Swimming Success at Centrals!!!

Sensational Stella!!! Winner of both the
9 years girls' 50m Freestyle
and Backstroke at the
Primary Sports Canterbury Swimming Championships!!!!

2nd fastest 9 years mixed relay team in Canterbury:
Bayley, Stella, Sam and Jacob

As you can see, the Swimming Team had great success at the Primary Sports Canterbury Swimming Championships at QEII today! The toughest grade to win is the 9 year old grade as the 10 years and above are weakened due to children being at Intermediate and racing next week. So Stella and the relay team did exceptionally well!

The 9 years relay was very exciting with our team 4th fastest qualifier and beaten by 4 seconds by St. Albans in their heat - but they had held back a little in reserve. In the final St. Albans got out to a big lead by swimming their fastest two swimmers one and two, but gradually both Paparoa St. and FOS began pegging them back. The final 50m was a real tussle with both Pap. St. and us (Stella) mowing St. Albans down and finally the Paparoa St. boy (later the winner of the 9 years boys' 50m freestyle final!) just holding out Stella who had steamed past St. Albans.

Stella was all class in her races, finishing strongly in both finals to win convincingly and be one of the swimmers of the meet! What a Champion!

Full results are on the PSC Web Site under Primary Results - Swimming

FOS Results:
9 years' mixed relay team 4 x 50m:
2nd Bayley, Jacob, Sam, Stella 2.42.92
(heat time 2.44.13)

9 years Girls' 50m Freestyle:
1st Stella C 37.03 (heat 37.72)
11. Bayley A 40.08 - 10 made the final!

9 years Boys' 50m Freestyle:
19. Sam T 44.53 (another year in this grade!)

9 years Girls' 50m Backstroke:
1st Stella C 43.36 (heat 44.15)
14. Annabel N 49.07 (another year in this grade!)

9 years Boys' 50m Backstroke:
22. Jack M 52.77
24. Jacob S 53.17

10 years Boys' 50m Backstroke:
18. Moss J 48.74

11 and Under years Boys' 50m Breaststroke:
25. Ben H 54.73 (another year in this grade!)

Thanks again to the parents for transport and support.

2010 Swimming Sports

In beautiful sunny conditions the 2010 swimming sports were held today. Over 1300 individual swims were swum by the 350 children. Each child had to compete in three events.
Our school champions are listed below but all children are to be congratulated on super efforts.

Annabel N won the Junior Girls' title for the THIRD year in a row as well as beating ALL three records. Stella C won the Senior Girls' title and smashed the backstroke record by over 4 seconds and was just 0.15 secs outside the Freestyle record and Bayley A was only 0.1 secs outside the Breaststroke record and she still has another year in that grade!
For full results see: FOS 2010 Swimming Results

	School Champions
	Junior Boys
1	Sam T	16
2	Ben W	15
3	Lachlan R	6
	Junior Girls
1	Annabel N	18
2	Claudia R	11
3	Gabby DT	9
	Senior Boys
1	Ben H	14
2	Moss J	11
3	Jooyoung K	8
	Senior Girls
1	Stella C	17
2	Bayley A	11
3	Sophie W	9
3	Emma W	9

Sensational Swimmers: 9 year old team blitzes the rest!

Our swimming team performed sensationally at the Primary Sports Canterbury Swimming Championships last Monday at QEII. The hardest race to win is the 9 year old mixed 4 x 50m relay and we won it by 11 seconds! Sam H., Annabelle W, Sophie W and Alex H. were fastest qualifier from the heats and led from start to finish in the final to be about a 1/3 of the pool ahead. *

The 10 year team made the final also and came 8th which is a great effort as many of the schools have Year 7s in their teams as the children are still ten.

Individual swim of the day was from Jared C. who qualified 8th fastest in the open (up to 12 years plus and including Year 8s) 50m Butterfly final. He then came 5th in the final in 41.53, an amazing achievement. Sam H. and Sophie W also made a final in their 9 years 50m freestyle with Sophie taking 5th in 39.91 and Sam 8th in 43.00. Special mention of Moss J who was 11th fastest in the 9 years 50m backstroke in 50.72, but only 10 made the final!

