A THIRTY-strong Worcester squad chased national and regional times at the United Bristol SC National Qualifier level one meet at Hengrove Park 50-metre international pool.

Swimmers aimed to impress in the 10-week national age group qualification period with those ranked in the United Kingdom's top 24 in each event invited to July's British Summer Championships in Sheffield.

The next 20 ranked from 25 onwards can attend their respective domestic Home Nations Championships.

Worcester came away with nearly 60 podium finishes and new regional times for the West Midlands ASA Championships at the end of April in Coventry.

In the girls' 10 year age group, Olivia Eggleton won silver in the 100m backstroke (one minute 31.34 seconds) and bronzes in the 400m freestyle (6.41.60), 100m breaststroke (1.37.94), 200m backstroke (3.09.15) and 200m breaststroke (3.28.74).

Maisie Lyons claimed gold in the 100m backstroke (1.29.60), silver in the 50m breaststroke (42.04) and bronze in the 50m freestyle (36.50).

David Annis picked up golds in the boys' 10 year 200m individual medley (2.51.31), 100m freestyle (1.10.83) and 50m backstroke (37.81) and silvers in the 100m breaststroke (1.36.06) and 50m butterfly (36.22).

Bryony Lowe swam 5.14.43 for gold in the girls' 11 year 400m freestyle.

Henry Halford did his first regional time with bronze in the boys' 12 year 50m breaststroke (39.76).

For the girls' 12 year group Lauren Annis snatched gold in the 200m breaststroke (3.01.60) and Rebecca Yates got bronzes in the 200m IM (2.41.03) and 200m backstroke (2.37.40).

Dan Day won gold in the boys' 13 year 50m backstroke (31.08), silvers in the 200m freestyle (2.14.39) and 100m backstroke (1.07.24) and bronzes in the 200m backstroke (2.26.31), 200m IM (2.33.54) and 100m freestyle (1.00.89).

Megan Annis took gold in the girls' 13 year 50m freestyle (29.29), Holly Workman bronze in the 50m breaststroke (37.04) and Natasha Dobson bronze in the 50m backstroke (34.34).

Will Gearey grabbed seven golds in the boys' 14 year age group, winning the 200m IM (2.22.73), 100m freestyle (57.68), 200m backstroke (2.21.63), 100m butterfly (1.03.40), 200m freestyle (2.07.88), 50m freestyle (26.20) and 50m butterfly (28.13).

He also bagged silver in the 400m freestyle (4.36.44) and bronze in the 100m backstroke (1.06.58).

Olivia Fletcher took a girls' 14 year gold in the 200m IM (2.32.31), silver in the 100m freestyle (1.01.46) and bronzes in the 100m breaststroke (1.20.66) and 50m butterfly (32.13).

Matt Thomas claimed boys' 15 year silvers in the 200m backstroke (2.25.23), 50m backstroke (30.74) and 50m butterfly (28.07) and bronzes in the 100m butterfly (1.04.54), 200m freestyle (2.07.50) and 100m backstroke (1.07.10).

Breaststroke specialist Harvey Lloyd won silver in the 100m (1.12.46) and bronzes in the 200m (2.45.88) and 50m (33.61).

Charlotte Hall scooped girls' 15 year gold in the 50m butterfly (30.08).

Club captain Lucy Clayton won girls' 16-plus silvers in the 200m breaststroke (2.50.69), 100m breaststroke (1.16.74) and 50m breaststroke (33.65).

Sam Hall snatched silvers in the boys' 16-plus 100m breaststroke (1.09.13) and 200m breaststroke (2.33.36) and bronze in the 50m breaststroke (32.13). Anthony Redfern powered to silver in the 100m freestyle (53.28) and bronze in the 50m butterfly (26.41).

Hannah Dixon, Louis Doyle, Alex Farmer, Kai Gooden-Morris, Libby Gooden-Morris, Lauren Hill, Naomi Marsden, Lily Merrell, Will Thomas, Emily West and Brodie Willetts also swam for Worcester.