Congratulations to our swimmers and to Year 9 student, Orlando Hardie, on winning four National titles.

Our HBHS Swimmers recently competed in the National Age Group Swimming Championships, which were held in Wellington from the 19th to the 24th of April. Competing were Elijah Singleton, Kinnon Broekhuizen, Ethan MacDonald, Graysen Elliott, Orlando Hardie and Max Downey. Swimmers can train up to 10 times a week year round for up to two hours at a time in the pool and do land training on top of this.  A special mention goes out to Orlando Hardie, who ended up with four National titles (this is on the back of winning a National title at the NZSS Open Water Championships a couple of weeks ago) and was close to breaking the New Zealand record in the 100m freestyle. He missed it by 0.08 sec.  The results are as follows:

Max Downey

🥈 2nd 50m Breaststroke, 100m Breaststroke

🥉 200m Breaststroke

5th 100m Butterfly

Ethan MacDonald

🥉 3rd 200m Backstroke

🥉 3rd 4 x 100m Men's Freestyle Relay for 15 and under

4th 4x 100m Men's Medley Relay for 15 and under

Elijah Singleton

7th 400m Medley

8th 200m Breaststroke

7th 4 x200m men's freestyle relay

Orlando Hardie

🥇 50m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly, 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle

🥈 400m Medley, 50m Freestyle

🥉 200m Medley

🥈 4 x 100m Mixed Medley Relay for 15 and under

🥉 4 x 100m Men's Freestyle Relay for 15 and under

4th 4x 100m Men's Medley Relay for 15 and under

Kinnon Broekhuizen

5th 200m Butterfly

🥉 4 x 100m Men's Freestyle Relay for 15 and under

4th 4x 100m Men's Medley Relay for 15 and under

7th 4 x 200m Men's Freestyle Relay

Huge congratulations to these boys on these results!