* We have subsequently found out that the team were disqualified for starting before a touch, watch FOS News this Friday and make your own decision!

Three from Three in West Zone Swimming Relays

Well done to our swimming team who competed at the West Zone Swimming Championships at Jellie Park today.

We had a great start to the meet with our three relay teams winning their contests. The 8 and 9 year old teams were dominant in their events then the 10 year old mixed 4 x 50m team had a titanic tussle with the Villa Maria/St. Thomas' team. It was left to Jared C. to edge us in front over the last 10 metres to book their place at the Primary Sports Canterbury Swimming Championships on Monday March 30th at QEII.

The children who qualified for the PSC Champs at QEII are:
9 years relay team: Alex H., Sam H., Annabelle W and Sophie W.
10 years relay team: Henry I., Caitlin H., Emma T., Jared C.
9 years girls freestyle: Sophie W.
9 years girls backstroke: Emma W.
9 years boys freestyle: Alex H. and Sam H.
9 years boys backstroke: Alex H. and Moss J.
10 years boys freestyle: Jared C.
10 years boys backstroke: Henry I.
Open butterfly: Jared C.

As well as the above children who were first or second we had numerous other victories in the 8 year old races and thirds and finalists in other events for the 9 and 10 year olds. A special mention of Jared C. who had three victories from three events that you are allowed to enter and also a mention of Alex H. who is our other swimmer to qualify in three events.

Swimming Sports 2009 - 2 records broken!

Our swimming sports took place today in glorious sunshine! The water temperature was only 17 degrees this morning after a cold night but was 21 degrees for the sports and was quite refreshing. Well done to all the children who chose to compete. We don't have full results as yet but a few highlights were:

Stella C broke the 2005 Junior Girls' 1 length freestyle record of 17.20 by smashing the 17 second barrier. The Junior Girls' Breaststroke record was beaten for the second time in two weeks, this time by Bayley A. The Junior Girls also just missed the backstroke record also!

The Seniors Boys' 2009 championship came down to the last race of the day as Henry I and Jared C had both had one win and one second each. Henry just edged Jared in the Breaststroke final to win the title.

Overall Champions were:
Junior Girls: Annabel N
Junior Boys: Sam T
Senior Girls: Annabelle W
Senior Boys: Henry I

The exciting 8 lap House Relay saw Green ahead of Red, Blue, Parents/Teachers(10 laps) and Gold.

Full results and photo will be on this blog as soon as they are available.

Swimming Sports Heats 5 February 2009

The Championship heats for our swimming sports on Thursday 12 Feb. are on this Thursday - 5 Feb. Below are the approx. times:

Juniors 6/7/8 @ 1st January 2009, Seniors 9/10 @ 1st January 2009

Time(approx.) Grade Event
11.00am Senior Boys Freestyle – 2 lengths
11.15am Senior Boys Backstroke – 2 lengths
11.30am Senior Boys Breaststroke – 2 lengths
11.45am Senior Girls Freestyle – 2 lengths
12.00pm Senior Girls Backstroke – 2 lengths
12.15pm Senior Girls Breaststroke – 2 lengths
1.30pm Junior Boys Freestyle – 1 length
1.45pm Junior Boys Backstroke – 1 length
2.00pm Junior Boys Breaststroke – 1 length
2.10pm Junior Girls Freestyle – 1 length
2.25pm Junior Girls Backstroke – 1 length
2.40pm Junior Girls Breaststroke – 1 length

Any number of children may try out for the finals - fastest six in each grade make the finals - taken by times.

Swimming Sports and Triathlon Dates 2009

Swimming Sports 2009:
12noon-3.00pm Thursday 12 Februray (PPD 13 February) - Week Two
Championship Heats: Thursday 5 February (PPD 10 February)

• 11am-12.30pm for Juniors aged 7/8 @ 1 January 2009
• 1.30pm- 3.00pm for Seniors aged 9/10 @ 1 January 2009

Individual Triathlon 2009 (Year 3+)
9.00am-10.30am Wednesday 18 February (PPD 19 February)

Teams' Triathlon 2009 (Year 3+)
9.00am-10.30am Tuesday 24 February (PPD 25 February)