Two clear Friday nights in a row and Swimming Club is back on schedule and with the swimmers practicing for district and regional carnivals times tumbled as well.
The first championship was the 200m freestyle run in junior and senior age divisions with the winners announced on Presentation Night on the 26th March.
The Learn to swim cup was run over three heats and the winner of this race will also be announced on Presentation night.
Leading the way in the 33m freestyle improvers was Ellie Giger who lopped 6 seconds from her best time.
The Gigers must have been training like mad as Caleb Giger smashed his 33m breaststroke time by 16seconds, followed by a 22 second demolition of his 33m backstroke time while Zac Giger also took 10 seconds off his 33 backstroke time. What a family!
Swimming themselves out of a spoon final place were Alex Flannery, Hudson Izzard and Amelia Hickman who all swam three seconds below their PB’s.
Charlotte Balcomb lowered her time by 2 seconds in her heat, and another second in the semi, while Angus Fisher and Harry Jeffrey took 2 seconds off their times in the heats.
The Final was a very close race with only 6 hundredths of a second separating first and second.
Erica Blanch had to swim a new personal best time of 23 seconds to just touch ahead of a determined Josh Middleton in lane four.
In the 33m breaststroke Angus Andrews smashed his best time by 9 seconds closely followed by Eliza Mitchell who knocked 8 seconds from her time.
Wade Kinsela was next best with a six second improvement while Zali Dunn, Nick Jeffrey and Adelaide Ellis all took 5 seconds from their times.
Julia Stanley, Hudson Izzard and Max Coady improved their times by 4 seconds before Kevin Beath, Olivia McNamara, Amelia Holmes and Joe Coady all took 3 seconds from their PB’s.
Laura Flannery continued her impressive night as she lopped 14 seconds off her 33 backstroke time, Finbar Smyth improved his time by 9 seconds and Josh Middleton and Mitchell Stanley removed 8 seconds from their best times.
In the 33m butterfly Adelaide Ellis led the way with an 8 second improvement while Georgia Balcomb, Lucy Hickman and Tom Robson took a respectable 8 seconds from their best times.
In the 66m BBB, which hasn’t been swum for a while due to weather conditions times were smashed as Hudson Izzard annihilated his backstroke time by 31 seconds.
Angus Andrews was close behind as her lopped 28 seconds from his 66m breaststroke time while Julia Stanley took 27 seconds off her two laps of breaststroke.
Nick Jeffrey smashed his 66 breaststroke time by 21 seconds, Ellis Hawker took 13s from his time and Wade Kinsela and Laura Flannery beat their best times by 12 seconds.
Single figure improvements came from Tom Robson, 9 secs, Jossie Lynch and Will Fagan, 8 secs, and Amelia Holmes who took 7 seconds from her 66m breaststroke best time.
Josh Flannery took 8 seconds off his two laps of butterfly, while Harry Jeffrey took 3 seconds from his two laps of backstroke.
The relay was the last event and six teams of six swimmers lined up at the blocks.
It was a very close finish in the middle of the pool between lanes three and four and in a very close finish the judges awarded the relay to lane three.
Swimming in lane three were Caitlin Brand, Hudson Izzard, Harry Jeffrey, Riley Mitchell, Ellis Hawker and Erica Blanch.
This week is the Medley Championship so sign up and be ready at 5:45pm.
A note of congratulations to all the swimmers involved in region and district Carnivals through the week and for the winners who now go on to State and diocesan carnivals in the coming weeks.
Also at Presentation Night there will also be the usual AGM before presentations and a few positions vacant.
The current Secretary, Race Registrar and Friday Night race secretary will be resigning so could all parents involved consider taking on a position for a couple of years so that Swimming Club can continue to run as usual.
The positions are not difficult and the incumbents are only too happy to advise and help out any one who takes on a position.
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