Barry swum all (yes all) the freestyle events - 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500 and earned himself some mighty fine looking silver medals in each event. Nice one Barry! Your medal cabinet must be looking pretty full now.
Avy swum all the freestyle events barring the 100m which she opted to replace with one of her pet events - the 50m butterfly. It was not surprising that on the back of her amazing success in the ocean this season that she won gold in every event in Dunedin and topped off a spectacular summer of swimming. Furthermore she was just 0.6 seconds away from the NZ record for the 50m Free.
Deryn couldn't make it to Dunedin in time for any swimming on the Friday evening so just swam the 3 breaststroke events on offer on the Saturday. Gold in all 3; including very close to NZ record in the 200 Br and an agonising 0.1 seconds outside the NZ record in the 100 Br.
Clearly this is a club that doesn't suffer too greatly from doing all it's training in a short course facility.
A big thanks goes to Tony and Kaye who were in Dunedin visiting family. They came along to support at each session and Tony has taken a swag of photos which will be posted when our peripatetic coach finds his way back north.
On to the evening function. Tony and Kaye joined for a drink before heading off for their own dinner then it was upstairs for prizegiving and dinner. It was during the prizegiving that the real highlight of the weekend occurred. NZ Masters Swimming has awarded our very own John Trubnick Life Membership. This is very prestigious and if I'm not mistaken has only been awarded to 3 other people. Well deserved! If you ask him nicely he might show you his badge.
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