Autumn — 2021
Sports
Swimming Finals Cheering and excitement at the pool Swimming sports were a little different this year;
What’s your background with swimming?
preliminaries were held as usual at Wharenui
Tate: ‘I have swum once a week since I was six. My
Swimming Pool, and the Medbury pool, however when the day of swimming sports came we were at Covid level two.
brother was a swimmer and before swimming sports he always helps me with the technical aspects’. Harry: ‘I started swimming when I was three years
Luckily swimming finals went ahead, but without
old. I started having lessons in the baby pool with my
spectators, and with only the Years 5 to 8 finalists, who competed for their spot in the zones. The Years 3 and 4 swimming finals were held a few weeks later at Wharenui.
parents. Since I turned ten, I have trained two times a week in a squad, but only when swimming sports are coming up’. There was a lot of good racing and some records were
The Years 5 to 8 swimming finals were a rousing
broken. There were no House champions or House
success with a lot of energy throughout the competition. Thank you to Mr Gilbert and Mr Ogston
relays this year, that will have to wait until next year.
for reorganizing things so the event could go ahead.
Tate Aikawa, 8S
And thank you to all the teachers and staff who timed the races. questions :
The following boys made the Medbury swim team for 2021 and competed in the ISSA Swimming Sports on Tuesday 9 March:
What did you like about swimming sports this year?
Year 5: Alexander Marr, Ollie Brown, George Luisetti, Zilong Chen and Sam Maxwell.
The Years 7 and 8 Champions answered some
Tate ‘Swimming sports was smaller this year, but with the same energy as usual; there was still a lot of cheering and excitement at the pool’.
Year 6: Zac Hibbs, Hugo Bush, Will Gardiner and ChiaHeng Lin.
Harry ‘I like swimming sports because this year the
Year 7: Harry Reekie, William Coughlan, Kourosh Langley and Harry Blakely.
new boys got the old boys adrenalin pumping
Year 8: Tate Aikawa, Luke Manderson, Cullen Brown,
because they didn’t know their ability’.
Charlie Wood and Otis Wheeler.
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
25m Freestyle
Louis Tian
Noah Zhang
Ollie Brown
Zac Hibbs
William Coughlan
Tate Aikawa
25m Backstroke
Hudson Stratford-Bevins
Ted Jones
George Luisetti
Will Gardiner
William Coughlan
Tate Aikawa
25m Breaststroke
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Alexander Marr
Zac Hibbs
Harry Reekie
Luke Manderson
25m Butterfly
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Harry Reekie
Tate Aikawa
50m Freestyle
Louis Tian
Ted Jones
Alexander Marr
Zac Hibbs
Harry Reekie
Tate Aikawa
100m Freestyle
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Sam Maxwell
Zac Hibbs
Harry Reekie
Luke Manderson
100m Medley
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Alexander Marr
Zac Hibbs
Harry Reekie
Tate Aikawa
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