Ipswich Grammar Swimming Club

2025-2026 what a season! 🏊‍♀️❤️🤍

We finished our season celebrating our incredible swimmers with our awards, before heading into bowling, golf, darts, arcades and more. The smiles, the laughs and the good vibes in that room were everything.

Congratulations to every single one of our swimmers on an amazing season. Record numbers at Nationals, States, and Brisbane Champs, huge PBs right across the board and most importantly the best team atmosphere on deck. You should all be so proud and we would like to sincerely thank you for choosing IGSC as your club.

Congratulations to our major award winners:

🏆 Swimmer of the Year: Olivia Burley
🏆 Overall Club Points Champion: Joel Lloyd
🏆 Volunteer of the Year: Michael Podolak

🏆 Carnival Trophy
Male Senior: Lachlan Cameron | Female Senior: Olivia Burley
Male Junior: Henry McAully | Female Junior: Macy Burling
Multi Class: Madeleine Nickson

🏆 Coach’s Award
Male Senior: Luke Fazackerley | Female Senior: Faith Gill
Male Junior: Jude Devlin | Female Junior: Elizabeth Meuleners

🏆 Perpetual Points Trophy
Male Senior: Joel Lloyd | Female Senior: Poppy Podolak
Male Junior: Finn Kibby | Female Junior: Olivia McAully

🏆 Masters Swimmer of the Year
Male: Stephen Berting | Female: Erin Marchant

The 2025-2026 season is officially wrapped and we cannot wait to do it all again. See you in the pool for 2026-2027! ❤️🤍

🔴⚪🔴 2026 Masters Swimming Australia National Championships — Chandler
Last week, 10 QIG Masters swimmers took on 98 events (yes 98!!!) at the Masters Swimming Australia National Short Course Championships and what a week it was. Racing alongside some of the world’s fastest swimmers, including Australian Dolphins and Cam McEvoy, the world’s fastest ever freestyler, meant the competition was fierce and the times were fast. When you’re chasing athletes of that calibre, it lifts everyone and our crew rose to the occasion in a big way.

The result? 10 records broken, 6 Australian and 4 Queensland, and 55 medals including 31 gold.

Every single one of you should be incredibly proud. 🌟

Records Broken:
🏆 Stephen Berting (45-49) — 4 Australian Records (50 Free 23.67, 100 Free 52.46, 25 Back 13.43, 50 Back 27.87) & 2 QLD Records (100 Back 1:03.26, 100 IM 1:01.47)
🏆 Brett Woods (60-64) — 2 Australian Records (100 Free 58.02, breaking his own!) & 1 QLD Record (100 Fly 1:08.18)
🏆 Rob Chrzescijanski (40-44) — 1 Australian Record (25 Breast 13.57, breaking his own!) — a lifetime PB finishing 2nd behind Australian Dolphin Grayson Bell
🏆 Men’s 4×25 Free Relay (120+) — New QLD Record 44.57 (Hayden, Brett, Steve, Hermes) — sorry not sorry Jayden and Riley! 😄
🏆 Men’s 4×50 Medley Relay (120+) — New QLD Record 1:52.35, breaking the Barbarians’ previous record of 1:54.02
Congratulations to our medallists:
Stephen 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉
Rob 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉
Hayden 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉
Hermes 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈
Brett 🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈
Michael 🥇🥈🥈
Erin 🥈🥉🥉🥉
John 🥉
Alexis 🥉
100% Personal Bests 💯
💯 Erin Marchant (45-49)
💯 Gaylene Roobottara (40-44)
💯 Michael Kettewell (40-44)
💯 Hermes Suen (18-24)
Relay Results:
🥇 Men’s 4×25 Free Relay (120+)
🥇 Men’s 4×50 Medley Relay (120+)
🥇 Men’s 4×25 Medley Relay (120+)
🥈 Mixed 4×50 Free Relay (120+)
🥉 Mixed 4×25 Medley Relay (120+)
And to our supporters who travelled, cheered and made the trip possible — it means everything. Thank you. 🙏 🔴⚪🔴

The last day of racing and our swimmers finished the way they started — giving everything. 🔴⚪

Boston | 50 Freestyle | Place 12
Boston swam a PB in his heat to qualify for the B final where he bettered his time again and clocked the eighth fastest time of the entire meet, breaking the 25 second barrier for the first time. At 14 years and a few months old and bottom age for the age group. Let that sink in. 🙌

Ollie | 200 Butterfly | Place 10
Event six of six. A PB to finish his nationals program. Tenth in the country in the 200 fly. Ollie has been extraordinary all week, with the biggest program of the team, and today was the perfect way to close it out. 💪

Lachlan C | 100 Breaststroke | Place 10
A PB in the heats to make the A final, then tenth in the country to finish his week. As a bottom age swimmer having only aged up in the last couple of months, that is a result that speaks for itself. We are so proud of you Lachie. 🔴⚪

And the relays to close out the week. 🙌

Boys 13-14 Medley Relay | Place 24
Liam, Rudi, Ollie and Boston. Close to PB or better. Every single one of them. 🔴⚪

Boys 15-16 Medley Relay | Place 18
Lachlan S, Lachlan C, Dominic and William. Right on PB or better. What a way to finish the week. 🙌

That is a wrap on racing but we are not done yet. Stay tuned for a full wrap up of an extraordinary week for IGSC. 👀🔴⚪

What a morning. And the day is not done yet. 🔴⚪
Boston has qualified for tonight’s 50 Freestyle final and Lachlan C has qualified for the 100 Breaststroke final. Both with PBs this morning. Both back under the lights tonight.

