The NSC/Milo/Sport Excel Junior Swimming Circuit for 2019 was held at Pusat Akuatik Tuanku Zara, Ipoh, and provided an opportunity for DSA Swimming Club to have a nice trip to Ipoh. As always the second leg is the opportunity to add up the points to qualify for the Grand Final. For DSA Swimming Club, it was an extraordinary occasion as they moved to the Top Spot in the overall medal count for the Meet with 11 Golds and a total of 33 medals beating the runner-up team by a narrow margin. The Meet had some exciting moments with DSA swimmers pumping up the adrenaline for the team and the viewers by their splendid performances.

The swimmers who were blazing included Liew Xiao Rou who finished with 5 Golds and 1 Silver in the total of 7 events she participated making a significant contribution to the tally. Other Gold winning performances included Elise Wong with 2 Golds, 2 Silvers; Ng Yean Yu with 1 Gold, 1 Silver; and Chong Hiong Kiet with 1 Gold, 1 Bronze.

Outstanding performance also was shown by young and mostly newbie swimmers who added a good share of medals to the tally to help DSA Swim Club take top honours. These included Sebastien Rion Azlir – 1 Gold and 1 Silver, Mellissa Darwin – 1 Gold and 3 Bronzes, Eunice Wong – 2 Silvers, Samantha Yong Scanlan – 1 Silver, Lee Zi Xuan – 2 Bronzes,  Elizabeth Chan – 1 Bronze,  Joelle Koo – 1 Bronze and Lee Tze-Le – 1 Bronze.  A detailed view is given in the Medals Tally below.

The most exciting and much watched and cheered event was the Group 3 Boys 100m Breast Stroke where 3 swimmers from DSA Swimming Club had the distinguished honour of winning all 3 medals for the event. Way to go DSA! The swimmers all had a good amount of points added to their individual tally enabling them to participate in the much awaited Grand Final of the circuit scheduled to be held on 3-4 August 2019. All the best Team DSA and we look forward to taking the top spot at the Meet.

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• Top 24 Winners

 

Congratulations to the DSA swimmers who will be representing Malaysia in the 43rd SEA Age Groups Swimming Championships to be held on 28- 30 June 2019 in Phonm Penh, Cambodia. The SEA Age Group Championship is an annual Swimming Meet for 18 yrs & under swimmers from all nations of South East Asia Region. The 2018 Meet was held in Laguna by the Phillipine Swimming Inc.

DSA has been proud to have swimmers represent the country at this Meet every year and this year the champions selected for the meet are Georgene Wee Ee Jern, Elise Wong Ving Yan, Koh Teck Chen, Darren Lew Chen Jet and Yap Yong Jie. All the swimmers have been with DSA for many years and it’s a privilege for DSA Swimming Club to have been able to hone these swimmers to international competition levels. We look forward to great results from the Meet and all the very best to the swimmers. Go Team Malaysia, go Team DSA!

 

The recently concluded 62nd Malaysia Open Swimming Meet 2019 at National Aquatic Centre, KL Sport City on the 25-28 April had 19 swimmers from DSA and DSAS selected to represent their teams of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor respectively. It was indeed a major achievement for these young swimmers to compete at a National level at an Open Swimming Meet.

The team from DSA included Georgene Wee Ee Jern, Alma Louise Dahl, Low Yi Xhin, Lim Qi Feng, Lau Jin Kiat, Rowvan Ganeson, Liam Eu Li-AN, Koh Teck Chen, Yap Yong Jie, Erin Eu Lakshmanan, Liew Xiao Rou, Brian Chung Ze Xuan, Sean Goh Min Chang, Daniel Liew Jia Hau, Adam Jeffrey Dillon, Fatin Amira Bt Ahmad Hadri, Alison Athena Wright, Olivia Cheong Kah Yan and Natalie Cheong Kah Man. Alma Louise Dahl representing KL Team won 3 Golds, 5 Silvers and 1 Bronze in her events while Georgene Wee Ee Jern added 3 Silvers and a Bronze to the KL Team tally too. Koh Teck Chen added a Gold through his Relay event while Daniel Liew also added his Relay Silver to the team tally. A detailed look of the medal tally is given below.

 

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The 13th and 14th of April were big days for DSA Swimming Club as the team of 208 swimmers filled in the venue at Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan, Shah Alam for the first leg of the prestigious SportExcel/Milo/NSC/ASUM Junior Swimming Circuit 2019. The largest team at the Meet went home with most of the honours as they collected a total of 30 medals, the highest total of the teams but fell short of the Gold medal count to be at the second spot. It was a huge move up from the 7^th spot the previous year and was a big result for the young swimmers as they needed to get maximum points in both legs of the Swimming Circuit to make it to the Grand Final.

The swimmers were all at their best with DSA’s young champion Yap Yong Jie making a clean sweep at almost all his 8 events, winning a total of 7 Golds and 1 Silver. He also recorded the second highest individual points in the Boys Category. Brilliant performances by Liew Xiao Rou and Darren Lew Chen Jet gave them also Gold medals to take home while Chong Xin Lin, Ng Yean Yu and Lew Zhi Tong were among the others who added their contributions to the team tally. It was a great start for the large group of young DSA swimmers who had their taste of competitive swimming and now they have to train hard for the second leg to gather the required points. A detailed view of the medals tally is as follows:

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Team Medal Tally

 

A two day Swim Clinic exclusively for DSA Swim Team members was held on 6th-7th April at the National Aquatic Centre, Bukit Jalil, KL Sports City. The Clinic was conducted by International Coach, Rob Greenwood and Olympic Gold Medalist, Joseph Schooling. The sessions on the first day included techniques for Backstroke, turns and getting the finer points of the Butterfly stroke with the 2016 Olympic Champion, Joseph Schooling. The second day’s sessions included bettering the swimming styles of Freestyle, Breaststroke starts and dives.

For the many young swimmers of the DSA Swim Team who had an amazing time attending the Swim Clinic, it was no doubt a great opportunity to witness first hand a world-class swimmer going through the drills and demonstration of the Butterfly stroke. The Q & A sessions which followed gave the swimmers a deeper understanding into the process of development of a world class swimmer and the many aspects that go into it. Joseph Schooling discussed factors like time management, nutrition intake, race mentality and other elements a swimmer has to be aware and focused on when it comes to competing at international levels. The DSA coaches who also attended the Swim Clinic had a great experience learning and understanding better coaching methods and skills and further enhanced their capabilities in these areas through their interactions with Rob Greenwood.

DSA wishes to thank both Rob Greenwood and Joseph Schooling for the tremendous effect they had on the DSA Swim Team members through the Swim Clinic. DSA also thanks all the swimmers and parents who were a part of these amazing and rewarding two day morale booster and look forward to the oncoming Meets during the year.