Swimmer Jacob was a cracker in Rugby

Boys club captain Jacob Briers led by example at a swimming meet in Rugby by placing top three in all seven of his events as Deepings Swimming Club brought home 18 medals.

The wins started flowing from the very first event, the 400m freestyle, with gold for Briers in the 14yrs age group and James Cash in the 12yrs, while Oliver Shepherd won bronze in the 13yrs category.

Briers repeated his golden performance in the 200m breaststroke and 200m butterfly before adding silver in the 200IM and 200m freestyle plus a pair of bronzes in the 50m breaststroke and 100m butterfly, the latter with a two-second personal best (PB).

James continued his excellent run of form with his second gold medal of the weekend in the 50m backstroke. He ended the meet with a two-second PB and silver in the 100m butterfly.

Shepherd went on to claim two silvers with a twosecond PB in the 100m butterfly and a 1.5-second best time in the 50m freestyle, where he dipped under 30 seconds for the first time.

Completing the boys’ medals - and ensuring they all came away from the meet with honours - were vice-captain Lewis Tarver (bronze in the 14yrs 200m backstroke), Jack Bell (bronze in the 13yrs 200m backstroke) and William

Burdock (bronze in the 13yrs 200m breaststroke).

There were also some outstanding performance and huge personal bests from Deepings girls.

Lottie Jenkinson won the 200m butterfly with a massive 16-second PB to touch home in 3:12.97. She also swam a seven-second PB of 3:03.66 in the 200IM.

Sister Lucy Jenkinson knocked eight seconds off her 50m breaststroke time, five seconds off her 100m freestyle and a second off both her 50m backstroke and her 50m butterfly in the 11yrs age group.

Eloise Walker raced against older girls in the over 15 age group, but put claimed 200m butterfly silver with a one-second PB.

Isabella Reynolds competed in nine events and swam a seven-second PB in the 100m freestyle, 14 seconds in the 400m freestyle, two seconds in the 50m backstroke, and four seconds in the 200m breaststroke and 200m backstroke.