What a fabulous Nationals campaign for our swimmers! Nine of our top swimmers competed for Baradene in the New Zealand Secondary School Swimming Championships in Hamilton last weekend. They all raced brilliantly, with many medals won, College records broken and PB’s earned.
Baradene came away as the 3rd Top Girls School and 11th overall out of a total of 123 competing schools.
We say a huge congratulations to our medal winners and our top 10 place-getters:
Amelia Bray (13 years) 2 x NATIONAL CHAMPION – 100m Fly & 50m Fly, 2nd 100 Free, 2nd 50m Free, 3rd 100m Back, 4th 50m Back
Lanihei Connolly (14 years) NATIONAL CHAMPION - 100m Breast, 2nd 50 Breast, 3rd 100m IM, 4th 200IM, 5th 50m Free, 9th 100m Free
Trelise Dance (15 years) 2nd 100 Breast, 2nd 50 Breast, 3rd 200m Breast
Isabelle Gibson (14 years) 2nd 200 Back, 3rd 50m Back, 3rd 100 Back, 8th 50m Fly, 9th 100 Fly
Lucy Gleeson (13 years) 3rd 100m Breast, 5th 50m Breast
Sarah Brooks (17-18 years) 4th 200m Back, 5th 50m Back, 5th 100m Back, 7th 200m Free, 8th 200IM, 9th 50m Free
Olivia Gibson (15 years) 6th 200m Breast
U16 200m Medley Relay – 2nd (Isabelle Gibson, Trelise Dance, Amelia Bray, Lanihei Connolly)
U16 4x100m Freestyle Relay – 5th (Olivia Gibson, Isabelle Gibson, Amelia Bray, Lanihei Connolly)
16 & Over 4x50m Freestyle Relay – 8th (Isabelle Gibson, Isla Petherbridge, Lucy Gleeson, Sarah Brooks)
8x50m Freestyle Relay – 6th (Sarah Brooks, Amelia Bray, Isabelle Gibson, Emma Wallace, Isla Petherbridge, Lucy Gleeson, Olivia Gibson, Lanihei Connolly)
3 of our swimmers (Trelise, Lanihei and Isabelle) also all reached the standard which enables them to apply for a place on the Swimming NZ National programme for the 2020-2021 season. This is a real achievement and we wish them all the best with the next step. Amelia has also been invited to apply having just missed the standard by .3s. We wish them well with this.
Thanks must go to Jasmine Connolly and Jodi Brooks for managing the team at Nationals. And finally, we thank our code captain, Sarah Brooks, for all her support of the swimming team, not just this year but for all her time at Baradene.
