Plymouth College Preparatory School's U11 girls' swimming team have beaten prep schools from around the county to be crowned IAPS National Swimming Champions.
Tegan Drew, Emma de Jager, Lauren Hession and Sneha Suresh won both the medley and freestyle relays in the event held at K2 in Crawley. In the medley, Tegan gave the team a strong lead with the backstroke to give Sneha the best chance of keeping up with the breast stroke. Emma kept the team in contention finishing her fly leg in the lead. In the freestyle, Lauren swam as hard as she could to keep Plymouth College ahead of Millfield Prep and Guilford High School, bringing the team home in first place in a time of 1.05.13.
In the freestyle, Emma got the team off to an amazing start before Lauren took over and kept up the pace. The pressure was really on against Sneha on the 3rd length but Tegan delivered a punishing final leg to give Plymouth College victory and a new national record of 58.04.
In the individual events, Emma swam 14.96 to become the 25m fly champion and Tegan Drew smashed the 50m freestyle record to take the title in 28.65.
"Becoming national champions is a very fitting reward for four very committed and talented swimmers", said teacher in charge of swimming, Sue Butcher. "This is the pinnacle of 15 years and more than 80 swimmers from the school competing at national level, making Plymouth College one of the leading schools for swimming in the country."
Photograph L to R: Lauren Hession, Tegan Drew, Emma de Jager, Sneha Suresh
