Sunday, December 21, 2008

Auckland Champs 2008

Maddi behind the blocks for her 200 Breast Final


Maddi with her North Shore friends - North Shore is like the STARS of NZ


Maddi doesn't like me taking pictures



Hi All,

Maddi had her big meet this weekend. It is called Auckland Championships and she got
quite favor of international swimming. There were teams from all over the South Pacific

at this meet. Tahiti, Fiji, Cook Islands, Samoa, and some from the South Island including

a phenom in Maddi age group (the 13's) that swam a 1:04 100 LCM fly and 1:05 100 LCM back (both were records, but she is from Christchurch).


Maddi placed 3rd in the 200 back and 4th in the 100 back. She finalled (top 8) in 5 events. It was a prelim/final meet. She had 8 out of 9 personal best times. She has National Age Group qualifying times in 3 events and is very close in 3 other events. Here are her times with SCY conversion curosity of her mother.


Event LCM ?SCY (Conversion)

200 back 2:35.03/2:17.4

200 IM 2:44.5 /2:24.8

100 back 1:13.0 /1:05.0

200 brst 3:10.2/2:48.1

200 free 2:24.0/2:06.

400 SCM free 4:50.8 /5:32 (500 SCY)

800 free 10:45

1500 free 20:20

50 back 34.7/30.7

100 brst 1:27.2 1:16.76

50 brst 39.7 34.9


Hope you all are doing well.

Cheers,

The Evans Fam