By PARKES HIGH SCHOOL
A very successful Parkes High School swimming carnival was held where students displayed great sportsmanship, participation and encouragement to other students.
Students of all levels and abilities participated in a range of races, with many students entering all available events in their age group.
The standout of the event was Year 7 student Marcus Skinner, who broke not one, but three long standing school swimming records.
Marcus broke the Boys 13 years 50m butterfly, a record that has been held by B Gosper for 46 years.
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The star swimmer also broke K Thornhill’s 25-year-old records for Boys 13 years 50m backstroke and Boys 13 years 50m freestyle.
Marcus’ incredible day was capped off with him wining 5 of his races and competing in all age division relays. Congratulations Marcus.
Following the Parkes High School carnival, a group of 10 students went on to represent the school at the Western CHS Swimming Trials in Dubbo.
All 10 of these students were successful on gaining selection to attend the State CHS Championship at Sydney Olympic Park in April, an incredible achievement.
The results from these trials are as follows:
Marcus Skinner 1st in 13yrs 100m breaststroke,100m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 50m freestyle and 2nd in 200 medley 12-14yrs.
Blake Price senior boys MC 1st in 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke and 2nd in 50m breaststroke, 50m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 50m backstroke.
Meg Skinner 16yrs girls 1st in 100m backstroke and 200m freestyle and 3rd in 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly.
Anderson Ball 15yrs boys 2nd in 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 50m freestyle and 3rd in 100m freestyle.
Thomas Ball senior boys 1st in 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke.
Phoebe Forbes senior girls 2nd in 200m freestyle.
PHS 16yrs girls 2nd in freestyle relay (Savannah Latu, Meg Skinner, Charlotte Orr, Katie Forbes)
PHS open boys 2nd in freestyle relay (Thomas Ball, Anderson Ball, Josh Ball, Blake Price)
PHS open boys 3rd medley relay (Thomas Ball, Anderson Ball, Josh Ball, Blake Price)
In addition to school success, two of our students have achieved swimming accolades at a recent Mountain and Plains swimming meet and one swimmer has gained qualification to swim at nationals.
Meg Skinner was the under 15’s girls age champion for the Mountain and Plains carnival while Blake Price was the age champion for the 17yrs multi class event.
Thomas Ball will be representing Orange Swim Club at the National Swimming Titles in Brisbane this April.
Thomas will be swimming as part of a relay where he will be swimming the freestyle leg.
A big thank you to all those staff, parents and carers who assisted with the organisation and running of the annual school carnival with special mention to Grant Skinner for officiating on the day.
We wish those students who are heading to the State CHS Championships next month every success and are very proud of their achievements.
