Sixteen members competed at the AquaBlitz Toongabbie Meet held at Merrylands Swimming Centre yesterday.

Our team won 18 medals at the meet, with a number of new personal best times also swum.

Brittany Johnson led the way with 2 gold medals, the first in the 200m Individual Medley, and the second in the 100m Breaststroke. Additionally, Brittany took home silver in the 50m Breaststroke, where she finished just a head of Katie Hope who took home the bronze. Katie also won bronze in the 50m Butterfly and silver in the 50m Freestyle in a new personal best time.

Steven Nguyen and Peter Johnston also won 3 medals each. Steven finished 2nd in the 50m Freestyle and 3rd in the 50m Butterfly. Steven finished 3rd in the 50m Breaststroke as well, this time just behind Peter who took 2nd. Peter won the silver in the 100m Butterfly in a new personal best time, and finished with the bronze medal in the 50m Freestyle, this time just 0.15 seconds behind Steven.

Madelaine Hudson won two medals at the meet - her first for the club - finishing 2nd in the 12yrs 50m Backstroke and third in the 12yrs 50m Freestyle. Three other members also won their first medals for the club with Mathew Edsall winning bronze in the 100m Backstroke, Wesley Latukefu winning bronze in the 9yrs 50m Breaststroke and Juliette Mamo wining bronze in the 11yrs 100m Breaststroke.

Miriam Webber was our final medallist at the meet, with a bronze medal in the 50m Backstroke in a new personal best time.

On top of the medals and personal best times, Madelaine Hudson and Hayley Baker both achieved qualifying times for the Metro South West Championships.

Congratulations to all our swimmers on their results.

Medal Tally
Gold 2
Silver 6
Bronze 10
Merrylands Swimming Centre
Merrylands Swimming Centre hosted the AquaBlitz Toongabbie Swim Meet on Sunday, 6th March 2011
Merrylands Swimming Centre
Merrylands Swimming Centre hosted the AquaBlitz Toongabbie Swim Meet on Sunday, 6th March 2011