By TBHS | Posted: Tuesday May 31, 2022
Our swimmers took part in the Aoraki Swimming Competition held in Ashburton.
This year this event took place in Ashburton on Friday 27th of May. Even though there were swimmers that could not attend, with COVID still affecting events, numbers were larger than expected. Our team consisted of Thomas Kyle (captain), Benson Arnold, Josh Young, Alex Tudgey, Jack Boorer-Lilley, Luke Tompkins, Lachlan Crawford and Guenwoo Kim.
TBHS had a successful day. We won both the senior relays, medley and freestyle, with our B team placing as well. To cap the day off we also won and placed with our two teams in the t-shirt relay, which was a fun event held at the end of the meet. These relay results were extremely pleasing, especially for the B team as we had two juniors swimming up in the senior division in that team. Official results are yet to come through as to our placing in the school, junior boy and senior boy championships.
Races are swum in two age groups 14 and Under, and 15 and Over. The first set of results are from the senior division, where Alex swam exceptionally well.Alex Tudgey - 1st in 200 freestyle, 1st in 100 backstroke, 1st in 100 butterfly, 3rd in 100 freestyle. Luke Tompkins - 1st in 50 freestyle, 1st in 50 backstroke, 4th in 100 freestyle and 6th in 50 butterflyJack Boorer-Lilley - 2nd in 200 freestyle, 2nd 100 backstroke, 3rd in 50 breaststroke, and 5th in 100 freestyleThomas Kyle - 2nd 100 individual medley, 4th in 50 freestyle, 4th 50 butterfly and 6th in the 100 freestyleBenson Arnold - 2nd in 50 breaststroke, 3rd in 50 freestyle, and 7th in the 50 butterflyJosh Young - 4th in 200 freestyle, 5th in 50 butterfly, 7th in 50 freestyle and 11th in the 100 freestyleIn the junior division, Lachlan Crawford produced some great results, and Geunwoo Kim, representing the school for the first time, did well.Lachlan Crawford - 1st 200 individual medley, 2nd 100 individual medley, 2nd 100 breaststroke, and 2nd 100 butterflyGenwoo Kim - 1st 100 backstroke and 5th in the 100 breaststroke.
Thanks to Dale Lilley for being IOT for us, and to TGHS for help with transport.
Alex Tudgey swam in Auckland on the 19th to the 23rd of April in the National Age Group Championships. Congratulations to Alex on making it to this prestigious event.
Alex participated in 4 events, the 50m, 100m, 200m backstroke and 100m fly. He swam long course personal bests in all four events but his best result was in the 100m butterfly. He swam a personal best in his heat to earn a place in the final and then swam faster again in the final to finish 7th. His final time was 1:03.55.
