TIVERTON Swimming Club’s Seniors and Masters amassed a huge haul of medals and course records at the Royal Navy Meet held at Millfield.

Swimming against competition from all over the country, the squad of Andy and Vicki Price, Yasmin Bennellick, Judith McGregor-Harper, Graham Cridland, Rebecca Jenkinson and Sue Haigh picked up a total of 12 gold, four silver and five bronze medals and created eight course records.

Hand in hand with these individual successes the group also were able to collect three silvers and one bronze medal in the freestyle and medley relays.

Not to be outdone by the club’s ‘oldies’, younger members of the club have also been busy in the pool in a series of events.

Tiverton took an under-strength team to Torrington for the second round of the local Mini League, finishing second in spite of several absences.

There were many excellent performances with 36 personal best times across the 49 races.

The team welcomed back Lorna Burston to competitive swimming and she secured two of the six race victories the team returned with.

Other successes were recorded by Will Goffey, Holly Baker, Ellie Pile and the Girls U-13 and Open 4x50 freestyle relay teams.

At the final two events in the Devon championships the club took a small but focused group of swimmers to the new Plymouth Life Centre to swim in the relay and sprint events.

Tiverton raced against some of the county’s biggest clubs including Exeter City and Plymouth Leander. The club had hoped to compete in more age groups in the relays but due to school holidays and a lack of depth in certain age groups, the club was only represented by two teams this year.

The club intends to compete at all age levels in 2014 and the new drive for competitive performance throughout the 2013 season will shape the make-up of these teams. However, unperturbed by their lack of team-mates, the 11-12 year old girls team of Emily Abraham, Gemma Owen, Rosie Jones and Kizzy Price put in a sterling performance to come fourth in both the 50m freestyle and 50m medley event with Owen doing the backstroke, Abraham doing the breaststroke, Jones doing the butterfly and Price on the freestyle.

In the men’s open freestyle relay the team of Will Klinkenberg, Alex Wilcox, Lewis Henry and Callum Stoneman finished eighth.

In the open medley the same team came sixth with Stoneman on backstroke, Henry on breaststroke, Klinkenberg on butterfly and Wilcox on freestyle.

The following day at the 50 metre sprint meet only three Tiverton swimmers entered but there were still some superb results. Gemma Owen, 12, had a great day, winning the gold medal in the 50m butterfly, coming third in the 50m freestyle and fourth in the 50m backstroke. Owen’s performances were so good her times would now qualify her to swim in the 14-year-old age group of the Devon championships.