Toowoomba Grammar School Swimming Club prepares for Queensland Championships

A Toowoomba swim club’s relay team will lead the charge when they compete at the Queensland Championships

Isaac Cooper, Keeleigh Cauley-Gleeson and Jude Youens will form part of Toowoomba Grammar School Swimming Club’s strong state championship squad.

SWIMMING: A red hot TGS Swimming Club squad is ready to make a splash 2020 McDonald’s Queensland Championships in Brisbane starting this weekend.

Bolstered by national representative swimmers the club’s under-16 relay team will lead the charge against Queensland’s top swimmers.

“The swimmers are looking really good ahead of the championships.” TGS head coach and director of swimming Tim Mulvihill said.

“We like to play the underdog coming down from the mountain but we’re really excited about our opportunities.

“The kids have been training really hard and we’re really looking to be as competitive as possible, particularly our under-16 relay team.”

Consisting of Isaac Cooper (pictured), Alex Macey, Will Salmond and Jude Youens, the U16 team is one of the club’s strongest in its history.

“It’s incredibly rare for a regional team to have three out of four swimmers that in their individual events will be right up there for medals,” Mulvihill said.

“I’d have to go back through the history books to look at a time when a team had a regional with people like Isaac Cooper, Will Salmond and Jude Youens – accomplished swimmers at a national level and two of those boys who later in the year will probably be pushing for a junior national team.

TGS has 13 individual swimmers and an additional 13 relay swimmers competing in the Championships from December 12-18.

Strong individual performances are also expected from Cooper, Youens, Sienna Deurloo and Keeleigh Cauley-Gleeson.

Originally published as Toowoomba Grammar School Swimming Club prepares for Queensland Championships