Swimming looking to go one better in 2009
Wednesday 2 September
Miles Rodriquez - Media Intern
The Monash Australian University Games swimming team is ready for action in this year’s competition. With less than one month until the games begin, both the male and female squads have been finalised, with all involved training extremely hard.
Laura Denehy is one of two team managers looking after the 22 swimmers in the squad, most of which don’t train at Monash. This, she admits, requires strong managerial skills.
‘Hardly any of our team actually train together. Most of the national and state swimmers we have competing train eight or nine times a week,’ she said.
‘Because it’s mostly an individual sport, we don’t ask everyone to train together at once. We have swimmers training at the Doug Ellis Swimming Pool on the Clayton campus, at MSAC (Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre), in Nunawading etc., we also have swimmers in our squad from the country.’
The swimming team finished second at last year’s Uni Games which were held in Melbourne and Laura expects the team, with the majority of the swimmers returning this year, to do just as well this time around, if not better.
‘We have a strong team so I’m sure we will do well. And Grant Watson is a great coach, which helps the team a lot,’ she said.
With trials being held at the end of last semester, regular training being completed at a high level in the lead up, and the strong team work ethic had by all, it looks as though the Monash University swimming team is destined for success at this year’s AUG.
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