Five City of Southampton swimmers attended the Portsmouth Northsea Easter Swim Festival and achieved no less than 29 Southern Counties qualifying times, and nine national qualifying times in 30 events over the three days of the competition.

A total of 22 top-six positions out of 28 qualifying races enabled the club to take sixth place overall.

Joanna Jeffcoate, 13 , gained a new national qualifying time in the 400m freestyle with a personal best of 4min 38.63sec and took bronze in the 200m butterfly in a pb time of 2.32.23.

Other personal best swims came in the 100m freestyle (1.03.86), 100m backstroke (1.09.73) and 200m individual Medley (2.32.24).

In total, Joanna bettered the national qualifying standard in five events.

Also swimming in the girls' 13/14 age group Sam Windebank, 13, achieved a personal best time of 1.06.57 in the 100m freestyle.

In the extremely tough 15-and-over age group Alex Reeves, 15, swam to silver in the 200m breaststroke in 2.35.39 pb and achieved further personal best times in the 200m freestyle (2.03.73) and the 400m individual medley (4.50.63), where he was fourth. Reeves also placed in the 100m breaststroke (1.13.46).

Joshua Willcocks, 14, bettered the national qualifying standard in three freestyle events. In the 100m freestyle, he achieved a personal best of 56.88 to take bronze and in the 200m freestyle a time of 2.02.46 secured silver. Willcocks also took bronze medals and pbs in the 100m breaststroke (1.15.67) and 100m butterfly (1.04.99).

Younger brother Sebastian, 12, achieved his first national qualifying time of the season in the 200m butterfly with a pb time of 2.37.19 and gained a silver medal in the process. He also swam to silver in the 200m individual medley. In addition there were personal best swims in the 100m backstroke (1.15.92), 200m backstroke (2.39.89) and 400m individual medley (5.39.17).