Ashfield ABC Swimming High Performance
Ashfield ABC Swimming High Performance: Watch out, here we come.
Ashfield Club swimmers have qualified for the Swimming Metro South East Area Development Camp. The five Ashfield swimmers have been selected to go to three special training sessions over July, August and September. At the sessions, the swimmers focus on improving their competitive swimming racing techniques.
Katherina Lee, Kevin Lee, Marco Bautista, Elin Hicking and Lindsay Hickling all train with ABC Swimming High Performance, Ashfield. Their coach Mary Rule says “They have already improved a great deal over the past 12 months and now they need to slash just a few seconds to make that extra step to qualify for State Championships. I’m hoping the focus on the special training sessions at the area camp will help them get there.”
Katherina Lee, the youngest, is only aged 9 and she has battled it out in some of the toughest carnivals racing against swimmers that are a lot faster than her. Now she is beginning to reach new levels. Her 50m Freestyle time has gone from 44.01 to 38.20. She has 5 seconds to drop until she qualifies for State. Katherina has already been to one session and says “The camp was hard but I enjoyed it a lot”.
Marco Bautista is the new kid on the block. He strives to be the best. Every carnival he brings his famous cheer squad who stand over the edge of the pool and shout “Keep going, Marco!”. And Marco does exactly that.
“His best stroke is 50m breaststroke. He has only two seconds to lose before he makes it to State. “ Mary Rule said.
Lindsay is best known for her 50m Breaststroke. She has dropped an amazing 8 seconds off her 50m breaststroke time and 5 seconds off her backstroke. Lindsay says “Camp has been hard. But I have learned about stamina and making sure when I stand on the blocks that I start the moment the gun goes off”.
Her sister Elin finds camp fun although the training is hard. Her role model is Libby Trickett. Elin says “Libby works really hard to get where she is.” Elin knows this only too well because she too works hard to get her times down. “She has to drop just two seconds for her 50m Freestyle.” says coach Mary Rule.
Kevin Lee is 13. He has done an amazing job with dropping his times from when he first came to Ashfield. His two best strokes are Breaststroke and Freestyle, where over a year he has dropped an outstanding 8 seconds for 100m Freestyle.
“People at the camp told me how important it was to make a lot of new friends, so that they can give me tips when I’m at the carnivals” says Kevin Lee. Kevin also says that his role model is Park Tae Hwan, the South Korean champion who told Kevin never to give up and to do the best that he can.
“The amazing improvement by each of these five swimmers is due to persistence, determination and perseverance.” Mary Rule said.
“I wish the very best of luck to them all. The development camp is just the beginning to help these five swimmers on their way to a shining future.”
For more information please contact ABC Swimming on 02 9799 7077.
Our home carnival and we weren’t out shown. For many the Liverpool carnival was the first carnival they had competed in and from the start they looked like pros. The younger swimmers from junior and competitive squads especially showed that personal best swims are easy with hard training and perfect technique. The state and national squad swimmers that swan did so with class as they did PBs and took medals home to show for it. Overall Liverpool performed fantastically and showed we are a competitive squad in all ages. A big congratulations to the boys that swam the National time for their relay to the start the day off on a GREAT note! Thank you to all the helpers both swimmers and parents that made the carnival run so smoothly.
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