GREAT SWIMMING TIMES
1 5-YEAR-.OLD SOUTHLAND GIRL MISS JOYCE MacDONALD
Mias Joyce Macuonald, Southland's brilliant young swimmer, is this year showing form which may well result in her inclusion in the New Zealand Empire Games team. As yet only 15 years of age Miss Macdonald has still another season as an intermediate swimmer, but her times on 'the backstroke are equalling the senior women's records established nine years ago by that outstanding Auckland girl, Miss Ena Stockley, who was invited on more than one overseas tour. Still a student at the Southland Technical College Miss Macdonald began her representative career in 1935 when she xepresented Southland at the intermediate and junior national championship meeting, being plaeed third in the girls' 50-yards and 100-yards free-style bdth won by Miss Margery Black, of Auckland. She was then 12 years of age. The following year, representing Southland again at Hamilton she once again fllled third place in the same events, but was handicapped by a sprained ankle. This was the meeting at which Miss Islay Purdie and the little t.Iaorl jprl Nawi Kera achieved such i amo, v ■i
In the following season Miss Macdonald was showing Spfeed which appeared certain to give her at least one NCw Zealand title at Nelson when the paralysis epidemic caused the abandonment of all the championships. Her record in Southland champlonships is as follows:— 1935.— First in 50-yards and 100-yards junior girls' free-style. 1936.— First in 50-yatds and 100-yards junior girls' free-style; second in 50-yards junior girls' breaststroke. 1936.— First in 100-yards and 220-yards intermediate girls' championship, creating a new Southland record for the 220 yards; first in 100yards intermediate girls' backstroke championship. Later in the 1936 season she established a New Zealand record , for the intermediate girls' backstroke of 77 4-5sec. In a.ldition to this she has been the junior champion of the Technical College and holds all the junior records there. At present she is showing as much speed free-style as any other woman swimmer, as well as being prominent in the backstxCke. .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 67, 11 December 1937, Page 17
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