Darwin Swimming Club

Massive congratulations to 16-year old Sahrah Hancock who tonight in her 100m Breast met the qualifying time (QT) for the 2026 Para Pan PACS Immersion Program, with her 1:44.06 smashing the QT of 1:44.72.

Well done Sahrah! If selected will see her join the Para team in California.

Feeling excited, with the Australian Swimming Trials starting this morning. All our thoughts are with Bayleigh Young, James Smith and Sahrah Hancock as they commence their programs. Heats and finals are being broadcast live and free, streamed on 9Now, with television coverage in Darwin on 9Gem. Times in the session summary below are in NSW times (minus 30 minutes for NT time).

Thank you to all swimmers and families who attended our club presentation night last weekend. Some great swimming this year, with many personal bests set.

Featuring our Club Night champions for 2025-26:

8 and under – Pepper Harrington-Ware, Sandy Harrington-Ware
9-10 years – Queen Nicanor, Sarvad Roopan
11-12 years – Saanvi Roopan, Lachlan Prentice
13-14 years – Katinka Paspaley, Prithvi Shah
15 years and over – Sahrah Hancok, James Smith

Well done to the champion team – Yellow.

Our Junior Champion (12 years and under) for 2025-26 is Sandy Harrington-Ware, and Champion of Champions (13 years and over) is Macey Sheridan.

The most improved swimmers for the year were: Lachlan Prentice and Lilly Fitzpatrick.

Major respect to the winner of the Overall Coaches Award for Fairplay and Leadership: Ethan Moore.

Congratulations!

Introducing our stroke champions for 2025-26 season, based on the Hytec points system. Congratulutions:

Distance Freestyle Champions – Elaine Smith, James Smith

Sprint Freestyle Champions - Macey Sheridan, Liam Brown

Backstroke Champions - Macey Sheridan, James Smith

Breaststroke Champions – Sahrah Hancock, Jack Watts

Butterfly Champions – Tara Samjowan, Bayleigh Young

Individual Medley Champions – Macey Sheridan, James Smith

Thanks to our silver sponsor for the year - Closet Gangster Cabinets

Congratulations to our Coaches Award recipients for the 2025-26 season: Clancy McLeod, Pepper Harrington-Ware, Pippa Gamble, Leisyl Sheridan, Liebling Schwartz, Saanvi Roopan, Elliott Omnes and Adelaide Scott.

Major thanks to our gold sponsor McGees Property - Darwin.

2026 Darwin Super Sprints

Thank you to all those for entering and supporting our club meet tomorrow.
The program is available on our club website as well as meet mobile. https://darwinswimclub.org.au/super-sprints/

Warm up is 2:30pm

Racing starts 3:30pm

darwinswimclub.org.au

Congratulations James Smith. Well deserved recognition of your hard work