Aquabladz NP Swimming Club

13/10/2026

12/10/2026

Club night this Friday, 16th October.

Warm up 5pm. Racing starts 5.30pm. Remeber your $2 for the 50m challenge. This month's challenge is kindly sponsored by Rowlands Transport

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10/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out today to bag and deliver the 8 tons of manure 💩. What an effort!
Thanks to BHL, Hirepool, Rowlands Transport, and Inglewood Golf Club for donating materials and facilities for us to use
Cheers to our deliverers Claire and Brendan Rowlands, the Coster family, Mike Mottern, Rhonda/Jason Nordern, Kim and Melia Gwiadzinski, Mark Kennard, Dave Riley, and all the kids who went along to do the heavy lifting 💪
And big thanks to the HEAPS of baggers, you lot powered through that pile and made it look easy, the golfers were impressed at the work!
Ka pai to mahi
FYI we have 70+ bags left over, contact [email protected]

05/10/2026

Kia ora team and whanau!
The chicken manure fundraiser/workout is this Saturday 1030 am at Inglewood Golf Club (rain ir shine). Look out for email this week with directions, what to bring, where to park.

We are still in need of 3-4 deliverers with trailers, (currently we have 4 and one of those requires a trailer) even if you have a ute that could do a couple of deliveries that would be helpful, we usually have 100 delivery points from Waitara to Omata.

Cheers everyone, and can’t wait to get stuck into the pile with all of ya!
-Daniel

03/10/2026

What a fantastic week for our Aquabladz swimmers representing the Taranaki Swimming Team at the New Zealand Short Course Championships!

A massive thank you to Swimming Taranaki Inc , The Lion Foundation and New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT) for their generous support and funding, helping make it possible for our Aquabladz swimmers to attend and compete at this national event. We truly appreciate your support.

It was a big week, and every one of our swimmers should be incredibly proud of their achievements and the way they represented themselves and the team. To qualify for this meet is a huge achievement in itself, and they should all be proud of what they accomplished. Many individual goals were achieved and the swimming was fast and exciting. The team stuck together throughout the week and any time a Taranaki swimmer was racing it was very obvious from the enthusiastic cheering and support from the team. 🤩

Thank you a to Coach Mariano and Team Manager Mark Kennard for all their support throughout the week. It was a fantastic week with an outstanding group of teenagers.

Well done, Team Aquabladz! 💙💙

01/10/2026

Our final day at NZ Short Course was another cracker! 50 Free to start the day and the swimmers flew. It was a real splash and dash with fast swims by Meila, Lily and James. The 200 IM was up next with great swims by Riley and James. The day ended with the mixed medley relay team closing the week off with some fast individual swims to produce a great relay time and a 10th place finish.

50 freestyle
Lily (16) - 12th (pb + Opens QT)
Meila (17-18) - 18th (Opens QT)

James (16) - 15th (pb + Opens QT)

200 medley
Meila (17-18) - 13th (Opens QT + C final)

Riley (15) - 19th (pb)
James (16) - 14th

4x100 Mixed Medley Relay
Shyla, James, Riley, Lily - 10th

30/09/2026

Day four was full of good swims and incredible highlights. First national age group medal for James with silver in the 50 Back also qualifying for the B final. Shyla and Meila swam beautifully to make C open finals. Toby, James, Shyla and Lily had top 10 age group placings. The 4x50 womens medley relay team were in action swimming incredibly well AND there were so many PBs and superb swims from the team. Pheow. What a day. 🙌

Age group results
200 butterfly
Shyla (17-18) - 8th (Opens QT) Qualified into C Final

50 backstroke
Olivia (14) - 13th (pb)
Kaia (15) - 19th
Lily (16) - 10th (pb + Opens QT)
Shyla (17-18) - 11th (Opens QT)

Toby (13) - 5th (pb)
James (16) - 2nd 🥈 (pb + Opens QT) Qualified Open B final

100 freestyle
Lily (16) - 18th (pb)
Meila (17-18) - 14th (Opens QT) Open C final

Toby (13) - 8th (pb)
Riley (15) - 17th (pb)
James (16) - 8th (pb +Opens QT)

4x50 womens medley relay 21st open

Again so very grateful to New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT) and The Lion Foundation for making this trip possilbe

29/09/2026

Day 4 pulled through with a SILVER MEDAL for James!!!!!

Thank you to New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT) and The Lion Foundation we are so very thankful for your support

29/09/2026

Stratford Carnival 4th October

Fastlane is back up and running this morning, so Stratford have extended the close off for entries until tomorrow night 10pm for their carnival this Sunday the 4th.

29/09/2026

Day three was a big one with all 8 swimmers in action and our 4x50 womens relay team swimming in the evening session.

A number of excellent PBs, national meet qualifying times and top 10 age group finishes. Personal milestones were achieved by many in this session and there was quality fast racing with some really close finishes.

Top ten age group placings were achieved by Toby, Riley and Kaia.

200 backstroke(Age group finals)
Olivia (14) - 19th
Kaia (15) - 9th (pb + Opens QT)
Lily (16) - 11th (pb + Opens QT, 1st reserve for open finals)
Shyla (17-18) - 7th (Opens QT)

Toby (13) - 4th (pb)
Riley (15) - 8th (pb + Opens QT, 2nd reserve for open finals)

100 butterfly
Riley (15) - 11th (pb)

400 Freestyle
Meila (17-18) - 10th (Opens QT)
Toby (13) - 8th (pb)
James (16) - 12th (pb)

4x50 Free Relay Women - 18th open