The tenth and final Round of the 2019/20 SWA OWS Series got underway this morning with near perfect conditions with a 29C sunny and fresh off shore easterly winds at Scarborough Beach proudly presented by Westpac. A venue record of 561 swimmers took to the water this morning in front of the Scarbrough Amphitheater.
Westpac Regional General Manager Michael Walker was in attendance to help start the swimmers for the final time in our 2019.20 OWS Series and brought with him a team of Westpac Volunteers who brought games and free Gypsy Soul Coffee vouchers before putting on a free BBQ at our OWS Series Windup looking over the beautiful Indian Ocean that hosts our series every year.
This year Swimming WA invited Surf Lifesaving and Triathlon to send us their best 5 swimmers to take on our team in the Westpac Indian Ocean All-Stars Challenge, a 1.25km swim around our course with a beach sprint start to make thing interesting. With bragging rights for the best in the ocean and a $500 sporting voucher up for grabs to the winning tean, tensions were high. While Surf Lifesavings Charlie Hewitt was first out of the water with a time of 15:04.3, it was solid performance of the Swimming WA team Rosie WILSON, Jack WILSON, Chloe GREEN, Samantha MACFARLANE and Sacha DOWNING that took out the win just 2 points ahead of Surf Lifesaving.
Well done to all swimmers who chose to come swim with us today and well done to those who challenged themselves to achieve their goals.
Congratulations to Sean for taking out this Rounds New Town Toyota Competition. Just by posting a picture on social media by the New Town Toyota OWS Series Hilux and tagging @new_town_toyota and @owsseries he will be receiving a $50 gift voucher. Thank you to all of those who participated this season.
While our 2019/20 OWS Series is ended today we do have two more opportunities for you to get your open water swimming fix.
For more information on both these events and for travel discounts follow the above links to the individual event pages.
Here are our place getters for the OWS Series Round 10: Scarborough Beach proudly brought to you by Westpac:
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Thank you to The Nomad Company, our official photographer of the OWS Series. If you would like more details or to purchase an image please email info@thenomadcompany.com.au or visit www.thenomadcompany.com.au