Swimming

WITH the Mansfield swimming pool opening its doors in late Spring, the young and mighty swimmers dived straight into squad training, determined to train and for some, to keep competing.

A small but mighty team of three competed at the Shepparton Swimming Club carnival in November with some new events attempted and a few medals to take home to show for their efforts.

A few weeks later and it was a rather slow and soggy start to the weekend Wangaratta swim meet with rain and lightning stopping play and all swimmers sitting it out on the basketball courts for Saturday afternoon.

The storm moved through relatively quickly and the races started again only an hour or two late.

A juggled schedule meant that nobody missed any events.

Day two started earlier than scheduled but brought sunshine, blue skies and a long day of swimming.

Some new events tried, new skills learnt and lots of fun all round.

Plenty of personal best times as well as some more Vic Countries qualifying times.

Many thanks to Andy Setchell for transporting our marquee so that we had some shade.

Team Mansfield included Clara Creighton, Edward Creighton, Rowena Creighton, Vivian Knight, Harvey Knight, Heidi Setchell, Hannah Setchell, Amelie Walker and Kezi Wolfe.

Emily won gold for her breaststroke at the Tri State Games in Cobram in November.

Emily competes at the games every year and we are very proud of her efforts and achievements.

With hardly a breath taken after the Christmas break, the team again donned their goggles and headed for Yarrawonga on the first weekend on the New Year.

Again, wet and cool weather were waiting for our members, but with blue lips and big smiles, another smattering of PBs were achieved and again our younger members came away with some impressive silver ware and another Victorian Country Long Course qualifying time was achieved.

Well done Harvey Knight, Vivian Knight, Hannah Setchell, Heid Setchell, Lara Seaton and Levi Seaton.

All the hard work in training and travelling to competitions over the past months has really paid off for a few of our members.

Some amazing efforts of late will see Kezi, Lara and Hannah all head to Traralgon at the end of the month to compete in the Victorian Country Long Course Championships.

In a first for Mansfield Swim Club, Rowena Creighton headed to the Victorian Sprint Championships in Melbourne last weekend.

We will share all our swimmers progress in future articles.