{"id":7107,"date":"2013-01-07T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:08:23","slug":"arena-stars-at-the-2013-swa-invitational-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/?p=7107","title":{"rendered":"Arena Stars at the 2013 SWA Invitational Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Arena-SC-at-2013-Invitational.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"208\" \/>On the first Friday of the year a small squad of Devos, Juniors &amp; mostly Inters arrived at Challenge Stadium for the 2013 SWA Invitational<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being victims of our own success, the competition rules meant that the Arena Swim Club were limited in swimmer availability and thus we had only 12 swimmers to make the start (competitive swimmers that had\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not yet<\/span>\u00a0achieved their \u201cAA\u201d Qualifying times were only eligible to enter)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But what a start it was !! &#8211; our 9 years &amp; under relay team nailed event number 1 the 4x50m freestyle relay\u00a0by half a pool claiming the gold medal !<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In event 2, our two\u00a011 years &amp; under teams claimed silver &amp; bronze behind a Newman team who averaged 35 secs per leg.\u00a0 The Newman four also engaged in some friendly banter declaring they would do the same in the 11\u2019s medley relay later in the day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>As for the medley relay the 9 years &amp;\u00a0under team again won with ease and the 11 years &amp; under\u2019s let their actions do the talking by taking gold ahead of Newman &#8211; with Arena also finishing 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Throughout the day, the Arena swimmers entered 24 events finishing on the podium 10 times &amp; finishing overall top 6 in 20 \u2013 top effort !!!<\/p>\n<p>All of our swimmers said that they\u2019d like to enter next year but I fear they might already be too good\u00a0J<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Onwards &amp; Upwards !<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2013 report and photo by Adam Collier<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>On the first Friday of the year a small squad of Devos, Juniors &amp; mostly Inters arrived at Challenge Stadium for the 2013 SWA Invitational Being victims of our own success, the competition rules meant that the Arena Swim Club were limited in swimmer availability <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/?p=7107\" title=\"Arena Stars at the 2013 SWA Invitational Meet\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7113,"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/7113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arenaswimclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}