Something new, something …… new….
In case you haven’t realised yet, the take home message from the Queanbeyan Summer Development meet was ‘new’. New faces, new PBs, new events. Shout outs to the Queanbeyan weather for delivering on what the Goulburn Development meet had promised last year. A thunder storm.
NEW FACES
Kicking off the ‘everything is new’ theme was Tessa who competed in her first ever development meet with the Woden Swim Club. Tessa thought competing was such a great idea she convinced her brother Walter to compete too. Well done Tessa!
Also competing with the club for the first time at a development meet was Yaroslav. Still recovering from a mid week illness, Yaroslav competed in 5 events and placed 1st in all of them. He also broke the Woden record for 8&U Boys 50m Freestyle, which he only just broke at the Speedo Sprints a month ago.
NEW PBS
Kurt competed in all four 50m events and PBd all events with the highlight being a 3.5 seconds improvement on his Butterfly time. Jettah smashed her 100m Freestyle time by 6 seconds. It was a great reward for all her hard work on her Freestyle this year. Chelsea also achieved PBs in the 200m and 100m Freestyle.
NEW EVENTS
All swimmers competed in new events. Patrick C competed in the 100m Breaststroke and 100m Freestyle for the first time placing 1st and 2nd respectively. Luke also competed in the 200m and 400m Freestyle events placing 1st in each. Luke said he really enjoyed the 400m distance and we look forward to his impressions of the 800m at the next distance meet.
Special mention should be made of Chelsea’s effort at the Distance Meet. She was the only Woden club member to compete at the meet and is the first Woden Club 11 year old girl to compete over the 800m distance. Fantastic effort Chelsea!
Congratulations and well done to you all.
Our next development meet will the first of this year’s winter series. It will be held at the AIS on Saturday, 9 May 2015.
Neill Kennedy Bronze & Blue Coach