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News and results 2012:

Level 2 Regional gala report:
12 Swimmers from Grahamstown representing three schools went down to George to participate in the level 2 Regional gala and brought back 34 medals helping Aquabear swimming club to finish third out the of 20 participating clubs.
Dylan Ramsay and Bryn Williams both won gold medals and Max Kieser won a gold and a bronze medal.
Ralph Goveia won 4 gold medals for the 400m free relay, the 200 m medley relay, 50m fly and 100m fly, three silver medals for 50m breast, 50m free and the 200m I.M. and a bronze medal for the 200m breast. Eight events swum and eight medals won! Unfortunately the official results have not arrived so I am not able to confirm how many new school records he set.
Ralph leaves us today for a two week break before he starts at the High Performance Centre in Pretoria. He is perusing his dream of becoming not just a good swimmer but a great swimmer. St Andrew’s College wishes you well Ralph and hope that one day we can watch you winning medals at the Olympic Games. Go Well, Ralph.
Swimming colours:
Congratulations to the following boys on being awarded their Swimming colours for 2012.
New awards:
Campbell Gregory, Dylan Ramsay, Bryn Williams
Re-awards:
James Myburgh, Michael Houghton, M.J. Rosslee, Matthew Danckwerts, Ralph Goveia
A special thank you must also go to Mr Simon Pheasant who has been training the swimmers this term and who has obviously prepared them exceptionally well for all the galas they have participated in.

River Mile:
Congratulations to all the boys who participated in the River Mile on Sunday. Despite the last minute change to Bushman’s it was a wonderful success. Owing to the outgoing spring tide this was definitely the fastest River Mile in the last eight years. The weather held out and even the “not so fit” could enjoy the event. Thanks to all the swimmers, the Staff who helped out, the Murray family who supplied boats and all interested spectators.

The results were as follows:
Junior ½ mile

1^st Max Kieser (Arm) in a time of 7minutes 39.85 seconds

2^nd Matthew Stainforth (G) and

3^rd Stuart Mc Master (U)

Senior Mile

The senior mile was very closely contested with only 36 seconds separating the first 5 swimmers

1^st James Myburgh (Mer) in a time of 16 minutes 29, 05 seconds

2^nd Matthew Danckwerts (U)

3^rd Michael Houghton (U)

The house points based on the first six swimmers home were as follows:

Junior ½ mile

Place	House	Points
6^th	Merriman	154
5^th	Espin	145
4^th	Mullins	122
3^rd	Armstrong	97
2^nd	Graham	92
1^st	Upper	56

Senior mile

Place	House	Points
6^th	Mullins	150
5^th	Merriman	109
4^th	Armstrong	107
3^rd	Graham	106
2^nd	Espin	92
1^st	Upper	88

2012 Gala Assembly Report:
Thank you to Mr Andrews, the staff and especially the swimmers and supporters for a wonderfully successful gala. Conditions were challenging for all on Wednesday night with the cold rainy weather. I watched swimmers stand shivering behind the starting blocks but the spirit was high and the sense of competition remained great throughout. It is for this spirit and positive attitude that I admire St Andrews’ boys. 20 Standard times and 11 colours times were swum. 10 Individual records were broken, 2 of them being school records, and 3 new relay records were set. Well done to all the participants!

February Mat Danckwerts competed in the Red House River Mile last Sunday. He came 22 in his age group this year, where many swimmers compete in this event so well done to Matthew!

Assembly Report 8 February:
In the DSG short course gala Held on Monday 6 Feb St Andrews swimmers did exceptionally well. The under 14 team consisting of: D.Ramsden, M. Stainsforth, T.Bloem D.Wheeler and D.Tiffen came first and second in all their events and won the free relay. S.Briscoe came 1st in the 50m free and 50m fly at the U16 level. The open swimmers consisting of J. Myburgh, C.Gregory, A.Brown and S.Stopforth also did very well gaining 3 first places, 2 seconds and 1 third. J. Myburgh swam a standards time to win the 50 m free event. Both the under 16's and open swimmers won the free relays. Well done to all the swimmers!

Assembly Report 1 February:
It has been a very busy time for the swimmers and as usual the Collage swimmers have taken on the challenge well. In the short course gala held at Kingswood last week both Ralph Goveia and Douglas Ramsden won all their events. College did well to finish somewhere within the first three places in all but 1 event. M.J. Rosslee swam a colours time in the 50m breaststroke and Ralph Goveia in the 50m fly and free. The official results of yesterday's long course gala at Graeme College are not yet out but once again the boys swam exceptionally well. R.V.B

Assembly Report 25 January:
Congratulations to the 14 boys who competed in the relay gala against Graeme and Kingswood yesterday. They were a resounding success winning 10 out of the 12 events. A special word of congratulations to the under 16 team consisting of J. Bains, M. Kieser, S.Briscoe and R.Govia for winning all 4 of their relays.

