Category: Swimming

The Mt Albert Grammar School Swim Team have won the NZ Secondary Schools Co-Ed Swimming Championships for the first time in the school’s history. The event, which ran from September 12-15 at Waterworld in Hamilton, attracted 733 swimmers from 160 secondary schools. MAGS Swimming Captain Vasilina Shipilova led the 21-strong team to this inaugural victory in her final year at MAGS with strong personal performances including two bronze medals, 10 Top 8 placings and was a member of the gold medal-winning girls relay team. FINA World Junior Swimming representative Brearna…

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Hundreds of competitive high school swimmers will descend on Hamilton’s Waterworld this weekend, when the refurbished facility hosts the 2019 NZ Secondary School Swimming Championships. The four-day event at the Hamilton City Council-owned facility opens on the evening of Thursday 12 September, and runs through Sunday 15 September. More than 700 competitors will take to the water across five age groups and 49 swimming events totalling more than 4500 swims. Stuart Davidson, the Council’s Aquatics Manager, says hosting the NZ Secondary School Swimming Championships reflects the importance of the multi-million-dollar…

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Mt Albert Grammar School: World Junior Championships-bound swimmer Brearna Crawford led the way and rewrote the record books with outstanding early season form at the annual Evolution Swim Meet held in Hamilton. Brearna become New Zealand’s fastest female short course 100m Breaststroke swimmer when she broke the NZ Open Record in a classy time of 1.07.14sec. Brearna continues her preparation and will leave on 6 August for a 10-day preparation camp in Vienna before competing at the 2019 FINA World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Brearna set nine other records…

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College Sport Media: Gina Galloway from Diocesan School for Girls will be competing in the pool at the upcoming Youth Olympic Games in Argentina as one of four young New Zealand swimmers selected to attend the Games. Galloway (aged 17) is the granddaughter of Ngaire Galloway, who at 93 years old, is New Zealand’s oldest living Olympian, and like Galloway senior competes in the backstroke. Galloway junior won a bronze medal at the 2017 Youth Commonwealth Games and will compete in the women’s 50m, 100m, 200m backstroke and 100m butterfly…

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Māori Television: 15-year-old Gold Heart Scholarship recipient Tyron Henare is a stroke closer to pursuing his Youth Olympic dreams for swimming. In July the six-time National gold medallist will put his skills to the test against the country’s best at the 2018 Opens in the hopes to qualify. Tyron Henry is currently New Zealand’s top sprint swimmer for freestyle, backstroke and fly in his age group. He now looks to qualify for 2018 Youth Olympics in the hopes to make his mark on the world stage. Henry says “My short term goal for this year…

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The New Zealand Secondary School Swimming Championships were held over the weekend at Waterworld in Hamilton with over 580 students competing from across the country. Auckland Grammar School won the last event on the programme – the senior boys 4 x 50 freestyle relay. The team was made up of year 13 students A. J. Falconer, L. W. Tattersfield, O. Chen and C. M. Bradding. For all four students, this was their last ever swimming competition race for Auckland Grammar. Despite none of them being ranked in the top 15 freestyle…

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