MOUNT Kelly Swimming were on the gold trail over the last two weeks at the British and English Summer Swimming Championships at the Ponds Forge International Pool in Sheffield.

Thirty-three Mount Kelly swimmers qualified for the two consecutive competitions.

In one of their most successful national championships in recent years Mount Kelly swimmers won an excellent seven gold medals, ten silver and four bronze medals.

Outstanding performances came from 14 year old Ollie Taverner, who wona double gold in the 50m and 100m breaststrokes. Ollie also won a silver medal in the 200m breaststroke.

At the English Championships, 16 year-old Emily Cutler had a clean sweep in the 50m,100m and 200m backstroke events winning gold in all three events.

Director of swimming, Robin Brew, said: ‘This result represents a huge amount of work and preparation by the coaching team and our swimmers over this last year. The school has been hugely supportive, and to bring home to Tavistock the successes that we have make us very proud.

We come from a rural part of the country and resources are limited, to be able to compete against the big cities and clubs around the country shows the passion and commitment we have to compete against the best in the UK.

Mount Kelly won a silver in the boys 14-16 years 4x100m medley relay team and a bronze in the girls 17 years and over 4x100 freestyle relay.

In the National Open Water Championships Mount Kelly’s Reece Worth powered to a silver medal in the men’s 5km race with Megan Bowen finishing fifth in the women’s race. 15 year-old Alex Seymour competed in the 3km race and finish in a superb fifth place.

Medal winners at the English Championships: gold for 12 year-old Kaylee Dekker in the 100m freestyle and silver, in the 50m and 200m fly and also the 50m freestyle. 19 year-old Reece Worth won his first ever national title in the 400m freestyle and silver in the 200m individual medley. A double silver for 14 year-old Lauren Hession in the 50m and 100m freestyle and 14 year-old Jacob Newcombe swam the race of his life to win a silver in the 100m backstroke.

Bronze medals were won by 15 year-old Abi Rawlings in the 200m breaststroke; Toby Stanyer, age 17, in the 200m backstroke and Jack Hutchin, 14, in the 50m backstroke.

All the swimmers produced huge personal best performances and set between them 32 new Mount Kelly records.