Sudbury Gala Results
Club Championships 2010			View Results
Last Chance Time Trial 2010			View Results
14th Masters Open Meet 2010			View Results
Development Last Chance Time Trial 2010			View Results
Two Day Open Meet 2010			View Results
Green shhots Open Meet			View Results
Medal presentation Night
The 2010 presentation awards took place on December 5th at Long Melford village hall, hundreds of medals, trophies and certificates were awarded. Pictures can be seen by clicking on the above picture.
Winter League Round 2
Sudbury Storms travelled to Newmarket on Saturday, for the second round of the Winter league. Storms were up against Saxons B, Lowestoft & OB A, Halstead, Deben A and Felixstowe.  Despite a heavy training week, the girls team finished joint 3rd alongside Halstead with a total of 70 points & the boys team finished in 5th place with 61 points. Overall this saw Sudbury in 5th place with 131 points just 4 points behind Felixstowe with Deben A worthy winners with 209 points. Excellent swims again throughout the evening, with 14 personal bests coming from Orion Nichol (50 back), Gemma Rides(100 breast & 100 fly), Ethan Barratt (100 breast), Robert Halls (50 free), Laurence Chalk (100 free & 100 fly), Olivia Sherred (50 breast), Nick Robertson (100 fly), Ethan Frost (100 back), John Jiang (100 Free & 100 Fly), Ella Rides(100 free) and Sam Clark (100 back). Sudbury had some fantastic swims notably Ella Rides in the 14/15yrs 100m Breaststroke in which she stormed into 1st place, and in the Girls Junior 50m Medley Relay team consisting of Olivia Sherred, Gemma Rides, Mollie Milsom and Hannah McNaul who led from the start and hung on to 1st place in a nail biting finish from a fast closing Lowestoft & OB team. In form John Jiang had another excellent swim in the 100m Freestyle showing you can still make improvements week after week with a new personal best time of 57.79 just a few tenths off a regional qualifying time
County Report
Sudbury Storms finished off a mammoth three week Suffolk County Championships this weekend in triumphant style, recording the club’s best showing at the championships for many years. The Sudbury Storms squad of 46 was made up of swimmers from all age groups were in fantastic form, delivering a staggering 152 personal best times and 21 club records over the 3 weekends of competition.  These swims culminated in a medal tally of 15 Gold’s, 10 Silvers and 8 Bronzes, which is the best the club has ever done at the championships. One Storms swimmer stood out from the crowd when it came to successes at this year’s county championships.  Emily Dowding (11) was in outstanding form, claiming a total of 13 Gold medals, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze.  Emily also smashed 8 Club records and set 21 personal best times across the 3 weekends of competition.  Storms’ other County Champions were Harry Milsom (9) and Thomas Williams (23).  Harry, Storms’ youngest champion swam an incredible 50m Breaststroke to claim the Gold in the under 10’s age group.  His time of 48.28 smashed his previous best time a second and a half.  Thomas, a seasoned County swimmer was in great form too, recording a life-time best and claiming the County Championship crown in the 200m Butterfly.  Tom knocked a full 3 seconds off his personal best time, finishing the gruelling event in 2:20.21. Storms Medal Table   Gold Silver Bronze OLIVIA SHERRED 1 2   HARRY MILSOM 1 1 3 THOMAS WILLIAMS 1 2 1 MOLLIE MILSOM   2   KELLY MURRAY     3 Club records were broken by; Cameron Bashir (4), Emily Dowding (8), Cara Hetherington (3), Francesca King (1), Mollie Milsom (3), Seb Pettican (1) and Thomas Williams (1). Over the 3 weekends of competition, the club also added to their ever growing list of East Region Championship qualifiers.  The regional qualifier squad now stands at 10, which is a considerable squad given the size of the Storms club.  The East Region championships start in May with the Youth age groups and are followed in June with the Age Group championships.  Storms are anticipating adding to the club’s qualifiers over the coming months. Those swimmers recording personal best times at the championships included; Nathan Alexander, Cameron Bashir, Mathew Byham, Francesca Clark, Samuel Clark, Oliver Dinnell, Emily Dowding, Ethan Frost, Ollie George, Christopher Greenhalgh, Florence Grubb, Robert Halls, Bethan Hann, Kate Hann, Emma Heaton, Sophie Heaton, Cara Hetherington, Helena Heyn, John Jiang, Francesca King, Emma Main, Jade Manning, Hannah McNaul, Harry Milsom, Mollie Milsom, Orion Nichol, Samuel Pentney, Seb Pettican, Gemma Rides, Olivia Sherred, Thomas Williams, Laura Wolff, Harriet Wooler & James Wotherspoon. One Storms swimmer - Alex Deal, now an active member of the coaching team, received a surprise accolade, when it was announced that he had won the County’s Young Coach of the Year award.  Alex has been working on the coaching team for the past 18 months and has been instrumental in developing the club’s Junior squad swimmers, some of whom participated at this year’s championships.
