2017 SCOTTISH NATIONAL AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS (SNAGS)
- Wednesday, March 29th – Sunday, April 2nd
- Aquatics Centre in Aberdeen
- LCM
- Live Stream
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
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 today’s 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 Swimming’s 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 month’s 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-old Katie Robertson from South Ayrshire Swim Team. Robertson notched a winning time of 2:31.83 in the women’s 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 Chittleburgh’s 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 native Hannah 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 nation’s World Championship Trials just a few weeks away.