Swimmers Compete In National Team Championships

On Saturday 15 June, 5 boys took part in the English Schools National Swimming Team Championships at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge Pool.

Having qualified for the finals at the recent North West area Championships’ Merchant Taylors took their place alongside 96 of the top swimming schools in the country.  The competition was broken down in to 3 categories – Small Schools, Mixed Schools and Open.

We were competing on the Open Schools category along with the other top 24 ranked schools in the country.  Just getting to the finals was a brilliant achievement but the boys were not there to make up the numbers.

Z. Mukhtar, C. Kirby, J. Wake, S. Harave and W. Irvine did exceptionally well despite us not being able to train and prepare for the event like we are used to, finishing 2^nd in the Mixed Medley B final to finish ranked 10^th and 3^rd in the Freestyle B final to finish ranked 11^th nationally, Well done to all the boys!