DSA Swim Team return from PIAG with 66 medals and new Meet Record

The DSA Swim Team had a great exposure at one of their first appearances at the Perak Invitational Age Group Swimming Championship at Ipoh, Perak. Held on 20-22 July, the Meet had over 480 swimmers from 29 swimming clubs across the country.

DSA Swimmers had a superb performance across all the events getting a total of 66  medals, which included 26 Golds and just fell short of few medals from the champions and top spot. Georgene Wee Ee Jern, a long time champion was outstanding with her events collecting 5 Golds and 1 Silver in her individual events and also a New Meet Record in the 800m Freestyle beating her personal best timing also. Misa Okuzono, who is no stranger to podium finishes also racked up another 4 Golds to the DSA tally. Tan Zhi Jian had a collection of 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronzes while Woo Seungmin, Annis Hiew and Arniesh Chai Sashheedran contributed 2 more Golds each. Other impressive performances included Sean Goh Min Chang with 1 Gold, 1 Silver,  Chong Xin Lin with a staggering 9 Silvers, Chung Ze Xuan and Olivia Cheong Kah Yan who won 2 Silvers and a Bronze each. A detailed list of the medals and winners are in the table below.

A high point of the teams’ outstanding spirit and competition was at the Relay events with a podium finish at almost every single Relay event. At the Girls 13-14 yrs 4×100 M Freestyle, swimmer Amira Nur Elyssa who was recovering from a knee injury, still managed to complete her leg of the relay, earlier started by Madeleine Wong Jian Mei and Olivia Cheong Kah Yan. Anchor Georgene Wee pushed her limit to secure the Silver for the team in a dazzling display of team spirit and sportsmanship, no doubt. A big round of applause for all the team members who gave their best at the event, and also to the strong support of the parents and coaches who have brought them this far and going beyond. It is almost the latter half of the swimming calendar with all focus now on the big events coming up at the end of the year. We wish the young swimmers the best of luck and health for the Meet ahead! March on Team DSA!

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Four swimmers from the DSA Swim Team have been selected for the Sukan Malaysia 2018 (SUKMA XIX), scheduled to be held at the Pusat Akuatik Aman Jaya in, Ipoh, Perak, between 14th-22nd September.

Big hearty congratulations to Koh Teck Chen, Georgene Wee Ee Jern, Liam Eu Li-An who will represent Kuala Lumpur and Daniel Liew Jia Hau who will represent Selangor at the Games.

Perak is hosting the Meet after 24 years as it hosted the fifth Sukma in 1994. The Sukma Games is a biannual national multi-sport event involving young athletes from Malaysia’s 13 member states and the Federal territory.

DSA wishes our young champions ALL THE BEST for a great performance!  We are proud of you. Onward Team DSA!

DSA Swim Team had a special occasion on Sunday 1st July, when swimmers and coaches of the Indonesian Swimming Club, Catalina Surabaya trained together at the National Aquatic Stadium, Bukit Jalil.  Catalina Surabaya is a great young club with a lot of promising young swimmers who have been making a name for themselves from 2013 in Indonesia.  It was a great sharing session with swimmers and coaches from both clubs exchanging knowledge, tips and experiences and enriched their training session.

Thank you Catalina Surabaya and we wish you more success in the years ahead.

Glimpses from the happy event:

DSA Swim Club and DSAS Swim Club compete together at NSC/Milo/Sport Excel Junior Swimming Circuit 2nd Leg Meet

The last weekend of June saw the swimmers in the land come together for the second leg of the NSC/Milo/Sport Excel Junior Swimming Circuit for 2018 at Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan (PADE), Shah Alam. The DSA Swimming Team competing as 2 teams along with DSAS come together to cheer each other to victory. DSA Swim Club retained its earlier position in the Top 3 Swimming Clubs with a final score of 1,526 points while DSAS Swim Club stood sixth with 1088.50 points.

As always the second leg provides swimmers another chance to build up the points tally to qualify for the Grand Final and for many of the young swimmers it was a great experience learning how to report for events in the proper manner and also achieving new personal bests (PBs).

Outstanding performance by Nathaniel Inn Tsin Qian who clocked 31.43 in the Boys 13-14 50M Breaststroke saw him break the 10 year old Meet Record set way back in 2007 by Lau Zheng Fong. Xin Lin Chong, who looks to be the next champ blasted her way to an incredible 6 Golds and 1 Bronze  while Georgene Wee Ee Jern continued to excel in her events taking 1 Gold 2 Silver and 3 Bronzes.  YiYi Lean also got home 2 Bronzes for the DSA Swim Team.

Winners in the DSAS Swim Club included Lew Zhi Tong with a Gold and a Bronze while Adam Jeffery Dhillon won another Gold to the tally. Arniesh Chai Sasheedran with a Silver and Lew Yan Zheng with a Bronze were the other medal winners for the team. A detailed view of the medal winners are as:

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