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DSA & DSAS Swim Clubs among toppers at

Perak President Cup 2018

DSA Swimming Club third overall at Inter Club Meet

The highlight and the        THE state of Perak played host            The highlight and the crowd attraction for
crowd attraction for DSA            to the 37th National Inter-Club    DSA Swimming Club was the presence
Swimming Club was the               Swimming Championship for The      and participation of Malaysia National
presence and participation   President Cup and the highly competitive  and Olympic Swimmer, Welson Sim. The
of Malaysia National and     Meet was held at the Pusat Akuatik        Olympians presence was a huge morale
Olympic Swimmer, Welson      Tuanku Zara on 23-25 November. As         boost and a source of motivation for the
Sim. The Olympians           always the Meet had a large number        young swimmers as they looked to follow
presence was a huge          of participants, numbering over 1300,     by example to the reach the heights that
morale boost and a source    from swim clubs all over Malaysia. Both   Welson Sim has achieved.
of motivation for the young  DSA Club and DSAS Swimming Clubs
swimmers...                  participated in the Meet as separate      Both DSA and DSAS swimmers did well
                             teams. The young swimmers did the         in their events building up very creditable
  2                          clubs proud with DSA Swim Club placing    points and medal positions. Some of the
                             third in the overall ranking while the    top point winners for DSA Club included
                             smaller team of DSAS swimmers stood at    Chong Xin Lin, with 6 Golds and over
                             9th position.                             90 points to team tally. Georgene Wee
                                                                       added 3 more Golds followed by Welson
                                                                       Sim and Darren Lew Chen Jet with
                                                                       a Gold each and many more points.
                                                                       Yap Yong Jie, Grace Kim, Austin Gan,
                                                                       Jaydrien Ng, Sean Goh and a host of
                                                                       others; about 22 swimmers from the
                                                                       team made their contributions towards
                                                                       the total points putting the Club in the
                                                                       third place overall. Marcus Woo Yong
                                                                       Hau, a President Cup newbie, astonished
                                                                       the crowd with a Gold medal swim in
                                                                       his Breaststroke event. Heidi Chong Zi
                                                                       Xin brought home a Silver while other
                                                                       swimmers like Adam Jeffery Dillon,
                                                                       Jerriel Lau, Erin Eu Lakshmanan and
                                                                       many others added to the points tally
                                                                       for the DSAS Swim team bringing them
                                                                       within the top 10.

                                                                       With the biggest event of the year
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