UPH Placed 3rd in the LIMA Swimming 2013

After successfully organizing the Liga Mahasiswa ? LIMA (University Students? League) Basketball and LIMA Badminton, LIMA held the swimming competition for university students ? LIMA Swimming. Lima Swimming was held on June 29 to June 30 2013 and took place at Pertamina Simprug, Jakarta. LIMA CEO, Ryan Gozali, said about their readiness in organizing the competition. “Swimming is new kind of sport we want to work on, we have a cooperation with PB PRSI (Swimming Association of Indonesia), and it is very productive. We anticipate the good result of LIMA Swimming as well as we have done in LIMA Basketball and LIMA Badminton”, said Ryan.

Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH), together with other 9 universities, competed in the swimming competition with different 15 competition styles for male and female. The 15 styles that were competed are freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly stroke, where each of the style has various lengths of 50m, 100m, and 200m. Meanwhile, the rest of the styles are 200m individual medleys, two styles for group competition; freestyle relay and medley relay with 4x100m for both male and female.

In this competition, Sabrina Yoshe achieved the silver medal in the 50m breaststroke style, bronze medal in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and in the 50m butterfly stroke. Meanwhile, Lucretia achieved the silver medal in 4 categories; 200m individual relay, 50m, 100m, and 200m freestyle. Overall, UPH managed to achieve the third position with a total point of 68.

Testimonials from the winners:

Lucretia (SoD – Visual Communication Design 2011)

For this LIMA Swimming competition, I practiced 2 times a week, but a week before the competition, I increased my practice portion to 3 times a week. In addition, I did physical exercise, consumed nutritious food and had enough rest. The competition was fun and I learned many new experiences. I believe, besides the training  I did, I placed in top three because I stayed focus during the event, praying that all preparations run well, and always be positive that I definitely can do the best.

Congratulations to all of the winners! (ym)