IGSA Swimming Update
Last Friday 17 March, saw our Swimming team compete at the 97th IGSA Swimming and Diving Championships. Our squad had been training hard to prepare for the meet and were confident that they would perform well, and that they did!
Apart from the numerous PBs, we had 16 swimmers contest the finals.
This was an amazing achievement and these results contributed to MLC School jumping up three places on last year’s performance finishing in 5th place overall!
A special congratulations to:
- Christine Jin (Year 10) – Silver in 17 years 50m Breaststroke
- Florence Jiang (Year 11) – Bronze in 16 years 50m Freestyle, Silver in 100m Freestyle
- Annaliese Yan (Year 10) – Silver in 16 years 50m Breaststroke
The highlight of the meet would have to be Iris Ji’s (Year 6) 13 years 50m Breaststroke final. Iris had prepared well for the event and was confident that she would swim a good race. She had her sights on breaking the record. As we stood in the stands and cheered her on, Iris won the gold medal and broke what had been a 28 year old record set in 1995! Iris was overwhelmed with emotion, as were the supporters in the stands. It is a timely reminder about the importance of setting goals and achieving them, and how sometimes, achieving your goal can be just that little more special and meaningful than the first place!
Congratulations to Colman Wong and all the swimming staff on a fantastic result!
– Lisa Filby
Director of Sport