News and Results
Two Golds, One Silver and a Bronze for St Peters Swimming Academy so far!!
Day 1
The St Peter's Swimming Academy has won two medals on the first day of the National Age Group Championships. Winning a bronze medal in the 200m freestyle club relay and Sam Perry winning a Silver medal in the 200m individual medley. Harriet Garmonsway made the final of the 15yrs breaststroke and Ellie Britton made the final of the 14yrs 50m Breaststroke.
Day 2 Heats
The heats were extremely successful with 98% personal best times. The team has achieved 7 finals and a number of our swimmers are in the regional relays. The racing can be seen by video streaming on the NZ swimming website from 6pm
Day 3 Finals
The team competed in 10 finals this afternoon.
Sam Perry has won the 50m Fly (waikato record) and also the 100m Freestyle (Waikato Age and Open record).
The 15 Years and under girls have finished 5th in the final 4x50m medley relay. Excellent effort!!
Tom Fronek
| News From Swimming New Zealand - 29 February 2012 |
SNZ staff, board, life members, regions and clubs
Today voting commences for the People’s Choice category for the State Insurance Swimming New Zealand Awards. Voting will close at 5pm on Wed 28th March. This information has been published as a news item on the website today.
Our 3 finalists are Cara Baker, Sophie Pascoe and Trudy Wotherspoon.
You can vote either on the SNZ website or through the Facebook page.
We’ve got some online security in place that protects the integrity of the voting process – people will only be able to vote once from a Facebook login and from the website via a particular PC.
Age Group Championships.
Once again in 2012 there will be live streaming of the Mayfair Pools New Zealand Age Group Championships. Please go onto the Swimming New Zealand website for the link to the streaming and on demand viewing. Merchandise for these championships will be available on the Swimmerbro website here from tomorrow.
Open Championships.
The State 2012 New Zealand Open Championships are fast approaching. Don’t forget to also get your ticket for the State Insurance Swimming Awards Dinner that follows the championships. There will once again be a celebration of swimming on the Saturday following the championships (Saturday 31st March). There will be school relays for primary, intermediate and high school teams, skins races in all strokes with prize money of $500 in each race and regional relays. Regional relay teams can enter these races at the championships and skins participants will be determined on the 50m races throughout the championships.
Sky have very kindly granted SNZ permission to provide on demand viewing of the highlights packages that will screen on Sky wrapping up each finals session of the championship. There will be a link on the Swimming New Zealand website leading to the site hosting the packages.
I look forward to seeing you all at the forthcoming New Zealand Championship events.
Kent Stead
Swimmign New Zealand
Events Manager
As per previous information this meet is important to our Academy. All information has been sent out and there will be some changes which will be advised in time.
Anyone who would like to swim the 50m sprints and have the chance to be selected for the Trophy Relays selected by swimming Waikato please enter as soon as possible.
All entries to the Academy Recorder Bridget -
swimmingrecorder@stpetersacademy.co.nz
| State Swimming New Zealand Junior Championships - 18th & 19th February |
From the 18th to the 19th February the St Peter’s Swimming Academy took a team of 11, 10-12 year old swimmers to the 2012 State Swimming New Zealand Junior Championships. The Academy coaching team was very excited to attend this competition with a great mix of 1st time and returning national swimmers.
The St Peter’s Swimming Academy competed well throughout the competition, finishing the weekend off with 3 nationals medals/4 regional placings, 62% personal best ratings and with the Academy finishing 33rd nationally.
From its inception the Academy continues to grow its New Zealand Junior team with figures such as:
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Year
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Number in team
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Team Placing
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2010
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2
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44th
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2011
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7
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34th
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2012
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11
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33rd
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As well as this special mention must go to the Academy swimmers who received top 3 placing’s in either the regional or national results:
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Name
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Race
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Placing (Regional/National)
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Christopher Hughes
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50 Breastroke
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1st/2nd
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Christopher Hughes
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100 Breastroke
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1st/3rd
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Christopher Hughes
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200 Breastroke
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1st/2nd
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Chelsea Sherry Tau
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50 Breastroke
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3rd/7th
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The Academy coaching staff would like to say a huge congratulations to all the swimmers who competed for the Academy over the weekend. Your maturity, determination and motivation to do your best was outstanding and being exposed to this level of competition is a valuable experience as the 12 year old swimmers now move into the next level of national level swimming and the 10 and 11 year olds will return next year with more experience, more knowledge and ready to swim to an even higher level.
| Dargaville Camp and Meet - Wednesday, 18 until Sunday, 22 January 2012 |
In mid January a team of 26 age group and junior swimmers from St Peter's Swimming Academy travelled to Dargaville to compete in the 2012 Northland Age Group Swimming Championships. The team travelled to Dargaville two days before the competition to complete a two day training camp before competing at the three day competition.
The swimmers competed well throughout the competition achieving some fantastic results, the team finished with a personal best percentage of over 50% and had a number of swimmers qualify for extra events at national swimming level as well as two swimmers posting their first ever national qualifying times. The team performed exceptionally well throughout the course of the competition and bonded well together as a team throughout the course of the trip, the team also broke two race records.
The age group and junior sections of the Academy are now continuing to train hard after the camp with renewed enthusiasm and are looking forward to competing in the upcoming local and national competitions
TSS Sprint Meet and Camp, Gold Coast Australia
Wednesday, 11 until Sunday, 15 January 2012 |
Ten members from St Peter’s Swimming Academy’s Elite Squad travelled to the Gold Coast in Australia for an overseas swim camp from Wednesday, 11 January until Sunday, 15 January 2012.
The intensive five day training camp allowed the young swimmers to train side by side with members of the Australian and Chinese swim teams, exposing them to the conditions and dedication it takes to get to the top level in their sport. This training camp has been an important development opportunity for our swimmers, to not only watch World Champion and Olympic swimmers train, but to also train alongside, was priceless for the squad.
The squad ended the camp by attending the TSS swim meet, the boosted over 500 competitors from around the world, including National teams from China, Greece and Scotland. The St Peter’s squad finished with 19 medals and numerous personal best times.
The coaching staff where really proud of how the team stepped up all the challenges that were put in front of them over the five days, and would like to thank everybody involved in getting the team to Australia.