2009 STATE SWIMMING CARNIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of the 10-12’s and 13-18 NSW state swimming carnival at SOPAC (January 5th-11th) include:

• Zoe Johnson (15 years) winning the 200m Butterfly (2:16:42) and the 100m butterfly (1:01.50) in a new record.
• Nicole Chen (11 years) winning the 100m Freestyle(1:04.06), 50m  freestyle (28.83), 200m Freestyle (2:19.48), and the 100m Fly (1:11.43). Plus a host of minor medals.
• Christina Ouzas, Nicole Chen, Jasmine Choi-Christou, Lauren Sloane  are the title holders for the 200m medley relay (2:12.30) and the 200m Freestyle relay in a new state record (1:56.73)

SSC girls star at Pacific School Games 2008

The Eighth Pacific School Games (PSG) was held from November 30 to December 6 in Canberra and brought together close to 5000 competitors from primary and secondary schools from 25 countries.  The Inner-West Weekly newspaper featured a great article on the performance of  PLC swimmers at the Pacific School Games this month.

Reporter Shireen Khalik wrote: “PLC Sydney swimmers Kailah Elliott and Nicole Chen scooped up a long list of medals, bringing the school’s tally to 10 at the Pacific School Games this month. ”

Read the rest of the Inner West Weekly’s report.

PLC win third IGSSA swimming championship in a row

A huge congratulations to our PLC Sydney Swimming Team on their remarkable success last Friday at the IGSSA Swimming carnival.  PLC Sydney has now won the IGSSA Swimming Carnival for the third consecutive year and this year it was by more than one hundred points.

PLC Sydney’s record breaking performance included winning all three categories in Division 1: junior, intermediate and senior, and making it into every final. All girls swam brilliantly and as well as winning eighteen first places in the finals they also broke six records.

PLC school team wins IGSSA again in 2008

The senior PLC Sydney swimming team won the overall point score at the IGSSA championships for the second year in a row. Special congratulations to Christina Ouzas (Year 7) who was named Equal Junior Champion at the IGGSA Swimming Carnival.

From the IGSSA Swimming Carnival a PLC Sydney team of twenty-two students were selected to compete at the NSWCIS Swimming Championships held on 29April.

Fantastic Four win State Relays

by Liz Ouzas

SSCPLC swimmers Christina Ouzas (10), Jasmine Choi-Christou (10), Lauren Sloane (10), and Nicole Chen ( 9) won an amazing two gold medals at the recent State Age Championships.

The girls won their first gold medal in the 4 x 50m freestyle relay with a fantastic time of 2:12:04. Each of the girls swam PBs. They then went on to win the 4 x 50m medley relay later in the day with a great time of 2:30:18. All four girls swam PBs again for the medley relay. Lots of enthusiasm from coach Pancha and extra training has really paid off.

Congratulations to the girls for a great effort and wonderful team spirit.