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As a result of his excellent performances at the Regional Country Meet in Narooma, Thomas Hamers-Smith has been selected as the ACT's only representative for the NSW Country Regional Camp, to be held on the NSW North Coast in April 2002. Thomas will be accompanied by our very own Coach Terry who has been selected by NSW Swimming as a member of the coaching team. Great recognition for coach and swimmer - congratulations Thomas and Terry!!. |
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SHE DID IT!! Not only did Katrina Lewis have the thrill of winning the Elite Athletes with a Disability (EAD) 50m freestyle LIVE on national television, but she has also won a place on the Australian Swim Team for the Commonwealth Games, to be held in Manchester, England, later this year. See the Canberra Times article and photograph that appeared on 31 March and the Chronicle article of 2 April. What an incredible achievement for a swimmer who has been in the water only a little more than a year. Congratulations Katrina - Brindabella salutes you!! Check the full results for both Brindabella swimmers who competed at this Meet. |
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Club Captain Rachael Miles and Katrina Lewis will take on the might of Australian Swimming when they travel to Brisbane for the Australian Open (and Commonwealth Games Trials) in March. Rachael will be swimming the 50m and 200m breast events, whilst Katrina has qualified in every event in her class. What an awesome achievement!. |
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What a weekend at ACT Age - our junior girls continued their dominance of the local swim scene, with Sri Barber (9 years), Melanie Quiggin (11 years) and Lainee Sutton (12 years) taking out ACT Age Champions' trophies. |
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Katrina Lewis is awarded the Dawn Fraser Award for junior female disability athletes, which includes a cash award donated by Dawn herself. Congratulations Katrina!!. |
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The Brindabella NSW Country Championships Hall of Fame:
- Lainee Sutton wins gold in the 100m free and bronze in the 200m IM, and joins the Brindabella Age Nationals Team with qualifying times in both events!! Lainee also won finallist ribbons in three more events.
- Krysten Mansell and Jono Rousseau add events to their Age Nationals program.
- Sri Barber, Ben Grady, Krysten Mansell, Rachael Miles, Jonathon Rousseau and James Thorp also win finallist ribbons.
- Sonja Falez makes a return to competitive swimming with a beautiful first up PB in the 50m fly.
- Bethany Miles celebrates her welcome return to representative swimming with four PBs.
- Special congratulations also to our awesome first-timers Dylan Appelquist, Thomas Hamers-Smith, Stewart Thompson and Maddie White.
- It's not only our swimmers making waves - Jenny Stueckradt and David Murphy provided the best announcing we've ever heard at a NSW event, whilst John Rousseau must surely be "Presenter of the Meet"!!
- And finally, no-one watching from the stands will forget the whole team's stunning performance in the Parade of Competitors. Congratulations especially to Scott Barber, Sylvia Mansell and Rod Saywell who prepared the team and to Bethany Miles who was an excellent march leader.
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An awesome summer season for Brindabella Swimmers continues with an awesome TWENTY-NINE (after Dylan's wonderful perfomances at ACT Development!) of our swimmers qualifying for the Summer Country Championships. Congratulations to the following swimmers:
| Dylan Appelqvist |
100m Breast - Age |
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| Sri Barber |
100m Free - 9 & U |
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| Mark Bennett |
100m Back - Age, 100m Free - Age |
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| Josh Berry |
100m Back - Age, 100m Breast - Age, 100m Free - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| Tim Cameron |
100m Back - Age, 100m Breast - 10 & U, 100m Fly - 10 & U |
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| Brian Christensen |
50m Breast - Open, 100m Breast - 17 & O, 100m Breast - Open, 200m Breast - Open, 400m IM - Open |
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| Kahlia Cossetto |
100m Back - 10 & U, 100m Breast - 10 & U, 100m Free - Age, 200m IM - 10 & U |
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| Natasha Cossetto |
100m Back - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| Stephanie Cossetto |
100m Back - Age, 100m Free - Age |
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| Sonja Falez |
100m Breast - Age, 100m Breast - Open, 50m Fly - Open, 100m Fly - Age, 100m Fly - Open, 200m Fly - Open, 200m IM - Age |
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| Ben Grady |
100m Back - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Open, 100m Free - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| Thomas Hamers-Smith |
100m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| Teagan Hore |
100m Back - Age, 100m Breast - Age |
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| Katrina Lewis |
MD 50m Free, MS 100m Free, MD 50m Back, MD 50m Fly, MD 50m Breast |
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| Krysten Mansell |
16 events : 50m Back - Open, 100m Back - Age, 100m Back - Open, 200m Back - Open, 100m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Open, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - 14 & U, 200m Free - Open, 400m Free - 14 & U, 400m Free - Open, 800m Free - Open, 200m IM - Age, 200m IM - Open, 400m IM - Open |
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| Bethany Miles |
100m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 100m Free - Age, 400m Free - 14 & U, 200m IM - Age |
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| Hannah Miles |
100m Back - 10 & U, 100m Breast - 10 & U, 100m Free - Age |
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| Rachael Miles |
17 events : 50m Back - Open, 100m Back - Age, 100m Back - Open, 200m Back - Open, 50m Breast - Open, 100m Breast - Age, 100m Breast - Open, 200m Breast - Open, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Open, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - Open, 400m Free - Open, 800m Free - Open, 200m IM - Age, 200m IM - Open, 400m IM - Open |
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| Melanie Quiggin |
100m Back - Age, 100m Breast - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| Colby Rook |
100m Back - Age, 100m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 100m Free - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| Jono Rousseau |
100m Back - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Open, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - 14 & U, 400m Free - 14 & U, 200m IM - Age |
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| Joshua Rousseau |
100m Fly - Age |
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| Lyndsay Saywell |
100m Free - 9 & U |
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| Melissa Stueckradt |
100m Fly - Age, 100m Free - Age |
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| Lainee Sutton |
15 events : 100m Back - Age, 100m Back - Open, 200m Back - Open, 100m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Open, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - 14 & U, 200m Free - Open, 400m Free - 14 & U, 400m Free - Open, 800m Free - Open, 200m IM - Age, 200m IM - Open, 400m IM - Open |
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| Nyree Sutton |
50m Back - Open, 100m Back - Age, 50m Free - Open, 100m Free - Age |
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| Stewart Thompson |
100m Back - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| James Thorp |
100m Back - Age, 100m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 100m Free - Age, 200m IM - Age |
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| Maddie White |
100m Breast - Age |
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Brindabella's young medley dynamo Lainee Sutton wins a place in NSW Swimming's elite 12 Years 200m Medley Squad. A great honour for Lainee and the Club, this will see her training regularly in Sydney this year with the best young medley swimmers in the State. Way to go, Lainee!! |
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The Brindabella NSW State Championships Hall of Fame:
- Katrina Lewis - Five-times (count them!!) medallist (three silver, two bronze)
- Bronze medallist (12 years 400m free) and three finals - Lainee Sutton
- Finallists Ben Grady (200m fly), Rachael Miles (100m breast, 3 PBs), Melanie Quiggin (200m breast) and James Thorp (200m fly, along with 7 PBs from 7 events).
