What a weekend! So many fantastic results! So many personal bests!
Well done to you all.
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The championships started on the Friday evening with Jake, Luke, Jarrod, Ethan, Amanda, Eliah and Patrick H competing in the 200IM event. Jake swam a PB of 3½ seconds; Luke over 6 seconds and Patrick H swimming a huge 20 second PB. Jarrod and Ethan also swam PBs with Jarrod breaking the Woden Record for 13yo Boys. Jess L, Chelsea and Grace were next competing in the 400m Freestyle event. Jess took off 6 seconds, Chelsea 20 seconds and Grace 5½ seconds.
Friday night swimmers were back on Saturday with Kiara, Sarah, Jonathon, Jasmine, Jess C and Patrick D joining the team. Our first event was 50m Backstroke with both Amanda and Grace achieving PBs. The 100m Freestyle event saw many PBs: 3 seconds for Kiara, 5 seconds for Luke and 2 seconds for both Patrick H and Jonathon. PBs were also achieved by Sarah, Jess L, Ethan, Grace, Amanda, Eliah and Patrick D. 50m Butterfly saw Sarah swim a 6 second PB with Kiara, Patrick H, Grace and Jess L also doing PBs. Chelsea swam a 5 second PB in the 200m Backstroke with Ethan and Eliah also swimming a PB. 100m Breaststroke saw Jonathon swim a 4 second PB, Jake a 1½ PB and Luke also swimming a PB. Kiara nearly swam 10 seconds faster in her 200m IM. Saturday finished with Jarrod swimming the 800m Freestyle event.
Then there was Sunday ……Yaroslav was first up swimming a PB in his 50m Breaststroke as did Kiara, Jake, Luke, Jettah, Sarah, Jess C and Patrick H who knocked 4 seconds off his previous time and Jess L took 4 seconds off her 100m Butterfly. Jake swam an amazing 200m Breaststroke where he chased down, overtook and came first; taking 2 seconds off his PB. Luke swam in the same event stripping over 13 seconds off his PB. Kiara swam a PB in her 50m Freestyle, as did Jettah, Jake, Luke, Grace, Patrick D and Patrick H. Yaroslav PBd and broke the 8yo Boys Woden Record in his 50m Backstroke and Jake, Grace, Jasmine, Eliah and Ethan all swam PBs in their 100m Backstroke event with Ethan qualifying for Nationals. Well done! Yaroslav also swam a PB in his 50m Butterfly knocking off nearly 2 seconds. Finally, the last event for the day, the weekend, the meet …. 200m Freestyle. Congratulations Luke, Jess and Jasmine for swimming PBs in this event.
It was a fantastic championship. Congratulations to Jettah, Grace and Patrick H who achieved a100% PB rate for the meet and to Kiara, Jake, Luke, and Yaroslav who only missed out by 1 event.
All swimmers should be very proud. You all swam very well and you should be pleased of all your achievements. Great Swimming! Great Results! Great Weekend! See you all back at training.
PS…. We all missed you Mason, hope you mend quickly.