Latest County pictures
Storms’ County Champion!
The much anticipated Suffolk County Swimming Championships started this weekend with the Long Distance (800m & 1500m) events, which were held at the 50m Pool at the UEA in Norwich.  The highlight of the Suffolk swimming calendar, brings together all of Suffolk’s top swimmers for a mammoth event over 5 weekends in February and March, involving literally hundreds of swimmers from across the county. Sudbury Storms got off to amazing start to this year’s competition with swimming sensation, Emily Dowding (11) becoming County Champion in the 800m Freestyle in her age group.  She had a great 800m swim, setting a new personal best time of 10:49.32 beating her previous best time by a staggering 29 seconds.  Emily had a nervous two heats to endure after her swim for confirmation of her gold medal, as two of her competitors with faster entry times were in later heats.  It was a nail biting time for her, but as she saw confirmation of her gold medal position, you could see the relief and excitement from the youngster brimming over.  Storms Head Coach, Paul Cook who was with Emily at Norwich said “Emily had an awkward heat, as she was 50m ahead of anyone else in her heat, so she had to swim it all alone.  The split times she recorded were exactly where we wanted her to be, but I have no idea where her final 100m swim came from.  She stormed it and gave it everything she had.  She always swims with such determination both in competition and training.  Emily’s gold medal is a perfect reward for a very dedicated and talented swimmer” Paul continued “We have a very large squad going to the County’s this year and I’m pretty confident we can return with a few more county champions this year.”
Storms League Success
Storms took both their A and B teams to compete at the second round of this year’s Suffolk County Winter League.  The A team were competing at Bury St Edmunds and the B team headed off to Stowmarket.  Many of the Storms squad have been in an intensive training period on the lead up to the County’s championships in March.  This didn’t stop them turning out some great performances. The A team, competing in Division One came up against local rivals Halstead and West Suffolk.  The second round of competition involves 100m events for most age groups, which seemed to favour the Storms swimmers.  Storms A had a great battle with Halstead right up until the end of the gala, pipping them to 3rd place by just 6 points.  West Suffolk however, were superior on the day, taking 2nd place to Lowestoft A by a single point.  In the 2nd Division gala, Sudbury B delivered some incredible performances and took on some of the leagues stronger teams with a nail biting climax to the gala which left three teams 5 points apart. Storms B finished in 3rd place ahead of Saxons B but only 2 points behind 2nd place Stowmarket B. Round Two Results Division One Club Total LOWESTOFT A 199 WEST SUFFOLK 198 SUDBURY 'A' 166 HALSTEAD 160 BECCLES 'A' 131 Division Two Club Total GREAT YARMOUTH 188 STOWMARKET ‘B’ 169 SUDBURY 'B' 167 SAXONS 'B' 164 DEBEN ‘B’ 152 Senior Coach, Paul Murray congratulated both teams, saying “our swimmers are in the middle of a very intensive period of hard training in readiness for the County Championships.  It was really pleasing to see them do so well considering the week of training they have just come out of.  The swimmers desire to perform for the team is so strong it allows them to find those extra reserves you need when racing when tired”.
