Brentwood School swimmers are celebrating as overall Mid Essex Relay Swimming Champions!  This is the 5^th year that the boys have won overall and the 2^nd year that the girls have won overall.   

The relay events were held on 15^th and 21^st January and 9 schools took part in total.  The 4^th, 5^th and 6^th form gala was held at Brentwood School and the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd gala was held at William de Ferrers School. 

Swimming Coach Carol Melvin commented:  "This is another fantastic achievement. Well done to all swimmers who have given 100% as always. The swimmers success is all due to the hard work they put in lunch times, games, after school and the early morning training, in the pool at 6.45am, even at that time of the morning they work extremely hard!   Their enthusiasm and dedication is now being rewarded and I know they are all proud to wear their new swimming team polo shirts".

The full Brentwood School results were as follows:
1st year girls - 2^nd
1^st year boys - 1^st (joint with Newhall)
2^nd year girls - 1^st
2^nd year boys - 1^st
3^rd year girls - 5^th
3^rd year boys - 3^rd
4^th year girls - 6^th
4^th year boys - 1^st
5^th year girls - 4^th
5^th year boys - 1^st
6^th form girls - 1^st
6^th form boys - 1^st

Overall girls and boys won 1^st place beating St Martins School by 26 points.

Winning the Mid Essex Relay title wasn't enough for Brentwood School pupils, Charlotte Kenyon and Matthew Dawe who also attended the Essex County Championships on 24^th-25^th January 2009. 

Charlotte Kenyon in the 2^nd Year competed in the 50 metre sprint and got the following results in other races:

• Silver   Backstroke                  34.45
• 4^th        Butterfly                     34.50
• 5^th        Freestyle                      30.54
• 8^th        Breaststroke                40.00

Matthew Dawe, a pupil in the 2^nd Year also competed in the County Championships and came 10^th for breast stroke. Pupil James Kidd also achieved 6^th place in 50 metres Butterfly in the time of 33.72 at the above championships.