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Girls 6rammar ^, rhool ;!artsbane 1998

discovered), and special congratulations should go to the five age champions U13 Sarah Holtain U14 Amianda Mackay

players held the team to- gether with their fantastic pitcher-catcher battery and persistent enthusi- asm. The best and fairest and most consistent player in B Grade was Julia Else, who should go on next year to bigger and better things Saturday 14th March

U15 Bennda NeveU U16 Honor Conrad

and the 17 Years age champion Katharir, e Bigby, who also placed first in the Open 50m Freestyle event, and gained School Champion

saw the Grammar SWIM- MERS take home the Mollie Gould Cup for the third successive year, con- firming that Brisbane Girls Grammar School is indeed a talented, determined and dominant school where swimming is concerned ,,^i^. , ^.

The 1998 Grammar swimming season ap- pealed to be much like any other. Mr White was still at the pool every morning, laughing at eve- rybody; Mrs Orme was still the enthusiastic teacher in charge; and Mrs Moore was still in tireless attendance at every train- ing session. in fact, the only difference was the girls themselves The Grammar swim- mets of 1998 were out- standing. Each and every

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There were only two major upsets throughout the duration of the season, and the first occurred during a quiet Friday morning training at the school pool. Several of the girls had noticed a foul smell emanating from the deep end of the pool, but it was not until a pair of goggles were sucked into the filter, and efforts were made to retrieve them that the source was discovered. There was a dead mouse in the school pool. Noriust any dead mouse! This was a smelly, bloated, bald dead mouse 11 was only after some very fancy manoeuvres by Mr White that there was calm restored to the pool. The cry of "mouse water", however, could still be heard for weeks afterwards The second major upset of the season was of the parasitic variety. The news was delivered by Mrs Moore at about 6:00 a. in. on the Thursday, 12th March, two days before the QGSSSA it had been discovered that there was an infectious micro-

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one of them had a truly superb season. They trained hard. They raced even harder, and they were definitely hard to beat The season comprised

of seven weeks of intense training and competition for the Grammar swim- ming squad. in this time, Grammar hosted three invitation al meets - twice at Centenary Pool and once at the Valley Pool The BGGS squad per- formed veiy well at all these riteets, and many personal bests were re- corded Interhouse swimming was held at the CIMndler AqLiatic Centre for the first

organism in the waters of the Chandler Pool. Obvi- ously, this news was not well received, but, eventu- ally the alternative venue at The Southport School was decided GrailTmar upon swimmers were going to the Gold Coast This venue, however, was not ideal. Tempera- Lures soared into the Ihir- ties, there was limited shade and limited seating with the Grammar Cheersquad re- stricted to a mere twenty people

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time this year, dtie to the addition of Mackay House. This allowed Grammar swimniers an excellent opportunity to prac- tise for QGSSSA (tlTis was before the micro-organism was