Last Chance Open Meet
It was a tense week for the Storms Club leading up to the club’s Last Chance County Qualifier Open Meet last weekend.  With snow covering many parts of the region, the club’s management must have been overjoyed to see only a light covering of snow on Saturday morning.  Robin Deal, the club’s gala promoter said “we had nearly 320 competitors from 17 teams across Suffolk, Norfolk & Essex due to compete at this important gala.  We got lucky and whilst a couple of teams decided not to travel, we had a fantastic turnout from clubs as far afield as Norwich and Bishop’s Stortford; competing across the two days of competition”. The gala is hosted by Storms each year at the Kingfisher Leisure Centre and is promoted as the ‘Last Chance’ for swimmers to attain their county qualifying times.  The Suffolk County championships will be held at Ipswich Crown pools over 3 weekends in March and is seen as the pinnacle of the county swimming calendar. Storms’ swimmers had a great weekend, breaking a staggering 144 personal best times, 47 of which were new County qualifying times.  These came from; Francesca Clark, Francesca King,  Jessica Dilling, Gemma Rides, Cara Hetherington, Emma Main, Sophie Heaton, Ella Rides, Florence Grubb, Kate Hann, Harry Milsom, Mollie Milsom, Sam Clark, Abigail Vowles, Hannah McNaul, Seb Pettican, Thomas Williams & Olivia Sherred.  The club also saw 3 members of the team achieve East Region Championships Qualifying times.  These came from Thomas Williams (24), Ella Rides (13) and Storms youngest qualifier Emily Dowding (11). Club records also tumbled during the two days of competition, with Mollie Milsom smashing the 12 year old 50m Butterfly record in 34.51.  Ella Rides, whilst qualifying for the East region Championships also took a club record in the 14 year old 200m Breaststroke in 2:59.01.  Thomas Williams, who’s been in great form all season continued his record breaking season with a club record in the 200m Breaststroke in 2:32.80. Following a last minute time trail hosted by the club a few days before the closing date for the championships, Storms added a further 3 swimmers to the County Championships squad.  Chris Greenhalgh, Nathan Alexander and Kelly Thake all had outstanding swims, each achieving the qualifying standard.  The Storms squad will now consist of 52 swimmers, which is 16 more than last year. Sudbury Storms Head Coach – Paul Cook commented “we had two days of brilliant swimming last weekend.  Not just the Sudbury swimmers, but also all the other teams that came along.  There were consistent roars of joy heard throughout the competition, as swimmers achieved their county qualifying times.  It’s going to be an intensive couple of months for our swimmers, with some hard work in the pool before the championships in March.  We have had a fantastic year so far and this is evident from the 52 swimmers we will be taking to the 2010 County Championships.”
Committee 2009/10
Contact Sheet
Chairman	Gary Milsom		Vice Chairman	Martin Rides
Hon. Treasurer	Karen Bedford		Club Secretary	Sarah Thomas
Team Manager	Debbie Greenhalghl		Swim 21 Co-ordinator	Debbie Greenhalgh
Publicity & Press Officer	Martin Rides		Social Sec	Paul Alexander
Welfare Officer	Lizzy Dilling		Speeding Tickets	Emma Thake
Assistant Welfare Officer	Graham King		Schools Co-Ordinator	Keith Watson
Swimshop/Club Buyer	Deborah Mo		Open Meet Co-ordinator	Graham King
Schools Co-Ordinator	Caroline Hetherington		New Swimmers Contact	Claudia Rides
Webmaster	Paul Murray		Membership Secretary	Jane Aldhouse
Acting Head Coach	Paul Murray		Sponsoship Secretary	Claire McNaul
			Assistant Coach	Martin Rides
Assistant Coach	Alex Deal		Assistant Teacher	Kelly Murray
Assistant Teacher	Allie Milsom		Assistant Coach	Debbie Greenhalgh
			Club Captain	Kelly Murray