Great Opening Win for MTS Swimmers

Tuesday 13th September 2016 Merchant Taylors’ swimming team opened their season with a home match against Manchester Grammar School. Our new year 7 swimmers proved to be a good addition to the team with many great swims notably from J Carney and A Curd to win their age group 39 points to 37. Joseph Cameron-Mansour lead the battle of the Under 13’s with two fine wins swimming 50 freestyle in 30 sec. Their score was a 2 point lose 36-38. All the under 15’s put in a great effort with George Wyn- Jones winning a great battle in the 5om freestyle. Despite their effort they lost by 6 Points. Throughout the match the lead changed with every swim, but special praise must go to the Open team C Leece, M Johnson, J Spinks and 3 great new additions to the team, S Davies, Issac Lea and Y Cai. Despite all their efforts we were only 2 point ahead going into the last event the open 4x50m Freestyle relay meaning it was all down to the last race. I have never seen an MGS open team suffer such a defeat, the open teams victory took them to a massive win 45 points to 24. Overall the final result was MTS 155 MGS 147 giving only our second win over MGS in 20 years.