Manchester, England: Plymouth Leander’s Kenyan superstar Achieng Ajulu-Bushell is only 48 hours out of competing in the biggest meet of her life as she represents her nation at the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships 2008 at the Manchester Evening News Arena.

Achieng will be comforted in the fact that Amanda Booth, one of her major coaching influences at PL, has been named as the Head Coach of the Kenyan team.

Sheffield, England: Day 4 of the British Championships and surely PL were to slow down. Erm, no. In fact three PL athletes were to break five British Age Records in three swims! How does that happen?

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Sheffield, England: Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, it then did. Day 3 at the British Long Course Championships saw Emma Wilkins take PL’s first medal at an Olympic Trials whilst Grant Halsall and Calum Jarvis decided to set about the British Record books in a big way.

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Sheffield, England: After a breathtaking start for PL athletes at the 2008 British Championships, Zoe Hester entered the fray in the 100m Backstroke to record a staggering personal best time of 1:03.22 to qualify for the ‘A’ Final and place herself as Britain’s number one Backstroker on the World Youth Championships in Mexico this July.

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Sheffield, England: The first day of the British Championships saw Plymouth Leander’s band of elite athletes excel way beyond that of everyone’s hopes leading into the meet with sprint starlet Emma Wilkins narrowly missing out on automatic Olympic selection.

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Tiverton, England: The final weekend of the 2008 Devon County Championships saw Plymouth Leander swimmers achieve new heights with no less than 40 individual athletes from our nationally acclaimed programme achieving County Champion status this year.

Sam Straughan was to take his number of Competition Best Times (CBT’s) to seven as he recorded three further marks over the last two days of competition at the Exe Valley Pool in Tiverton. In the 14 years events, Sam was to set new age records in the 200m IM (2:11.88), 50m Butterfly (26.85) and 200m Freestyle (1:58.37) before winning the 50m Freestyle as a welcome bonus.

Tiverton, England: The wow factor was very much back at the third weekend of the Devon County ASA Championships at the Exe Valley Pool in Tiverton with both Emma Wilkins and Antony James making their only appearances of the year at the meet and both taking down Devon Championship records in the process.

Wilkins was to truly put her opposition to the sword in the 100m Freestyle, destroying the Championship Record in 57.19, swimming under 57.5 seconds on three occasions across the course of the second day. Her training partner Antony James was also in no holds barred mode, as he decimated the field in the 100m Butterfly, taking the long-standing Championship Record down to 54.76.

Plymouth, England: The second weekend of the 2008 Devon County ASA Championships saw a wealth of PL stars in action, none less so than Mark Conroy and Zoe Hester who were both to set new County Championship Records as part of the proceedings.

With around seven weeks to go before the British Championships are upon us, Conroy wowed the Central Park Pools crowd with his early cycle speed in the 50m Breaststroke, trimming the former County Championship Record to 29.45 to win the Championship title and the 16 years & over equivalent. Team-mate Zoe Hester was no slouch either, claiming the Championship 100m Backstroke title and Record in 1:02.95. Needless to say, Hester added the 16 years & over crown later into the meet.

Nairobi, Kenya: PL Assistant Head Coach Amanda Booth has this week received notification from the Kenyan Swimming Federation that she will undertake the role of Head Coach for the Kenya Swim Team at the impending 2008 World Short Course Championships in April.

The Kenyan team comprises of four male athletes and one female, the latter being PL’s very own Achieng Ajulu-Bushell; the 13 year old is well and truly being let loose in the deep end of world swimming as she sets about preparing for the biggest meet of her career thus far.

Sheffield, England: Plymouth College’s arrival in Sheffield for the 50th English Schools Relay Championships was nothing short of monumental; the shift of power in English Schools swimming has now happened and will perhaps remain for some time to come.

The Ponds Forge International Sports Centre was to witness Leander’s primary partners dominate proceedings, winning six of the twelve titles and break the various English Schools relay records on no less than nine occasions in a matter of hours.