North District Open Championships, Westhill - 5/6 June 2010

Donnie Price, 13, South Mainland ASC, swam 11 events over the weekend. As a first-timer and amongst the youngest of male swimmers to qualify for the competition, he started off with a 2 second PB in the 200m IM. This was followed by another PB in the 400free where he came 17th out of 37 competitors. A further 2 PBs were gained in the afternoon by taking an excellent 8 seconds of his 200m butterfly and 6 seconds in the 200m breaststroke, where he came a remarkable 12th overall. The first day finished with breaking 1minute for the 100m freestyle for the first time with a 59.63.

Sunday started with a good swim in the 100m butterfly, scraping a fraction of a second off his PB. Mid morning was the 1500m freestyle, where once again Donnie paced it very well to finish with a new PB and overall 5th place. Only 20 minutes later and without a chance to fully recover, he was one of only three of the 1500m swimmers who opted to race the 200m backstroke, and like the other two he finished just outside entry time. In the afternoon session, Donnie produced another hat-trick of PBs with improvements in his 200m freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 400m IM.


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