CHELMSFORD County High School for Girls' junior team made both of their finals at the English Schools Swimming Association's National Secondary Schools Team Relays on Saturday.
The girls finished fourth in 4x50m freestyle relay and sixth in the 4x50m medley relay at the London Aquatic Centre at Queen Elizabeth Park.
The team, made up of Scarlett Morine from Year 7 and Year 8s Megan Samuels, Lauren Cott, Milly Ward and Rebecca Watt, went up against schools with swimming scholarships, who train twice a day and have their own 50m pools.
For the freestyle relay the girls qualified fourth fastest in the heats with a time of 2mins 01.31secs.
They matched that position in the final but in a time exactly a minute slower.
In the medley relay the girls swam the fourth fastest time again in the heats, finishing in 2.17:43.
However, in the final they were slightly slower finishing sixth out of the ten finalists in a time of 2.19:15.
