Secondary Interschool Swimming Carnival

The first event of the Interschool  Swimming Carnival , the 200m freestyle, was swum Wednesday night, with the rest of the Carnival being swum Thursday evening. First race of the night saw BTC's  13 yr old Keesha Whyte race away to a convincing win with Raven Guy  swimming well to place 6th. The 13 yr old boys, who have a tough competition to swim in,  touched 5th (Lachlan Corrigan) and 6th (Hayden Lang). In the 14yrs girls Madi Smith swam neck and neck with CCC before pulling away in the last 50m to claim 1st place while Jemimah Phillott swam well to touch 7th. Hayden Kettunen (6th) and Colin Rayment (7th) put in a great effort in the 14yrs boys. Disappointingly NO 15Yrs girls  fronted up to swim for their College but in true College spirit the 15 yrs boys didn't let us down. Darcy Ginns-Larkin , who had been sick that day, turned up to swim and Ben Smith received an ovation from many spectators because of his gutsy swim. Darcy, with  very little energy left, fought off a challenge by CCC in the last 15 m   to claim a 1st place while Ben was rewarded with a 5th place. Elissa Masterson forgot about her sore arm  to touch 3rd while Sally Carrington claimed 4th in the 16 yr old girls. In the boys event Harrison Phillott swam a great race to touch 3rd while Toby Paynter clung on to claim 6th. The Open girls swam well to record a 4th (Jess Batt) and a 6th (Stella Batt) while the boys had the crowd on their feet as they produced at 1,2 finish.  Callum Smith touched  1st and watched  a huge battle for 2nd between Harry Campbell and ASSG with Harry touching 2nd by  milliseconds.