Trinity ease to Central Province championships

National Swimming Champions Trinity College, Kandy, stamped their class by winning both the Age Group and Novices Swimming Championships with a record number of points at the 7th Annual Age Group and Novices Swimming Championships for boys and girls organised by the Central Province Aquatic Sports Association (CEPASA) and sponsored by Nutella Hasel Nut Spread with Daily Mirror as the Media Sponsor and worked off at the Swimming Pool of the Peradeniya University.

Trinity College collected a massive 1,035 points which is a record for this meet and was also the first time that any team had passed the four figure mark. They dominated this meet to such an extent that they had a clear 744 point lead over the runner up Kingswood College.

Trinity College also won four out of the five age groups for boys. All this they performed in the absence of their star swimmer and national captain Heshan Unamboowe who is presently in Australia at training. In the Age Group championships the only event they missed was the boys over 16 which was won by Thisakhya Abeysinghe of Kingswood College.

Trinity College also won the Novices championship for boys by aggregating 252 points against 171 by the second placed Kingswood College.

Like Trinity College, Mahamaya Girls College also won the Age Group Championship for the seventh successive year. They totalled 654 points against 378 points obtained by the runner up Hillwood College who are showing signs of improvement and have closed the gap from what it was last year.

Mahamaya Girls won three of the five age group championships for girls and like Trinity they lost the over 16 title with Nelum Uduwawela (Gateway College), Hansanee Weeratunga (Peradeniya University) and Dilki Perera (Girls High School) sharing it and this put the organizers in a quandary as they had to look for three trophies instead of one. Justice of the Supreme Courts of Maldives Justice A. Muthasim Adnan was

the Chief Guest.

Overall Champion

Age Group – Boys: 1. Trinity College 1035, 2. Kingswood College 291, 3, Colombo International School 210, 4. Dharmaraja College 99, 5. St. Anthony’s Boys College 93

Age Group – Girls: 1. Mahamaya College 654, 2. Hillwood College 378, 3. Girls High School 270, 4. Colombo International School 69, 5. Gateway College 66, 6. University Of Peradeniya 57, 7. Sri Sangamiththa Balika School 57

Novices – Boys: 1. Trinity College 252, 2. Kingswood College 171, 3. Dharmaraja College 132, 4. St. Anthony’s Boys College 105, 5. Gangasiri Aquatic College 72

Novices – Girls: 1. Hillwood College 240, 2. Mahamaya College 147, 3. Gateway College 60, 4. St. Anthony’s Girls College 60, 5. Girls High School 57