Girls compete in GSA Eastern Region Swimming Gala

Congratulations to the seven Junior School girls who joined the Senior School swimming squad to represent St Mary’s at the GSA Eastern Region Swimming Gala. The event, hosted by Stamford School, involved girls from schools as widespread as Warwick and Derby and the standard of competition was extremely high.

The U11 team consisted of selected girls from Year 6 and the programme of events included the 4x25m Medley and Freestyle relays, as well as individual 25m races in backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and frontcrawl. All the girls competed in one individual race and either two or three relays. Some dove off the racing blocks for the first time.

The girls all swam brilliantly, supporting and encouraging each other. They will all have gained invaluable experience from participating in a competitive gala and will hopefully be inspired to continue to swim and train.