Phillip Stout won the gold medal at the National Age Groups Championships in the fifteen year old boys 200 metres butterfly.
Leanne Stafford and Jennifer Fairhurst also competed in the Championships.
In the Welsh Age Groups Leanne Stafford gained four gold medals and was rewarded by being selected for the Welsh National
Squad.
Melanie Fairhurst competed in Holland for the England Ladies Under Twenties Water Polo Team. Martin
Barrett and Phillip Stout were selected for the England Junior Water Polo Training Squad and Phillip, Greg Stott and Paul
Cowburn were selected to represent Lancashire County Under Eighteens. Gregg also represented Northern Counties Under Twenties.
Tyldesley Swimming Club Under Sixteens Water Polo Team reached the semi finals of the ASA Club Youth Championships
losing to the eventual winners King School, Grantham after an eventful journey with the coach breaking down twice and arriving
half an hour late.
Much of the success of the younger water polo teams at Tyldesley Swimming Club during this period can be
attributed to several people, but mainly to Tyldesley Swimming Club’s "First Lady of Water Polo" Mavis Bent.
Through her efforts the club found itself with such strength in depth, it surely would not be long before
the club were in the First Division of the National League. (In fact this prophecy came true in 1998 when Tyldesley were the
National League Division 2 Champions and were promoted to Division 1).
Some of the additional successes over the period 1980 – 1995 were:
1980: Gillian Bear, Tracy Toone and Linda Toone won the National Biathlon (Under 12’s Team).
1982: Tracy Toone was the North West Under 15’s Biathlon Champion and the team of Tracy, Joanne Quinn
and Michelle Giles won the North West Triathlon (Under 15’s Team).
1984: Chris Mills, Matthew Holden, Lee Toone and Ian Phillips won the Under 15’s Team North of England
Triathlon Championships.
In Senior Triathlon Neil Greenwood, Steve Mazey, Andrew Grundy and Peter Stevens won events in the North
of England and North West. Chris Mills, Neil Greenwood and Steve Mazey were invited to train with the Modern Pentathlon Association.
The Junior Girls Team of Tanya Williams, Rachel Hall and Katherine Sutton also won the North of England and
North West Biathlon Championships.
1985: Chris Mills was first in the Under 18’s North West Triathlon Championships.
1986: Chris Mills was a member of the North West Team that won the National Biathlon and Triathlon Team Events.
1984: Swimming at the Central Lancashire Age Groups, Tanya Williams, Amanda Hewitt and Nicola Toone gained
gold medals.
1989: Melanie Fairhurst won gold medals at the Northern Counties Long Course Championships and in the Central
Lancashire Age Groups.
Rachel Giles also achieved gold in the Lancashire Age Groups along with Leanne Stafford and Jennifer Fairhurst
at the Central Lancashire Age Groups.
1990: In the Central Lancashire Age Groups: Melanie Fairhurst, nine gold; Jonathan Stafford three gold; Leanne
Stafford, one gold; Stephen Davidson, one gold.
In the Lancashire Age Groups: Leanne Stafford, four gold; Melanie Fairhurst, one gold.
In the Northern Counties Age Groups: Melanie Fairhurst, two gold; Jennifer Fairhurst, two gold, Leanne Stafford,
one gold.
In Manchester and District Age Groups: Rachel Giles, one gold.
1991: Central Lancashire Age Groups provided gold medals for Jonathan Stafford and Phillip Stout. Melanie
Fairhurst captained the Central Lancashire Team at the Northern Counties Festival of Swimming.
1992: In the Northern Counties Age Groups gold medals went to Phillip Stout, Leanne Stafford and Jennifer
Fairhurst. Leanne Stafford and Martin Barrett won gold medals in the Lancashire Age Groups.
1993: Phillip Stout along with Leanne Stafford, Debbie Taylor, Martin Barrett, Phillippa Summers, Christopher
Osborne at the Central Lancashire Age Groups collected twenty-six gold medals.
1994: Lancashire Age Groups: Leanne Stafford, two gold; Jennifer Fairhurst, two gold; Phillip Stout, two gold
Central Central Lancashire Age Group: Phillip Stout, six gold; Jennifer Fairhurst, two gold; Leanne Stafford,
two gold; Andrew Rigby, one gold.
1995: Phillip Stout and Jennifer Fairhurst were selected to represent Lancashire County and at the Inter-association
Age Groups as captains of the Central Lancashire Team. Phillip Stout won three gold medals.
In the Central Lancashire Age Groups Phillip Stout won five gold along with Jonathan Stafford, two gold;
Jennifer Fairhurst, one gold; Nicola Jones, one gold; Khalid Jhugroo, one gold; Stephen Riley, one gold and Michelle Todd,
one gold.