2025 Swimming Carnival Report
22nd February 2025
On Thursday, the 20th of February, the Port Macquarie Olympic Pool hosted our annual swimming carnival. Organisers were greeted with typicallly humid February conditions. Thank you to our students and staff who pushed through the program, kept a smile on their faces and were rewarded with a fantastic day.
The carnival started at 9:30am with 100 staff and over 700 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 students collecting points.
We stopped for lunch at 12:00pm and were entertained by the annual body slap competition. Relay teams were announced, and the double points event got underway at 1:00pm.
For the third year running, we ran the Mixed Top Gun Relay. A relay involving the two fastest girls and two fastest boys in each house. A staff team also contested the event.
Presentations took place for age champions, runners up and winning house.
Some thank yous:
- Port Macquarie Olympic Pool Staff
- Staff – catering, recording, timekeepers, referees, Leaders of Student Wellbeing and assistants, marshalls, starters, announcers, canteen supervisors. A massive team effort!
- Miss Lydia Toms our Assistant Leader of Sport – a huge amount of work organising marquees, timekeeping, marshalls and trophies.
- Maintenance Staff – John, Martin and Matt for pre-carnival setup 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.
Congratulations to Flinders, who went back-to-back, winning the carnival for the third year running.
Please check the following links for full details of House and Age Champions.
Mr Damien Kelly
SJRC Leader of Sport