2023 Swimming Carnival Report
15th February 2023
On Tuesday the 14th February the Port Macquarie Olympic Pool hosted our annual swimming carnival. Despite recent stable weather, organisers were greeted with rain showers, lightning and humid conditions for set up. Luckily, the rain held off for most of the day before the heavens opened up just after lunch. Thank you to our students and staff who demonstrated strong resilience and pushed on to finish the carnival without a fuss.
The carnival started at 9:45am with 1100 staff and 900 students in attendance. The first event was the 50m freestyle followed by breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. Participation points were awarded in the 50m pool (5 points) and 25m pool (1 point). It was wonderful to see so many collecting points.
We stopped for lunch at 12:30pm and were entertained by the annual body slap competition. Relay teams were announced and the double points event got underway at 1:15pm.
This year we introduced a new event; the Top Gun Relay. A relay involving the 2 fastest girls and 2 fastest boys in each house. A staff team also contested the event.
Presentations took place at 2pm for age champions, runners up and winning house.
Some thank yous:
- Port Macquarie Olympic Pool Staff
- Staff – catering, recording, timekeepers, place judges, referees, Leaders of Student Wellbeing and assistants, marshalls, starters, announcers, canteen supervisors. A massive team effort
- Amahli Kennedy our Sport trainee – a huge amount of work organising marquees, timekeeping, marshalls, place judges and trophies.
- Maintenance Staff – John and Marty for pre-carnival set up and post carnival pack up.
- The students – Everyone is to be congratulated for the positive attitude displayed at the carnival.
The SJRC Swimming Squad to compete at the Diocesan Swimming Carnival will be announced this week. If you would like to compete in the following events you must submit times to Mr. Kelly by 8:30am this Friday 17th February. Times from a Swimming Australia results page required (available on their website).
100m freestyle,
100m breaststroke,
100m backstroke,
100m butterfly,
200m freestyle,
200m IM.
The 400m has a special nomination link. 400m Nomination Form
Congratulations to Flinders who won the carnival for the first time since 2018. Please check the following links for full details of House and Age Champions.
Mr. Damien Kelly
SJRC Leader of Sport