What an incredible week for coach Sam Knapp and the Div II swimmers in Dunedin. Huge swims. Huge results. Huge team support. Our team included Paris McConnell, Rosie Kneale, Emma Fletcher, Alivia Jenkins, Tessa Harvey, Kate Dekker, George Wyllie, Hunter Sands, Gianni Martin, Brayden Scharvi, Kylan Ellis, and Asa Banbury. Here are a few facts...
Also, congrats to Kalani Bruce who swam up at the NZ Open Champs in Auckland in early April, competing in the 17/18 category. He swum 3 races and made finals and PB’s in all 3, with his highest finish being 6thin the 200 Breast.
Congratulations to our team of 6 who travelled to Wellington in the first week of the holidays for National Age Group Champs! As a club we placed 27thout of 60+ clubs, and we were 2ndin the BOP. We had a long course PB rate of close to 90% with Sarah Cummings, Ava Sands, and Mason Kritz...
We took a team of 26 LVWASC swimmers to Rotorua over the weekend. There were tons of PB’s and great skills in the water to close out 2019 for the 12 & unders. The team won heaps of medals and ribbons and still had time to show off some great dance moves during the breaks....
A team of 18 swimmers represented LVWSC in Rotorua for the BOP Classic over the weekend, including Matija Ford and Stella Kim at their first-ever competition. Big congratulations to Emma Fletcher & Charlie Richardson as they won all of the individual events they competed in. Among the 50+ person bests swum by LVWSC swimmers Emma, Matija, & Maddy Athy-Knibbs were all at...
We brought along our biggest team to a Junior League meet (so far) with 43 swimmers competing at Baywave on Sunday including 10 swimming at their first-ever meet. A huge thanks to the senior swimmers that helped out and to all the parents that volunteered as managers and timekeepers! There was tons of fast swimming and loud cheering with over...
Liz Van Welie swimming excelled themselves at the recent BOP Short Course Championships held at Baywave. In all 38 swimmers represented the club over the three days, six sessions of competition. This event had been a focus event for our Devoy and Loader squads over the last few months and our swimmers didn’t disappoint. As...
After taking just under 30 swimmers to this meet last year, we TRIPLED our team by taking 90 swimmers to the 2019 BOP Relay Champs. We took two large buses to get the team to Rotorua with a number of swimmers coming along for their first ever meet (and what a cool one to come...
Team LVW had a great National Age Groups as we took 5 swimmers, had 13 finals swims, won 4 medals, earned multiple NZ Opens qualification times and broke 1 BOP Record. It was the first time at NAG’s for both Kalani and Tom, who took valuable experience away from racing with the nation’s best. Matthew...
Budding pro-swimmers from the BOP will be making their first splash into a new pool of challenges when they compete at a national competition this month. Around 10 Liz van Welie swim school swimmers will be competing in their first ever national competition at the NZ Division Two Swimming Championships in Dunedin. Liz van Welie...
