Manawatu Secondary School Swimming Championships
On Saturday 25 July the Manawatu Secondary
School Swimming Championships were held in the PNBHS pool and the
swimmers from Palmy Boys’ dominated.
Ian Tsui completed a clean sweep of the 13 Year Old 100m Breaststroke events,
winning the 50m, 100m and 200m events, as well as winning the 100m Individual Medley. Joshua
Carroll was impressive in clean sweeping the 13 Year Old Backstroke events,
winning the 50m, 100m and 200m events. Joshua broke the Manawatu Secondary Schools Championship
records in both the 100m and 200m Backstroke. Ryan Stott did some good personal
best times in winning the 50m Butterfly and 200m Freestyle in the same age group. To round
out this age group, Charlie Hook won the 100m Butterfly and the grueling 200m Butterfly.
Alex Odom continued his impressive form, winning the 14 Year Old 50m 100m Butterfly
and the 200m Freestyle. Alex broke the Manawatu Secondary School Championship
records in each of these events. He also finished second and broke a
PNBHS record in the 50m Freestyle. Alex broke the PNBHS record, Manawatu Secondary
School Championship record and Manawatu Age Group record in the 50m Backstroke
leg of the 14 and Under Medley relay. Cole Phillips won the 14 Year Old 200m Breaststroke in a new Championship record. He also took out the 100m Individual Medley in this
age group. Alex Willis won the 14 Year 100m Breaststroke and 200m Individual Medley. Lucas Reed won
the 100m Backstroke in this age group.
Cameron Baker won four events in the 15 Year Old age group, taking out the 50m and
100m Freestyle, and the 100m and 200m Butterfly. Jason Tsang won the 15 Year Old 50m and
100m Breaststroke but was beaten by Connor McKay in the 200m Breaststroke.
Connor’s swim in this event was a new Championship record. Connor also took out
the 100m Individual Medley in this age group.
In the 16 and Over age group Levi Holman took out four events, winning the 50m Butterfly, 50m Freestyle, 50m Backstroke and 100m Freestyle. Marcus Blok won the 100m Backstroke, 100m Butterfly
and 100m Individual Medley and completing the clean sweep for PNBHS, Jake Thompson won the 50m
and 100m Breaststroke.
PNBHS was completely dominant in the relays. The 14 and Under 200m Freestyle relay team of Alex Odom, Alex Willis, Cole Phillips and Blake Chase
took a whopping 6 seconds off the Championship record which has stood since
2014. Our B team also would have broken the previous record in finishing second
whilst the C team completed the podium. The 14 and Under Medley Relay was a
similar story with the A team of Alex Odom, Ian Tsui, Alex Willis and Blake
Chase taking 7 seconds off the previous Championship record also from 2014. The
B team finished second just outside the previous record whilst the C
team completed the whitewash in finishing third.
The 15 and Over relay team won both the 200m Freestyle and 200m Medley relays in
comfortable fashion.
