DSA Swim Team moves up at Sport Excel Meet

The first leg of the NSC/Milo/Sport Excel Junior Swimming Circuit for 2017 was held at Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan, Selangor on 22-23 April. Being the first of the 3 series Meet, swimmers needed to be in the Top 24 bracket with the highest points to qualify for the Grand Final held during the latter half of the year.  Weather wise, the 2 day meet had varying conditions which did not pose much difficulty to swimmers and they were able to perform well at their events.

DSA Swim Team had some great performances  which gave the team a stunning finish at 3rd position in the final team scores with 1,751 points. This was an awesome leap from last year when they stood 7th with 842.5 points. This achievement was contributed by many swimmers which included Yap Yong Jie with 6 Gold 1 Bronze;  Darren Lew Chen Jet with 2 Gold, 2 Silver;  Dian Isandra bt. Johan  with 1 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze;  Georgene Wee Ee Jern with 2 Silver; Brian Chung Ze Xuan with 1 Silver and Chong Hiong Kiet with 1 Bronze. In addition a total of 30 swimmers from the various groups also made it into the Top 24 thereby gaining valuable points for the next leg and the Grand Final. They were

Group 4 Girls:

• Dian Isandra bt. Johan (8 events)
• Lean Yi Yi (7 events)
• Natasha Sophea bt Mohd Firdaus (5 events – 50 BR, 50BK, 50FLY, 50 FR, 100FR)
• Samantha Yong Scanlan (1 event – 50 BK)
• Elsa Eow Yeng Yii (4 events – 50BR, 100BR, 50 BK, 100BK)
• Lee Sam Yee (3 events – 50BR, 100BR, 100FLY)
• Eunice Wong Ee Yin (1 event – 100FLY)

Group 4 Boys:

• Yap Yong Jie (8 events)
• Chong Hiong Kiet (8 events)
• Cheong Hoe Hann (5 events – 50BR, 100BR, 50 FR, 100FR, 50 FLY)

Group 3 Girls:

• Nur Afiqah bt Mohd Shahrill (3 events)
• Lana Malika Hussayni (2 events)
• Chan Ying Yi (5 events)

Group 3 Boys:

• Darren Lew Chen Jet (5 events)
• Wesley Kam Zhuo Wei (8 events)
• Hoh Kei Wei (2 events – 50 BR, 100BR)
• Austin Gan Ee Kye (1 event – 100 BR)
• Zachary Chin Zi Yong (2 events – (50FR, 100FR)

Group 2 Boys:

• Lee Jia Jing (8 events)
• Chung Ze Xuan (6 events – 50 BR, 100BR, 50 FR, 100FR, 50BK, 100BK)
• Tan Chen Hong (2 events – 50 BK, 100BK)
• Liam Eu Li-An (5 events – 50BR,100BR, 50 FR, 100FR, 50 BK)
• Tan Shanyong (2 events – 100FL, 100BK)

Group 2 Girls:

• Georgene Wee Ee Jern (8 events)
• Asley Chow Jia Qian (7 events)
• Chong Kar Hian (6 events)
• Alicia Teng Yi Ling (5 events -50BK, 100BK, 50 FR, 100FR, 100FLY)
• Chong Hey Sheen (2 events -100BR, 50FLY )
• Audrey Wong Mei Yie (2 events – 50 BR, 100BR)
• Elle Eow Teen Yii (1 event – 100BR)

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Well-known Swim Coach, Olympic Medalist and Former National Coach Sergio Lopez Miro was at DSA Kampung Pandan, with the budding champions of the DSA Swim Team for 2 nights, giving the insights that only a world-class authority can.

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Sergio’s moment of international fame came at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul where he won the Bronze medal in 200m Breast Stroke. He then moved on to coaching and served as the head coach at West Virginia University. In 2007 he became the head swimming coach at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. He has coached several swimmers onto the US national team including Ariana Kukors, Charlie Houchin, Ryan Murphy and later most famously, Joseph Schooling who represented Singapore and made headlines at the 2016 Olympics. After spending the past year and several months coaching Singapore Swimming as High Performance Head Coach, he is moving to Auburn University as Associate Head Coach.

Sergio was on the pool deck for the evening training session at 7.30pm on April 6, where he explained the fundamentals of each stroke, imparting to the young swimmers a lot of knowledge about the basics. Following the swimming drill sessions, Sergio then went on to have a sharing session with the DSA coaches to wrap up the activity for the first night. The second night also included the DSA swimmers’ parents for a Q&A session where the role of a swimmer parent was discussed. Sergio went on to describe how he needed to be a parent for his swimming kids despite being a highly acclaimed swim coach. Further drills and enhancement of diving skills was next and it was late into the night as the enthusiastic swimmers and parents bid adieu to Sergio, enriched by his immense experience and guidance. Selfies, autographs and group photographs galore marked close of the events.

Thank you Sergio for the wonderful time, from everyone at DSA!

