The 2012 -13 diving season kicked off for Welsh Clubs with their best medal haul to date at the Bob Morgan Trophy in Bangor this weekend.  The event, hosted by Bangor Billidowcars diving Club is now in its second year and attracts divers from clubs across Britain. 72 divers from Bradford, Bury, Aberdare, Bangor and Tom Daleys home club Plymouth, competed in ten events split into age group categories. In each event the top three individual positions where awarded medals and every participant could earn team points up towards the overall winners trophy.

This year saw the first Group F (5-7yrs) level divers competing for Welsh clubs. Ellis Williams, Coel Jones and Keira Philpot (ACDC) and Maddy O'Sulivan (BBDC) put on a good performance against the well established Plymouth and Bradford club divers finishing 7^th, 5^th, 4^th and 5^th respectively. Watch out for theses little stars in the not so distant future!

In the group E category (8-9yrs), one of the toughest events of the day, Seren Watkins (ACDC) finished 6^th with 142.70 points and Anya Arkless (BBDC) finished 5^th with 145.60 points. Ewan Purnell (ACDC) in the boys category finished 6^th with a very respectable 155.15 points.

Group D (10-11yrs) the largest group of the day saw Emily Thomas (ACDC) come 13^th with 150.15 points and Kaitlin Hughes (BBDC) come 7^th with 161.00 points, Manon Hudgell (BBDC) place 6^th with 161.20 points, both personal bests and Ffion Watkins (ACDC) place 4^th with 165.40 points. In the boys group, Kes Thomas (BBDC) placed 10^th with 129.30 points, Thomas Lindley (BBDC) in his first ever competition placed 8^th with 135.70 points and Shaun Baker (ACDC) secured the Silver medal spot with 160.40 points missing the top spot by only 3.05 points.

In the group C (12-13yrs) events Leah Silverton (BBDC) secured 5^th with 158.10 points, Sophie Pipe (BBDC) placed 4^th in her first ever competition with 158.70 points and Caitlin Thomas (ACDC) placed 2^nd to secure silver scoring 172.50 points (PB) missing out on the top spot by 1.05 points. In the boys event Callum Lewis (ACDC) placed 8^th diving consistently to secure 137.40 points. Ollie Arkless (BBDC) dived well to win place taking Silver medal position with 174.00 points. Kojo Terrile (ACDC) scored 182.65 (PB) points to take Wales' first gold of the meet.

Group B divers Stuart Warburton competing in his first competition placed 5^th with 263.10 points, Daniel Hourihan (ACDC) scored 378.55 (PB) taking silver medal position. Megan Davies, although the only female in her category, competed alongside the boys group and scored a personal best of 382.90. Megan's score ranked her in silver medal position against the boy's results.

Total Welsh Medal Count

Aberdare Comets Diving Club - 2 x Gold, 3 x silver

Bangor Billidowcars Diving Club - 1 x Silver

Overall Team points

1. Plymouth Diving Club - 219.00 points  - Winners of the Bob Morgan Trophy
2. Bradford Esprit Diving Club - 148.00 points
3. Aberdare Comets Diving Club - 120.00 points
4. Bangor Billidowcars Diving Club - 66 points
5. Bury Dragons Diving Club - 64.00 points

This years events running success was down to the fantastic organisation and planning of Nick Pipe and Isabelle Hudgell and Members of the Bangor Billidowcars diving clubs volunteer organisation.  Swim Wales would like to thank the club for all their excellent work in arranging the training camp, Interclub social and Competition.

For complete events results and rankings, please check out www.diverecorder.co.uk . For all  Welsh divers previous events scores and rankings please see Swim Wales results pages or Email Ben Fox, Swim Wales diving development Consultant on ben.fox@swimming.org