Otago Swim Coaching Academy Squad News Update
OSCA
2011 NZ Open Championships
12th April 2011.
Congratulations to all OSCA swimmers who attended 2011 Opens in Auckland 3-8th April at West Wave Aquatic pool.
Neptune finished 8th out of 37 clubs, 2nd South Island club behind Aquagym. Neptune had 7 swimmers attend this meet coached by Gennadiy Labara.
OSCA Swimmers: Lil Clearwater, Matthew Glassford, Kate Godfrey, Katie Kenneally, Emily Poon, Adam Simpson and Nick Tyrrell.
Neptune swimmers made 23 finals.
Congratulations to Katie Kenneally for winning 2 medals. Silver in the 200m Breastroke in a time of 2.35.87 and Bronze in the 50m Breastroke in a time of 33.48.
Kate Godfrey broke 2 Otago Open records in the 100 (1.05.56) & 200 (2.19.20) Backstroke.
This meet was also the qualification meet the FINA World Champs, World University Games, Youth Commonwealth Games and the Outward Bound Leadership course.
Youth Commonwealth Games Team: 8 swimmers were nominated by Swimming New Zealand for September’s Commonwealth Youth Games in the Isle of Man. The swimmers, among the most promising young prospects included Neptune’s Kate Godfrey. Congratulations Kate.
World University Games team will be announced soon.
Outward Bound Leadership Course: Congratulations to Matthew Glassford for being named to attend this course at the end of April.
Final Medal Tally:
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Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
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Katie Kenneally |
1 |
1 |
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OSCA
NZ Age Group Champs 2011
6th March 2011.
Neptune has been placed 12th at the NZ Age Groups held in Wellington. Neptune had 12 swimmers attend this meet, 11 of the 12 being OSCA swimmers coached by Gennadiy Labara.
OSCA Swimmers: Phillip Baxter, Lil Clearwater, Kate Godfrey, Ben Gray, Matt Henderson, Emily Poon, Ronald Poon, Robert Murray, Glendene Rout, Adam Simpson, Han Zhang.
Neptune swimmers made 43 finals with 4 medals being won by OSCA swimmers. 18 year old Adam Simpson started strong by winning silver in the 200 IM in a time of 2.10.56. Adam also won bronze in the 400 Free, 4.06.27 and 400 IM, 4.37.40. This was a very successful meet for Adam achieving 6 out of 8 PB’s in the finals.
Kate Godfrey, 16, won a silver medal in the 200 Back, in a time of 2.20.33, breaking her own Otago Open record.
Matt Henderson, Phillip Baxter and Han Zhang all attended their first National Age Groups with the best finals placing being 4th, 6th and 5th respectively.
Final Medal Tally:
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Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
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Kate Godfrey |
1 |
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Adam Simpson |
1 |
2 |
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OSCA
2011 Otago Champs
Congratulations to all OSCA swimmers who competed at this years Otago Champs and congratulations to all our medal winners, titleholders and record breakers. Overall a 68.4%PB rate so well done to everyone.
Thanks to all the coaches, Gennadiy, Jared and Evelyn and to the managers Debbie and Kathryn for keeping everyone on track in a focused, calm and professional manner. Also to our OSCA group of volunteers who gave up your time to officiate, cater, sell raffles / programmes and man the medal table, your help was most appreciated to ensure the smooth running of this meet.
| OSCA Otago Champs Medal Talley | |||||
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Phillip Baxter | 2 |
2 | |||
| Vicki Clarke | 1 | ||||
| Lil Clearwater | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Han Zhang | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Tegan Duncan | 4 | ||||
| Devon Familton | 2 | 2 | |||
| Matthew Glassford | 8 | 1 | |||
| Kate Godfrey | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Courtland Ellis | 5 | ||||
| Ben Gray | 1 | 1 | |||
| Matt Henderson | 5 | 3 | |||
| Katie Kenneally | 10 | 3 | |||
| Robert Murray | 2 | ||||
| Emily Poon | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ronald Poon | 3 | 3 | |||
| Glendene Rout | 1 | 1 | |||
| Adam Simpson | 2 | ||||
| Saskia Turner | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nick Tyrrell | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Nathan Wolf | 1 | ||||
| Totals: | 42 | 30 | 28 | 100 | |
| Trophies: | |||||
| Swim Otago Centennial Trophy | Nick Tyrrell |
Overall points male | |||
| Swim Otago Centennial Trophy | Katie Kenneally | Overall points female | |||
| WS Roberts Cup | Matthew Glassford | 400 Free | |||
| ECS Falconer Trophy | Katie Kenneally | 100 Fly | |||
| R A Baker Challenge Cup | Katie Kenneally | 100 Free | |||
| Myers Trophy | Katie Kenneally | 200 IM | |||
| A J Holloway Memorial Cup | Matthew Glassford | 100 Breast | |||
| Geoffrey Chambers Memorial Challenge Cup | Matt Henderson | 100 Breast | |||
| P A Mathieson Memorial Cup | Katie Kenneally | 100 Breast | |||
| Mrs Tom Batt Memorial Cup | Matthew Glassford | 1500 Free | |||
| Brown Brothers Trophy | Nick Tyrrell | 100 Back | |||
| Gaeleen McGuinnes Memorial Cup | Kate Godfrey | 100 Back | |||
| Otago Records: | |||||
| Kate Godfrey Open 100 Back | 1.05.73 | ||||
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Canterbury Champs 2011 
Neptune Swimmers: Phillip Baxter, Matt Henderson, Max Gomez
Congratulations to Phillip Baxter on winning Gold on the first night of Canterbury Champs in the 13-14 age 200m Breastroke in a time of 2.41.37 with Matt Henderson winning the bronze in a time of 2.43.05.