Congratulations to Ralph Goveia who has been selected to represent Eastern Province in the inter-provincial gala in East London this Saturday.

M.J. Rosslee is the new Swimming Captain for 2012 and Matthew Danckwerts is Vice Captain.

News and results 2011:

EP Champs:
We had a very successful gala. All the girls and boys swam personal best times. Robyn Charter defended her EP 100 m freestyle title with a fanastic swim winning by over a body length, in a new EP record of 59.79 secs.She also won the 50 backstroke. She got 2nd in the 50 free by 2 100ths of a second, the winner being Tammy Price.She won a bronze in the 200 freesyle.Simon Pheasant won the 50 free in a time of 23.83 and came 2nd in both the 50 fly and 50 back by split seconds.Hannah Rippon won a bronze medal in the girls 13/14 200 breast.Claire Ter Morhuizen swam a colours time of 2.23.18 in the 200 free. In the 400 free she came down 16 secs.Her time was 5.00.mins. It is worth noting that when I got here the colours time for the 400 at St Andrews was 5.10.MJ Rosslee came from behind to win a bronze in the 200 breast.Tilabo Williamson swam a 32.99 in the 11/12 50 free. Nicky smith, Jess White, Coralie Richardson, Cadyn Barker, Dayle Mc Loughlin , Emily Richardson all had personal best times some by a few seconds. Ralph Goviea, now swimming in the 15 and over age group, some boys in late teens and even 20, swam the 200 im in a college open record of 2.24.Kelly Long brought her 50 breast time to 36.92 a new U/ 16 record. In the 100 breast her time was 1.27.20, the DSG open record is 1.27.15.Unfortunately her goggles filled with water on her start which put her off her rythm in the first length. So all in all very satisfying. I hand over a program with stars and future stars.

Congratulations to Rupert Kieser for being appointed Swimming Captain for 2011 and M. J. Rosslee Vice Captain for 2011.

Congratulations to Mat Danckwerts who participated in the P.E.A. Gala in Port Elizabeth this weekend. He won three silver medals for the 400m Freestyle event, and the freestyle and medely relays.

Ralph Goveia has recently returned from the Youth Commonwealth Games in the Isle of Man where he did himself, his country and his school proud. He swam in five events setting personal best times in all five and setting five new school records. His most remarkable achievements were knocking nearly 2 seconds off his 50m butterfly time and over 10 seconds of his 200m individual medley time. He finsihed 9th in the Commonwealth 200m breastroke event and 12th in the 200m Individual medley. Well done Ralph we are proud of you.

18 May 2011:
Congratulations to the following boys on being awarded their swimming colours for the 2011 season.
Re-awards: Rupert Kieser Wesley Obray M.J. Rosslee Michael Houghton Matthew Danckwerts
New awards: Ralph Goveia James Myburgh Christian Malila

April 2011:
Congratulations to Ralph Goveia for being sellected to represent Zambia at the Junior Common Wealth Games in the Isle of Man in September this year. Well done Ralph. Train hard!

March 2011:
Congratulations to Rupert Kieser and M.J. Rosslee for being selected to represent E.P. at the youth nationals gala which takes place in Port Elizabeth in April.

Swimming 6th league gala:
Five boys participated in the 6th a-league gala in Port Elizabeth this weekend. The swimming was of a very high standard. Despite being Ill the week leading up to the gala Jonty Andrews swam with courage and determination and did himself proud. Matthew Danckwerts finished third in the 200, 400, and 1500m free. Ralph Goveia came first in 200m breaststroke 200m I.M and second in the 100m free. He set new school records for both the 200m and 100m breaststroke. Dyllan Ramsay set three new school records for the 100m, 200m and 50m free. Rupert Kieser can be congratulated on being selected to participate in the Level Three Nationals in Durban later this term as well as the Youth Nationals to be held in Port Elizabeth. He set a new school record for the 50m freestyle and Emmerson's record set at the interhouse gala for the 100m freestyle in 2002 is under threat as he swam the 100m free in a time of 55.09 just a few splits away from the record. Well done to all the swimmers.

