On Friday, 28 February, the Swim Team headed out to Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre (SOPAC) for GPS 2. After a GPS record was set at GPS 1 and more point-scoring events were on offer, the team headed in full of confidence and an appetite for the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The opening event was the open 4 x 100m Freestyle relay, and our team of Will Bestic, Jonty Jagger, Ethan Ng <\/strong>and Noah McLaren<\/strong> were challenged by The Scots College (Scots) early on with a swimmer who went 50.9 in the opening leg. All the boys put in blistering swims and eventually reeled in Scots in the final leg, finishing in 3:37.81, a second ahead of Scots! St Joseph’s College (Joeys) rounded out the podium. The splits included a lead-off from Will in 55.24, Jonty\u2019s 54.49 and Ethan\u2019s 54.61, with an anchor leg from Noah of 53.47. It shows just how incredibly fast this team is and how far they have come since last year, where we recorded a time of 3:43.38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is our second win in the Open Relay, meaning Shore have a nice lead in the Open Relay over Scots in 2nd place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next opportunity was in the 200m Freestyles, with our Junior, Intermediate and Senior divisions and Harrison Ayer, Oliver Kelly <\/strong>and Ethan Cook<\/strong>, respectively, stepping up to contest. Harrison started strongly with a nail-biting win over Joeys in a time of 2:05.86. It was then over to Oliver in the Intermediates, who stood up to the challenge posed by Newington College and Joeys to come away with a 2nd placing in a new PB and a milestone, going under 2:00 for the first time for 200 freestyle in 1:59.86. Ethan then stood up in an event not in his wheelhouse; however, he gave it a real go and came away with 4th place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After this, we looked ahead to the 400m Individual Medley \u2013 widely regarded as the toughest event on the program \u2013 and again Harrison Ayer<\/strong> stepped up for the Juniors, securing a 5th place. William Bestic<\/strong> came away with a huge 8-second personal best and 2nd placing in the Intermediates. Ethan Cook<\/strong> finished it off in the Seniors with a commanding victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was great to see both Harrison and Ethan do the 200m Freestyle\/400m Medley double \u2013 they are both incredibly tough events, and the boys stepping up to the plate was great to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently, our team is placed incredibly well in the point scores, with Shore currently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a few more events on offer at GPS 3 on Friday night, the team are going to be faced with challenges from other schools across all the categories, but we will put our best foot forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go Shore!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Tom O\u2019Keeffe Friday 28 February 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[24],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-24223","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/24223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=24223"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=24223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Junior \/ Intermediate \/ Senior \u2013 200m Freestyle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Junior \/ Intermediate \/ Senior \u2013 400m Individual Medley (100m of each stroke)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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