West Norfolk Swimming Club entered 8 teams to the 2020 Kings Lynn Rotary Club Swimarathon held at the Alive St James pool between noon and 8pm on Saturday 9th February.
\nOverall 48 teams representing a variety of organisations, work places and group of friends took part, all helping to raise funds towards the rotary club target of \u00a320,000.
\nThe event which was primarily raising funds for two deserving local charities, The Lavender Hill Mob, (www.lhmtc.co.uk) which provides opportunities for anyone, regardless of age, experience or ability in musical theatre, and mental health charity, WEST NORFOLK MIND (www.westnorfolkmind.org.uk)
\nIn the water, teams competed to complete the most lengths in their allotted 55 minute session, with swimmers taking it in turns to swim one at a time for the first 50 minutes, rounded off with all team members swimming simultaneously for the last five minutes.
\nTogether the WNSC racked up over 48km, an average of 1km each.
\nSix of the #PURPLEARMY teams took over all six lanes of the pool for the last session, which saw some fierce competition. Team \u2018STOP WATCHING ITS NOT FUNNY\u2019 were the team that everyone else wanted to beat, as it comprised a number of the clubs coaches, including a rare appearance in the pool by Head Coach Sarah Vanderloo.
\n The announcer reported the tallies of lengths completed, drawing cheering from swimmers and spectators alike. The water boiled during the final five minute free for all, with all teams looking to add to their scores, but I the end it was \u2018BIG BOYS TEAM\u2019 who completed the most lengths in the 55 minutes, total of 314, covering a distance of 7.8km. This was the highest number of lengths completed by a team during the whole day.
\nTEAM NAME\tNUMBER OF LENGTHS
\nBIG FISH LITTLE FISH\t180
\nDS SQUAD\t235
\nSTOP WATCHING ITS NOT FUNNY\t255
\nWN TEAM\t251
\nWN SWIM BOYS\t231
\nPURPLE TEAM\t240
\nFLOATIN\u2019 TORPEDOES\t215
\nBIG BOYS TEAM\t314<\/p>\n
At the end of the event, with more pledges to come in, the running tally of the money raised by WNSC teams was a magnificent \u00a31205, an average of \u00a3150 per team.
\nThe swimmers taking part are named below, and photos will follow in due course:
\nBIG FISH LITTLE FISH, Ned Steele, Eliza Steele, Rhys Sturge, Thomas Arthur Jagger, Alfie Jagger,Harry Munro
\nDS SQUAD, Thomas James, Esmee King, Erin Woodrow, Pemberley Hornigold, Thomas Garnett, Matilda Loram
\nSTOP WATCHING IT\u2019S NOT FUNNY, Jake Hall, Archie Holman, Ryan Sykes, Sarah Vanderloo, Mair Morton, Sarah O\u2019Brien,
\nWN TEAM, Molly Lee, Leah Wightman, Joe Read, Rebecca Read, Ella Farnsworth, Lara Grace Mount,
\nWN SWIM BOYS, Rhys Burrell, George Evans, Josh Parker, Jack Sharpe, Nathan Yeaman, Harry Malton
\nPURPLE TEAM, Libby Collins, Esmie Kidman, Chloe Liddell, Olivia Skittrell, Jamie Sturge, Kristina Sutika-Totlebena
\nFLOATIN\u2019 TORPEDOES, Chloe Bellamy, Marley Bellamy, Alex Bryan, Kacie Cooper, Abigail Nicholson, Jack Drage
\nBIG BOYS TEAM, Robert Addis, Freddie Laws, Jake Lammas, Sam Rose, Harry Sharpe, Joe Wells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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