All Ages Swimming Championships – A to Z guide
Who are our next swimming stars? All is revealed here in our A to Z guide of the All Ages Swimming Championships, as Queensland kids from Cairns to the Gold Coast and out to Toowoomba reach for the stars.
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The next generation of elite Australian swimmers will be glimpsed by the public over the next month when Elizabeth Dekker, Sam Short, Ella Ramsay and co compete for a place on the Commonwealth Games team.
That fantastic trio, along with fellow rookies Kai Taylor, Josh Staples, Jamie Perkins Bailey Lello and Elliot Weber, will hope to mirror the deeds of the class of 2021 when Queensland teenagers Mollie O’Callaghan,Tom Neill and Meg Harris won Tokyo Olympic Games medals. TGS old boy, Rackley’s Isaac Cooper, was another Olympic discovery last year.
The Queenslanders will be bypassing next week’s All Ages Championship to compete at May’s nationals in the hope of winning places on the world championship and Commonwealth Games teams.
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All eligible for the All Ages, Short, Ramsay, Staples, Perkins and Weber will be missed at the Australian Age Championships starting on April 11, but in their place is another breed of young guns are revealed here in our A to Z guide.
Mt St Michael’s schoolgirl Hannah Casey, 15, will be front and centre at the All Ages after being inspired by Harris, a MSM alumni.
“Meg was always encouraging of others and after smashing everyone else in the pool, she was still so modest about it,’’ Casey recalled about her school life alongside Harris. “She is an amazing swimmer.’’
Casey, a 2021 world junior championship merit team selection, said while it was disappointing the world titles did not go ahead because of COVID-19, it was a “very big surprise’’ and an honour to be selected.
Casey, a year 11 freestyle sprinter, is part of our A to Z guide of some of Queensland’s best medal chances ahead of the Australian Multi-Class Championships starting on April 9, and the All Ages on April 11.
A is for outstanding St Peters Western prospect Ainsley Trotter, for Ander McAlpine, BSHS’s Hannah Allan, Aspen Stewart, Abigail Reynolds, Audrey Dearling and also for Albert Damin (Cairns Stingrays) who will be one of the 14-15 years sprint relays members alongside Piper Asquith (Griffith). A is also for Amani Alobaidli. A is also for top multi seeds Montana Atkinson and Angela Bubb (Griffith), and Rocky City’s Amelie Smith.
B is for Australian world championship selection Niamh Bedggood of Rackley Centenary, and for the classy Jaclyn Barclay, young Milkaya Bird Nic Mackenzie Burns, Kody Byrne, Inde Basche and Samuel Bonomo. But it is also for Thomas Booth (Southside Aquatics) who will have the honour of representing Queensland in the relays and Lewis Bishop.
C is of course the for exciting Hannah Casey, a Mt St Michael’s School student from the Marist Ashgrove swim club. But C is also for the hard working, steadily improving Thomas Connellan (Nudgee), the brilliant Jesse Coleman, Elaine Chui, Cosette Cooke (both Brisbane Grammar), Clancy Luscombe, big hearted Gold Coast girl Tylah Crabtree, along with Connor Munchow, Collette Lyons and Joshua Conias, another state relay representative.
D is for inform St Peters Western’s Hugh Dolle, Sienna Deurloo of Toowoomba Grammar and also for Southside Acquatic’s state representative Bailey Day. But D is also for David Chippendale (St Peters Western) who has been named a state relay representative. And D is for Seb De Preez and Airlie Davis and Redlands’ Dylan Pieterse.
E very much for Eloise McLellan, Emma Milner (CHAC), Erin McGarry (St Andrew’s), Enoch Robb and medley relay rep Eric Kim, along with Edward Sommerville (Grammar).
F is for Francesca Chitukudka (MBC), Mia Feltham and thrilling Rackley Century swimmer Felix Wilson (St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace) who has been prompted into the 16-17 years 4x50m freestyle relay team.
G is for one of the big guns, Iona College’s Benjamin Goedemans, Ava Gaske and also for Gideon Burnes and relay teammates Georgia Greenwood (Helensvale) and Mackenzie Grimes (Toowoomba Grammar). G is also for relay teammates Annabel Galea (Saints) and Rayner Ganfield (Cairns Stingrays) and also Samuel Gould (Helensvale).
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H is for a couple of Hannahs, Hannah Lingo and Hannah Morton, and also for Holly Shore, Hayden Hoang, Charlotte Hansen, Holly Hembling, Bailey Hambrecht (Chandler), Hector Langkilde, Emily Holmes (Chandler) and Sunshine Coast Grammars’ Hamish MacKellar who will be a state relay swimmer alongside Hajin Jun (Griffith).
