Three young Whanganui swimmers are blazing a trail others will hopefully follow as they prepare for the Anchor Aims Games in Bay of Plenty next month.
Andrew Hay, Cayden Earles and Georgia Abrahams and all members of the Wanganui Toyota Swim Team, but will represent their school at the annual Aims Games in Tauranga and Mount Maunganui catering for intermediate school athletes only on September 10-15.
The sporting championships give 11, 12 and 13-yearolds an opportunity to compete as an individual or in a team against the best of their age in twenty different sports and has been going for 14 years now. It has gone from a small festival of sport, to what are now considered the International Championships for Intermediate and Middle schools.
The only other intermediates registered from this patch are Whanganui Intermediate (multisport), Hunterville Consolidated School (swimming) and Raetihi Primary School (netball).
The St Georges School students are being coached for the big event by their Wanganui Swim Team coach Andy McLay who encouraged them to represent their schools.