| SCAA Team Dinner | |
| 3/19/2019 | |
 A great night at the SCAA Annual Awards Dinner on Saturday 16th Feb 2019. It was a fantastic event, and hopefully the first of many to come in following years. Photos, including the video from Siobhan Haughey, are linked at the bottom of this news article! We kicked the night off with a welcome from our MC's Steffany Ng and Henry Wright. Head Coach Mike Fasching was up next, with a short round up of some of the achievements of our amazing swimmers from the last year. Coach Mike then presented our outstanding swimmer awards for the 12&Under age group. To receive an outstanding swimmer award in the 12&U category swimmers need to swim Top 8 in an Age Group Championship event. Next up we played round 1 of our extreme Rock, Paper, Scissors game. An elimination game with the winner of each table winning the shampoo and mesh bag table prizes provided by KCK Aquatics. Our guest of honour was a past SCAA swimmer, and three time Hong Kong Olympian, Arthur Li. Arthur gave a speech about his experience in swimming, and some very good advice for all the young swimmers in the crowd. He shared that when he joined Barracuda's he was the slowest swimmer in the whole squad, swimming 50s when everyone else was swimming 100s, but within a year of hard work he was breaking Hong Kong Age Group Records. He emphasised the importance of consistency and working hard. Arthur then presented our 13&Over outstanding swimmer, triathlon, and waterpolo awards. To receive an outstanding swimmer award in the 13&Over category swimmers need to medal at Age Group Championship events - this includes relays. To receive the outstanding Open Water Swimming, Triathlon and Waterpolo award athletes need to have a consistent training regime, perform well in races or games, and bring a good attitude to training. We then continued the night with round 1 of the lucky draw. Some fantastic prizes given out to kick off the draw, including Mizuno goggles and Michael Phelps snorkel, Starbucks vouchers, Apple vouchers, Sogo vouchers, and some cash. Thanks to HWI Director of Swimming Jayne Wright for choosing round 1 of the lucky draw numbers. Then it was time for round 2 of our extreme Rock, Paper, Scissors game. The winner from each table of part 1 of the game was asked to come up to the stage for more elimination games, until there was only one winner left - the prize was a pair of Mizuno goggles donated by KCK Aquatics. We wrapped up round 2 of the lucky draw next. Prizes included more Sogo vouchers, cash, Intercontinental buffet vouchers, a Nintendo Switch, and the top prize of $3000 cash. Thank you to Mrs. Haughey for choosing round 2 of the lucky draw numbers. We finished the night with a video from previous SCAA, and Hong Kong Olympic swimmer Siobhan Haughey. Siobhan spoke to us about the importance of passion in training, mindset, and the importance of consistency and training hard. A huge thank you to all swimmers and parents for attending, the dinner wouldn't happen without all your daily hard work of course!
Awards winners below: Lim Eden Yi Zhen Lam Yuk Kiu Lam Hoi Ching Summer Standing Emma Leung Tsz Yui Darryl Zehner Nathaniel Walter Payer Emeric Yat Long Tam Chung Nam Hsieh Hoi Ying Ng Chung Hin Sin Chin Ting Chu Sarah Ting Yan Yau Alfred Kap Fong Short Temana Andrew Wong Anthea Ching Wun Kong Man Yi Chung Cheuk Hei Ho Ian Yentou Wong Ho Kiu Chan Sharron Chen Cheuk Fung Woo Hoi Yee Luk Arnold Bingtse Chan Yuen Ting Chang Hong Kiu Nikulin Aleksandr Donohugh Sophie De Pree Nicole Cheng Ho Wan Jude Chu Ching Yin Annika Leong Kin Rong Lee Si Yao Lee Jia Jun Jody Richard Melvyn Chan Open Water Swimming - Sin Chin Ting Triathlon - Pauline Courret Waterpolo - Lew Victor Jorge | |
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