Scottish Youth Continue To Grind Towards Bahamas At SNAGS – SwimSwam

Read up on day 2 of the Scottish National Age Group (SNAG) Championships.Current Photo via Commonwealth Games Federation

Day 2 of the 2017 Scottish National Age Group Championships wreaked additional havoc on the national age group record book, while also opening the opportunity for some to punch their ticket to the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas in July. As with yesterday, a few seasoned veterans got some racing in during the morning session, while the evening was left for the age groupers to put their training to the test.

Heading into todays competition, here is how the team point totals looked for the top 5 squads after the first night only:

1. Warrender Baths Club 279.5 2. South Lanarkshire Swimming 168 3. City of Glasgow 165 4. University of Aberdeen Performance 163.5 5. Falkirk Integrated Regional 99

In terms of qualifying for the Commonwealth Youth Games later this summer, Scottish Swimmings qualification criteria has dictated that a total of 10 swimmers will be selected to represent Youth Team Scotland at the event. To be eligible for consideration, swimmers must achieve a time equal or faster than those listed in the following table. The times must be achieved either at this SNAGs meet, or at next months British World Championships Trials/National Championships.

Additionally, the eligible age categories for swimming in the Youth Games are 15-18 for males (born 1999/2000/2001/2002) and 14-17 for females (born 2000/2001/2002/2003.

With that criteria in mind, just one swimmer made a CYG cut today in Aberdeen in the form of 15-year-oldKatie Robertson from South Ayrshire Swim Team. Robertson notched a winning time of 2:31.83 in the womens 200m breaststroke to not only dip under the 2:32.43 consideration time, but to also notch herself a new age group record as well. Her outing was just .12 quicker than Emma Chittleburghs 2:31.95 that sat as the girls 15 years of age national record for the past 3 years.

On the pro swim scene, Aberdeen nativeHannah Miley took on the 200m breaststroke and 400m IM in the morning session, taking the top spot in each. Even though she swam exhibition, her respective marks of 2:34.10 and 4:48.89 help gauge where the 28-year-old is at with her nations World Championship Trials just a few weeks away.

Loretta grew up outside Toledo, OH, where she swam age group and high school. Graduating from Xavier University, she stayed in the Cincinnati, OH area and currently resides just outside the city in Northern KY. Loretta got back into the sport of swimming via Masters and now competes and is

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