Fiji National School's Swimming Championship begins

The Fiji National School's Swimming Championship has started this morning at the Damodar Aquatic Swimming Center.

Fiji National Schools Swimming Association president Patrick Bower says the defending champions Swami Vivekananda College, Marist Brothers High School and Mount Saint Mary’s Primary School are fielding stronger teams again this year.

Last year a total of 13 records were broken in the Primary school boy’s category, 21 records from Primary school Men’s category, 18 records being broken by the secondary schools women’s category and 17 records were broken by the secondary school men’s category.

Commonwealth Youth Games training squad duo Rosemary Rova and Taichi Vakasama will be participating in the two day event.

Year 10 student Rova will be featuring for SVC in the U14 grade; 400m Individual Medleys, 100m backstroke, the 200m and 100m freestyle and two relay events respectively.

Vakasama will be competing in the Under 17‑19 grades; 200m Butterfly, 200 Breast stroke, the 200m and 400m Individual events, respectively.

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