Tonight at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre:
Boston | 50 Freestyle Final | ~6:15pm
Lachlan C | 100 Breaststroke Final | ~7:35pm

And then the medley relays to close out the week:

~8:20pm — Boys 13-14 Medley Relay
Liam, Rudi, Ollie and Boston

~8:20pm — Boys 15-16 Medley Relay
Lachlan S, Lachlan C, Dominic and William

Watch live on 9Now. Stay tuned for a full wrap to close out the week. 🙌🔴⚪

The last morning of heats. Let’s go swimmers! 🔴⚪

~9:30am — 50 Freestyle
Boston closes out his individual program in the sprint event. What a week he has had and now one last chance to go fast. 🙌

~11:22am — 200 Butterfly
Ollie steps up for his final event. And it’s a big one! 200m butterfly. You’ve got this Ollie. 💪

~12:02pm — 100 Breaststroke
Lachlan C and Will share the same event to close out their individual programs. What a way to finish the week together. 🔴⚪

Go IGSC! Cheer them on from home — watch live on 9Now. 🙌

Day seven done. Three swimmers who gave everything on the national stage. 🔴⚪

Olivia | 200 Breaststroke | Place 45
To race a 200 breaststroke at nationals at 13 years old takes something special. Olivia has raced three breaststroke events across this week and today she saved her biggest for last. So proud of this young woman. 🌊

Bronte | 50 Freestyle | Place 27
Twenty-seventh in the country in a field of 76 of Australia’s best sprinters. Bronte earned her way back to nationals and today she delivered. 🙌

Lachlan C | 200 IM | Place 17
Seventeenth in the country in a field of 45 swimmers. All four strokes, 200 metres and Lachlan delivered a top 20 performance. 💪

And between the racing? This team has been making the most of every moment together. The bonds built outside the pool are just as important as what happens in it and this group has shown us exactly what that looks like all week. 🙌🔴⚪

Seven days down. One more to go. Watch this space as we cheer on the red and white to the finish. 👀🔴⚪

Day seven - Let’s go. 🔴⚪

~9:37am — 200 Breaststroke
After two strong swims this week our breaststroke queen Olivia is ready to show us what she is truly capable of. 🌊

~10:13am — 200 Backstroke
Liam closes out his nationals with the 200. Three backstroke events across the week, carrying an injury the whole time, and he has shown up every single time. 🙌

~10:48am — 50 Freestyle
Bronte has put in the work over the last twelve months to earn her second nationals qualification. Today she gets her race. 🔴⚪

~11:38am — 200 Individual Medley
Lachlan C back for his third individual event of the week. All four strokes, 200 metres. Let’s go Lachie 💪

Go IGSC! Cheer them on from home — watch live on 9Now. 🙌

Day six done and the swimming just keeps getting better. 🔴⚪

Ollie | 200 IM | 2:20.97 | Place 21
Event three of six and Ollie keeps delivering. A 1.65 second drop and twenty-first in the country. Endlessly proud of how Ollie has taken on his huge program this week 💪

Izzy | 100 Freestyle | 1:00.05 | Place 34
Thirty-fourth in the country in a field of 138 swimmers. A brilliant swim taking off 0.15 and coming oh so close to breaking that 1minute mark.

Keira | 100 Freestyle | 1:01.45 | Place 59
Fifty-ninth in the country in a field of 138 swimmers. Keira has raced hard all week, enjoying every second with her trademark smile and today was no different. 🔴⚪

Ollie | 50 Butterfly | 27.87 | Place 37
Event four of six. Dropped 0.23 after racing the 200 medley only hours before. We genuinely cannot keep up. 😄

Boston | 50 Butterfly | 27.99 | Place 44
Forty-fourth in the country. Boston has had an extraordinary week and today he adds another strong swim to it. 🙌

Izzy | 50 Butterfly | 30.11 | Place 56
Fifty-sixth in the country in a field of 128. A great swim, only 0.04 off her PB, to cap off her individual program.

And then the relays. 🙌
Girls 13-14 Freestyle Relay | 1:56.24 | Place 37
Eleanor, Abbey, Olivia and Teagan took to the water together for the first time on the national stage. Every single one of them gave everything.

Boys 13-14 Freestyle Relay | 1:44.81 | Place 16
Charlie, Luke, Ollie and Boston dropped 1.72 seconds and finished sixteenth in the country. What a team. 👀

Boys 15-16 Freestyle Relay | 1:38.76 | Place 18
Dominic, Lachlan S, Freddie and William dropped 1.42 seconds and finished eighteenth in the country.

Relays bring this team together in a way nothing else does. So proud of every swimmer who raced tonight and thank you to every parent and supporter cheering them on from the stands and from home. 🙌🔴⚪

Six days down. Watch this space as we continue to cheer on the red and white. 👀🔴⚪

Tonight the relays begin and IGSC has three teams in the water. 🔴⚪

For some of our swimmers tonight is their first time on the national stage. For others it caps off an already incredible week. For all of them it is a chance to race for each other.

~8:31pm — Girls 13-14 Freestyle Relay
Eleanor, Olivia, Teagan and Abbey. Teagan knows what this feels like having raced the relay last year. Tonight she brings that experience alongside three teammates making their nationals debut. Four swimmers, one team, one goal. 🙌

~8:40pm — Boys 13-14 Freestyle Relay
Charlie, Luke, Ollie and Boston. Four of our biggest stories of the week sharing the same lane tonight. What a relay this will be. 👀

~8:57pm — Boys 15-16 Freestyle Relay
Dominic, Lachlan S, Freddie and William. A group that has given everything individually and now gets to do it together. 🔴⚪

Watch live on 9Now. Stay tuned for a full wrap after tonight. 🙌