South Wairarapa Swim Sports

The start of the race

Hugo started our team off

Here goes Penny!

Laura all ready for her lap

Yesterday a group of 21 students represented Gladstone School and the Carterton Country Cluster at the South Wairarapa Swimming Sports. It was held at the Featherston Pools. Someone asked why it would be held there instead of at Greytown or Carterton Pools. It's because the Featherston Pools are the only summer pool that is race regulation length (25 metres) and the others are too long at 33 metres.

The Cluster had to come up with a relay team for the last race. It was a flying 10-person team with 5 girls and 5 boys (one from each age group). Our cluster chose the fastest 1 length swimmers from each age group and that meant that Gladstone had 8/10 swimmers in the team. We were up against:
* Featherston Cluster (St Teresa's, Featherston School, South Featherston School & Kahutara School)
* Carterton School
* Martinborough School
* Greytown School
Our Cluster team came in 3rd!