While most of our squad was relaxing on their break, Coralie Havea was earning international experience as she competed at the Belau Games in Palau.

The Belau Games is a multi-sport event organised by the Palau National Olympic Committee.  Coralie represented the state of Koror and achieved wonderful results, bringing home extra baggage with all the medals she won.

While only 13 years old, Coralie swam in the Open/Masters events and achieved the following results:

Individual Events
3rd 50m backstroke 
3rd 100m backstroke 
3rd 200m freestyle 
4th 50m freestyle 
4th 50m butterfly 
5th 50m breaststroke 
4th 100m IM

Relay Events
2nd 4x50m medley relay
1st 4x100m freestyle relay
2nd 4x50m freestyle relay
2nd 4x100m medley relay

This was a great experience for Coralie to learn new skills such as circle swimming on the right in warm-ups, resting at the pool between sessions and dealing with weather conditions with a distant typhoon. Coralie also had a wonderful time making new friends and swimming in front of her Grandma.

Fantastic results by our 7 swimmers at the St George Swim Club Mini Meet today. Our swimmers competed in 23 individual events and achieved 16 new personal best times and won 4 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze medals.

Damien Chan edged closer to breaking the 40 sec barrier for his 50m Freestyle in a new personal best time. He also achieved 2 new short course PBs in his 50m Breaststroke and Backstroke and finished his meet with a strong PB in his 100m Individual Medley.

Marcus Chan was our youngest competitor but had a big impact picking up a Silver Medal in his 50m Freestyle and a Gold in his 50m Breaststroke. Both of these swims were new personal best times.

Coralie Havea started off with a great personal best in her 50m Butterfly, cracking her first sub 40 sec swim with a huge personal best and also picked up a Bronze Medal for her efforts. Coralie also achieved new PBs in her 100m Freestyle and 50m Backstroke.

William Johnston raced some fast 50s, achieving new personal bests in his 50m Breaststroke and 50m Backstroke.

Alison Johnston picked up 3 Gold Medals for the club in the 50m Butterfly, 50m Freestyle and 100m Freestyle.

Jay Shrestha did a top job in his 50m Freestyle in a new personal best and picked up a Bronze medal in the process. Jay took a chunk off his 100m Freestyle and also won a Silver Medal in his 100m Breaststroke.

Samantha Terry had some wonderful Freestyle swims today, achieving new personal bests in both her 50m and 100m Freestyle. Samantha swam her first 100m Individual Medley and with a very classy swim won her heat from Lane 8.

Congratulations also to Sylvia who was a lucky winner of the Magic Squares. Thank you to all our parents for squishing in and supporting our swimmers, and thank you to Peter for coaching today.

Merrylands team of 11 had fantastic results at the Metro South West Championships on the weekend.  As a team Merrylands achieved 18 new personal best times, 1 Gold Medal, 3 Silver Medals, 6 top-10 Finishes and had a 100% PB rate in the 100m Freestyle.

Damien Chan had amazing results with 6 new personal bests from 3 events with all his 50m splits being new best times. Damien picked up a trio of silver medals in the 100m Freestyle, Backstroke and Breaststroke.

Leo Zhu won a Gold Medal in a tight finish in the 100m Breaststroke, in a new personal best time.  Leo also achieved top 10 finishes in the 50m Breaststroke and 200m Individual Medley and his first sub-27 second swim in the 50m Freestyle.

Gabriella Assi took over 5 seconds off her 100m Freestyle, an event she had only qualified for a week before.

Joseph Assi achieved a new personal best in his 100m Freestyles and his 50m Breaststroke was close to his personal best.

Laura-Belle Casey earned a ribbon in the 50m Breaststroke coming 5th and also swam her second-fastest 200m Freestyle.

Tomas Dlesk swam a speedy 100m Freestyle and took almost 3 seconds off his time.

Patrick Hannan had a tidy 100m Backstroke and achieved a new personal best time by just 0.01 of a second. 

Coralie Havea continued to improve her racing skills and came away with a new personal best in the 100m Freestyle.

William Johnston achieved new personal bests in the 50m Backstroke and 50m Freestyle and picked up top 10 ribbons for both swims.

Alison Johnston came away with a ribbon with a 4th place in the 50m Freestyle.

Lastly, Jay Shrestha took a whopping 7 seconds off his 100m Breaststroke.

Congratulations to all our swimmers on their wonderful results and thank you to Peter, Alison and all the parents for their support over the weekend.