Merrylands’ team had excellent results at the Speedo Sprint Series Heats at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre this afternoon.
Our small team of 7 swam 20 big new personal best times from 26 events, including 1 Metropolitan Qualifying time. Our swimmers demonstrated excellent skills, especially in their starts, pullouts and finishes, and showed off the hard work they have been doing in training.
Gabby achieved a trifecta of PBs in her 3 events, taking over a second off each of her times in Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle.
Joseph continued to reduce his Butterfly and Freestyle times having only achieved new personal bests in these events in the past fortnight. He also had a PB in his Backstroke and swam his second-fastest Breaststroke time.
Damien swam his first-ever Speedo Sprints and took a chunk off his Butterfly time, having only raced a long course 50 Butterfly for the first time that morning at club races! He also sliced time off his Breaststroke mark.
Patrick was like a rocket in his swims, dipping under 50 seconds for the first time in his Butterfly and Backstroke events. He also swam a new PB in his Breaststroke.
William achieved new PBs in his Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle and swam his second-fastest-ever Butterfly time.
Samantha was four from four at her first Speedo Sprint Heats. She annihilated her previous PBs and finished the meet with her first sub-40 for Freestyle.
Daniel achieved new PBs in Butterfly and Freestyle and also achieved his first-ever Metropolitan qualifying time in the 50m Freestyle in his first sub-30-second swim.
Congratulations to our swimmers on their wonderful results. Thank you to our coaches and parents for supporting them during the meet.
