Team Meeting LaTrobe City Cup
The LaTrobe City Cup took place on Sunday, July 24 beginning at 9:30am at the Morwell Leisure Centre. Thank you to Surrey Park Swim Club for joining us – as well as all Gippsland Clubs. It was great to see Tony Davies and members of the Traralgon North (Swan Hill) Squad in attendance! A great day for 185 athletes – lots of pbs and qualifying times achieved.
LaTrobe City Cup Photo Gallery
Results PDF
Kathleen Froud 100m Backstroke Award – Alice Peddle
Charles Ford 100m Backstroke Award – Alex Tsebelis
Congratulations to Age Group Winners – based on Age Events only
| Boys | Age | Club | Girls | Age | Club |
| Brody Cargill | 8/U | TRL | Miella Curthoys-Davies | 8/U | TRL |
| Keian Curthoys-Davies | 9 | TRL | Jaelina Kiley | 9 | SGB |
| Oliver Haberl | 10 | TRL | Molly Cargill | 10 | TRL |
| Jordyn Cargill | 11 | TRL | Chiara Pistrin | 11 | TRL |
| Samuel Reid | 12 | TRL | Chantelle Underwood | 12 | SYP |
| Hamish Langford | 13 | SYP | Neisha Ablett | 13 | TRL |
| Jonty Pote | 14 | SYP | Sadira Snell | 14 | TRL |
| Matthew van der Merwe | 15 | SLE | Angelique Chong-Nguyen | 15 | SYP |
| Lachlan Kelly | 16 | TRL | Alice Butler | 16 | TRL |
| Caiden Gill | 17/O | TRL | Sarah Harris | 17/O | SGB |
Over-All Scores Individual Swimmers
Highlights of the day were:
(a) 4 first time Country qualifiers – Cade Hughes (10), Claudia Lee (9), Chiara Bordinaro (14), Charlie Hamilton (9)
(b) 2 first time State Qualifiers – Nathan Higginson (13), Oliver Haberl (10)
(c) 12 Age group champions
(d) Traralgon winning the La Trobe City Cup for the 10th year in succession.
(e) Ales Tsebelis winning the Charles Ford Memorial 100M back in record time and Alice Peddle, the Kathleen Froud Memorial 100 Back
(f) 6 Gippsland Records
– Alex Tsebelis – Boys 15/16 years 50m Back – 28.19 (previous record – 28.56 – Brayden Waltham (2008), Matt Norwood (2010) – both Traralgon)
– Boys 15/16 years 100m Back – 58.86 (previous record – 59.40 – Connor O’Neill (2015) – Traralgon)
– Molly Cargill – Girls 9/10 years 50m Free – 30.93 (previous record – 31.16 – Annie Pepper (2009) – Morwell)
– Lachlan McDowall – Men’s 35 year/over – 26.41 (previous record – 27.14 – Bob Campbell – Burns (1991) – Sale)
– Girls 10 years/under 4 x 50 Free relay – 2.18.10 (previous record – 2.18.26 – Traralgon (2014))
– Girls 10 years/under 4 x 50 Medley relay – 2.35.13 (previous record – 2.41.69 – Traralgon (2014)) (Molly Cargill, Zoe Dowler, Sam Sbaglia, Kaja Tierney)
Thank you to all officials and especially to the Traralgon members who helped in so many ways. The meet was run in a timely and efficient manner. Thank you for food donations – and special thanks to Janice and Helen and their team in the ‘kitchen’.
July 19, 2016
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