Victorian Country Championships 2019 – Warragul – The Numbers
What amazing weekend of competition with parents, swimmers, coaches and supporters coming together to succeed in another Countries victory. This is another record breaking title with 19 wins in 20 years (starting in 2000).
Bring on Warrnambool 2020. GO TRARALGON!! ALWAYS TRARALGON!!! NO SURRENDER!!!!
Points Score
| Club | Girls | Boys | Total (Including Mixed relays) |
| Traralgon | 1685 | 905 | 2664 |
| Geelong | 582 | 960 | 1546 |
| Bendigo East | 506 | 444 | 988 |
| South Gippsland Bass | 278 | 508 | 800 |
| Ballarat Gold | 396 | 380 | 796 |
| Warrnambool | 310 | 392 | 702 |
| Shepparton | 208 | 379 | 599 |
| Warragul | 294 | 240 | 534 |
| Wangaratta | 298 | 122 | 534 |
| Geelong Sharks | 112 | 228 | 340 |
Finals
146 Individual
35 Relay
Medals
| Individual | Relay | Total | |
| Gold | 25 | 13 | 38 |
| Silver | 18 | 8 | 26 |
| Bronze | 15 | 6 | 21 |
Records
Ruby Storm (6 Australian MC)
15 years and Open 100 breast – 1.21.01
15 years 200 breast – 3.02.07
15 years 50 breast – 37.34
15 years 50 fly – 31.57
15 years 100 fly – 1.09.96
Ainsley Trotter (1 Event)
Girls 11 years 50m Back – 34.52
Previous record – 34.74 – Sophie Waller (Traralgon) – 2015
Ashley Nicholes (1 Event, 3 Gippsland)
Boys 12 years 50m Breast – 1.17.51 (Event & Gippsland)
Previous record – 1.19.04 – Alex Tsebelis (Traralgon) – 2013
Boys 12 years 50m Breast (first 50 of 100m final) – 37.32 (Gippsland)
(Previous record – Stuart Hall (Morwell) – 37.69 – 2005)
Jordyn Cargill – 10 Gippsland records
Boys 14 years 50m Back – 29.60 (first leg of Boys 14 years Medley relay)
(Previous record – Locke DeGaris (Traralgon) – 31.68 – 2015)
Boys 14 years 100m Free – 55.72
(Previous record – Caiden Gill (Traralgon) – 55.78 – 2013)
Boys 14 years 200m Free – 2.05.73 (heat), 2.05.20 (final)
(Previous record – Brendon Malcolm (EGWD) – 2.06.48 – 2017)
Boys 14 years 100m Back – 1.03.61
(Previous record – Caiden Gill (Traralgon) – 1.04.12 – 2013)
Boys 14 years 100m Fly – 1.00.87
(Previous record – Alex Tsebelis (Traralgon) – 1.01.38 – 2015)
Boys 14 years 200m IM – 2.18.49 (heat), 2.14.80 (final)
(Previous record – Alex Tsebelis (Traralgon) – 2.23.53 – 2015)
Boys Open and 14 years 400m IM – 4.46.83
(Previous record – 14 years – Alex Tsebelis (Traralgon) – 5.04.47 – 2015)
(Previous record – Open – Ashley Delanery (Traralgon) – 4.52.65 – 2017)
Relays (2 Country, 2 Event, 4 Gippsland)
Girls 17 years/over 4 x 50 Free – 1.54.20 ( Country, Event & Gippsland)
(Mikaela Cornelissen, Maggie O’Keefe, Courtney Ford, Emily Beecroft)
Previous record – Traralgon – 1.54.93 – 2015
Open Mixed 4 x 50 Free – 1.45.41 (Country & Event)
(Jeremy Saunders, Trent Morrow, Fabienne Schoutens, Maggie O’Keefe)
Previous record – Traralgon – 1.45.83 – 2015
Boys Open and 17/Over 4 x 50 Medley – 1.48.41 (2x Gippsland)
(Ashley Delaney, Cameron Juha, Sam Ashby, Trent Morrow)
(Previous record – Traralgon – 1.50.81 – 2017)
Boys Open 4 x 100 Medley – 4.00.52 (Gippsland)
(Ashley Delaney, Cameron Juha, Sam Ashby, Trent Morrow)
(Previous record – Traralgon – 4.00.94 – 2017)
Individual Medal Winners
| Swimmer | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Jordy Cargill (14) | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Ashley Nicholes (12) | 3 | 2 | |
| Sam Ashby (30) | 1 | 1 | |
| Ashley Delaney (32) | 1 | 1 | |
| Andrew Cameron (29) | 1 | ||
| Brenton Ford (31) | 1 | ||
| Brody Cargill (9) | 1 | ||
| Cameron Juha (25) | 1 | ||
| Emily Beecroft (19) | 4 | 1 | |
| Molly Cargill (13) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Ainsley Trotter (11) | 3 | 1 | |
| Ruby Storm (15) | 1 | 4 | |
| Bridget Cain (17) | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Mia Nippers (12) | 1 | 2 | |
| Mikaela Cornelissen (20) | 1 | ||
| Zoe Dowler (13) | 1 | ||
| Abby Warner (13) | 1 | 1 | |
| Eliza Watts (13) | 1 | ||
| Ella Warner (11) | 1 | ||
| Alice Peddle (18) | 1 | ||
| Kayla Wilson (12) | 1 | ||
| Abby Paulet (12) | 1 | ||
| Neisha Ablett (15) | 1 | ||
| Olivia Baillie (11) | 1 | ||
| 25 | 18 | 15 | |
| Relays | 13 | 8 | 6 |
| 38 | 26 | 21 |
Relay Medal Winners
In addition to the above we have a further 22 swimmers winning medals in relays:
Joel Baillie (14)
Aidan Bell (15)
Tayla Bellion (12)
Caydence Bezzina (15)
Rebecca Cainey (19)
Chance Doultree (16)
Tom Dowler (16)
Courtney Ford (33)
Oliver Haberl (12)
Xavier Haberl (14)
Audrey Lee (17)
Paige McLennan (17)
Ash Mihaly (14)
Trent Morrow (22)
Maggie O’Keefe (21)
Will Pendergast (14)
Elayna Pistrin (16)
Jeremy Saunders (29)
Rachael Sbaglia (15)
Samantha Sbaglia (13)
Fabienne Schoutens (20)
Kaja Tierney (12)
Individual Statistics
81 swimmers
16 Girls won Individual medals
8 Boys won Individual medals
22 additional swimmers won medals in Relays
10 additional swimmers made Finals or finished in top 8 in relays
A total of 56 swimmers contributed to the Club points score – a fantastic point result.
Trophies
Congratulations to 12 year old Ashley Nicholes who was awarded the Dr Rob Godfrey Trophy as the 13 & Under swimmer with highest points score from age group events (No Open events). Ashley scored 102 points in winning 3 gold and 2 silver medals in age events.
Congratulations as well to Sam Ashby who won the Australia Day medal for achieving the highest FINA points for a result. Sam’s 50m breaststroke result of 29.38 earned 727 FINA points.
Thank you
Thank you to our wonderful team captains, Bridget and Kieran and Vice Captains Jordyn and Paige who were excellent leaders and great support to their team mates.
To our member officials, members of the organising committee (Special thanks to Michael Mihaly), and all parents who responded generously to rosters and the needs of such a large and busy weekend.
January 28, 2019
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