River Mile February 2011:
Thank you to Mr Andrew, the Murray family and all the helpers for another successful River Mile. Icy waters added a new bite to the event but most of the swimmers endured and finished the event bravely. It was a beautiful day and all who participated can feel proud of their achievement.
Congratulations to Matthew Danckwerts (Upper) house for finishing first in a time of 20minutes and 41.88 seconds, James Myburgh (Merriman) was a very close second and Micheal Houghton (Upper) finished in third place. The junior half mile was won by Matt Andrews (Graham) in a time of 10 minutes 19.17 seconds. In second place was Kayle Bovijn (Espin) and Ralph Goveia (Mer) came third.
The house positions based on the first 5 swimmers home are as follows:
Junior half Mile
1st Graham house 64 points
2nd Espin house 65 points
3rd Mullins house 71 points
4th Merriman house 75 points
5th Armstrong house 81 points
6th Upper house 107 points
Senior mile
1st Upper house 42 points
2nd Graham house 50 points
3rd Espin house 71 points
4th Armstrong house 95 points
5th Merriman house 102 points
6th Mullins house 152 points
Photos are available on our external gallery, click on the link below:
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Congratulations to M.J. Rosslee and Matthew Danckwerts for their performances at the E.P Champs Gala held early December. M.J. won two silver medals for the 100m breaststroke and 200m breaststroke and qualified for the youth nationals to be held later this term. This is a remarkable achievement! Matthew won a silver medal for the 800m freestyle event. He cut off almost a minute on his previous time. Well done!

During the Christmas holidays Ralph Goveia participated in a CANA zone gala in Botswana. This is an international gala which includes countries like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa... Ralph swam for Zambia and won two bronze medals for 100m and 200m breaststroke. He finished 5th in the 200m individual medley. He set a new Zambian record for the 200m breaststroke. Well done Ralph!

News and results 2010:

Congratulations to all the swimmers who participated in the DSG short course gala held last Tuesday. St Andrews finished first or second in most of their events swum. It was also pleasing to see how many new school records were set by boys who swam faster times now,in the beginning of the season, than they did at the inter house gala at the end of the season. New Shcool records were set by R. Goveia, S. Stopforth and M. J Rosslee in the 50m breaststroke, D.Ramsay, R.Kieser and R.Horne in the 50m freestyle and M. Andrews in the 50m backstroke. Rupert Kieser also swam two colours times in the 50m freestyle and fly, whilst Wesley Obray swam a standard time in the 50m backstroke. An excellent season lies ahead!

Congratulations to all the boys who participated in the EPA 3rd Sasko A league Gala on the 8th and 9th of October.
Although early on in the season they swam well and their times are very encouraging.
Ralph Goveia came 1st in the 50m breaststroke 2nd in the 100m breast and 200m breast and 3rd in the 50m fly and 200m I. M. He also set new school records for 100m and 50m breasttroke and the 50m fly.
Matthew Danckwerts finished 2nd in the 100m, 800m and 200m free and 3rd in the 400m free.
Dylan Ramsay set a new school record and finished third in the 50m freestyle.

4 boys participated in the Sunday 26 September leg of the Aquabear gala at Newton Park.
All the top clubs in the country participated, so the standard of swimming was particularly high. It was difficult for our swimmers to enter their first gala of the season at such a high level but they showed the typical St Andrew's determination to make the best of the situation.
Congratulations to MJ Rosslee for finishing 8^th in the 50m breaststroke and Ralph Goviea for finishing 10^th on the 50m breastroke in their respective age groups.

20 April:
Congratulations to the following boys on being re-awarded swimming colours:

Wesley Obray, Matthew Danckwerts, Nick Eastwood, Lachlan MacDonald, Rupert Keiser and MJ Rosslee

New Colour Awards went to:

Michael Houghton and Matthew Malan

Dyllan Ramsay and Matthew Danckwerts participated in the Level 2 Nationals Gala in Port Elizabeth over the weekend. The competition was strong and both boys swam some of their personal best times. Much valuable experience was gained by both.

Swimming - Level 3 Youth Nationals Gala:
Congratulations to M-J Rosslee who participated in the Level 3 Youth Nationals gala over the weekend. This is the gala from which they choose the youth Olympic squad to participate in Singapore later this year so the country's top swimmers were there. M-J swam the 100m Breaststroke in a time of 1.12,65 finishing 8th in the country in the u16 age group. In doing so he smashed almost four seconds off the record he set at the inter-house gala this year. He also bettered his record in the 50m breaststroke event.

