Swimming
Mini Meet – Paris 2024
On Wednesday 29 May, Pymble Swimming held a mini meet with the focus on Paris 2024. 60 swimmers attended from our tiger sharks, mini, star and cadet squads. Senior swimmers from Pride and Engine took leadership and did an excellent job raising team spirit and organising teams.
After swimmers were allocated into teams, they had to pick an Olympic swimmer as their team mascot. Halfway through the mini meet, teams made up a chant about their Olympic swimmer. The songs were outstanding, very creative and inspiring.
Jessica Croll (Year 11) and Sarah Tian (Year 10) organised a spinning wheel with mystery relays, keeping swimmers guessing and keeping everyone involved.
Thank you to all parents for your support and cheering. Thanks to coaches Andrea Raso, Sara Petronzio, Rafael Rodrigues and Michelle Thomas for their huge efforts in another successful mini meet.
Bring on the Olympics!
2024 NSW All Schools Swimming Championship
Over 600 students from Catholic, government, and independent schools competed at the 2024 NSW All Schools Swimming Championship, held at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. We were excited to witness such a high standard of swimming in NSW.
Selected team members will represent NSW under the new unified NSW All Schools brand, joining a 400-strong contingent of NSW athletes at the inaugural School Sport Australia Games on the Gold Coast.
Congratulations to the following Pymble Swimmers who competed:
Lily Barlow (Year 11), Megan Chia (Year 8), Jennifer Chong (Year 11), Arabella Cox (12), Jessica Cullen (Year 11), Keira Donovan (Year 7), Piper Gregory-Reid (Year 12), Imogen Jones (Year 8), Annika Lee (Year 11), Jaya Lilienthal (Year 11), Lily Lockhart (Year 11), Emma NG (Year 8), Quinn Parry-Okeden (Year 7), Ruby Pickthall (Year 10), Charlotte Sadler (Year 7), Keira Smith ( Year 11), Sarah Tian (Year 10), Indianna Vale (Year 9).
Results:
Relays
Girls 17&O 200m Freestyle relay: 2nd place
Girls 12-14 200m Medley relay: 2nd place
Girls 15-16 200m Medley relay: 3rd place
Girls 17&O 200m Medley relay: 1st place
Girls 12-19 6x50m Freestyle relay: 2nd place
Individuals results
Girls 14 100m Freestyle – Megan Chia (Year 8) – 1st place
Girls 12-13 100m Backstroke – Emma Ng (Year 8) – 3rd place
Girls 16 100m Backstroke – Sarah Tian (Year 10) – 1st place
Girls 17 & O 100m Backstroke – Arabella Cox (Year 12) – 3rd place
Girls 16 50m Backstroke – Sarah Tian (Year 10) – 2nd place
Girls 17 & O 400m Freestyle – Lily Barlow (Year 11) – 2nd place
Girls 15-16 200m Backstroke – Sarah Tian (Year 10) – 2nd place
Well done to our Pymble swimmers selected to represent NSW at the inaugural School Sport Australia Games on the Gold Coast:
Lily Barlow (Year 11)
Megan Chia (Year 8)
Emma Ng (Year 8)
Sarah Tian (Year 10)
2024 SMNE Winter Championship
On Saturday 1 June and Sunday 2 June, 43 Pymble students competed at the SMNE Winter Championships at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.
SMNE Championships is an exciting and important meet for our athletes as they get a chance to compete against the fastest swimmers of the area, from the ages of 8 years to Open. All swimmers gave their best, demonstrating amazing skills and achieving many new personal bests, qualifying for NSW Metropolitan and NSW State.
The weekend was full of great results with many top ten placings, 13 individual Gold Medals, 16 individual Silver Medals and 8 Individual Bronze Medals.
Our Pymble swimmers dominated the point score, ranking 1st with more than 1500 points in front of our next rival.
Top 3 Pymble swimmers point score
Charlotte Sadler (Year 7) 142 points
Megan Chia (Year 8) 137 points
Penelope Hargraves (Year 7) 125 points
Relay – Top three results
Pymble qualified eight Relays teams between Senior and Junior teams.
Gold Medal: 13&Under Medley Relay (Megan Chia Year 8, Penelope Hargraves Year 7, Quinn Parry-Okeden Year 7)
Gold Medal: 13&Under Freestyle Relay (Megan Chia Year 8, Quinn Parry-Okeden Year 7)
Bronze Medal: 13&Over Freestyle Relay (Keira Smith Year 11, Jaya Lilienthal Year 11, Arabella Cox Year 12, Jessica Croll Year 11).
Congratulations to all Pymble swimmers who competed over the weekend:
Lily Barlow (Year 11), Amélie Berg (Year 5), Hannah Carmichael (Year 11), Jennifer Chong (Year 11), Annalise Chow (Year 10), Jessica Cullen (Year 11), Emma Deere (Year 5), Carla Mikkeline Eibach (Year 7), Emma Feng (Year 5), Oriana Fenton (Year 7), Georgia Friedel (Year 7), Ludovica Iacovelli (Year 7), Avika Kapoor (Year 7), Puisai Victoria Ko (Year 6), Katherine Kong (Year 5), Sarah Kranes (Year 7), Vera Le (Year 3), Anne Liu(Year 8), Lily Lockhart (Year 11), Jade Mao (Year 7), Lena Pan (Year 5), Gwen Pickthall (Year 8), Ruby Pickthall (Year 10), Carlyn Suhendra (Year 12), Indianna Vale (Year 9), Emma Wang (Year 5), Grace Wang (Year 5), Isabella Wang (Year 5), Rosa Wang (Year 4), Annabelle Watts (Year 7), Erin Wei (Year 5), Genevieve Wong (Year 5), Jiayi Wu (Year 6), Chenxuan Yu (Year 7), Hailey Zhang (Year 4).
Thank you to coaches Raf, Michelle, Sara and Steven for helping to prepare for this meet and the support on the pool deck.
Michelle Thomas
Swimming Coach