{"id":16565,"date":"2025-05-20T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=16565"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:46:08","slug":"outstanding-performances-at-shropshire-schools-swim-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/outstanding-performances-at-shropshire-schools-swim-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Performances at Shropshire Schools Swim Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/swim-team.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/swim-team.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/swim-team-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Left to right: (front row) Emily Sanderson, Harry Wain, Isobel Homer, Emily Gurr &amp; Martha Gibbard (back row) Jack Cook &amp; Reece Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Last Thursday, our incredible swim team took part in the Shropshire Schools Swimming Gala at Thomas Telford School, competing against other students from Years 7 to 13. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a fantastic day filled with determination, team spirit and an impressive number of personal bests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone gave it their all, with a few bravely stepping up to compete as the younger swimmers in the two-year age group categories \u2013 and delivering some outstanding results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole team did us proud, but several members of the team produced standout performances that deserve special recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\ud83c\udfca<\/em> <strong>Izzy Homer<\/strong> was in superb form, becoming Inter Girls County Champion in the 200m Individual Medley, smashing her personal best by a staggering 6.5 seconds. She also achieved a new personal best in the Inter Girls 100m Freestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\ud83c\udfca<\/em> <strong>Emily Gurr<\/strong> claimed the title of Junior Girls 100m Backstroke Champion with a fantastic swim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\ud83c\udfca<\/em> <strong>Martha Gibbard<\/strong> powered to victory in the Inter Girls 100m Backstroke, earning herself a well-deserved county title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\ud83c\udfca<\/em> <strong>Reece Thomas<\/strong> not only won the Junior Boys 100m Freestyle, but also achieved a new personal best in the Junior Boys 100m Breaststroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\ud83c\udfca<\/em> <strong>Jack Cook<\/strong> recorded a new personal best in the Inter Boys 200m Individual Medley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done to Team BES, who represented the school brilliantly both in and out of the pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, our incredible swim team took part in the Shropshire Schools Swimming Gala at Thomas Telford School, competing against other students from Years 7 to 13. It was a fantastic day filled with determination, team spirit and an impressive number of personal bests. Everyone gave it their all, with a few bravely stepping up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/outstanding-performances-at-shropshire-schools-swim-gala\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Outstanding Performances at Shropshire Schools Swim Gala&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2,16,157],"class_list":["post-16565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-sport","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}