Medal haul by Enterprise at Waikato champs

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

AN “awesome team-building trip” resulted in Enterprise Cars Swim Team returning home with a stack of medals from the Waikato championships in Hamilton.

Ten Enterprise swimmers competed and it was the first experience of out-of-town racing for a couple of them.

“They all did a great job and overall it was an awesome team-building trip,” head coach Matt Martin said.

“It was also a good opportunity to get much-needed racing in before national events over the next few months.”

In the open A female division, Tyler Finau won gold medals in the 200 metres butterfly, 200 backstroke and 400 individual medley, and silver in the 100 butterfly, 50 back and 100 backstroke.

Finau also competed in the 15yrs female age group. She won gold in the 200 butterfly, 50, 100 and 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle and 400 IM, and silver in the 100 butterfly and 50 freestyle.

She set a Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay 15 years female' age group record in the 400 IM and recorded four out of eight best times.

Jaimee Fisher, in the 17yrs and over female age group, won gold in the 200 butterfly and 100 breaststroke, and silver in the 200 backstroke and 100 butterfly.

She also won silver in the open A 200 butterfly and bronze in the 200 backstroke, and achieved five out of seven best times.

Cody Anderson won gold in the under-14 male 1500m freestyle and bronze in the 200 freestyle among his eight best times.

Bella Fitzharris-Stevens, racing in the 13yrs female age group, won gold in the 200 butterfly and 400 IM, silver in the 100 butterfly and bronze in the 50 butterfly. She had five out of six best times.

Alesha Batisaresare, in the 16yrs female division, won gold in the 100 backstroke, silver in the 50 backstroke, bronze in the 100 butterfly, 50 freestyle and 50 butterfly, and posted six out of seven best times.

Other results — Josie Baxendale, 15yrs female. seven out of seven best times.

Emily Horne, 15yrs female, four out of eight best times, silver in 200 butterfly and 50 butterfly, bronze in 200 backstroke and 100 butterfly.

Zephaniah Jackson, 13yrs male, eight of 10 best times, bronze in 200 breaststroke.

Maesyn Koia, 15yrs male, five out of six best times.

Theo Weatherley, 14yrs male, four out of six best times.