Jodiesha came away with 11 wins and one second placing in the girls’ 12-year age-group.
She set Comet club records in the 50-metre breaststroke and 200m freestyle, and a Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay record in the 50m breaststroke.
Her next event will be the Division 2 nationals in Dunedin next month.
Rixon Skudder, in the boys’ 11-year age group, had four wins, two second placings, two thirds, a fifth and a sixth.
He set a Comet club record in the 50m backstroke, and did personal-best times in the 200m backstroke and 200m breaststroke.
Kaylah Reynolds was third in the 11-year girls’ 100m freestyle. Kaylah improved her pb times by eight seconds in the 200m freestyle and by six seconds in the 100m butterfly.
Harriet Morunga was one of four first-time junior festival swimmers competing for Comet.
In the girls’ 10-and-under age group, she swam pb times in all her events and achieved four top-10 placings.
Jazmynn Bailey was new to junior festival competition. Her best swim came in the 50m butterfly, in which she improved her pb by eight seconds and achieved a top-10 finish.
Nine-year-old Te Maumahara Hape competed against the 10-year-olds in the boys’ 10-and-under age group.
He achieved two top-10 finishes and swam pb times in seven out of eight events. He improved his pb for the 100m individual medley by 11 seconds.
Michael Taniora, another first-timer at this event, swam six pb times in the boys’ 11-year age group. He improved his 200m backstroke pb by nine seconds and achieved top-10 finishes in that event and the 100m butterfly.
In the girls’ 10-and-under age group, Sophia O’Hara improved her 200m breaststroke pb by 13 seconds and finished eighth overall in that event. Sophia also swam pb times in the 100m individual medley and 100m breaststroke.
In the girls’ 11-year age group, Natalie Johnson had top-10 finishes in the 200m backstroke, 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle. She improved her pb times by 12 seconds in the 200m backstroke and by eight seconds in the 200m freestyle.
Celine McNabb, in the girls’ 12-year division, was competing in her final junior festival. She finished her meet solidly with a pb time in the 50m butterfly.
