in June.  These youngsters have been training hard since September and have been engaged in a series of Round Robin events with fellow Leinster Clubs culminating in the overall champions next month.

Several swimmers from the Club also represented Wexford at the  National Community Games Finals in University of Limerick-On the boys team we had  Donnacha McCarthy winning silver, Sean Barry, Cael Colfer  and Ciaran McCarthy.  On the girls team;  Eva Bayley , Nicole Colfer , Hannah  Hennessy Murphy , Lauren Kehoe  & our youngest competitor Molly Hennessy Murphy a very big  well done to all!

Irish Division 2 National Championships
Congratulations to all of the New Ross swimmers who competed at the Irish Division 2 National Championships from July 5th to 8th at UL Sport in Limerick.

All swimmers showed fantastic form and promise.

In the junior category, Jaden Chan, attending his second division took home bronze in the 100 breaststroke.  He was joined by several first timers including Laura Connell, Rosin Kenny,  Phelim O' Connor, Cael Colfer, Eva Bayley, Tiernan Foley and Donnacha McCarthy. Our 11 New Ross swimmers, took on on 48 swims, 44 of which were personal best times for the swimmers and secured top ten  placings in 11 finals. 

A great indication of things to come for this crew. Congratulation to all involved.

Our (Division 1) Irish Summer National team took on the best in Irish swimming and many overseas visiting teams in the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin over 5 days from Wednesday 25th to Sunday 29th July.

Eight New Ross Swimmers qualified for this end of season national event.  First timers Kiara Ryan and Jessica Tootill took to the blocks along side seasoned team mates Evan Bailey, Ruth Kelly, Sadhbh Bailey, Min Allen,  Denis Kilbride and  Cian Foley. 

These 8 Swimmers had acheived 86 qualification times for national swims.  They broke their own personal best records in 52 of these.  They had 37 top 10 finishes culminating in 12 medals 1 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze.  With some very close medal finishes in other instances.

Brother and Sister duo Sadhbh and Evan Bailey won 11 of these medals between them, With Denis Kilbride adding his name to the haul on the final day of racing.  The team also put forward a strong girls relay team (12-14 age bracket) which performed well.

Following the success of the clubs training programme over the past 12 months, Sadhbh  Bailey has gained consideration times  for the National Pathway Performance Squad.  This is a tremendous achievement by the 14 year old and a testament to her dedication and motivation.  5 junior swimmers Evan Bailey, Kiara Ryan, Jaden Chan, Eva Bayley and Donnacha McCarthy have also gained consideration times for the Leinster Region Skills squad. 

So plenty of New Ross names to look out for in the future. Great results ducks!