Swimmer Kyle Chalmers and sporting all-rounder Callum Park win School Sports Awards

GLENELG North swimmer Kyle Chalmers and Plympton Park all-rounder Callum Park have scooped the pool in the School Sports Awards.

GLENELG North swimmer Kyle Chalmers and Plympton Park all-rounder Callum Park have scooped the pool in the School Sports Awards.

Superfish Chalmers last week won the secondary school gong while baseballer and footballer Park took out the primary school category.

The awards, which are sponsored by Messenger Community News, were presented at the SA Celebration of Sport at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre last Friday.

For Chalmers, the honour capped off a remarkable year in which he continued his transition from junior star to world-beating senior.

In September, he became the first 15-year-old to crack the 50-second barrier for the 100m short course freestyle at the State Teams Short Course event in Canberra.

Chalmers, the son of former Port Adelaide and Adelaide Crows ruckman Brett, swam a 49.45 sec to break the previous national mark by 0.7 sec.

He also won the 50m at the Japanese Junior Olympic Cup in August and took home five gold medals from both the Australian Age Swimming Championships and the School Sport Australia Swimming Championships.

Woodcroft parathlete Brayden Davidson and Golden Grove softballer Stephanie Trzcinski were the other finalsis in the secondary school category.

Park, 12, was selected to represent his state and country in different sports earlier this year.

Just weeks after being chosen in the SA under-12 football squad for the August national championships, he was selected to play for Australia in the Cal Ripken World Series junior baseball tournament in the same month.

The Plympton Park Primary student chose to follow his ball dreams in the US and it paid off as he was chosen in the tournament's All-Star team.

The pitcher, shortstop and centre field also represented SA at the national baseball championship in Queensland, in June and was part of West Adelaide Football Club's elite development squad.

Diver Rhianna Marshall, of Flagstaff Hill, and swimmer Emma Siddle, of Surrey Downs, were the other finalists in the primary school section.