Woodhouse gets swimming vote
Sixteen-year-old Sophie Woodhouse has enjoyed an outstanding season, earning the swimming nomination for the 2017 Marlborough Sports Awards.
The 2016-17 Blenheim Swimming Club’s swimmer of the year represented her club, school and region at local regional and national competitions, achieving several personal bests across various strokes and distances.
At the Marlborough Girls’ College swimming sports in February she won the under-16 category, breaking the 100m freestyle record.
In March she competed at the New Zealand age group champs, qualifying in the 100m breaststroke for the NZ short course champs in October. At the Tasman schools champs she bagged three golds, a silver and bronze medal then followed up with two first placings and four seconds at the South Island schools champs in July, registering PBs in the 100 IM, 200 IM and 50m breaststroke.
Woodhouse won two golds and four silvers at the Nelson Marlborough age groups, picking up a second qualifying time for the NZ meeting. In late August she competed at the South Island champs, registering PBs across four disciplines and bagging age group bronze in the 200m breaststroke. She also qualified a third time for the NZ short course champs.
Her nomination is sponsored by Mayfair Pools.