ACT Championships and Speedo Sprint Heats

Congratulations to our team who swam at the ACT championships (and Speedo Sprint heats) on the weekend. It was fantastic to see so many gold Ginninderra caps on pool deck and flying through the water! Full results are available here

Highlights of the weekend included:

• 64 Ginninderra swimmers entered the championships. The biggest contingent of swimmers Ginninderra has seen at an ACT Championships in some time. Well done everyone!!

• The girls team finished 2nd on the pointscore and the boys team fininshed 4th. A fantastic result from the 9 clubs in the ACT!

• Ginninderra swimmers swam a high number of personal Bests! The PB’s came as a result of everyone’s hard work in training. Congratulations to Christopher Bush, Hannah Hall, Charlotte Lanigan-King, Abigail McMaster, Thomas Richards and Imogen Welch for swimming 100% PB’s. A great result!!

• Many Ginninderra Swimmers won non-championship and championship Medals or placed first in their individual age groups. 22 swimmers placed first in their age group in at least one championship event. These swimmers were Ruben Collins, Alex Couldrick, Bec Cross, Sophie Dawe, Elija Gattica, Kayla Hardy, Ryan Hore, Emma Kennard, Tash Kosev, Nicholas Lawlis, Luke O’Neill, Mark O’Neill, Ciaran Plenty, Laura Sutton, Sarah Thomas, Lukah Tuan Xander Tuan, Anna Varela, Josh Waugh, Bella White and Grace Zhang. Special mentions to Alec Couldrick, Bec Cross, Kayla Hardy, Ryan Hore, Emma Kennard, Anna Varela and Cameron Tysoe for placing first in a high number of championship events in their age groups. We also had swimmers placing first in their age group in non-championship events. These swimmers were Christopher Bush, Cassia Cunningham, Esha Leon, Charlotte Lanigan-King Emma Kennard, Ryan Hore, Aminda De Jager, Hannah Hall, Alys Holdom, Charlotte White, Keira Mapley, Xander Tuan and Alex Ramsay.

• Championship times are the best time ever swum at the ACT championships. Championship times were broken by Alex Couldrick, Bec Cross, Kayla Hardy, Ryan Hore and Cameron Tysoe

• ACT records were also broken by Kayla Hardy (3) and Alex Couldrick (1).

• Congratulations to all our swimmers who qualified for the Speedo Sprint finals to be held in Sydney next month. The Speedo Sprints rankings can be found here

• Terrific team spirit and encouragement was shown by all our swimmers, parents and coaches. Our swimmers were always cheering and making sure all swimmers were videoed.

• Thank you to our coaching team of Jim, Pat, Greg and Bronte for all their help and advice. Saturday was Bronte’s last day as coach. The Ginninderra swimming club would like to thank Bronte for all the work she has put into the swimmers in the club and we wish her well on her next adventure!

• Full results are available here and Photos from the championships are on the clubs facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ginninderraswimclub

• Presentation of the ACT age championship awards will be on May 20 2016 at the ACT swimming presentation evening.