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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