Southside Aquatic Swim Club’s Bailey Day making inroads in both training and competition

Southside Aquatic Swim Club’s Bailey Day making inroads as she chips away at milestones in both training and competition.

Not every swimmer is schoolgirl prodigy like Shane Gould, Leisel Jones or even Ariane Titmus, bursting onto the swimmer scene and taking the world by storm.

For more it is a slow and steady journey, where you chip away and session by session, meet by meet, year by year you gradually improve personal best times.

This is the route Southside Aquatic Swim Club’s Bailey Day has been on.

But the teenager is on the move after enjoying her finest year in the pool and has made the Queensland team to compete at the State Teams Championships to be held at the AIS from October 4.

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“My biggest success so far would have to be my results from the 2019 swimming age national champs. I came away from the meet with two bronze Australian medals in the 800m freestyle and 1500m freestyle,’’ said St Thomas More College student.

The medals were not only encouraging, but a reward for her work ethic.

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“I love training really hard to see the results. Swimming, being an individual sport, requires a lot of long hours and handwork to be racing at your best.

“I love the feeling of going to training knowing I am going to be pushed to my max and I’m doing it all for the outcome on race day.’’

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Day was a genuine water baby, starting in the pool aged nine months.

Indeed she also has a love for the surf and sand as well, having been a member of the Northcliffe SLSC at Broadbeach where, this year, she rose to attend the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships.

Day said he enjoyable sporting life was only made possible by her parents and coaches Rhett Collie (surf) and Lachlan Staples (swimming).

Staples, who is one of the coaches on the Queensland team, was delighted to be joined by Day.

“Bailey had a very tough task ahead of her to make the team in the 15-16 years age group as she has not long turned 15 but very solid 400 and 800 Free swims this season got her across the line,’’ he said.

“Bailey is working very hard right now to make another shift and improve again in Canberra to do her part in scoring points for the team.’’