After a delay last week the final championship was swum this week at the Canowindra Swimming Club with swimmers lining up for the twelve laps of the 400m freestyle.
Last night of swimming club did not mean no improvements as personal best kept tumbling all night.
Adelaide Ellis, Lucy Hickman, Sophie Tremain, Joanna Balcombe, Rosie Beath and Lucy Harrison lowered their times by a second over the lap of freestyle.
In the spoon semi final Will Wright, Lucy Hickman and Gene Tarrant took a second from their best times while Lucy lowered her time again in the final.
In the final it was a close race as Will Wright led the charge and it came down to a sprint finish with Will Fagan just ahead of a fast finishing Gene Tarrant and Josh Flannery.
However Will Fagan sprinted to the finish and lowered his time by another two seconds.
This was a great swim as Will was one of the brave souls who had completed the 400m not long before.
In the 33m breaststroke Finbar Smyth, Julia Wright and Lachlan Balcombe took four seconds from their times while Caitlin Brand and Will Wright lowered their times by 3 seconds.
Georgia Balcomb removed two seconds from her time while Adelaide Ellis, Amelia Hickman, Joe Coady, Lucy Hickman and Alicia Earsman all took a second off their PB’s.
Amelia Hickman showed the way with a 4 second improvement in the backstroke closely followed by Charlotte Balcomb and Sara Naylor who took 3 seconds from their times.
Gene Tarrant, Rohan Toole, Cassie Naylor and Rowena Cartwright all removed a seconds from their lap of backstroke.
By the time the 33m butterfly came around Sophie Tremain broke her time by six seconds while Adelaide Ellis took fours seconds from her time and Gene Tarrant ‘butterflyed’ 2 seconds faster than before.
After the 33m’s were over it was time to kick back a little with a belly flop competition and a novelty relay.
Twenty children lined up for the flop off with Regan Hughes, Joe Coady, Max Coady, Matt Harrison and Dan Friend going through to the final where a close points
decision went to the exhibitionist Dan Friend.
The novelty relay introduced the noodle to the event with swimmers being asked to ‘ride’ the noodle for the lap instead of the normal swim.
Although the rules may have to be ironed out more for next year as when Dan Friend didn’t appear to be swimming fast enough first swimmer Tony Beath dived in and picked Dan up and carried him to the end of the pool. [Although Dan did have the noodle between his knees at all time.]
So despite calls of cheating from other lanes the winners were lane three: Caitlin Brand, Dan Friend, Joanna Balcombe, Will Fagan, Cassie Naylor and Tony Beath.
So this week is Presentation Night which starts at 6pm with the AGM and please consider the positions of President, Vice President and Registrar as the Club cannot run with out all positions being filled.
None of the jobs are very hard and the work is done by a ‘committee’ not just one person, the load is shared around.
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