1066 youngsters shine

The next wave of promising young swimmers from 1066 took centre stage at the Atlantis Open Meet at Horsham recently and everyone surpassed expectations with them all clocking vastly improved times. 

Talented Lydia Harrison struck a well deserved gold in the 50m breaststroke to enhance her growing reputation and backed that up with bronze in the 100m breaststroke both swims personal bests plus a sixth in the 50m freestyle. 

Bill Matthews smashed his previous best times to claim two well deserved bronze medals in both the 50m and 100m breaststroke and with top ten finishes in the 50m and 100m freestyle and the 50m backstroke in life times bests it was a good meet for the young prospect. 

1066 claimed another bronze when Lucy Puddefoot annihilated her 200m backstroke time in a superb swim to finish third in a strong field. Lucy finished in the top five in the 50m backstroke in a personal best and continued her improvement in the 50m breaststroke. 

Molly Paulin was yet another 1066 swimmer who bettered her times quite dramatically with fanastic swims as she just missed out on the medals in both the 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle. Harry Dyer rounded off the an encouraging day for 1066's new stars with t! op ten finishes and personal bests in the 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle. 

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