TESS Carter will be heading for her second ASA National Youth Championships this summer after striking gold six times over at the Bournemouth Level 2 Open Meet.

The 15-year-old from Swim Bournemouth collected six gold medals and one silver from her seven events at Littledown.

Most significant, though, was her winning time of 2min 22.33sec in the 15yrs 200m butterfly.

This not only won her the award for the best female swim on the first day of the meet but qualified her for the national event at Sheffield in July by 0.04sec.

Subject to simultaneous results from elsewhere, it will also rank her 15th in Britain in the 15yrs age group.

Carter, who hopes to add the 100m butterfly to her Sheffield programme before July, also won that event at Littledown in 1:06.73 along with the 15yrs 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle (1:02.48, 2:11.36 and 4:35.44) and 200m individual medley (2:31.01).

She was second to team-mate Phoebe-May Notley in the 50m freestyle.

Also heading up the M1 in July will be Swim Bournemouth’s Jasmine Holmes and Poole’s Todd Price.

Holmes won the 12yrs 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle in 1:05.10, 2:13.28 and 4:39.33, the last two of which qualified her for the National Age Group Championships at Sheffield and rank her fifth and sixth among 12-year-olds.

Price’s five wins included a winning 4:48.28 in the 14yrs 400m individual medley, which qualifies him for his fourth consecutive national age groups and ranks him sixth.

He also won the 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke (30.74, 1:06.61 and 2:19.49) and, by eight seconds, the 400m freestyle (4:18.33).

Tornadoes of South Dorset swimmer Jay Lelliott was the undisputed star of the male events, winning all three individual ‘best swim’ trophies and breaking his own Dorset senior record with a winning time of 2:06.49 in the 16/o 200m backstroke.

He also won the 100m back and all three butterfly distances.

Woking’s Hannah Burvill won the awards for top age group girl and best female swim on day two following her winning time of 4:29.21 in the 13yrs 400m freestyle.

Portsmouth Northsea were named top visiting club.

Zoe Gannaway, Andrew Botros and Megan Chapman were all multiple winners for Christchurch Seagulls, collecting six, five and four golds respectively.

Gannaway’s golds came in the 10yrs 50, 100 and 200m freestle (33.86, 1:13.43, 2:43.19), 50 and 100m butterfly (36.87, 1:25.56) and 200m medley (3:03.61).

Botros’s victory margins included 27 and 14 seconds in the 12yrs 400m medley (5:25.23) and 400m freestyle (4:49.81) respectively. He also won the 200m medley and was six and seven seconds ahead of his nearest rival in the 100m butterfly and 200m backstroke.

Chapman won the 15yrs 50m butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke and the 100m breaststroke.

Swim Bournemouth’s Jack Simpkins won four golds – in the 12yrs 50, 100 and 200m freestyle and the 100m backstroke.

Three golds apiece went to Poole’s national age group champion Alan Wong (13yrs 50 and 200m backstroke and 100m butterfly) and Swim Bournemouth trio Harry Thorpe (15yrs 50 and 200m freestyle and 100m back), Jamie Holmes (13yrs 50 and 100m breast and 50 free) and Ethan Bell (10yrs 50 and 200m breast and 50 back).