I is for Ike Martinez alongside Felix Wilson (featured above) who fired his school Terrace to third pace at the GPS Swimming Championship – its best performance in years. I is also for Indiana King and Randel Ingram (St Peters).
J is for the never-say-die Claveria Johnson-Tiumalu (St Peters Western), for All Hallows’ CaSSSA co-captain Josephine Crimmins (Newmarket Racers) and also for Jordan Greensill, Jye Bennion and Milla Jansen (Bond) who placed second in the 100m freestyle at state titles. It is also for Leigh James (Marist). J is also for William Jordan, the co-captain of Brisbane Grammar School’s GPS championship swimming effort, and also for relay sprinter Jessica Deane.
K is of course for Nudgee’s Tiana Kritzinger, a junior Aussie selection with a big motor and for Kac Curtis (St Peters). K is also for Kai Gilbert (TSS Aquatic) and Nicolas Kilner (Rackley Centenary) who are state relay teammates, along with Julia Katers. K can be for Sunshine Grammar’s Kaedyn Philemon and Karl Albertyn.
L is for Kieran Lees (Uni of Queensland), Tribeca Liu, Lucinda Macleod and Leigh James.
M is for the mighty St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ School sisters Sophie and Isabelle Martin, for Monique Murphy and for Jack Moore, a butterfly swimmer state champion (14 years) in both the 50m and 100m butterfly. But M is also for Isabella Morris from St Peters who was just stunning at the QGSSSA meet, and also for 4x50m freestyle relay teammates Liam McGowan (University of Queensland), Jamison Morgan (St Andrew’s), Hunter Milgate, Hamish MacKellar and Jackson Murphy (Acacia Bayside).
N is for the impressive Kate Nankervis,
O. Semra Olowoniyi (St Peters Wests) who will give it her all in the backstroke.
P is for Piper Asquith, Paige Leonhardt, Lakeisha Patterson, Laura Poon and P is also for relay sprinters Dylan Pieterse (Redlands) and Olympia Pope (Somerset), and medley state teammates Jy Parkinson (Cannonvale Cannons) and Poppy Stephen (Nudgee), along with Patrick O’Brien (Carina).
Q is for Daisy Quinn (Sunshine Coast).
R is for Julia Remmington from Yeronga Park, Georgie Roper, Ryan Cothill, Haylee Reid, Ruby Crowther, Luka Routledge, the Coast’s Ryan Bambach and Ryan Thornton of Toowoomba Grammarm, and also Albany Creek’s Tobi Rinaldi and Noosa’s Ella Reynolds.
S is for mighty rookie Flynn Southam and for Hudson Sheehan of TSS who won three from three (50m, 100m, 200m freestyle under 14) at the GPS championship. S is also for Sophie Lambourne, Ethan Slatter, Amelia Smith, Stella Stuart, Angus Smyth and Callum Simpson. S is also made for Summer-Syke Crisp.
T is for brilliant Rocky swimmer Taryn Roberts. Tom Hicks and also for Thomas Pattison, the Year 11 Churchie swimmer who was a national finalist and 2021 state champion in the 15 years age group in four events. T is also for St Peters’ Samuel Thorpe, Rackley Centenary’s Tara Cabaron and Thomas Henderson (Mackay Swimming Academy) who will swim in the 16-17 years medley relay. And T is for classy multi pair Kael Thompson and Nicole Taylor and Tahlia Hanson who did a recent 15 years 200m fly record at the senior Met meet.
V is for Rocky City’s young gun Sally Vagg, Nicola Vitanza, Chandler, Harrison Vigg and Karoline Volny.
W is for Amelia Weber (St Peters) who recently broke a Brisbane 400m 16 years record of Queensland champion Hayley Lewis. W is also for Harry Wright (Noosa), Gold Coast’s Holly Warn and Will Shepherd-Smith who will also have the honour of representing Queensland in the 16-17 years sprints. W is also for another sprint relay rep Lauren Whalley (Genesis Aquatics).
X is for Xavier Metcalfe, a 1500m exponent.
Y is for Chandler swimmer Yaroslav Zharkov
Z is Zoe Ammundsen (Acacia Bayside), a Cannon Hill Anglican College student who recently broke a state 50m backstroke record in her age group. Z is also for Joseph Van Der Zant (St Thomas More), Zoe Wright and Maya Zunker from Somerset who will swim in the 13 years age group.
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