A 15-YEAR-OLD student has beaten two Olympians to win a swimming trophy.
Angela Winstanley-Smith, a GCSE student from Woodham Community Technology College, at Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, picked up the title of Northumberland and Durham Amateur Swimming Association Swimmer of the Year last month.
Other nominees for the title included the reigning European and Commonwealth 100m freestyle champion Susan Rolph, of Newcastle, and Derwentside teenager Nicola Jackson, a member of the 4x200m freestyle team that came sixth at the recent Olympics.
Angela has already represented Britain for water polo at under-17 and under-20 levels, and is to swim for Britain at junior level later this month.
She is the 100m backstroke English Schools' champion, a national age group champion, and she won ten gold medals at the Northumberland and Durham championships earlier this year.
She also picked up four gold medals in the North East counties senior and junior championships.
Angela does all her training in the swimming pool at the college, and plays water polo for the Sedgefield 75 club
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