HALTON Swimming Club had a small team competing in the Prescot and Everton Spring Gala at the weekend.

Fifteen-year-old Leevi Gumbs took part in the 50m and 100m backstroke, 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle and the 100m butterfly. Leevi collected a gold medal in the 200m freestyle and bronze medals in the 50m backstroke and 100m butterfly and 100m freestyle, and finished just outside the medals in the 50 freestyle & 100m backstroke.

Leevi also finished the meet with four new personal best times.

Ten-year-old Ruby Pritchard took part in the 200m individual medley, 200m breaststroke, 100m freestyle, 200m backstroke and the 100m backstroke.

Ruby finished the meet with new personal best times in the 100m backstroke and 200m breaststroke where she knocked over five seconds off her previous best time.

Nine-year-old Cerys Neil had a great meet in which she competed in the 200m individual medley, 100m and 200m breaststroke, 50 freestyle and the 100m backstroke.

Cerys was racing in some of the events for the first time finished the meet with gold in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and bronze in the 200m individual medley.

Cerys finished just outside of the medals in the 50m freestyle but she did secure a new personal best time in the 200m breaststroke, knocking over two seconds of her previous best time.

Twenty year old Luke Nisted collected a gold medal in the 100m freestyle and a silver medal in the 50m breaststroke. Luke’s times of 57.49s and 34.66s respectively were narrowly outside his current personal best times.

Twelve year old Alfie Mather finished in second place in the 50m breaststroke in a new personal best time of 43.97s and collected a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle also securing a new personal best time of 1:11.58s.

Twelve-year-old Joshua Howard Hughes won gold in the 200m butterfly while his ten year old sister secured a new personal best time in the 100m freestyle, knocking off over a second off her previous best time.

Thirteen-year-old Jessica Connolly took part in the 100m backstroke where she secured a new personal best time of 1:20.85s, she also claimed a bronze medal and another PB in the 50m backstroke with a time of 38.23s.

Jessica also knocked a massive ten seconds off her 400m freestyle time and over five seconds off her 200m breaststroke time.