By TBHS | Posted: Monday November 12, 2018
During the first week of the recent holidays, our swim squad was busy in Auckland for the 5 day National Short Course Swimming Championship.
Those attending were Jack Sands, Matthew Moore, Reed Stevenson, William Tudgey and Dominic Coleman.
Jack experienced a meet that he will never forget, winning six gold medals (200 Freestyle, 400 Individual Medley, 200 Individual Medley, 400 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 1500 Freestyle) and one silver (100 Individual Medley). He got first or second in every age group race he swam. Not only that but he produced some amazing personal best swims – 25 seconds faster in his 1500, 7 seconds in his backstroke and 6 seconds in his 400 freestyle. Outstanding. He then qualified for the super finals. This combines the fastest swimmers from all age groups, including those older than Jack. He finished in the top ten for 4 of these events.
The other members of the squad also had a good meet. William Tudgey finished in the top 20 in all 6 of his races. He came 4th in an amazing 1500 freestyle race where he took 32 seconds off his previous time. He also took 23 seconds off his 200 freestyle earlier in the meet.
Matthew Moore, swimming in a new age group as his birthday was only the week before, made two superfinals, in which he swam extremely well in, taking a total of 6.54 seconds off his 400 Individual Medley time overall and 5.47 seconds off his 400 Freestyle entry time overall. He finished in the top 20 for all nine of his races. His best result was 6th in the 1500 free.
Reed Stevenson had four top 20 placings, with all but one race being a personal best time and taking 2.95 seconds off his 200 breaststroke time. Dominic Coleman finished in the top 20 in one of his races, also swimming personal best times in all but one race, with his outstanding swim coming in the 400 Individual Medley where he took 5.88 seconds off his entry time.