SA Schools Gala - Saturday 6 March:
Congratulations to Steven Briscoe who participated in the SA School Gala this weekend. He came 6th in 50 m free, 8th in 100 m free and won a gold medal for the 4 x 50 m free relay.

At the Interhouse gala on the 24^th and 25^th of February, the point distribution was the closest it has ever been. Excluding the 50m events, 9 new records were set, 11 colours times and 28 standard times were swum. Considering the current standard times were old colour times, gives you an indication of just how far the swimmers have improved over the last year.Congratulations to all who participated and well done to Merriman house for winning the gala.

Congratulations to Steven Briscoe who has been selected to represent the Eastern Cape for 50 and 100m freestyle at S.A Nationals in Bloemfontein on the 5th and 6th of March.

Steven Briscoe

At the short course inter schools' gala held at DSG last Tueday College once again showed that our swimmers are doing well. In the 18 events swum by boys, College achieved 12 first places, 14 second places and 13 third places.Six standard times and two colours times were swum and two new school records were set by Matthew Danckwerts in the U15 100m freestyle and Ralph Goveia in the U14 100m Individual medley.In the 8 pre gala events swum so far 4 records have already been broken. At the moment all six house are in for the running for first place as only 44 points separate 1st and 6th place.

Office bearers for 2010:

Congratulations to Lachlan Macdonald on being appointed Swimming Captain for 2010 and Nick Eastwood for being appointed Vice-Captain.

Gala Friday 5 February:
On Friday about 28 boys participated in the inter school's short course gala at Kingswood College. Kingswood proved a formidable apponent but never the less St Andrew's College swimmers managed to finish somewhere in the first three places in most of the events. The U14 side were particularly impressive by finishing first second and third in the 100m free,50m back and 50m fly events. The U16 squad did the same for the 100m free and the 50 m free events. There were swimmers who swam standard and colours times and who set new school records.

On Saturday M. Danckwerts and MJ. Rosslee participated in the Aquabear Gale in Uitenhage. Matthew finished the 100m freestyle event in a time of 1:02,55 smashing the record set by James Myburgh in the interhouse gala last year. He qualified for level two gala events. MJ broke the U16 100m breaststroke record set by David Muller in a colours time of 1:14.04. He qualified for level three gala events. There are both exceptional achievements by these two talented swimmers.

The River Mile
What a glorious day it was for this challenging event. It was wonderful to see the determination with which the swimmers tackled the distance and all the enthusiastic support from parents and friends of the school. A venture like this can only ever be successful with the help of many people. Thank you to all the staff and boys who were there to help in such a variety of ways. A special word of thanks must go to Mr Pete Andrews who arrived early to set up the course and who was there after the event to dismantle everything too. Thank you too to Mr Murray for his generosity in supplying us with boats to accompany the swimmers and for his wonderful hospitality after the mile.
The results were as follows. The junior half mile was won by Matthew Danckwerts (Upper) in a time of 14 minutes and 22 seconds. He was followed by Dyllan Ramsay (Graham) and Mat Arnot (Armstrong). The senior mile caused much excitement in that College was nearly beaten by a girl! Nick Eastwood (Graham) saved the day by tying for first place with Robyn Charter (D.S.G!) in a time of 27 minutes and 28 seconds. Second in was James Myburgh (Merriman) and third place went to James Baker from Graham.

The house results based on the first five swimmers home were as follows; (the house with the lowest points wins)
The Junior Mile:
1st Upper, 52 points
2nd Merriman, 63 points
3rd Armstrong, 72 points
4th Graham, 75 points
5th Espin 87 points
6th Mullins 129 points
The Senior Mile :( Please note the first 4 house finished within 12 points of each other)
1st Graham, 59 points
2nd Upper, 64 points
3rd Merriman, 65 points
4th Armstrong, 71 points
5th Mullins, 95 points
6th Espin, 105 points
Will Matthew Danckwert and Nic Eastwood please come up to receive the winning trophies?
R. Bouwer

Tudor Lacey coaches both the St Andrew’s College and DSG swimming squads:
Tudor Lacey was in Mullins 1956 – 1959

Quote from The Boy in You by Marguerite Poland:
Tudor Lacey began to make an impression at College in his junior years. By the time he reached matric, he and friend, Neil Oldridge – an exact contemporary and both members of Mullins House – made their unique presence felt. It was not surprising that Mullins won the gala year after year, and established itself, in their time, as invincible.

