Enterprise top club at HBPB winter championships

top club: The Enterprise Swim Team finished top club on overall points and top club in the 13-years-and-over division at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay winter swimming championships. Team members are, standing (from left): Sara Bird (coach), Harriet Morunga, Josh Taylor-Martin, Kayla Reynolds, Marc Simmons, Ronan Gemmell, Ava Smith, Jaimee Fisher, Oliver Keepa-Fitzsimons, Holli MacDonald, Theo Weatherley, Alesha Batisaresare, Maesyn Koia, Betty Koia (manager), Jack Keepa, Nikau Rudge, Tyron Evans, Matthew Sung, Lachie Falloon, Josie Baxendale, Nathan Proctor, Tyler Finau, Noah Mason and Matt Martin (head coach). Middle row, kneeling: Jackson Horne, Nikau Anderson, Imogen Amor-Bendall, Ella Sutton, Chloe Moore, Lydia Baxendale, Millie Galloway, Leighton McNaught, Charlie Keepa, Emily Horne, Peyton Allen and Jacob Douglas. Front: Bonnie Mason, Rio Sasamoto, Toni Lincoln, Jorjah Forsyth, Zoe Keepa, Jakob Alexander, Kaeto Sasamoto, William Plowman, Katie Baty, Krystal Carlson, Emily Petro, Auric Pocock, Ben Plowman and Georgie Beaufoy. Absent: Julie McLaughlin (coach), Jonnette Rudge (coach), Kristen Simmons (manager), Ella Arthur, Yahni Brown, Bella Fitzharris-Stevens, Matt McKendry, Sophie Petro, Thora Pocock, Alice Sparks, Cole Alexander, Amelia Arthur, Isabel Arthur, Miriam Cornfeld, Briana Latu, Gemma Macdonald, Holli Macdonald, Georgia McKendry, Taylor Newman, Lennox Weatherley and Korbin Wigglesworth. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell

THE Enterprise Swim team finished top club on overall points and top club in the 13-years-and-over division at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay winter swimming championships.

Three of the club’s swimmers won their age groups — Cole Alexander in the 10-year boys, Harriet Morunga in the 11-year girls, and Jack Keepa in the 16-years-and-over boys.

The Gisborne clubs competed in Gisborne and the Hawke’s Bay Clubs in Hawke’s Bay because the regions were at Covid-19 Alert Level 2 at the time the championships were held.

The results were merged to find overall winners on times posted.

“It was great for our swimmers to finally race after a rather messy year,” Enterprise coach Matt Martin said.

“We also had a stack of swimmers who swam 100 percent best times in the meet — Yahni Brown, Jacob Douglas, Matt McKendry, Matthew Sung, Isabel Arthur, Katie Baty, Lydia Baxendale, Ronan Gemmell, Chloe Moore, Harriet Morunga, Taylor Newman, Ella Sutton and Jakob Alexander.

“Congratulations to them all.”