Olcott House with 377 points emerged Overall Champions at the Musaeus College Inter House Swimming Meet held at the Isipathana College Swimming Complex last Monday. In this highly contested event nine new schools records were established in major events. A colourful event was marked by fine display of water ballet witnessed by a large gathering [...]

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Olcott House win Musaeus Swimming Meet Overall Championship

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Olcott House with 377 points emerged Overall Champions at the Musaeus College Inter House Swimming Meet held at the Isipathana College Swimming Complex last Monday. In this highly contested event nine new schools records were established in major events.

A colourful event was marked by fine display of water ballet witnessed by a large gathering of staff members, parents, old girls and students.
De Abrew House scoring 210 points finished in the first runner-up position while the Relay Championship award was clinched by Olcott House. The cynosure of the swimming meet was Binuri Gunawardene’s performance in establishing three new meet records in Under 20 50m Butterfly stroke, 200m Individual Medley and 50m Free Style events. Gunawardene carried away the well deserved award for the Best Performer in the 2018 meet.

Gunawardene showed her prowess in the water with times of 32.68secs, 2:55.62mts and 30.33secs in the respective events for new records. The other records were established by Chenumi Siyathra of Besant House in the Under 9 50m Free Style event with a time of 5.57mts, Vinuki Perera of Higgins House in the Under 13 50m Back Stroke event timming 39.13secs, Apoorva Wijesinghe of De Abrew House in the Under 15 50m Back Stroke event with a time of 37.10secs and Prathi Sundararaj of Olcott House in the Under 17 200m Individual Medley event with a time of 2:45.49mts.

Age Group Championship winners:
Under-9 : Chenumi Siyathra (Besant House)
Under-11 : Shalisa Johnson (Olcott House)
Under-13 : Vinuki Perera (Higgins House)
Under-15 : Apoorva Wijesinghe (De Abrew House)
Under-17 : Prathi Sundararaj (Olcott House)
Under-20 : Binuri Gunawardene (De Abrew House)


– Lakshman Ranasinghe; Pix by Priyantha Wickramaarachchi

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