By the time he reached matric he had smashed most of the school records as well as other at provincial and national level. He swam for Eastern Province U15 in his second year at school and his 100m freestyle time, as an 18 year old, was already world class. On leaving school he was considered to be the second best all-round swimmer in the country, and three of his times were within the South African record for the event. In 1962 he was selected as a Springbok to compete in Japan and in 1963 his freestyle time was two seconds off the world record.

Lacey immigrated to America and in 1964/5 was a member of the USA’s All American Swimming Team. In 1966 he was ‘Athlete of the Year’ at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Unique among St Andrew’s sportsmen, however, is the fact that he was the first boy ever to be made a full Springbok while at school. He even beat a master into second place.

He is a man of great humility and depth.

In the interprovincial gala held in Uitenhage on the 23rd January, between EP, Freestate , Border and SWD, in the mens competition Simon Pheasant, a recent matriculant from St Andrews, won the 50m free was 2nd in both the 50m bacstroke and the 100m freestyle.

Congratulations to Lachlan Macdonald on being appointed swimming captain for 2010 and Nick Eastwood for being appointed vice-captain.

Office bearers for 2009:
Captain: Simon Pheasant
Vice-Captain: Nathan Reitzer

Assembly notice 5 August 2009:
On Friday six boys participated in a gala against some of the strongest swimmers in the Aquabear Swim Club and demonstrated just what hard training can do. Almost all of them swam their personal best times ever and knocked off between two and three seconds in the times they swam in the 100m events at our inter-house gala. Special mention must be made of Simon Pheasant who swam the 100m backstroke 1:00:05, four seconds faster that the new record he set at the inter-house gala and the 100m freestyle in a time of 52.90 seconds, almost three seconds faster than the current record held by Lyndon Emmerson.

Congratulations to the following boys for being awarded swimming colours March 2009:
Re awards:
Simon Pheasant
Nick Eastwood
Arron Higgins
Lachlan Macdonald
Angus Macdonald
New awards
Ryan Black
Nathan Reitzer
Declan Cowan
Mark Prior
Rupert Kieser
Liam Henderson
Wesley Obray
Brian Rushmere
William Cahill
MJ Rosslee
Matthew Danckwerts

Inter-House Individual and Relay Galas - February 2009:
The standard of swimming was exceptionally high this year. 28 colour times and 21 standard times were swum. Six individual records were broken and three relay records. Well done to Upper for winning both the individual and relay galas. Robyn Bouwer.

Congratulations to all those boys who participated in the long distance time trials that took place in the DSG aquatics centre on the 5th of February. Special mention must be made of Simon Pheasant who swam all his events in colours times. His time of 57.75 seconds for the 100m meter freestyle is particularly noteworthy. Michael Rosslee swam the 100m meters breaststroke in a time of 1minute 16.99 seconds. If he repeats this perfromance in the inter-house gala he will smash the record set by David Muller 6 years ago. Nick Eastwood and Arron Higgins also swam their events in colours times. The standard of swimming was high indicated by the fact that in addition to these colours times seven other boys also managed to swim their events in standard times. Robyn Bouwer

ST ANDREW'S COLLEGE RIVER MILE SUNDAY 25 JANUARY:
The Annual River Mile was held down in the Kowie River in Port Alfred in perfect weather conditions this past Sunday. It was great to see so many boys and girls participating and to see the good support from both parents and staff.
The Junior event was a closely contested affair with James Myburgh coming in just 3 seconds ahead of Matthew Danckwerts to clinch 1^st place. He was followed by Campbell Gregory, Dylan Ramsay and M-J Rosslee. The Junior team event was won by Armstrong House with all six swimmers amongst the top 17 finishers. Second was Graham House, followed by Upper, Espin, Merriman and Mullins.
The Senior event saw Simon Pheasant leading from start to finish, winning by just under a minute in 24 min and 6 secs. There was a close tussle for 2^nd spot with Nick Eastwood eventually coming inahead of Angus and Lachlan Macdonald, with James Baker in 5^th place, a little further back. The Senior team event was also won by Armstrong House with another strong showing. They were followed by Graham, Upper, Merriman, Mullins and Espin. Our thanks go to all the staff for their assistance on the day, to the boys for their enthusiastic participation and to Mr Boshoff for arranging a successful staff cycle ride from Grahamstown to Port Alfred. Pete Andrew

News

Missing Helen
8th May 2012
"Missing Helen" will be St Andrew's College and DSG's Dance 2012 Production. Updates on the preparation and production will be posted here.

Ireland Debating Tour
4th May 2012
13 College Debaters participated in the St Andrew's Ireland Model United Nations competition in Dublin.