Chalfont Otters started this year's campaign in the Chilterns Swimming League with a solid 3rd place finish in Saturday's gala, this follows on from last year's promotion. The team had a lot of new swimmers competing for the first time outside of the Club Championships and they did not disappoint with a spirited performance throughout the night. There were many personal bests swum with one county time being achieved and 5 swimmers coming close to county times as well. The swimmers actually swam rather too well as this gala was a no faster than competition which meant that we had 15 swims that were not counted in the overall point standing because we actually swam too fast! Therefore it meant finishing 3rd was a great result as we potentially missed out on 90 points. Assistant Head Coach, Guy Massey said, 'this league is a great way for our new and / or inexperienced swimmers to gain some confidence and put themselves in contention for some of the bigger competitions the club takes part in'. He further added 'now I have some interesting evenings to try and come up with a new team as a lot of the swimmers have now become ineligible for this league, but it's a nice position to be in'.
The final team standings were:
1st Witney District 194
2nd Linslade Crusaders 183
3rd Chalfont Otters 164
4th Rushden 164
5th Putteridge Piranhas 148
6th Houghton Regis DNS
