Coach ‘super proud’ of team

Enterprise Swim Team

SWIMMING

Gisborne’s Enterprise Cars Swim Team won overall-top-club honours at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Summer Championships at the Olympic Pool last weekend.

They also won the trophy for most points in senior events (14 years and over) and one of their number, Tyler Finau, won the award for HBPB junior swimmer of the year.

As well, Finau won the female open 50-metre freestyle, was female 14yr age-group winner, and shared — with clubmate Ava Smith — the award for combined high points in the female 14/15yr age group.

Smith was also female 15yr age-group winner.

Other age-group winners from Enterprise were Jaimee Fisher, female 16yrs and over; Bradley Anderson, male 11yr; Jack Keepa, male 14yr; and Josh Taylor-Martin, male 16yrs and over.

Taylor-Martin also won the male open 50m freestyle.

Combined-high-points winners were Keepa in the male 14/15yr age group, Smith and Finau in the female 14/15yr age group, Fisher in the female 16yrs and over, and Taylor-Martin in the male 16yrs and over.

Enterprise won relay titles in the male 10-and-under 4 x 50m freestyle and 4 x 50m medley; female 15-and-under 4 x 50m medley and 4 x 50m freestyle; and female open 4 x 100m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley.

Club coach Matt Martin said it was a hugely successful weekend and he was “super proud” of the whole team.

“From our newbie eight-year-olds to our experienced 19- and 20-year-olds, it was an outstanding team effort by everyone involved,” Martin said.

“Team culture is at an all-time high, with the seniors helping to create an environment to nurture excellence in our younger athletes.”

(Comet results on Monday)