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Afoa & Morriss Hit Highs at Hamilton Competition
Two Samoa Swimmers, 12 year old Junior National Swimmer, Palepua Afoa and National Representative Swimmer, Thomas Morriss, gained impressive results at the Hamilton Aquatics & Fairfield Competition over the past weekend. Palepua Afoa, a dedicated swimmer hailing from Samoa, entered the Hamilton competition in a bid to achieve baseline LCM times. Coach Schuster explains, “Palepua…
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Frost puts a freeze on back-to-back national records
Kokoro Frost, National Samoan swimmer from Manase and Fasitoo’uta, took out two long-standing men’s open national records at the New Zealand Short Course Nationals earlier this month. After his success on Team Samoa for the Pacific Games in landing 4 age national records, he elevated his game and took over two open records in 2019…
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Junior National Swimmer Hits New Heights
12 year old Solomona Hamilton has qualified for State Championships in Australia. The young swimmer began his swimming career in Samoa with the Tanifa O Le Vai swim club and has hit major milestones each year since 2014. While Solomona now lives in Canberra with his siblings, who also swim, and his parents who had…
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Samoa Swimming Raises Standards at Auckland Champs
With the closure of the Samoa Aquatic Center, the Samoan Development Squad made the most of their summer holidays. Five families who are fully committed to swim development and training for their children, committed to a month- long sojourn in Auckland for intensive pool trainings and competition which resulted in a raised standard of national…
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Samoa Swimming Celebrates World Qualifying Times Achievements
Samoa Swimming attended the FINA World Championships (25m) last month in Hangzhou, China. The team boasted four elite swimmers who made significant inroads on the results scoreboard. Veteran male swimmer, Brandon Schuster, made Federation history in achieving FINA B qualifying times in both the 200m IM and 400 IM. His world ranking in the 200IM…
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Samoa Swimming Ready for World Stage
Samoa Swimming will participate in the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) 2018 in Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou is the capital city of Zhejiang province and is an economic, cultural, science and educational central city in the Yangtze. It will be the first time for Samoa Swimming to travel and compete in China though they are…
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Samoa Swimmers Settle for the Sea
As the country prepares for the 2019 Pacific Games, the Government and China AID have joined forces to refurbish the Aquatic Centre, much to the dismay of the training squad. “As the games are not until July 2019, to have swimmers out of their training facility for 10 months is a tough challenge. Facility upgrades…
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Samoa Swimming Supports Scholarship for Swimmers
The Samoa Swimming Federation has awarded 10 Swimming Scholarships for swimmers who are training for the Pacific Games and beyond. With the financial assistance of the FINA Aquatics Olympic Support Programme, the Federation was able to offer scholarships to recognized dedicated swimmers to assist them with coaching fees, training facility fees, nutrition supplementation and transportation.…
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Holiday infused with Swim Training for young US-based Swimmer
Seth Saofaiga Bates took his Samoa holiday to the next level by training with the National Development Squad at the Tuanaimato Aquatic Centre. Seth is the son of Daisy Semu Bates who hails from Falelatai and Avao Savaii. He and his family were back in Samoa for the summer holidays visiting family. Seth, a 14…
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Savai’i benefits from Swim development
July 2018 The Samoa Swimming Federation was busy over the school break. JICA Volunteer and Development Officer, Koharu Honda, spent a busy 2 weeks in Lalomalava Savai’i running a grassroots swim programme. Savai’ian Hotel sponsored her time in Savaii while she conducted lessons at the Savaiian Hotel pool, Amoa Hotel pool and 2 village fresh-water…
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