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The PSA Swimming season for 2006 was an exciting one for the emergent Trinity Swimming Team. Having finished a respectable 4th in 2005, the hopes were high for an improvement in 2006. Since entering the PSA Trinity College has never been placed in the top three of this competition, so any move up the ladder would have heralded a new era in Trinity swimming. The season started with a record turnout at summer holiday training. Many new swimmers tried their hand at improving their times enough to break into the team. As the summer wore on, it became apparent that this would be a special year. The first glimpse of this was the number of Year 8 and 9 swimmers who were improving on personal best times at the Pastoral Care Group carnivals. Mr Duckett’s special technical work with this group had obviously been paying dividends. At the Age Championships, a number of outstanding performances were recorded and the winners of the championship had to fight uncharacteristically hard for their title, due to the overall increase in the strength of each age group competing. Consequently there were high expectations for the Quads competition in early March. Traditionally, the Quads allows us to gauge our chances at the Inters and a strong second place behind Wesley was a nice confidence boost coming into the major competition of the season. On the day of the Inters, the boys were well prepared by a magnificent lunch arranged by the mothers of the team, followed by an inspirational movie and a team warm up. Despite the bus being late and heavy traffic causing a few heart attacks, we arrived in time for the first race. Fittingly, Captain Alex Lee led the team in the first race of the night.

Mr Dion Mepham

Team Coach Corey McIntosh (Year 11) broke one of two individual records achieved on the night, in the U/16 50m Backstroke, in 28.25seonds. He also won the Div 1 100m Freestyle and 50m Butterfly events. Jakeb Norman won the U/14 Div 1 50m Freestyle, whilst James Ballard commenced his TC swimming career with a win in the U/13 Div 1 50m Breaststroke. Second division winners on the night included NJ Cartagena (U/14 Div 2 50m Freestyle, Div 2 50m Butterfly), Tim Quinlan (U/16 Div 2 100m Breaststroke), Luke Pardini (U/13 Div 2 50m Breaststroke), Taylor Colton (U/14 Div 2 50m Backstroke) and Jack Connelly (U/13 Div 2 50m Butterfly). Trinity were also the most successful relay school winning seven of the relay races (U/ 13 Div 1 Medley and Freestyle and Div 2 Freestyle, U/14 Div 1 Medley, U/15 Div 2 Freestyle, Open Div 1 and Div 2 Freestyle). Scotch won four relays and Christ Church three. Credit must go to Luke Pardini (Year 8), who maintained his composure in the face of a questionable disqualification in the Freestyle and a false start in the Breaststroke (which saw the field swim 40m before

being recalled), to swim one of the most inspirational Butterfly legs of recent memory. He swam from 4th position into 1st, to help win the U/13 Div 1 Medley Relay. The most exciting race was saved for the very end, the Open Freestyle Relay. A solid start was made by Ben Loverock, touching 3rd; half a body length behind the leader, Pat McGinnity continued the strong showing, holding his position before changing over to Captain Alex Lee. Alex dominated the leg, overtaking Christ Church and Wesley, handing over to Kered Gale, who blitzed early before being dragged in by Wesley, eventually winning by the smallest of margins, 0.1seconds. A fitting way to end a magnificent night. Final Points for the PSA Interschool Carnival Wesley 825pts Trinity 749 Christ Church 655 Scotch 625 Aquinas 573 Hale 560 Guildford 484

Special thanks must go to the coaches, Mr Peter Duckett, Mr Mark Bush and Mr Robert Sharp and to the parents who helped during a long and intense season.

Mr Dion Mepham

Team Coach

SWIMMING TEAM

Back row: Patrick McGinnity (Vice Captain), Kane Lucas, Peter Bormolini, Sean Robson, Timothy Quinlan, Kered Gale, Matthew Stockton, Alexander Lee (Captain), Corey McIntosh, David Graham, James Logan, Jourdan Kestel, Matthew Crabtree, Xavier Foley, Simon Brown Fifth row: Ryan Taylor, Justin Russell, Samuel Burke, James Grierson, Desmond Yeo, Benjamin Loverock, Perry Colyer (Vice Captain), Tom Gryta, Bernard Sneeuwjagt, Jarrhan Jacky, Joseph Hall, Marcus Carter, Thomas Rose, Josh Bracken, Damian Leipold, Aaron Bridges Fourth row: Neil-Jerome Cartagena, James Arthur, Luke McKenzie, Brenton Bush, James Rees, Alexander Hardie, Taylor Colton, Jarrad Ferris, Brandon Blake, Kyle Versteeg, Dean Foley, Benjamin Norman, Gregory Stockton, Andrew Shearer, Taylor Matthews, Edward O’Connell Third row: Michael Mamo, James Ballard, Jakeb Norman, Jacob Holmes, Don Nguyen, Ruvan Muthu-Krishna, Hugo Seymour, Stuart Love, Matthew Bowen, Elliot Steffanoni, Jess Colquhoun, Adam Pesce, Jayden O’Neil, Travis Colyer, Mitchell Zekulich Second row: James Cumming, Liam Burke, Max Vining, Clayton Arnez, Matthew Hunt, Shaun Foley, Maximilian Tandy, Kurt Penney, Jack Connelly, Richard Sorriba, Hylton Jones, Jesse Moutia, Luke Screaigh Front row:Mr Dion Mepham (Coach), Luke Randazzo, Nicholas Smith, Liam Gale, Luke Pardini, Nicholas Brown, Joshua Smith, Martin Sneeuwjagt, Matthew Bannister, Eugene Stewart, Charles Carter, Nicholas Andrews, Adrian Petersen, Mr Peter Duckett (Coach)

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