The recently concluded inter-school Meet of the Malaysia School Sports Council (MSSM) held on 24-28 March 2019 at Pusat Akuatik Tuanku Zara, Ipoh Perak gave the opportunity for some dazzling performances by DSA and DSAS Club swimmers.

Georgene Wee  Ee Jern, Darren Lew  Chen Jet, Chong Xin Lin and Marcus Woo Yong Hau were some of the top swimmers in their age groups as they competed brilliantly taking home more than 2 Golds each in addition to establishing new Meet records. Besides their individual performances, the DSA club swimmers also contributed significantly in the Relay events and made their home teams proud.

A detailed view of the medal winning performances are given below

Misa Okuzono, Yap Yong Jie were the record breakers for DSA Swimming Club in the recently concluded Malaysia Invitational Age Group Championships held at National Aquatic Centre, KL Sports City, Bukit Jalil on 07-10 March 2019.

The Meet saw a very high level of Competitive Swimming participation as 26 State teams from all over Malaysia. Teams from countries like HongKong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Thailand, Sri Lanka and UAE were also vying for the medals and the glory. WP Kuala Lumpur crested in at the top spot with a tally of 44 Golds and over 107 medals in total. Selangor State was second with 29 Golds and Hong Kong clinched third spot with 24 medals. A good portion of the medals won by Team KL were through some of the champion swimmers of the DSA Swimming Club.

Misa Okuzono was undoubtedly at her best again as she cleared out 10 Golds with 5 Meet Records. Yap Yong Jie followed with 5 more Golds and 4 Meet Records in his events while Alma Louise Dahl took home 7 Golds.  Georgene Wee also won a Gold for her 800m Freestyle. Darren Lew Chen Jet and Chong Hiong Kiat won a Gold each in their events to bring WP Luala Lumpur team to the top. Other medal winners included Laim Eu Li-An, Jaydrien Ng Shen Kang and Eunice Wong Ee Yin. It was also highly commendable that both Jaydrein and Eunice Wong won medals on their first ever MIAG Meet. Fatin Amira Bt Ahmad Hadri and Lew Zhi Tong from the DSAS Swimming club made their contributions to bring Selangor State to the runners-up position.

A detailed view of the medals tally is given below:

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Georgene Wee, long time DSA swimming champ emerged as the Top Swimmer in her age group category (16-18 years), winning the most medals with 11 Golds, 2 Silver & Bronzes and 3 Meet records in the MSSWP Swimming Championship 2019 at Cheras pool on 19-20 February, 2019.

Other DSA swimmers who have emerged as Overall Champion of their age group are Lean Yiyi (7 Golds) and Jaydrien Ng (5 Golds) while Liam Eu achieved 1st Runner-up in his age group with 3 Golds and 1 Meet record.

For a detailed report visit the KL Aquatics blogsite at

https://klaquatics.blogspot.com/2019/02/kejohanan-akuatik-msswpkl-2019.html

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Jack Leetham, a young champion swimmer from DSA won the top spot in the 5km Individual Category at the Oceanman Langkawi 2018 event. The yearly Open water endurance swimming event was held at Tanjung Rhu beach, Langkawi with international participation with swimmers from European nations also assembling at the tourist destination.

As Jack says in his interview after the event, open water swimming calls for a lot of stamina and endurance as the ocean currents are often unpredictable and there needs to be a lot of safety precautions in place for the participants. The event was well organized and he felt safe going out into the open water, though on the return leg, the waters were a bit choppy according to him.

DSA congratulates Jack Leetham on this outstanding achievement and kudos to him for taking swimming to new levels and it all begins with a good learning of swimming skills, something which DSA instills in every young swimmer.

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