Footscray West Swimming Trials 2024

Last Friday, 2nd February children from grade 4/5 and 6 attended the school swimming trials at VU Footscray. All competitors were able to choose from any of four swimming disciplines Crawl, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly over 50m. Congratulations to all swimmers on completing their chosen races and giving their personal best. A selection of swimmers were successful in being selected for the School team to compete at the Footscray District Carnival to be held next Friday, 9th February at the MAC. A big thank you to staff member Marshal and to the parents who volunteered to assist at the Trials.

The swimming team and their events for the district carnival are listed below.

Name - Girls	Grade	Age	Freestyle	Backstroke	Breaststroke	Butterfly	Relay
Maggie Halpin	4MK	10	A		25m		X
Abigail Griffiths	4AF	10	B	50m			X
Mai Caputo	4AF	10					X
Allegra Rinaudo	4MK	10			50m		X
Daisy Crofts	4CM			25m
Charli Kemp	6MA	11			50m		X
Madison Munro	5RC	11			25m		X
Anneliesse Wirth	5HT	11	A	25m		X	X
Samantha Ho	6MP	11	B	50m			X
Aisha Todd	6MA	12		25m			X
Hariette Mackie	6MP	12		50m	50m	X	X
Nancy Halpin	6MA	12	A		25m		X
Skye Coonerty	6MI	12	B				X
Name - Boys	Grade	Age	Freestyle	Backstroke	Breaststroke	Butterfly	Relay
Eli Fitt	4MK	10	A	25m			X
Charlie Axiak	4MK	10	B	50m	50m		X
Harrison Thomas	4MK	10					X
Oliver Diggins	4AF	10					X
Owen Elliott	5TC	11	A	50m		X	X
Flynn Bishop	5LC	11	B	25m	50m		X
Owen Brownstein	5LW	11					X
Samuel Howe	5RC	11					X
Parker Walstab	5LC	11			25m
Ari Cavedon	6MP	12	B	50m			X
Perry Kordick	6MP	12					X
Samuel Heddles	6MI	12	A		50m		X
Finlay Rooney	6KR	12		25m			X
James Pearce	6KR	12			25m

Swimming Report

Hello,

I’m Aisha and I’m Charli.

Today we are going to tell you about the swimming trials that were held on Friday the 2nd of February.

In the morning we arrived in the gazebo where we were all feeling nervous, as we all wanted to do well! We departed at 9.15am. When we arrived at Vic University we all got ready for the races!

There was a series of 4 events that you could participate in, being breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly and freestyle. We were split into age groups and had a chance to try to qualify.

We would like to give great thanks to Stratos for organising the event, Marshal for supervising, and the parent helpers that helped to time and record the results.

Well done to the 27 students that qualified, but well done to everyone that tried. See you this Friday at swimming!!!!

Aisha and Charli

Year Five News

Year Five Team: Helena (leader), Towela (Learning Specialist), Lee, Ryan & Tim