2021 Swimming Carnival Report
17th February 2021
On Tuesday the 16th February the Port Macquarie Olympic Pool hosted our annual swimming carnival. Heavy rain during the night had organisers worried about what we might awaken too, thankfully the rain cleared leaving us in sunshine for most of the day.
The carnival started at 9:45am with 100 staff and 800 students in attendance. The first event was the 50m freestyle followed by breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. If you were a confident swimmer and/or wanted the big participation points you swam in the 50m pool (5 points). Not so confident – the same program ran in the 25m pool but only 1 point for participation. It was wonderful to see so many collecting points.
We stopped for lunch at 12:30pm. Relay teams were announced and the double points event got underway at 1:15pm.
Presentations took place at 2pm for age champions, runners up and winning house.
Some thankyous:
- Port Macquarie Olympic Pool Staff
- Parents that attended on the day – we appreciate your support
- Staff – catering, recording, timekeepers, place judges, referees, House Co-ordinators and assistants, marshalls, starters, announcers, canteen supervisors. A massive team effort
- Georgia Smith, Matt Cheers and Cameron Hunt our Sport trainees – a huge amount of work organising marquees, timekeeping, marshalls, place judges and trophies.
- Maintenance Staff – John and Marty for pre-carnival set up and post carnival pack up.
- The students – Everyone is to be congratulated for the positive attitude displayed at the carnival.
The SJRC Swimming Squad to compete at the Diocesan Swimming Carnival will be announced this week. If you would like to compete in the following events you must submit times to Mr. Cannon by 8:30am this Friday 19th February. Times from a Swimming Australia results page required (available on their website).
100m freestyle,
100m breaststroke,
100m backstroke,
100m butterfly,
200m freestyle,
200m IM.
The 400m has a special nomination link. 400m Nomination Form
Congratulations to Macquarie who went back to back for the House Competition after winning in 2020. Please check the following links for full details of House and Age Champions.
There was three records broken on the day:
Phoebe Bentley (Open Girls): 50m Freestyle 28.88s. Old Record: Heidi Tamblyn 29.83s (2012)
Phoebe Bentley (Open Girls): 50m Breastroke 38.00s. Old Record: Heidi Tamblyn 39.91s (2012)
Phoebe Bentley (Open Girls): 50m Butterfly 31.75s. Old record: Taylor Sargeant 33.48s (2018)
Dean Kelly Memorial Shield – House Champions
Mr. Michael Cannon
SJRC Leader of Sport
