Swimming Carnival

The 2025 Mater Dei Catholic College Twilight Swimming Carnival was held on Thursday 27 February. Students competed with great spirit under the College catch-cry of “5 Houses- 1 Home” in diving and championship events. A big thank you must go to all staff for their hard work in ensuring another successful College event.

The College Swimming Carnival aims to provide opportunities for competition as well as participation. To have a huge number of students in attendance, (even more than last year) and competing in events showed a fantastic school and House spirit and a willingness to participate by those students who attended the carnival. Thanks must go to the OASIS staff and all of the representatives from Wagga Wagga Swim Club for their help in running the events and timing system and their invaluable help in preparation for the carnival.

With such strong performances in recent years, the number of records broken was only small, however, this does not reflect the very high standard of competition. 2025 saw 4 individual and 2 relay records broken.

With such performances, we will be looking to put together a very strong team as we look to the BISSA Swimming Carnival in the coming weeks.

Records:

Abbie Donelan 

16 Girls 200 IM - 2:30.58 (C Donelan 2:32.26, 2021)

16 Girls 50m Backstroke - 31.13 (C Donelan 33.14, 2022)

Timothy Dwyer 

13 Boys 50m Backstroke - 35.05 (J Mooney 35.95, 2017)

13 Boys 100m Freestyle - 1:04.75 (J. Mooney 1:08.34, 2017)

Relay Records:                   

13 Boys - Webber House -2:16.51 (Carroll 2:23.08, 2022)

16 Boys - Carroll House - 1:58.39 (Webber 2:06.68, 2017)

Age Champions:

Diving:

12 -14 Year Girls - Jazmin Taber - Kennedy

12 -14 Years Boys - Joshua Skinner - Sherrin

15 and Over Girls - Philomena Grigg - Kennedy

15 and Over Boys - Nicholas Woods - Kennedy

Outstanding swimmers in each age group who took out their respective Age Champions were:

After a night of close competition, all Houses were eager to see who would be crowned House Champions for 2025. In a much closer finish this year, Sherrin House took the title, 39 points in front of a gallant Carroll. This saw Sherrin House take out the trophy for the fifth year in a row.

Congratulations to Sherrin House and all who participated in the true spirit of the evening.

House Points:

Mr Nathan Irvine | Sports Coordinator