Royal Tunbridge Wells Monson Swimming Club’s Savanna Jemmett and Beth Hathaway were in great form at the English Schools’ Inter Divisional Championships.

Savanna, from the Hillview School for Girls, competed in the junior 100m and 200m backstroke, taking bronze in the 200m event and narrowly missing another by a mere 0.02sec in the 100m.

Savanna’s times of 1min 08.32sec and 2:25.74 were both personal-best times, Monson club records and inside the current national age group qualifying standard for Savanna next year.

She also swam the first leg of the junior girls 4 x 100m medley relay, which finished fourth.

Beth Hathaway, from Weald of Kent Grammar School, swam in her favoured 100m and 200m freestyle events in the intermediate category at Liverpool Aquatic Centre.

Despite falling ill the day before the championships, she finished a creditable fifth and sixth in the 200m and 100m events respectively and anchored the 4 x 100m freestyle and medley teams to fourth places.

Savanna and Beth now look forward to the National Age Group and Youth Championships at Sheffield in two weeks.

The Monson junior teams were also in action with good results at the Downham Leisure Centre, where the Kent Junior League team won a tight first round by just two points after a very exciting last squadron relay.

A superb team effort saw Monson take first place and a lead into the second round after being 17 points behind at one stage.

The final team scores were RTW Monson 199, Dover 197, Dartford 168, Bexley 163, GBM 135 and Saxon Crown 130.

The Monson club were also in action at The Braintree Swimming Centre, Essex, in the consolation final of Division One of The National Junior League.

The afternoon started well with first place in the girls’ u12 medley relay followed by victory in the girls’ u11 freestyle relay.

More fine swims and plenty of top-three finishes, including first places for Emily Das, Simon Newton, Anna Leman, Caitlin Fearon and Annabel Guye-Johnson in the individual events were supported by further relay victories propelling Monson into second place overall at the end of the gala.

Final positions: Braintree and Bocking 176, RTW Monson 151, Chelmsford, 150, Colchester, 135, Erith 117, Romford Town DNC.

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