Results have now been posted for the Lower Eyre Peninsula Primary Schools Carnival.
4 Records were broken on the day - congratulations to Jamie Ford, Indiana Copland and the St Josephs 12 year old girls and 11 year old boys. Girls 11 years 50m Breaststroke; Old Record-Natasha Hammond 51.96 / New Record - Indiana Copland 51.33 Girls 10 years 50m Backstroke; Old Record-Natasha Hammond 49.38 / New Record - Jamie Ford 47.63 11 years Boys Freestyle Relay; Old Record 3.00.81 / New Record St Joseph's 2.58.60 (Kasper Cummings, Kalani Coleman - Smith, Cooper Perham and Harrison Adams) 12 years Girls Freestyle Relay; Old Record 2.48.47 / New Record St Joseph's 2.42.29 (Kellie Dennis, Brooklyn George, Lauren Nicholls and Yemaya Coleman - Smith) For the 7th year running St Joseph’s School have produced the highest overall points score at the Lower Eyre Peninsula Primary Schools Swimming Carnival to win the Sarin Group Shield. Lock Area School took out the Chris Wareing Memorial Handicap Shield for the second year running in a close tussle with Navigator College. In a magnificent display of our school communities love for the sport of swimming, approximately 200 children participated in the day’s events with many experiencing their first taste of competitive racing. Through the support of Swimming SA, Swimming Australia and corporate sponsor Energy Australia the West Coast Swimming Club were able to register the occasion as a Come and Try ‘GOSWIM’ event, leveraging a visit from Australia’s most successful Paralympian, Matt Cowdrey and State Performance Coach, Paul Dennis. Swimmers were thrilled to be able to interact with Matt; have ‘GOSWIM’ swimming caps, posters and even shoes signed by him as well as posing for special photos holding one of his 13 Paralympic gold medals. Records tumbled during the day with two individual and two team records being rewritten. Congratulations to Indiana Copland from Tumby Bay Area School who set a new 11 year old girls 50 metre breastroke record in 51.33 seconds and Jamie Ford whose backstroke time of 47.63 seconds saw a new record for the 10 year old girls. In fact this time was also faster than the current 11 year old girls’ record of 48.07. Monster swims from two of the St Joseph’s School teams made new records in the 11 year old boys and 12 year old girls categories. We are all super proud of boys Kasper Cummings, Kalani Coleman-Smith, Cooper Perham and Harrison Adams and girls Kellie Dennis, Brooklyn George, Lauren Nicholls and Yemaya Coleman – Smith. James Andrews competed in his final Primary School Carnival and in stella style won every individual and team event that he entered –walking away with seven first place ribbons. His stand out swim was his 50 metre freestyle where he blitzed the pool in 31.24 seconds. Closest tussle for first place on the day goes to 13 year old girls Stella Reidy and Maddy Izzo who finished every 50m race within half a second of one another. Maddy topped Stella in the freestyle, breastroke (by 100thof a second) and backstroke with Stella out touching Maddy in the butterfly. In the 13 year old boys Max Lambert was an impressive performer with first placings in freestyle (32.88 sec), breastroke (45.09) and backstroke (41.31) with an upset in the butterfly event with powerhouse Coen George declaring victory in 41.35 seconds. The 13 year old girls category saw a different winner in each stroke. Freestyle was won by Rose O’Donnell (38.28 sec). Breastroke winner was Lila Watson (51.55 sec), backstroke was Alleigh Hamnett (48.85 sec) and butterfly was Chloe Hall (45.64 sec). 12 year old girls events were all taken out by champion of the future Yemaya Coleman-Smith who also went on to represent St Joseph’s in three winning relay teams walking away with 7 first place ribbons in total. She swam impressive times on the day; freestyle (35.93 sec), breastroke (50.33 sec), backstroke (44.54 sec) and butterfly (43.37 sec). Tommy Ford dominated the 12 year old boys events with long time breastroke rival Issac Grimma pipping him at the post in his pet event (56.70 sec). The 11 year old girls saw a fantastic winning freestyle swim from Isabella Scott (40.77 sec), a record breaker in the breastroke by Indiana Copland (51.33 sec) and confident wins by Victoria Henderson in the backstroke (49.69 sec) and butterfly (51.92 sec). Energy and enthusiasm for the sport of swimming overflowed from our 11 year old boys with Harrison Adams taking out he butterfly (53.65 sec), backstroke (47.78 sec) and freestyle (37.00 sec) while Cameron Akehurst secured his victory in the breastroke (57.18 sec) from Max Black of Cummins. 10year old girl Jamie Ford followed her record breaking backstroke swim with wins in the freestyle (42.34) and butterfly (58.63) with 9 year old Sophie Traeger edging out Jamie by three tenths of a second in the breastroke (Sophie – 1.03.17). Finally the 10 year old boys saw Zac Kenny and Taj Edwards take out the honours. Taj won the freestyle (50.00) and backstroke (1.02.53) while Zac won the breastroke (1.02.29) and butterfly (1.03.71). The West Coast Swimming Club would like to thank those spectators who took time out of their busy schedules to support our swimmers –the Port Lincoln Leisure Centre was filled to its capacity and overwhelmingly demonstrated the value that the wider Eyre Peninsula Community put on a facility like this. We look forward to hearing the announcement from the Port Lincoln City Council as to its firm financial commitment to a new centre so that a spectacular event such as this can continue to inspire our young athletes towards a lifetime of health and fitness. The atmosphere on the day was electric and the dedication and patience of school staff in preparing and organising their respective teams on the day was to be admired. We would also like to thank the volunteer time keepers from Port Lincoln High School whose assistance was highly valued and senior swimmers from the club who helped in the smooth running of the race marshalling process.
