Medals galore for Narrogin Amateur Swimming Club at country pennants

Narrogin Amateur Swimming Club returned home with more than 50 medals from 2021 Country Pennants held in Mt Barker at the weekend. A total of 29 clubs from around WA travelled to the Great Southern for the two-day competition, which is the highlight of the regional swimming calendar. Narrogin were represented by 21 members in 72 events and finished third overall in C-grade on 568 points. Busselton took out C-grade on 848 points while Carnarvon finished second on 665 and Narrogin rounded out the top three while Boddington (439 points), Wagin (389) and Kambalda (287) also competed in the division. Narrogin swimmers recorded 15 personal best results and the club achieved 18 gold medals, 16 silver and 44 bronze. In the relay event, Narrogin won 149 points to finish third while Wagin were fifth on 73 points. The relay event consists of teams competing in 10 medley relays at the start and 10 freestyle at the end of the competition in A, B and C-grade while in D and E-grade teams do two lots of five relays. Peel Aquatic claimed the A-grade title, Pinjarra won B-grade, host club Mt Barker Barracudas prevailed in D-grade and Manjimup were victorious in E-grade. Narrogin Amateur Swimming Club coach Tanya Hart said she was pleased with her club. “I felt very proud to watch our club compete and support each other all weekend,” she said. “The amount of work that goes into each season from our volunteer committee is very much rewarded by this. “Every child and parent that swam on the weekend should be 1000 per cent happy with themselves. “Even if you didn’t medal, you still earned points for the club and you tried just as hard as the person in the lane next to you and didn’t give up. “Every event was exciting to watch.”