Lanark ASC swimmer 15 year old Jack McComish representing the Great Britain Deaf Team won two Bronze Medals at the European Deaf Championships in Dortmund, Germany, and to crown a highly successful week Jack was awarded the best junior male performer, a remarkable achievement considering there were 22 countries represented at this prestigious meet and Jack was one of the youngest swimmers competing alongside older and more experienced contestants.  He was the only Great Britain team member to win an individual medal, and set four new 15 & under British Records.

Jack competed in eight individual events and two relays. His Bronze medals came in the 200m Breaststroke in a personal best time of 2.37.00 and the 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay.  He also qualified to the finals where he finished 4^th in the 1500m Freestyle (17.39.07), 5^th 200m Butterfly (2.30.39), 6th 100m Breaststroke (1.13.04), 6^th 50m Breaststroke (33.66), 8^th 400m Freestyle (4.32.49) and 5^th in the 4 x 100m Medley Relay.

Coach Karen Kelly thrilled with Jack's results said ‘Everyone thought that this meet would be a learning curve for Jack but he did exceptionally well and exceeded all expectations, a credit to himself and his club.

Jack became a member of Lanark ASC in August 2005, then in 2007 club secretary Mary Kelly and a British Swimming Judge who officiates at Disabled and Special Needs Galas noticed some raw talent in Jack and suggested to his parents to consider entering Jack for Disabled and Sensory Impaired Meets.  That year he won all the deaf swimming Scottish titles and set new Scottish records.  He repeated this performance in 2008 and was the first deaf person to be awarded the disability and sensory impaired performer of the year trophy. From there thanks to the guidance from Paul Wilson the Scottish Swimming Disability Development Officer, Jack was soon accepted into the Great Britain Deaf Swimming Team and is Great Britain Deaf Champion and record holder in numerous strokes. He is now on target to compete at the World Deaf Swimming Championships in August 2011 at Coimbra, Portugal.

Jack thanks everyone who contributed to his fund, which enables him to compete in these meets as the government withdrew funding for Great Britain Deaf Sports in 2008, there is no other funding for Deaf Sport in Britain.

Fourteen swimmers headed south to the DG One Centre in Dumfries for the Dumfries Distance Meet. All the 200m events were age group based with events of 400m upwards being open based. Five Lanark swimmers struck gold, Euan McComish (3), Alyson Henderson (2), Robyn Patrick, Morven McNab and Alastair Gourlay.

Posting personal best times were Katie McIntyre, Kimberley Bone, Sarah Richardson, Maya Andrew and Ross McComish.

Eight Lanark swimmers were part of the South Lanarkshire Swim Team which took part in the six day British Gas Scottish Open Championships at Tollcross which also doubled as the Commonwealth Games trials. The Meet attracted double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington as well as a number of European and World Champions.

Top Lanark performance came from Niall McLeod in the sixteen years and under boys 100m butterfly. Niall broke the magic minute in the heats and lowered his time even further in the final to take fourth place in a time of 59.43 seconds, a new Club Record. He also set new best ever marks in the 100m backstroke (1.07.77), 100m freestyle (57.14) and 200m freestyle (2.05.44).Maya Andrew set new personal bests in the 200m backstroke (2.35.62, a new Club mark), 50m backstroke (34.62), 100m backstroke (1.13.16),100m free (1.06.56), 200m free (2.22.19), 200m IM (2.42.34) and 100m butterfly (1.13.59). Chris Wilson recorded personal bests in his 50m backstroke (31.55) and 400m IM (5.14.51). Victoria Gourlay and Ross McCafferty reached semi-finals in the senior events, Victoria in the 50m and 100m breaststroke and Ross in the 100m backstroke. In the women's 4 x 100m medley relay Victoria swam the breaststroke leg for the South Lanarkshire Team which finished second behind a strong Edinburgh University squad. Next month Victoria is part of the 20 strong Scottish National Youth & Senior Squad which is heading to Cardiff for a six day training camp.

After the six day Championships Lanark coach Karen Kelly said "Well done to Niall. He is the first Lanark swimmer to break sixty seconds for 100m butterfly, long or short course. He enjoyed a good Championship as did Maya who broke Victoria Gourlay's 200m backstroke Club Record by two seconds."