Day 2 saw Sophie Brown compete in the 200 Back finishing with a PB of 2.22.81 and Dan Willis swimming the 100 back in a time of 1.02.26.
Dan and James Broady both made the semi finals of the 100m Breastroke with Dan setting a new PB of 1.08.41 and James time of 1.06.08 took him to the final of the 100 breastroke where he finished 10th at 1.05.87 bettering his time.
Day 3 started well for Sophie again where her 100m Backstroke time of 1.06.77 ranked her 8th going into the finals.
Swimming in the semi final Sophie swam another PB of 1.06.44 which put her in 11th position just missing out on the final by 1 place.
Day 4 saw Alex Matthews compete in his first National competition and he did brilliantly finishing in 22nd place in the 200m Fly with a PB of 2.12.14.
Sophie swam in the 100Fly and swam a PB of 1.04.84 which took her into the semi final where she finished 16th.
As a parent of a swimmer from Gloucester not swimming at the Nationals we decided to venture upto Sheffield to watch these top swimmers in action and see what a 10 Lane 50m pool looked like! If any of our Gloucester Team were nervous they certainly didn t let it show and they all got into their new LZR suits in time! We were not disappointed I would recomend anyone able to make the trip to go if they have the opportunity and be inspired! Apart from watching the clubs swimmers swim so brilliantly well and being able to support and cheer them it was great to watch so many first class swimmers including athletes who had swum at the Beijing Olympics including Cassandra Patton and several Paralympians including Eleanor Simmonds and Sacha Kindred.
If you would like to get an insight into the Coaches perpspective from the Nationals then log onto the Members area and go to Coaches and read Grahams blog!
Heres hoping the final 3 days of the competition bring the same fantastic results for our club swimmers.