KUCHING: The St Joseph Private Primary School emerged the overall champion after scoring 512 points in the ‘Third PASC Inter-Primary School Swimming Competition’ held on 1 April.
SJK Chung Hua No 4 which had been the reigning champions for the past two consecutive years settled for first runner-up spot after scoring 475 points, while the SJK Chung Hua No. 2 was placed third after scoring 453 points.
The Power Aquatics Swimming Club (PASC) president Tan Kun Gee in a press statement yesterday extended his congratulations to the winning schools, adding that a total of 240 pupils from 30 schools had taken part in this year’s event.
“We also saw more competitors this year, as evident by the increase of 21 per cent in the participation compared to last year. This shows that more children have shown interests in taking up swimming lessons. And swimming as a sport has already spread to rural areas besides in town area. So we are expecting more participants next year,” he said.
He also expressed his appreciation to the Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian and the Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah for their presence during the opening and closing ceremony of the event.
“We would also like to say thank you to our sponsors namely Lee Onn Group, Milo@ Nestle, Dato Wee Hong Seng, Dato Sri Charles Voon, Yen Sze Wei, Lim Aik Chai Electrical, Rewi Bugo and One Ideal Solution,” he added.
According to him, out of 100 events, the PASC swimmers had created 16 out of 42 new individual records during the competition.They are Cayden Mineve Chin, Dabria Teo, Dylan Leong, Janice Tan, Darren Leong, Ong Zong Lian, Bibienne Ong, Casper Tan, and Julius Abbas.
And out the 12 best boys and girls, six of them are from PASC. They are Cayden Chin (Primary 2 boy), Dylan Leong (Primary 3 boy), Janice Tan (Primary 3 girl), Darren Leong (Primary 4 boy), Casper Tan (Primary 5 boy) and Bibienne Ong ( Primary 5 girl).
“The PASC club will be sending swimmers to the ‘26th Brunei Age Group Championship’ in Brunei to be held from April 20 to 22,” said Tan.
