KELLY College had 12 swimmers competing at the British Gas ASA Zonal Championships.

The event covers the South West, South East of England and the London area), and were held at K2, Crawley. The college took home eight gold medals, five silvers, one bronze and five Kelly College Swim squad records.

Tom McLagan (16) rose to the occasion with a great swim in the 400m individual medley to take the title and the gold medal in a time of 4minutes 46.61secs. Tom also won silver in the 200m individual medley in 2.15.56. Paralympian Hannah Russell (16) competing in the multi-discipline events as an S12, took gold in all six of her events. Hannah also reached the final of the able bodied swimming for the 100m freestyle and placed sixth. Mikey Jones (18), swimming in the S7 classification won five medals, winning gold in the 400m freestyle, silver in the 200m IM, 100m freestyle and 50m free and bronze in the 100m backstroke. Mikey also featured in a final for the able bodied coming fourth in the 400m freestyle. Milly Furneaux (16) won silver in the 50m breaststroke and broke four school records. Two of the records were open records, 50m breaststroke (33.49) and 100m breaststroke (1.12.78). These times broke the records for 16 year-old girls. Cara Layden (13), sliced 2.54 seconds off her 200m freestyle personal best time, won silver and booked her place for the British Gas Senior International Meet to be held in Leeds during March. Nikita Ivanov (15) broke the 50m freestyle Kelly record for 15 year old boys with a 25.53, fifth in the final.

Kelly College finalists: Milly Furneaux, Nikita Ivanov, Michael Jones, Cara Layden, Thomas McLagan, Leah Picillo, Stephanie Reynolds, Hannah Russell, Oliver Willis and Laker Wong.

Robin Brew, director of swimming at Kelly College said that this was another outstanding from the swimmers.