SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
Over the weekend we saw the new Swimming New Zealand Junior Festival rolled out the country with over 1200 young swimmers competing throughout the country. Wharenui sent a strong 12 man team to the C-Bay Aquatic Centre in Timaru to race against the best junior swimmers from the South Island. With heaps of PBs, great swims, and plenty of medals, the club ended up coming in third in the overall points. It was awesome to see such a mix of experienced junior swimmers and also newer members of our club succeeding which bodes well for the future. The team spirit shown by the children was also fantastic and nearly resulted in us getting kicked out of the restaurant as we were too noisy!!! All in all it was a very successfully meet and we look forward to watching these young swimmers develop in the future
2017 Medalists
Arowa Wilson - 11 Yr: 1st 50 Free, 1st 50 Back, 2nd 100 Free, 3rd 100 Back
Ruby Kai Fong - 11 Yr: 1st 100 Free, 2nd 50 Free.
Conor McCullough - 11 Yr: 3rd 50 Back, 3rd 200 Free.
Daniel Bridgman - 11 yr: 1st 50 Free, 1st 50 Back, 1st 50 Fly, 1st 100 Free, 1st 100 Back, 1st 200 Back, 2nd 100 Fly, 3rd 50 Breast, 3rd 200 IM.
Daniel Baillie - 10 and Under: 3rd 100 Breast
A massive congratulations to Daniel Bridgman who broke his SCWC 50m back record in a new time of 32.85.
2017 Makos Team: Finn Allott, William Anderson, Daniel Baillie, Daniel Bridgman, James Dury, Keeley Finch, Max Gardiner, Sophie Hickey, Ruby Kai Fong, Conor McCullough, Caitlin Quayle, Arowa Wilson.
