Above is a photo of two of our fantastic swimmers - on the left is Emma Pickering who won gold and bronze medals at the British Downs Symdrome Championships in High Wycombe earlier this month. Next to her is Emma Calvert who won 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals and is now National Champion for 2 lengths breast stroke. She said it was a very long day but good fun and she's really proud.
Jamie Walker has also done brilliantly and is National Champion at 1 length butterfly stroke.
They all swim for the Cheshire Penguins Swimming Club which has been going for 34 years now. Emma Calvert will be representing her team in September this year in the Global Special Olympics held in San Juan in Puerto Rico. There will be 1200 athletes with learning difficulties there so competition will be fierce. Also representing the Penguins will be Jodie Bowyer, Pete Edwards and Sean Daniels who all attend the Old Fire Station.
The Penguins are currently trying to raise sponsorship money to help the athletes with travel costs etc as they have not managed to get any funding, despite being the top performing team in all the national competitions this year. Roberts Bakery have kindly offered a small donation to help. If anyone else would like to sponsor our fantastic swimmers please call in at the Old Fire Station or call Ann Calvert on 01606 42453.
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