- PBs on debut - Hannah Miles and Melissa Stueckradt.
- SPECIAL AWARD for grinning underwater whilst swimming a 2 second PB to Kahlia Cossetto.
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A huge squad of twenty-five Brindabella swimmers qualifies for the Summer State Championships - congratulations to you all:
| Sri Barber |
100m Back - 9 & U, 100m Fly - 9 & U, 100m Free - 9 & U |
| Mark Bennett |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age |
| Josh Berry |
100m Breast - Age, 200m Breast - 11 & U, 200m IM - Age |
| Brian Christensen |
50m Breast - Open, 100m Breast - 19 & O, 200m Breast - 19 & O, 400m IM - 19 & O |
| Kahlia Cossetto |
100m Back - Age |
| Natasha Cossetto |
200m Breast - 11 & U |
| Stephanie Cossetto |
100m Back - Age |
| Sonja Falez |
100m Breast - Age, 200m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Age, 200m IM - Age |
| Ben Grady |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Age, 50m Free - Age, 200m Free - Age, 200m IM - Age |
| Teagan Hore |
200m Breast - 11 & U |
| Krysten Mansell |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age, 100m Breast - Age, 200m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Age, 50m Free - Age, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - Age, 400m Free - Age, 800m Free - 15 & U, 200m IM - Age, 400m IM - 15 & U |
| Hannah Miles |
100m Back - Age |
| Rachael Miles |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age, 50m Breast - Open, 100m Breast - Age, 200m Breast - Age, 200m Fly - Age, 50m Free - Age, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - Age, 400m Free - Age, 200m IM - Age, 400m IM - 15 & U |
| Wes Palmer |
100m Breast - 9 & U |
| Melanie Quiggin |
200m Back - 11 & U, 100m Breast - Age, 200m Breast - 11 & U, 200m IM - Age |
| Colby Rook |
100m Back - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - 11 & U, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - 11 & U, 200m IM - Age |
| Jonathon Rousseau |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Age, 50m Free - Age, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - Age, 400m Free - Age |
| Joshua Rousseau |
100m Fly - Age |
| Max Sansoni |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age |
| Lyndsay Saywell |
100m Back - 9 & U, 100m Fly - 9 & U |
| Melissa Stueckradt |
50m Free - Age |
| Lainee Sutton |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age, 100m Breast - Age, 200m Breast - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - Age, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - Age, 400m Free - 12 & U, 200m IM - Age |
| Nyree Sutton |
50m Free - Age |
| James Thorp |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - 11 & U, 100m Fly - Age, 200m Fly - 11 & U, 100m Free - Age, 200m Free - 11 & U, 200m IM - Age |
| David Williams |
100m Back - Age, 200m Back - Age, 100m Fly - Age, 50m Free - Age |
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Great fun had by all (well, the parents anyway - they weren't the ones swimming non-stop for an hour!) at the 2001 Swimathon on 13 October. HUGE congratulations to all the swimmers who participated Special congratulations go to Jono Rousseau who, for the second year running, swum the most laps, completing 190 in 1 hour - that's 4.75 kilometres!! A warm welcome back too, to Sonja Falez, who, in her first outing since shoulder surgery, swam 90 laps. Onya Sonja!!
Winners of the prizes in each squad were:
- Development Squad - Julian Olsen, 92 laps
- Junior Squad - Stephanie Cossetto, 152 laps
- Intermediate Squad - Thomas Hamers-Smith and Colby Rook, 166 laps
- Advanced Squad and overall top three - Krysten Mansell 184, Rachael Miles 186 and Jono 190.
Jono very graciously donated the CD voucher he won to the swimmer who raises the most money overall. |
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Our resident Australian Record-holder Katrina Lewis does it again at the recent National Junior Disabled Games in Brisbane. Katrina scores eight gold and two silver medals, with new 13 & Under Australian Records in the 50m Free (32.99), 100m Free (1.11.60), 200m Free (2.32.68) and 200m IM (3.05.92). Just as well we bought those frames in bulk.... |
