Swimmers impress
NZPA Sydney New Zealand’s 25-strong secondary school swimming team collected 32 medals and posted four national records at the four-day Pacific School Games which finished in Sydney yesterday. "Quite a few of the team hadn’t peaked for this meet so the results were very gratifying,” said the head New Zealand coach, Adrian Doig, yesterday. The fourth national record of the meet fell yesterday to Wellington’s Michelle Burke in the girls 16 years 50m freestyle. t
Her time of 27.47 s lowered the mark held by Invercargill’s Joanne Tapper by
0.345. The New Zealand tally of 11 gold, 12 silver and 9 bronze medals would help to spur team members in their preparation for the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Mr Doig said. “It depends on the selection process, but most of this team will be strong contenders for Games selection,” he said.
"They’ve shown they can break personal best times at an international meeting and that augurs well. It also demonstrates tfae good standard of coaching and preparation in the centres.”
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