The second night saw more great swims from the boys, with Matt winning the gold in the 50m Breast in an Otago record time of 34.12.Phillip won the silver in this event. Phillip also swam a fine 200 fly to win the silver medal.
More medals on the 3rd night with Phillip winning the 100 Breast in 1.14.57 and Matt bronze in 1.15.35, 0.35 seconds outside Jeremy Umbers 2003 Otago record.
Max Gomez made finals in the 50 and 200m free coming 5th and 8th respectively.
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Medal Tally |
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Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
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Phillip Baxter |
2 |
2 |
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Matt Henderson |
1 |
2 |
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Otago Records: |
Matt Henderson - |
50m 12-13yr Breastroke | |||
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Queensland LC Champs 2010
16th December 2010.
Neptune Swimmers: Lil Clearwater, Matthew Glassford, Kate Godfrey, Katie Kenneally, Nick Tyrrell, Phoebe Williams.
The Neptune womens relay team won 2 bronze medals on the first day of racing in the Womens 200 medley regional relay and womens 200 freestyle regional relay.
Matthew Glassford won Bronze in the Open 200 Breastroke in a time of 2.17.91
Kate Godfrey swimming in the 16 year age group also had a successful meet winning 5 bronze medals in the 400 IM, 200 Backstroke and 100 Backstroke in a time of 1.05.79 breaking Stacey O Regans 1996 Open Otago LC record.
Medal Tally:
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Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
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Kate Godfrey |
5 |
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Lil Clearwater |
2 |
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Phoebe Williams |
2 |
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Katie Kenneally |
2 |
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Matthew Glassford |
1 |
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Congratulations to everyone who supported the recent OSCA Raffle.
Winners: 1st Prize $300 New World Voucher - Ben Roos
2nd Prize $100 Petrol Voucher - Theyers
3rd Prize $50 Warehouse voucher - Thom family
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OSCA
NZ Short Course Age Group Champs 2010
Neptune has come away from NZ Short Course Age Groups in 9th position from 63 New Zealand clubs who attended these champs. These champs were moved from Christchurch following the earthquake and most clubs around the country made the effort to attend. This was a very successful meet for Neptune with 10 swimmers attending. The calibre of swimming was exceptional with a visiting Queensland Team providing great racing for New Zealands Age Group swimmers.
Neptune Swimmers: Lil Clearwater, Kate Godfrey, Ben Gray, Cameron McMahon, Emily Poon, Ronald Poon, Robert Murray, Adam Simpson, Rebecca Thom and Phoebe Williams.
15 medals were won by Neptune swimmers with Kate Godfrey,16, leading the way by winning 2 Gold and 2 Bronze medals in the 200 Back, 200IM, 100 Back, 400IM. Kate broke the Otago record in 200 Back.
Lil Clearwater, 16, had a fantastic swim on the final night in her 50m freestyle winning gold in a time of 26.64, breaking Lara McCambridges 10 year old record of 26.67.
This brings the number of Otago records broken by Gennadiy Labaras OSCA swimmers to a total of 156 since his arrival in Dunedin in September 2006.
Phoebe Williams, 17, won 2 silver and 2 bronze medals in 800 Free, 200 Butterfly, 400 Free and 400IM. Adam Simpson, 18, won a silver medal in a PB of 15.52.02 in the 1500 Free. Both Phoebe and Adam have recently moved to Neptune and the OSCA squad.
Emily Poon , 15,won 3 Silver medals in 800 Fr,400 Fr and 200 Butterfly. Emily?s butterfly swim was a great swim as she went into the final ranked 5th.
Ben Gray,15, has also come away from this national meet with 2 medals, a silver medal in the 200 fr and bronze in the 200 Butterfly.
Gennadiy Labara was very pleased with his swimmers success for such a small squad who represented both Neptune and Otago consistently in more than 50 finals.
Final Medal Tally:
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Kate Godfrey
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2
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2
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Lil Clearwater
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1
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Phoebe Williams
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2
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2
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Emily Poon
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3
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Adam Simpson
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1
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Ben Gray
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1
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1
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OSCA South Island Champs 2010
6th September 2010.
Neptune has come away from 2010 South Island Champs as the overall # 1 club, with 539 points. Aqua gym from Canterbury were 55.5 points behind with 483.5 points with QE11, also a Canterbury club coming third with 347. This was an improvement for Neptune on last years 2nd place. The team came away with a medal haul of 44 Individual medals, 29 relay medals and a total of 73 medals in all.
Neptune Team: Sam Armstrong, Jessica Bungard, Lil Clearwater, Tegan Duncan, Matthew Glassford, Kate Godfrey, Ben Gray, Matt Henderson, Katie Kenneally, Cameron McMahon, Robert Murray, Grace Perry, Emily Poon, Ronald Poon, Glendene Rout, Adrienne Tamilau, Rebecca Thom, Saskia Turner, Nick Tyrrell , Phoebe Williams and Han Zhang.
Katie Kenneally won a total of 5 individual Gold medals, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze plus 2 Silver and 1 Bronze in the Otago relays. Katies 100IM swim was a South Island record in a time of 1.04.40, which is 0.28 seconds off Anna Wilsons Otago record
Matthew Glassford won 5 individual gold medals plus 1 silver and 1 bronze in the Otago relays. Matthew also broke the South Island 200 IM record in a time of 2.07.33
Young Matt Henderson put in a fine effort, dominating all the breastroke races and bringing him 3 individual Gold medals, plus 1 Relay gold and 1 relay Bronze. Matt broke 3 South Island records and 1 Otago record. Breaking Sam Caradus 1996 record by 3.35 seconds in a time of 2.41.61.
OSCA Coach , Gennadiy Labara was very happy with all his teams performances at this point in their development.