A small squad of City of Bradford Swimming Club's National Potential squad members, who train under the guidance of Leisure Service’s senior coach Andy Pearce, travelled to Sunderland to compete in the North East Region Youth and Senior Championships.

Time is now running out for qualification for this year's National Championships but breaststroke specialist David Brown posted ASA and youth qualifying times in the 50 metres and 100m events.

His personal best of 29.59sec in the 50m earned him a gold medal in the youth competition and silver in the open event.

His longer distance time of 1min 07.81sec was a silver-medal-winning performance in the youth section and earned him fifth place in the open event. He also had a best time of 26.28sec in the 50m freestyle.

Luke Constantine secured a silver medal in the youth 50m butterfly with a best time of 26.36sec and was third in the open event and also continued his run of good form with four further personal-best times.

Sam O’Donohoe placed seventh in the youth and ninth in the open 200m backstroke.

Personal best-times also came from Josh Zenner (four), Josh Walker (two), Jamie Brown (three) and Isobel Stirk.

Commonwealth Games representative Sian Morgan was competing in the Welsh Youth Commonwealth Games Trials over the weekend.

Following her performances in Swansea, she is hopefully of securing a place on the Welsh squad for the Games to be held on the Isle of Man in September. She has already been selected for Wales for the Celtic Tri-Nations Championships in Swansea next month.