DSG star swimmer, Robyn Charter, represented Eastern Province at the South African National swimming champs. She won the 50m and 100m freestyle events and finished 2nd in the 50m backstroke.
DSG star swimmer, Robyn Charter, represented Eastern Province at the South African National swimming champs. She won the 50m and 100m freestyle events and finished 2nd in the 50m backstroke.
Charter, a Grade 10 learner at DSG, dreams of one day attempting to compete at the Olympics. Charter has been swimming competitively for many years but has had her game raised since the arrival of the new DSG and St Andrews swimming coach, Tudor Lacey.
Robyn’s first real success came at the Eastern Province Swimming Championships where she competed under the Aquabears banner.
She successfully achieved first place in the 100m freestyle and second place in the 0m freestyle. This makes her the Eastern Province 100m freestyle swimming champion in the open age group.
Robyn successfully qualified for the Eastern Province High Schools team, the level three gala which took place in East London (which is the top club swimmers U18) and the South African National Champs (open age group) to be held in Durban in April.
She recently competed in the schools inter-house gala where she smashed records in all the events, thereby bringing the following times down: 200m individual medley (2.38.56), 200m freestyle (2.17.30), 100m backstroke (1.09.72), 100m freestyle (1.00.25), 50m butterfly (30.70), 50m backstroke (32.12) and 50m freestyle (27.62). All the times are new school records and are all better than the colours times standard as stipulated by the school.
