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...
Chairperson’s Report There have been two big events recently that have given the Club a real sense of the progress made since we first sent a team to the Rising Stars meet in April 2017. At the weekend, we hosted the Winter Dip at Greerton Aquatic Centre. This is a new event and one that...
Please see attached notification for the Liz Van Welie Aquatics Swim Club AGM intended to be held at 4pm on the 17th of August. We will also be holding our very first prize-giving and are in the process of working out these details. Further information to come but it is sure to be a great...
It feels like only yesterday we were starting the year off with senior camp and encouraging as many young swimmers as possible to get involved in competing and representing the club. Six months down the track and we’re all guns blazing with MASSIVE numbers at our last two meets and great results from our senior...
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...
Competitive swimming often flies under the radar – and Matt Teokotai-White is determined to change that. Teokotai-White started as the new head coach at Liz van Welie Aquatics in Pyes Pa this week and he hopes to raise the profile of the sport around Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty. His aim is having more...
For her part, Georgia, known as ‘Fish’ to some college mates, is just happy to be helping someone. “Like at school,” she says, “if you can show someone how to do an equation for example, it makes them happy and in turn makes you happy.” But pure gold? Why is 17-year-old Aquinas College senior Georgia...
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...
