The Otago Swimming Coaching Academy was formed to continue the work of the late Duncan Laing.
Labara was appointed head coach two years ago.
He has brought discipline and hard work into the squad and demands perfect technique from his swimmers.
Labara tested his swimmers at the Otago championships by continuing the hard training and expecting them to compete in many events.
"I wanted to give then a maximum workload to see how they would cope with the stress at the championships," Labara said.
"They were swimming tired but I still expected them to concentrate on technique."
The Osca swimmers came through the ordeal with flying colours, with three of them topping the ranks in their age grades: Nicole Ruske (grade 9), Katie Kenneally (senior women) and Nick Tyrrell (senior men). Matthew Glassford came runner-up in the senior men's grade.
Kenneally (17) was in dominant form and won 13 senior women's events.
She is a breaststroke specialist and competed at the Youth Olympics at Sydney last month.
She comfortably won the three breaststroke events - 50m (33.78sec), 100m (1min 12.48sec) and 200m (2min 44.61sec).
But Labara demands that his swimmers become proficient in all the strokes which enabled her to win the 200m (2min 25.05sec) and 400m (5min 12.54sec) individual medley events.
Kenneally demonstrated her fitness by winning the freestyle events with times of 4min 36.88sec in the 400m and 9min 30.86sec in the 800m.
Kenneally won the senior women's grade with 234 points, followed by Neptune clubmate Adrienne Tameilau 174 and Nicole Martyn (Taieri) 146.
Tyrrell (Neptune) won the senior men's grade, followed by club-mate and training partner Matthew Glasson (150) and Adam Simpson (Waves) 148.
Tyrrell is an all-rounder who won 10 titles through his skilful technique.
His silky style in the water resembles that of double Olympic medallist Danyon Loader who was Duncan Laing's star pupil at Moana Pool.
Laing coached Tyrrell to his first New Zealand championship medal. Tyrrell's best performances at the weekend came in the 200m (2min 15.38sec) and 400m (4min 39.48sec) individual medley events.
He also showed that he has speed by winning the 50m freestyle (25.29sec) and 50m backstroke (29.55sec).
Glassford is a breaststroke specialist and won the 50m (32.63sec), 100m (1min 08.18sec) and 200m (2min 23.78sec).
He demonstrated his stamina by winning the 1500m freestyle in 16min 30.31sec.
The other dominant swimmer in the Osca squad was Cameron McMahon (Neptune), who came runner-up in the boys aged 12 and 13 grade with 190 points.
He was pipped for the top spot by Thomas Wardhaugh (Waves) with 192 points.
McMahon (13) won eight titles that included the five freestyle events.
He cracked the minute in the 100m freestyle with 58.96sec.
Osca swimmers won 50 titles at the Otago championships, topping last year's total of 41.
The 33 swimmers in the squad achieved 130 personal best performances.
Most of the Osca swimmers are members of the Neptune club.
But it is not compulsory, with Labara also coaching swimmers from other Otago clubs.
The Neptune club has benefited most from Labara's coaching and is again a strong force on the national scene.
It had only 10 swimmers competing at the Otago championships in 2006.
This year it had 33.
Waves is still the biggest club in Otago and it again won the teams competition with 2654 points.
It was followed by Neptune 2476, Queenstown 1112, Oamaru 1080, Alexandra 777, Taieri 354, Cromwell 353, Milton 246, Clutha United 226, Kiwi 210, Wanaka 198 and Zenith 8.
The other individual grade champions were: Jack Clark (Alexandra) boys 9 and under, Briana Clark (Alexandra) girls aged 10 and 11, Adam Hope (Oamaru) boys aged 10 and 11, Stef Gillespie (Waves) girls aged 12 and 13, Carina Doyle (Waves) girls aged 14 and 15, and Zachary Aitken (Oamaru) boys aged 14 and 15.
