2008 Summer Champs
This was an interesting meet and great to see so many swimmers from outside the region attending. It certainly raised the bar for the meet.
Kiwi had 44 Swimmers at this meet double the amount we had attending last year and more than the rest of the Manawatu combined. There were some outstanding swims and some not so outstanding. One of the things that Andrew commented on was the lack of preparation amongst swimmers before a race. If you know that your event is coming up swimmers need to start stretching and warming up muscles. It is hard to perform at your best if your body isn't ready.
Many of our swimmers had just come back from a tough swimming camp in Hawera with only a couple of days rest and it was a hard task to front up at the the Summer Champs. On the surface their results were not what they may have expected but a closer analysis shows that all of the swimmers that went on camp achieved at least 1 pb with 90% gaining 4 or more pb's and many of the swimmers also gaining multiple pbs in excess of 4 sec's.
Meet Highlights
(Long Course times compared with Long Course Time)
- 100% of swimmers gained at least 1 personal best with 61% of swimmers gain a minimum of 4 personal bests
- Jessica Love achieved a 1:08.84 for the 100 Free
- Elliott Maassen achieved 7 pb's
- Evon Story Achieved 8 pb's & 5 medals
- Charlotte Brenkley achieved 8 pb's
- Peter Tremain picked up 5 medals from 5 finals
- Cameron Blair took 20's off his 200 Breast LC time
- Muriel Eade took 18 sec's off her 800 Free time LC time and 2 medals
- Emma Finlay picked up 3 medals including a Gold for the 100 Breast
- Eve Athersuch took 31.62 sec's off her 100 Fly LC time
- Angus Brenkley took 35.31 sec's off his 1500 free LC time
- Ben Elkington took 19.29 sec's off his 200IM LC time
- Harry Finlay took 18.37 sec's off his 400IM LC time
