Two age champions and two champion relays teams saw swimmers from Bellingen High School achieve the best results for many years Mid North Coast Zone carnival.
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Twenty-three swimmers took to the water representing BHS and 17 of those have now qualified to represent Mid North Coast Zone at the North Coast Regional Carnival to be held in Murwillumbah on Tuesday March 5.
A big day and many outstanding individual results:
13 years girls
Yasmin Ball – 1st – 50m FS, 100m FS, 200m FS, 100Mm BR, 100m BK; 2nd – 12-14 yrs 200m IM
Lulu McGrath – 2nd – 50m FS, 100m FS, 100m BK; 4th – 200m FS
Kaia Van Heuvel – 2nd – 100m BR, 100m Fly
Piper Young – 1st 100m Fly
Bonnie Malt – 4th 50m FS
15 years girls
Amy Smith – 3rd 100m BR
16 years girls
Rebecca Hodgson – 1st 50m FS, 100m FS, 200m FS, 100m BR, 100m BK , 100m Fly; 2nd – 15-16 yrs 200m IM
Holly Pagulayan-McCabe – 2nd 50m FS, 100m BR; 3rd 100m FS
Aoife Carey – 3rd 100m BK
Amelia Stehn – 4th 50m FS
17 years + girls
Abby Hunter – 2nd 100m BK; 3rd 50m FS, 100m FS
13 years boys
Patrick Carey – 3rd 50m FS, 200m FS; 4th 100m FS, 100m Bk, 12-14 200m IM
Jesse Case – 2nd 100m BR
Jai Bowd – 4th 100m BR
14 years boys
Niam Noble – 4th 100m BR
16 years boys
Jacob McBaron – 2nd 200m FS, 100m BK; 4th 50m FS
The results in the relays were also good
Open Girls Medley relay (Rebecca Hodgson, Yasmin Ball, Abby Hunter, Holly Pagulayan-McCabe) 2nd
13 years girls 4x 50m FS (Yasmin Ball, Lulu McGrath, Bonnie Malt, Kaia Van Heuvel) 1st
16 years girls 4x50m FS (Rebecca Hodgson, Holly Pagulayan- McCabe, Amelia Stehn, Aoife Carey) 1st
13 years boys 4x50m FS (Patrick Carey, Riley Meenahan, Max Cracknell, Jai Bowd) 2nd
This put BHS in fourth position out of nine in the Mid North Coast Zone, which was a great result for a small squad who didn’t have swimmers in many of the age groups and only had the four relay teams.