CoPA Swimmer Rhea Represents Great Britain

We are immensely proud of our swimmer Rhea who this month travelled to Belgrade, Serbia to represent Great Britain in technical and free team events at the Senior European Artistic Swimming Championships this week, coming home with a bronze medal!  Rhea has put in countless hours of training in Bristol over the past year as a full-time member of the GB artistic swimming squad.  Her dedication and hard work has paid off with Rhea being selected to swim in this international competition representing her country.  A video of Rhea’s swim with the team can be found below.

Congratulations Rhea!

    

Fabulous Results for CoPA at National Championships

CoPA had a wonderful weekend at the 2022 National Championships – the first National event for our junior and senior swimmers since 2019. After an especially long period of time out of the pool for our senior swimmers the results were especially impressive. This was the largest number of entries CoPA had entered for many years with multiple personal bests in a number of events, which was especially impressive when considering the exceptionally high volume of overall entries! Huge thanks go to Fiona and all the coaches for helping to prepare the swimmers ahead of the competition and to our club volunteers and judge Camilla who helped at the competition. Full results are detailed below.

Technical Solo (out of 23):

  • Rhea – 4th
  • Natasha – 13th

Free Solo (out of 28):

  • Rhea – 5th
  • Marisa – 15th
  • Leah – 22nd

Technical Duet (out of 12): 

  • Rhea & Natasha – 5th

Free Duet (out of 18):

  • Leah & Rhea – 6th
  • Marisa & Natasha – 8th

Technical Team – 8th (out of 9)

Free Team – 10th (out of 14)

Well done to all of our swimmers we are very proud of you all!

 

Medal Success at National Age Group Championships

Huge congratulations to our 12&under and 13-15 swimmers who competed at NAG’s last weekend. Special congratulations go to our youngest club member Imogen for her Bronze medal in the 9-10 figures!! It was great to see our swimmers back to competing nationally after so long – with some swimmers competing nationally for the first time. Big thanks go to Fiona for getting the girls ready for the competition and to our volunteers who helped make the competition a huge success. Full results can be found below:

9-10 Figures: 

  • Imogen – BRONZE

13-15 Figures: 

  • Chloe – 9th
  • Marisa – 23rd
  • Jess – 79th
  • Ellie – 81st

13-15 Duet:

  • Chloe and Marisa – 5th

13-15 Solo: 

  • Chloe – 11th

13-15 Team – 9th

Well done to all swimmers!

Synchro Level X Games

A big ‘well done’ to all our synchro athletes who practiced for the Level X Games this evening.  The following swimmers have been chosen to represent CoPA in the forthcoming competition:

  • 12 & Under: Amarah
  • Youth: Rachel
  • Junior: Natasha
  • Senior: Rhea

Good luck to these athletes as they go forward to compete in the Games on behalf of CoPA.

CoPA Synchro National Age Groups

CoPA 13-15 TeamCoPA’s synchro swimmers competed at the National Age Groups Championships in Manchester at the weekend with some incredible results:

  • 12 & under figures – Chloe: 18th
  • 13-15 figures – Natasha: 7th, Lola: 33rd, Marisa: 34th and Rachel: 112th
  • 13-15 solo – Natasha: 5th
  • 12 & under solo – Chloe: 10th
  • Free team routine – CoPA team (Lola, Marisa, Natasha and Rachel): 8th

There were 67 competitors in the 12 & under age group and 179 competitors in the 13-15 age group.  Dependent upon their figures scores, only the top 12 swimmers qualified to swim solo.  There were a total of 18 clubs swimming in the team event.  We are naturally very proud of our swimmers!

NW Synchro Regional Age Groups & Championships Results 2020

Incredible results for our CoPA synchro girls today as they took part in the 2020 Swim England NW Regional Age Groupsand Championships at Palatine Pool, Blackpool!

  • CoPA 13-15 Combination Team: (Abby, Katie, Jess, Lola, Maddie, Marisa, Natasha, Nema & Rachel) – Silver
  • 15+ Technical Duet: Rhea, Leah & Evie (reserve) – Gold
  • 15+ Technical Solo: RheaGold, Leah – 5th
  • 15+ Free Duet: Rhea, Leah & Evie (reserve) – Gold
  • 15+ Free Solo: RheaGold, Leah – 4th, Evie – 6th
  • 13-15 Free Duet: Natasha & MarisaGold
  • 13 – 15 Free Solo: NatashaBronze, Marisa – 5th
  • 13 – 15 Figures: NatashaBronze, Marisa – 4th, Lola – 8th, Rachel – 17th, Abby – 19th
  • 12U Free Solo: ChloeSilver
  • 12U Figures: ChloeGold, Emilia – 15th

Great work girls!

Photos and videos to follow for logged in CoPA members.

Lancashire Synchro Championships 2019

A fantastic day today for CoPA synchro swimmers as they took part in the 2019 Lancashire Synchro Championships at Palatine, Blackpool.  It was a great first competition for a lot of our swimmers and CoPA scooped some amazing results:

Novice Figures:
🥉 Bronze:  Amarah

12 & Under Solo:
🥇 Gold: Lola

13-14 Solo:
🥇 Gold: Natasha
🥈 Silver: Evie

15 & Over Solo:
🥇 Gold: Rhea
🥉 Bronze: Leah

12 & Under Duet:
🥇 Gold: Chloe and Lola

13-15 Duet:
🥇 Gold: Natasha and Evie
🥈 Silver: Rachel and Maddie
🥉 Bronze: Abby and Katie

15 & Over:
🥇 Gold: Rhea and Leah
🥈 Silver: Olivia and Nema

CoPA Combo🥇 Gold

CoPA Free Team: 🥈 Silver

Thank you to all of the amazing coaches, judges and volunteers that helped make the day a success.  Special thanks to our friends from City of Salford synchro club (who also got some great results) for competing with us and for being such great sports.  Videos of the CoPA routines can be found here for logged in CoPA members.

CoPA Synchro Swimmers Power NW Beacon Success

It was a big day on Friday for CoPA’s synchro swimmers Chloe, Evie, Lola and Natasha as they took part in the synchro Beacon Games in Aldershot to represent the North West region.  The girls were part of the North West’s Beacon Squad – the first stage of the England Talent programme for younger swimmers – and the regional team also included swimmers from City of Salford and Stockport synchronised swimming clubs.

The girls worked incredibly well as a team and their efforts were rewarded as CoPA swimmer Evie took a bronze medal for her individual score in the 13-15 age group category.  The NW Beacon team also finished third overall with a score of 56.27, less than a point behind the overall winners, Walsall Beacon.

An outstanding effort and great result – well done to all our NW Beacon swimmers.

 

Rhea & Leah shine at National Championships

Rhea & Leah have just taken part in Day 1 of the National Synchronised Swimming Championships in Nottingham with some great results:

  • Rhea 8th in Tech Solo
  • Rhea 12th in Free Solo
  • Leah 14th in Tech Solo
  • Leah 18th in Free Solo.
  • Rhea & Leah 8th place in Technical Duet!

Shown here warming up just before their technical duet swim: