National Age Championships Reporting

National Age Championships kicked off on Monday with 9 Traralgon swimmers and two relays in action.  There were 5 finals resulting in 4 PBs and a Bronze medal to Ellodie Reid in the 15 years girls 200m backstroke.  Ellodie’s finals time was 2:20.96.  Caiden placed 4th in the 100 free with a PB time of 51.50.  Alex was 6th in the 200IM (2:16.31PB) and 9th in the 100 fly (1:01.00).   Mikaela  placed 6th in the 100 free (57.26PB).

Tuesday’s events saw Caiden Gill winning a bronze medal in the 16 Years Boys 50m Freestyle with a blistering time of 23.15 (PB).  Mikaela placed 4th in the 50 free (26.15PB) and Melina came 7th in the 200 back (2:22.14PB).  5 PBs were achieved on the day as well!

Wednesday saw 2 more PBs swum in heats – Lauren (1:00.83) in the 100 free and Alex (55.77) 100 free. Mikaela swam a 1:04.90 to make the 100 back final where she placed 9th .  The Girls 16 & Under 4×100 free team placed 10th and the boys team placed 7th.

Thursday:  Alex PB 50 free (25.39) and Ellodie 100 back (1:07.85).  Alex made the 100 breast final and placed 7th with a 1:10.49 PB swim.  EGWD’s Josh Seignior won a silver medal (one of two he would secure) with a time of 1:07.99.  His heat time of 1:07.46 broke Jeremy Meyer’s OOG record. Josh also placed 2nd in the 200 breast on Friday night – again breaking Jeremy Meyer’s 200br OOG record with a huge PB.

Friday produced two more bronze medals and 5 PB swims!  Melina improved her best time in  heats and again in the finals of the 100 back (where she equalled Belinda Hocking’s country record with a 1:04.22) to place 4th. Alex swam nearly a 2 second PB to place third going in to the final of the 100 back where he swam 1:01.51 to place equal 3rd – bronze medal!  Locke DeGaris made the final as well with a 1:02.87 PB swim and finished 9th.  Ellodie posted a PB in her heat swim of the 200 free to improve 14 places – from 37 to 23.  And in the 100 fly, Mikaela finished with a Bronze medal with a 1:01.16. Terrific night!

On Saturday Mikaela swam in the 200m backstroke and swam a pb time of 2:24.21 which put her just out of the final in 12 place.

It was time for Emily to enter the stage with the first of the Multi-Class events.  Emily swam in the 400m freestyle (her second swim in this event, ever) and swam a pb time (5:20.64) that placed her 5th.  Her results are stunning with 5 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals.  Emily’s gold have been n the 100 bk (1:19.47 PB), 50 free (30.95), 200IM (2:47.95 PB), 50 bk (35.95 PB), 50 fly (31.96 PB), silver in the 100 free (1:07.56) and her bronze medals in the 100 br (1:30.28 PB), 50 breast (41.98) and 100 fly (1:16.73). Wonderful results!  See SVI article – link below.

http://www.swimming.org.au/article.php?group_id=69478&id=2