Members of Braintree Swimming Club finished third in their latest Essex Mini League meet.

Overall there were many fine swims for the club, with 28 personal bests (PBs) from the 48 events.

Many swimmers enjoyed good debut performances.

Sophie Howard started in the perfect way by winning her backstroke event while Orin Mann was time faulted but still claimed a massive four-second PB to his name.

It was the same for Harriet Bartram-Baird, who shaved more than a second off her PB in her freestyle swim.

Amy Lazell and Matthew Horne each achieved individual wins, with both swimmers also picking up PB times.

Lazell also improved her one length fly time by just under a second.

Ben Lane slashed more than five seconds of his previous best time in his breaststroke while Matthew Banner improved his backstroke by more than two seconds and Gregory Bennett had a near one-second PB in his breaststroke event.

Isabel Salthouse, Ben Lane and Ben Shambrook all collected more individual wins in their age bracket freestyle events.

The boys relay team of Lane, Bennett, Shambrook and Mann claimed a win with Lane securing a fine new PB.

Lucy Merrell claimed two new PBs in leading her relay squad of under-ten girls in the freestyle and breaststroke, with a massive six-second improvement in the breaststroke.

Elliot Birks also claimed a new best time in the first leg of the boys under-ten relay and also secured victory, along with fellow swimmers, Ben Durban, Lane and Daniel Mclagan.