GUM Flat School showed their swim skills at the Inverell Zone Swimming Carnival on Wednesday, February 18. Year 6 students Chloe Taveira and Finley Butler made the school proud, winning the Champion titles for Senior Girl and Senior Boy.
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The carnival saw 11 area public primary schools compete from Bonshaw to Warialda, Bingara to Bundarra and everything in between. Event organiser and Ross Hill teacher Mick Migheli said 165 students from ages 8-12 competed, recording very good times.
“Should make them very competitive at the North West Championships (in Armidale) next Tuesday,” Migheli said.
Taveira and Butler will be heading there to represent the zone for the seniors. They will be joined by Inverell zone age 11 champs Jake Cook and Maddison Rodgers, both from Ross Hill, and junior champs Damon Murphy of Ross Hill and Lilly Seagrott from Gilgai Public. Seagrott edged out Inverell Public’s Poppy Price by just one point.
Gum Flat will also bring a small school team for the Peter Dobson Relay including the senior champs and year 5 student Hamish Smith and year 4 boy, Jarrod White.
Taviera is 11 and has been swimming since kindergarten. She swam all the strokes in zone, but loves butterfly best. She won all her events in zone and came 6th in breaststroke.
“Our swimming coach, he gives us some skills and it helps us build up,” she said.
She will swim backstroke, freestyle, butterfly, medley and the relay at Regionals.
Butler is 12 and won all his zone events except the breaststroke. He favours the backstroke and said he’s going to work on his form for the regionals.
He’ll swim everything but the Senior Boy Relay at Armidale.
Gum Flat principal Chris King said the school was very proud of the students’ achievements and commended Migheli and Ross Hill School for the seamless organisation of the zone event.
