The swimming gala took place on Sunday 26 November. We entered 3 teams - Sharks, Squids and Seals. You can see who was in each team and also their results on our team list.

Here is Baloo's report from the event:

That was a pretty successful afternoon - it was particularly pleasing that all three of the 2nd Bracknell teams made it to the final of the relay event! Luke, with his very strong swimming, won all of his races and with excellent contributions from James and Robert in their individual events, and the contribution from them and Tom to win the relay, 2nd Bracknell Sharks were clear winners of the Palmer Shield.

With excellent contributions from Alistair, who was first in the width freestyle, and third in the backstroke, and JR (first in the breaststroke (diving) and third in the freestyle) and Sammy (first in the breaststroke (siw)), and with the support of Adam in the relay (in which the team came second), 2nd Bracknell Squids deserved the runners-up place.

With such strong swimmers in the Sharks and Squids teams, and some very good individual swimmers in the other teams, 2nd Bracknell Seals found the competition quite hard. However with very good results from Chris and Sam, they were unlucky just to miss out on the third place spot for the Palmer Shield to the team from 1st South Ascot.

Luke being on such good form, the Open Medley looked to be his race and so it turned out with a winning time of 1:56. However it was closer than it looked because from the second heat JR came third with a time of 2:13. Second place was taken by Katie from 1st South Ascot and her time must have been fairly close to Luke's time!

Well done to all the competitors, an excellent performance from everyone!

If you are in our teams have you got your Swimmers badge yet? It is a five stage badge but unfortunately just taking part in the gala does not complete it - although it does count as an "organised event" for part 7. If you have swimming lessons just print off a copy of the requirements and get your swimming teacher to sign to say you can do it.

You can see how we got on in previous years by visiting our Past Events page.