Challenge...and success!

This term the Year Eights' topic is "Challenge". Here's a great example of someone taking on some huge challenges, stepping up and achieving some great results. Well done Meg, your hard work has paid off.

"In the holidays just gone I have been in Invercargill competing in a national synchronised swimming competition. Synchronised swimming is a sport which is split into two categories: 

1. Figures (a slow movement through different positions)

2. Routine (a 2 – 5 minute song where you synchronise to the music.) 

You can compete in a team, a duet, a solo and a combo, you can also compete in different age groups: Dolphin, 12 and under, 13, 14, 15, Junior and senior . You compete against other people in your age and get judged by 6 – 10 judges.

I competed for my club Aquagold and for Balmacewen Intermediate school. I came 1^st in my Intermediate olo for Balmacewen, 1^st in my 12 and under solo for Aquagold, and 1^st in my 12 and under Figures for Aquagold."