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From the Sports Desk….

District Swimming - In week 2 of term 1, we held our School Swimming trials at Aquanation. In order to compete at District Swimming, students were required to meet qualifying times in the different swimming events.

On Monday 26th February, we had 18 swimmers compete in the Ringwood District Swimming Carnival at Tintern Swimming Pool. This year, our Ringwood District is made up of 8 schools from Government and Private schools in the local area. These schools include; Tintern Grammar, Tinternvale, Warranwood, Dorset, Sacred Heart, Holy Spirit and Ringwood North.

The POPS Swimming team was up against some quality swimmers from our District. I am extremely proud of the students' achievements, their effort and determination and the way they demonstrated our POPS values. We had some excellent individual and relay results but unfortunately only the fastest time from all heats (1st place overall) progressed to Division Swimming.

Individual Results:

50m	9/10yr girls	9/10yr boys	11yr girls	11yr boys	12/13 girls	12/13 boys
Free	Chloe M - 3rd Tara W - 4th Grace S - 4th Beatrix C - 4th	Harvey G - 2nd	Layan E - 4th Mia T - 4th	Luca S -1st Xavier Mat - 4th Josh T - 1st Ollie T - 3rd	Jeyda A - 2nd	Josh S - 1st Thomas Bl - 2nd Jeremy Y - 4th Bailey T - 5th
Back	Grace S - 2nd Chloe M - 3rd		Chloe C - 2nd	Seb Y - 1st Luca S - 2nd		Josh S - 1st Thomas Bl - 3rd
Breast	Beatrix C - 3rd			Seb Y - 1st Josh T - 3rd		Jeremy Y - 4th

Relay Results:

Open Medley Girls - 3rd

Layan E

Beatrix C

Grace S

Tara W

Open Medley Boys/mixed - 4th

Jeremy Y

Sebastian Y

Josh S

Thomas Bl

9/10 yr Girls

Free relay - 2nd

Tara W

Grace S

Beatrix C

Chloe M

11 yr Boys

Free relay - 1st

Luca S

Xavier Mat

Sebastian Y

Josh T

12/13 yr Boys

Free relay - 3rd

Josh S

Thomas Bl

Jeremy Y

Bailey T

A huge congratulations to Luca S and Sebastian Y who placed 1st overall in their individual events and to our 11yo Boys Freestyle relay team who also placed 1st overall. These students will now compete at Division Swimming on the 6th March at Aquanation. Best of luck!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our parent helpers; Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Yates who assisted both at our school swimming trials and at District. Also thank you to all the amazing parents who came to support their child through the swimming season.

Thank you!

Mrs Carbone

PE & Sports Co-ordinator

POPS SWIMMING TEAM 2024