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Vote for your favourite swimmer and you could be presenting the Swisse People’s Choice Award at the 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimmer of the Year Awards! You could win two tickets to the prestigious EnergyAustralia Swimmer of the Year Awards in Melbourne, return economy airfares from your nearest capital city, accommodation at the Swanston Hotel Melbourne Grand Mercure and transfers to and from the event. The nominees for 2012 are Cate Campbell, Alicia Coutts, Matthew Cowdrey, Brittany Elmslie, Jacqueline Freney, James Magnussen, Melanie Schlanger, Emily Seebohm and Christian Sprenger. Hurry, voting closes Thursday 8 November 2012. On behalf of the club president Mr Todd George,
I would like to firstly congratulate all of our swimmers who were in the pool last night. It was great to see you all doing your best. Secondly, the votes have been counted for the captains and vice captains for our club for this season. The vote was very, very close and all of our potential leaders should he proud of the positive impact they have had on not only the swimmers but also the families involved in the club. I am proud to announce that: We have two male captains; Henry Lambert and Luke Andrews Our female leaders are; Brooke Traeger (Captain) and Annabelle Nelligan (Vice-Captain) Thank you all of your for your resounding support of the club. The West Coast Swimming Club are thrilled to announce that Matthew "Matt" John Cowdrey, will be travelling to Port Lincoln on Friday October 26th to support regional swimmers as they battle it out at the Lower Eyre Peninsula Primary School swimming carnival at the Port Lincoln Leisure Centre. Matt is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm where it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2008 Paralympic Games, 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2012 Paralympic Games. In 2011, he was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport's "Best of the Best". In London he won 5 gold medals in the 100 m backstroke S9, 50 m freestyle S9, 100 m freestyle S9, 200 m Individual Medley SM9 and 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 pts, silver medals in the 100 m Butterfly S9 and 100 m Backstroke SB8 and a bronze medal in the Men's 4 x 100 m Medley Relay 34 pts. In winning the Men's 50 m Freestyle S9 event at the 2012 London Games, he became Australia's most successful Paralympian by winning his 11th gold medal and 20th medal overall. By the finish of the games his medal tally increased and he carried the Australian flag on behalf of the team during the closing ceremony for the games. This is an absolute honour that Matt will be joining us at the carnival and we would like our swimmers to make the most out of the opportunity to rub shoulders with Australia's most successful paralympic athlete. Swimming Australia has recently launched its revamped new member website www.goswim.org.au The site aims to be the first port of call for anyone looking to join a club and Go Swim for the first time. The new site has also been relaunched to promote our new national member drive initiative GO Swim Month! All through October clubs will be hosting GO Swim days to invite new members into their clubs. Of course in line with Swimming Australia’s continued commitment to promoting inclusive sport opportunities you will find information for people from Indigenous communities and of course people with a disability. The West Coast Swimming Club is proud to be associated with this promotion and has registered our Lower Eyre Peninsula Primary Swimming Carnival as our Go Swim Day in Port Lincoln. Make sure you are on your school team ready to participate on Friday 26th of October. Register now at www.goswim.org.au in preparation for the Primary Carnival on Friday October 26th. REGISTRATION IS FREE and enables participants to access special Go Swim merchandise. |
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