{"id":3793,"date":"2018-01-05T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:00:27","slug":"wokings-anna-maine-selected-for-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=3793","title":{"rendered":"Woking&#8217;s Anna Maine makes squad selection for Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Woking Swimming Club&#8217;s Anna Maine has made Team England squad selection for the Commonwealth Games in Australia in April.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3792 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnnaMaine-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnnaMaine-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnnaMaine-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnnaMaine-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/AnnaMaine.jpg 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The 17-year-old backstroke specialist has swum impressively at county, regional and national meets over the past few years, including Great Britain representation at both the European and World Junior Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">She is current county record holder of the ladies&#8217; and girls&#8217; 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke as well as the girls&#8217; 50m freestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Swimming referee and officials&#8217; trainer Christina Victor said the announcement was &#8220;fabulous news for Anna and Surrey swimming&#8221; and &#8220;well deserved for a very talented swimmer.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">County masters organiser Jim Boucher said it was &#8220;a fantastic achievement&#8221;, while Woking treasurer Julie Burvill said of her selection: &#8220;How cool is that?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Maine, who joined Woking as an associate swimmer when she was six, won the Freedom Leisure Young Sports Personality at the Sport Woking Awards last year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woking Swimming Club&#8217;s Anna Maine makes Team England squad selection for the Commonwealth Games in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"category-swimming","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9090,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/9090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}