NZ Secondary School Swimming Championships

From 24–27 July, a team of talented swimmers from St Paul’s competed at the 2025 New Zealand Secondary Schools Swimming Championships, achieving 14th overall from 74 schools.

Competing across a range of individual and team events, our students delivered multiple podium finishes and personal bests in what was a highly competitive national meet. Special congratulations go to our top swimmers for their exceptional results:

Neo Urlich

• 2nd: 50m butterfly
• 4th: 200m freestyle
• 5th: 400m freestyle
• 6th: 100m freestyle
• 7th: 50m freestyle

John Park

• 3rd: 100m breaststroke
• 6th: 50m breaststroke
• 5th: 200m breaststroke
• 8th: 200m individual medley

Finn Freemantle

• 5th: 100m freestyle
• 7th: 50m freestyle
• 10th: 400m freestyle

Lani Jarrett

• 5th: 200m freestyle
• 6th: 100m backstroke

Ashley Lander

• 6th: 200m backstroke
• 8th: 100m bacsktroke

Addison Welch

• 6th: 200m butterfly
• 10th: 50m butterfly
• 10th: 100m butterfly

Emma Fletcher

• 10th: 50m backstroke

Relay results:

• 2nd: 8x 50m freestyle – Neo Urlich, John Park, Lochi Hoy, Finn Freemantle, Emma Fletcher, Addison Welch, Lani Jarrett and Ashley Lander
• 2nd: 2x 50m freestyle – Neo Urlich and Lani Jarrett
• 2nd: 4x 50m freestyle – Neo, John, Lani, Ashley
• 2nd: 4x 50m medley – Lani, John, Neo, Ashley
• 3rd: 2x 50m freestyle – John Park and Ashley Lander
• 9th: 4x 50m medley – Lochi, Emma, Addison, Finn
• 6th: 4x 50m freestyle – Neo Urlich, John, Lochi, Finn
• 7th: 4x 50m freestyle – Ashley Lander, Lani Jarrett, Addison Welch, Emma Fletcher
• 5th: 4x 100m freestyle – Neo, John, Lochi, Finn
• 8th: 4x 100m freestyle – Ashley Lander, Lani Jarrett, Addison Welch, Emma Fletcher
• 12th: 2x 50m freestyle – Neo Urlich and John Park

A huge congratulations to all our students who competed in the championships. Your dedication, discipline and teamwork were evident across all events. Thank you to Mr Joy Mika for his time and support in managing the team throughout the meet.