DSA contributes a massive 20 Gold, 7 New Records to Kuala Lumpur Team to end Championship drought

DSA swimmers made significant contribution to the Kuala Lumpur Team with over 7 New Records and 20 Gold at the 53rd MILO/PRAM Malaysia Invitational Age Group Swimming Championships held at Pusat Akuatik Hang Jebat, Melaka. It was an astounding performance by the young DSA swimmers as they won event after event, making up half the Kuala Lumpur team’s tally of 40 Gold to make it the Champion at the Meet. This was even more special as the Kuala Lumpur team ended a Championship drought over the last one decade with this win.

The big contributors to the Medal tally and the amazing new records included young Misa Okuzono, who has been unbeatable in the last few Meets, with an amazing 9 Gold of which 5 were new records. This little girl is truly an Olympic champion in the making. Yap Yong Jie, another young sensation won 6 Gold with 2 new records, while Darren Lew Chen Jet won 5 Gold and just narrowly missed out on a new record. Other medals winners were Yumi Okuzono and Koh Tech Chen with 2 Silver each, Chong Hiong Kiet with 1 Silver,  Dian Isandra Bt Johan  with 1 Silver and 1 Bronze and Wesley Kam with 2 Bronze.  4 New records were also made by the Relay Teams which included the DSA swimmers who contributed to the Kuala Lumpur’s collection of 4 Gold with new records at the Relay events. Besides the medal winners, the DSA swimmers also notched up the PBs and did their best for the remarkable and significant, history making win at the Championship.

Hearty Congratulations goes to the all the swimmers of  the Kuala Lumpur team for their exemplary performance and fighting hard to get the Championship this year. They have literally doubled their Gold medal haul from last year, which is a fitting reward for their tireless efforts and also for the support of team managers, coaches, support teams and everyone else who played a part in the great performance.

DSA congratulates the swimmers for their great performance and also the coaches and families for the hard work, dedication and contributions for their support and togetherness with the team. Go DSA,One Team, One Dream!

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Congratulations to the following swimmers selected to represent Kuala Lumpur as part of the State Team at the 53rd Malaysia Invitational Age Group Swimming Championship (NAG) to be held at Pusat Akuatik Hang Jebat, Melaka between 9-12 March 2017. It’s been a great effort by the swimmers and coaches on reaching this milestone and we wish them all the best for the Meet.

1. Sean Goh Min Chang
2. Chan Evon
3. Chung Ze Xuan
4. Koh Teck Chen
5. Lee Jia Jing
6. Asley Chow
7. Chong Hey Sheen
8. Georgene Wee Ee Jern
9. Yumi Okuzono
10. Darren Lew Chen Jet
11. Wesley Kam Zhuo Wei
12. Wong Yu Xuan
13. Chong Hiong Kiet
14. Dian Isandra B. Johan
15. Misa Okuzono
16. Yap Yong Jie

DSA wishes you all the best in your events. We are proud of you!

Go DSA! One Team, One Dream!

DSA Swim team makes an incredible 132 medals haul at MILO/PRAKL Age Group 2017

Records galore at Komplex Renang, Bandur Tun Razak as DSA Swimmers made an astounding collection at the 3 day Swimming Championship making it an awesome start for 2017 for the team. With a team of more than 130 swimmers all geared up after some dedicated training, DSA inched closer to the top slot, winning  55 Gold medals, just 3 short of the top. More remarkable was the amazing amount of record breakers, 21 new records, the maximum by any team in the Meet.

The record breakers included Misa Okuzono who not only won Gold in all her events, all 10 of them, but made a new record in each of them as well! We are sure Misa is going to be one big name in international swimming in the coming years for sure. Darren Lew Chen Jet made the team richer with 9 Gold with 2 new records while Yumi Okuzono added 8 more Gold in her events with 2 new records. Yap Yong Jie added to the record haul with 7 Gold and 6 of them in record time. The Girls 13-14 years group Medley Relay team added one more record in their Gold winning performance bringing the total number of new records by DSA Swimming Team to 21. The host of Gold medal winners included Wesley Kam Zhuo Wei with 4 Gold, Koh Teck Chen, Lee Jia Jing, Georgene Wee Ee Jern and Eunice Wong Ee Yin with 2 Gold each. Chan Evon and Wong Yu Xuan added a Gold each to the team tally.

Other medal winners included Sean Goh Min Chang, Tan Rupert, Wong Yu Hao, Tan E-Shawn, Ng Jia Yi, Cynthia Khor Wen Qi, Chung Ze Xuan, Lim Shun Hern, Asley Chow, Chong Kar Hian, Lim Shun Yuan, Teow Jing Yang Jeremy, Zachary Chin Zi Yong, Chan Ying Yi, Nur Afiqah Mohd Shahrill, Lana Malika Hussayni, Aw Jian Ting, Chong Hiong Kiet, Cheong Hoe Hann, Dian Isandra Johan, Lee Sam Yee, Lean Yiyi and Eunice Wong Ee Yin. Download the detailed Medals Tally from the links below.

A significant amount of the swimmers came home with resounding victories, both in medals and points, a result of the efforts and dedication to training by the swimmers DSA coaches and support by the parents. We cannot thank them enough for all their hard work for this wonderful result and a great way to start of the Swimming Calendar for the year 2017. Go Team DSA!

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