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GOOD LUCK TO
ARNET AND ANNA AT THE NEW ZEALAND JUNIORS AND CONGRATULATIONS
ON BEING SELECTED IN THE BOP 'A' RELAY
TEAM.
Carnivals
Galore
The last
three weeks have been very busy with meets every
weekend. The club entered it's biggest team for many
years in the Mount Maunganui Hot Stuff Meet. 30 swimmers
competed and achieved many personal bests. A highlight
of the meet was Kathryn, Arnet and Max making the skins
event. Arnet was knocked out second and Kathryn making
it to the last four in the female skins. Max came an
amazing second in the male skins event! A small team of
three went to the Tauranga Meet. Kathryn won the female
skins event winning herself $50 (of which Mike hasn't seen a
cent). Twelve swimmers competed in the Bay of Plenty
Junior Champs on the 3rd and 4th of December. Anna
Burnett won a gold medal in the 50 breaststroke. The
team also won a number of silver and bronze medals.
There are only two meets left for 2011; Taupo and Rotorua,
then a well earn break for Parents and Kids. Merry
Christmas to you all. (6/12/2011)
Te Awamutu
and Whakatane swim
meets
The club has
had teams swimming at both the Te Awamutu and Whakatane swim
meets in the past couple of weeks. The girls achieved
some great personal bests and had some stiff compition from
the Waikato swimmers at the Te Awamutu meet.
A team of six
girls and one boy competed in Whakatane. The times swam
were great in particular Olivia who was competing in her first
swim meet. One again we had a swimmer in the girls skins
and one swimmer in the boys skins. For Liam Stephenson
it was his first skins event and Kathryn Bennett came third in
the girls skins.
For those
wondering what a skins event is; it's simply the top 8 girls
and top 8 boys swimming against each other in the 50
freestyle. They race against each other at intervals on
2minutes and 30seconds with the slowest being out each
race until a winner is found.
Keep an eye
out for the Long Distance Meet and the Rotorua Meet both
before the end of the year. Details on the notice
board.
To find a
swimmers results check the notice board at the pool or on www.swimmingbop.org.nz
(18/11/11)
Bay Of
Plenty Champs and
Ace Swim and
Skin
A large
group of girls (where are the boys) attended both the BOP
Champs and the Ace Swim and Skin Meet.
The BOP
Champs saw all the girls achieving great personal bests.
The highlight of the meet was Arnet Tolofu recieving a bronze
and a silver medal for her efforts in the 11/12 year old girls
age group. Well done Arnet!
The
following weekend the girls headed to Hamilton for the Ace
Swim and Skin Meet and once again personal bests were achieved
in abundance. It was a great day for the kids and the
parents deserve a big thank you for their timekeeping
roles. It certainly made a difference having so many
participate, the role shared around makes it a lot less work,
less often. (3/10/11)
A big
thank you to
Oregon
The Papamoa
Swimming Club would like to extend a huge thanks to Oregon for
their reduction in the costs of the building
products to complete the new office in the clubrooms.
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