{"id":34790,"date":"2024-02-12T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=34790"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T09:12:39","slug":"westville-remain-the-kings-of-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=34790","title":{"rendered":"Westville remain the kings of the pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Life is unpredictable. However, some things are more predictable than others, like Westville Boys’ High<\/strong> ruling the roost in swimming galas.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, they claimed victory in two of the season’s biggest galas against top opposition from KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.<\/p>\n

The action began on Friday night in the Chad le Clos Pool<\/strong> at Westville, with the Nestor Pierides Gala<\/strong>. The event, which consists of relays in different strokes and different age groups, is a stern examination of a school’s strength in depth, and when it comes to depth Westville is the gold standard.<\/p>\n

Only once in the past decade has Westville been beaten \u2013 by St Benedict’s College<\/strong>, in case you were wondering \u2013 and they swiftly avenged that setback.<\/p>\n

Bennies were the Griffin’s closest challengers on Friday evening, with Durban High School (DHS)<\/strong>, whose swimming trajectory keeps pointing upwards, in a close third place.<\/p>\n

Only 12 points separated the next four teams – Grey College<\/strong>, Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool (Affies)<\/strong>, Clifton College<\/strong> and St David’s Marist Inanda<\/strong> – in the final standings.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, many of the Nestor Pierides participants were back in action at the Alan Burt Gala<\/strong>, hosted at Crawford College La Lucia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Different day, same winner, but this time DHS secured second, pushing Westville all the way.<\/p>\n

Pretoria Boys High<\/strong>, 10th<\/sup> on Friday, were a totally different beast on Saturday and surged up the leaderboard to take third place, ahead of three schools that had finished ahead of them the previous day.<\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nestor Pierides Gala<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st: Westville Boys’ High – 299
\n2nd: St. Benedict’s College – 246
\n3rd: Durban High School – 236
\n4th: Grey College – 194
\n5th: Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool – 189
\n6th: Clifton College – 185
\n7th: St. David’s Marist Inanda – 182
\n8th: Maritzburg College<\/strong> – 133
\n9th: Kearsney College<\/strong> – 128
\n10th: Pretoria Boys High School – 97
\n11th: Northwood School<\/strong> – 74
\n|12th: Glenwood High<\/strong> – 56<\/p>\n

Alan Burt Gala<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st: Westville – 248
\n2nd: Durban High School – 229
\n3rd: Pretoria Boys’ High School – 176
\n4th: St. David’s Marist Inanda – 138
\n5th: Maritzburg College – 136
\n6th: King Edward VII<\/strong> – 127
\n7th: St. Stithians College<\/strong> – 115
\n8th: Kearsney College – 108
\n9th: Glenwood High – 51<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life is unpredictable. However, some things are more predictable than others, like Westville Boys’ High ruling the roost in swimming galas. Over the weekend, they claimed victory in two of the season’s biggest galas against top opposition from KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The action began on Friday night in the Chad le Clos Pool at Westville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":34792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}