KZN Junior Winter Championships 2016

KZN Junior Winter championships

September is an important month to all swimmers as the annual KZN Junior Winter championships takes place during this month. In our household, it is not just the Junior championships month, but also a month where the following happens:

September is the beginning of Spring – normally warmer weather although this year, there was still snow on the mountains, so cold, rainy days followed.
Monica visits the pediatrician for her annual checkup – we are ecstatic with a predicted 2-year waiting period before Mica’s asthma medication will be reduced.
We swim the KZN Junior championships.
We support the Gold in September childhood cancer awareness project – 100 gold cancer awareness ribbons distributed to swimmers at the championships.
Monica’s godparents traveled from far to attend the championships – it means a lot to Monica as it is normally just mom and dad as the support team.

Why are KZN Junior championships important?

The KZN Junior championships are the official start of the next season. We are now officially swimming the 2016/2017 season. It is also a test for age group swimmers aged 8 & Under to 13-years-old to see where they rank in their age group.

It is, furthermore another opportunity for age-group swimmers to set new meet or national age group records. This year, 12-year-old Sune Liebenberg traveled from Gauteng to swim the 100-meter Freestyle and she set a new National age group record in a time of 59:69 (2015 record stood at 1:00:60). The inland swimmers benefit from altitude change when swimming at the coast which makes new records possible, besides the amount of training it takes.