Members of Sharks Swimming Club were in tremendous form at the Phoenix Amateur Swimming Association's 8th open gala held at Colchester's Leisure World.
Nine of the club's 28-strong squad live locally and they returned with 25 medals 13 of them gold.
Erith's Sarah Louise-Casey led the gold strike with a superb haul of four first places 100 metres breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle races, plus the 8 x 50-metre relay, as well a bronze in the 100m butterfly.
Samantha Mercer, from Sidcup, won a trio of golds in the 50 and 100m backstroke, plus the 100m freestyle.
Welling's Adam Baker collected four medals two golds in the 100m backstroke and 8 x 50-metre relay, as well as silver and bronze in the 100 and 50m breaststroke finals respectively.
Iain Ambrose, from Swanley, won a full set after winning gold in the 8 x 50-metre relay, slver in the 100m backstroke and bronze in the 100m individual medley.
Erith's Emma Kent emulated Iain in three 100-metre finals by winning gold in the backstroke, silver in the freestyle, plus a backstroke bronze.
Two other Erith swimmers brother and sister Jamie and Tina Rushbrook also did their best to boost the Sharks' medal collecton.
Tina won three 50-metre medals a silver in the freestyle, plus bronzes in both breast and backstroke events, while Jamie was also part of the successful 8 x 50-metre relay squad, as well as winning silver in the 50m breaststroke.
Sidcup's Katherine Mannion won gold in the 50m backstroke, plus a bronze in the freestyle over the same distance.
Matthew Griffiths, from Erith, completed the squad but he unluckily just missed out on a medal when fourth in the 100m.
Katherine, meanwhile, swam the second leg of Sharks' freestyle relay team which won gold at the Astra National Championships in the Pontypool Leisure Centre a week before.
The Sharks Swimming Club trains at the Eric Liddle Sports Centre in Mottingham on Monday evenings and encourages people with any kind of disability to join.
Call coach Kay Instrell on 020 8857 3854 for more details.
November 6, 2001 10:58
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