THE Swimming Academy’s annual club presentation night was held recently at the Tacking Point Surf Life Saving Club.
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Trophies were presented to the following competitors in recognition of their efforts in the recent club
championships:
U/6 girls - 1 Melissa Norup, 2 Ella Collins
Seven years girls - 1 Lucy Jackson, 2 Sharna Miller
Seven years boys - 1 Daniel Thompson, 2 Nicholas Pederson, 3 James Ison
Eight years girls - 1 Erin Collins, 2 Maddison Hampson, 3 Annaliese McGee
Eight years boys - 1 Tom Adams, 2 Haydn McKay, 3 Jake Keogh, encouragement award Garrett Richards and Nicholas Webb
Nine years girls - 1 Jessica Searle, 2 Felicity McGee
Nine years boys - 1 Matthew Reed, 2 Daniel Norup, 3 Lachlan Saunders, encouragement award Kye Polverino
10 years girls - 1 Chantelle Berry, 2 Courtney McKay, 3 Petrisse Seeley, encouragement award Sarah Ison, Danielle Pederson, Katherine Thompson, Milly Von Schoenberg and Kayla Fletcher
10 years boys - 1 Dean Letchford, 2 Jack Adams, encouragement award Simon Webb
11 years girls - 1 Rachel Findlay
11 years boys - 1 Lachlan Falvey, 2 Thomas Reed, 3 Rowan Dawson
12 years girls - 1 Shenae Fletcher, 2 Ella Thurston, 3 Angela Kerlin
13 years girls - 1 Natalie Berry, 2 Nicholas Findlay, 3 Claire Thurston
13 years boys - 1 Aidan Seeley
1 years girls - 1 Aimee Moy
14 years boys - 1 Brent Mason, encouragement award Mitchell Dawson
Several club records were broken during this year’s championships and those swimmers responsible for setting new competition benchmarks were presented with medallions to commemorate their great swims.
Thee new records belong to:
Erin Collins - eight years girls 50 metres backstroke 47.75s
Felicity McGee - nine years girls 50 metres backstroke 43.55s
Chantelle Berry - 10 years girls 50 metres freestyle 34.68s, 50 metres backstroke 39.66s, 50 metres breaststroke 46.50s, 50 metres butterfly 40.79s and 200 metres individual medley 3.12.32s
Natalie Berry - 13 years girls 50 metres freestyle 34.76s, 50 metres backstroke 39.58s and 50 metres butterfly 40.25s
The big awards of the night - the pointscore champions - were won by two swimmers who showed consistent improvement in their swimming throughout the summer competition: Girls pointscore champion and most improved swimmer - Sarah Ison; Boys pointscore champion and most improved swimmer - Blake Polverino
Congratulations to all swimmers who competed at The Swimming Academy during the summer season.
The winter competition started on Friday, May 4.
New swimmers are invited to come along and enjoy the club each Friday night at The Swimming Academy, Jindalee Road, Port Macquarie at 6pm.
