SAS Aquatics Center Puxi

Well done SAS px and SAS pd in the annual APAC swim meet. Puxi Boys captures an honorable 2nd place overall, Pudong Girls 3rd overall. Amongst other highlights the Puxi girls swam their hearts out and captured a 2nd place in the 4×50m free relay. For details and results click here
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Well done swimmers, coaches and parents; thank you for a great meet. Click here for Saturday’s results candy-cane-results and scores candy-cane-scores.  Next up is our IS Bangkok meet.  Top swimmers in each age group will be selected to swim at this meet. Travel options vary from departing on Thursday the 18 and returning Monday the 22nd or Sunday the 28th of March.  Registrations will be emialed out to selected swimmers and the list posted on the blog.  If you have questions about your status on this trip contact your coach.

High School Teams from ISBeijing, HKIS and SAS Puxi and SAS Pudong swam it out in this lead up to APAC.  There were many amazingly fast swims and more importantly great friendship established and rekindled.  Click here for the results; china-cup-results-friday, results-saturday-morning1, results-saturday-afternoon, china-cup-teamscores, china-cup-individal-scores.

As most of you know, China Cup and APAC Championships are being hosted by SAS Puxi this January. What you might not know is that every visiting swimmer in the competition is Home stayed for the duration of their time here in Shanghai.

Here is where we need your help. With every Puxi High School swimmer taking on as many as 6 swimmers (in one case) we are still coming up way short. If you or anyone you know is in the position to take some swimmers into your home for either one or both of the meets please contact Coach Day at corry.day@saschina.org.

Thanks

Our Winter swim camp returns with even more days to train than last year. From Dec. 21 to Jan. 5th there are 10 training days and 20 practices to choose from. Click here for Details. winter-swim-camp.

After the combined version of the Aqua Eagles flew about SE Asia winning titles, the two campuses were forced to split up and take on 8 other schools for the title of top school in Shanghai. In the end it was Puxi campus that brought home the title, with Pudong campus taking the runner-up spot. Puxi Campus won the boys, girls and overall trophies.

First and second place in the Shanghai Championships is something for our program to be very proud of!

Individual Awards were as follows:

15 & Over:  Girls 1st Amy Parsons, 2nd Lydia Oldham, 3rd Chewy Tang; Boys 1st Andrew McClintock 2nd Tie between Raymond Song and Benedict Wong

13 & 14: Girls 2nd Erika Lu; Boys 1st Graham Thompson, 2nd Fabien Ma

11 & 12:  Girls 1st Min Young Lee, 2nd Keaton Blovad; Boys 1st Tristan So

9 & 10:  Girls 1st Josephine Mah, 2nd Jessica Hu; Boys 1st William Huang, 2nd Ben Attenberger

8 & Under: Girls 2nd Tina Wang; Boys  1st James Soutendijk, 3rd David Xue

Congratulations to all swimmers, and study hard!

We would like to also thank the many volunteers that made this meet, as Coach Biros stated, “by far the most efficient and effective meet we have hosted in the history of the SAS Aqua Eagles”.

With parents making this kind of effort, we the coaches are allowed to do what is best for the swimmers…coach!

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Puxi and Pudong place 1st and 2nd in the Dec. 5th CISSA/SISAC Champs, click here for the results. shanghai-champs-result . Click here for the scores shanghai-champs-scores-indi. click here for the team scores shanghai-champs-team. Congrats to all our swimmers. Thanks to all our helpers and especially Kristie Attenberger how organized the volunteers and Cindy Easton how organized the great marshaling area and sings.  Next School-wide Swim Team meet is the New Years Candy Cane meet Jan. 23rd.

I find that my relay teams always come in 1st place cuz I get a jump on the competition as you can clearly see here in my demonstration.

Click here for Nov. 21-22 Results in Taipei: tas-20092, tas-sas-results-20092.

Click here for Nov. 20-21 Shanghai Community School Meet Results: scis-results-all-events, and scis-results-sasonly

The Aqua Eagles have kept their winning streak buoyant as our swimmers captured  the 1st place visitor’s trophy at the Fighting Fish Santa Claus meet hosted at Singapore American School.  Perfect performances came from Px Middle School student Tristan So and Px HS Student G-Ping Lee both with 4 individual 1st places and two meet records. Other top performers were Px ES students Megan Wang placing 2nd and Madison Yeung placing 3rd overall for 6 & Unders. For the 7-8 year olds from Px Tina Wang and Andy Cho both placed 2nd.  From our Pudong squad Middle School Pd student Keaton Blovad place 3rd in the 9-10 girls and HS student Amy Parsons place 2nd overall for the 15 and Over girls. More on this story in the Dec. 18th Eagle from Coach Mark McVean; click here for event results fullresultsbyevent, & here for SAS only results with improvement times santa-resultssasall.