Western Aquatic Swimming Club

❄️🌧️💦 It was a wet chilly day outdoors, but indoors The Rex pool was simmering at the Barossa Short Course Carnival. A fun meet with the wading pool available in between races, our Western Aquatic Swimming Club swimmers were about business and fun in equal parts.

🏊🏻‍♂️ Young Corey (10) was his usual gun self, racing 9 times for 7 PBs 1🥇1🥈2🥉

🏊🏻‍♂️ Pocket rocket Maddison (10), swam brilliantly for 4 PBs 1🥈1🥉(her first ever medals)

🏊🏻‍♂️ Breast specialist Angela (12) showed it's her strength with 2🥇 but displayed big improvement across the stroke spectrum with 2 PBs in Free and Fly

🏊🏻‍♂️ The brilliant Ella (12) was on fire, with 3 PBs including a 37 second demolition job in her 400 Free and 2🥈2🥉

🏊🏻‍♂️ And Kat (16) popped in for a quick fire 200 Back achieving a PB and🥈in an exciting finish with the Clover competitor

What an exceptional performance by our Western Aquatic crew. Thanks to Barossa Swimming Club for hosting a great meet 🩵💦

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💦 Congratulations to Western Aquatic Swimming Club members Ella Yates (12), Mason Graves (12), Ashton Stock (12), Lincoln Mensforth (12), Carter Graves (11) and Eli Fielder (10) for their selection in the School Sport SA state 12&U swim team (note: ages as at competition time). These youngsters are true competitors and will do SA proud. We are fortunate to have them at our Club. This year the School Sport Australia 12&U swimming championship will take place at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre from Sunday 29th November to Thursday 3rd December 🩵💦

🚨 UPDATE 💦 On Saturday, 9 of our swimmers were back in the state championship pool for the first time in two months for Winter All-In #1. Coach Bridget was on hand to offer targeted guidance, and new head coach Ollie Fandrich stopped by as he gets a measure on all things Western Aquatic Swimming Club.

🏊🏻‍♂️ W16s Chloe and Kateirha had 7 top-3s between them, along with 4 PBs for Kateirha.

🏊🏻‍♂️ The W11-12s had a fantastic meet, with 5 PBs for Payton, a top-3 finish and 2 PBs for Harper, and a top-3 finish and 4 PBs for Meka including monster 21 and 11 second improvements.

🏊🏻‍♂️ The boys all had seriously impressive performances, with 4 top-3s and 3 PBs for Sebastian, 3 top-3s and 3 PBs for Angus, 3 PBs for Ollie including huge 12 and 10 second improvements, and 3 PBs for Hudson.

It was a great all-round performance by the squad, displaying strong development since last short course season.

Congratulations to Club swimmers Eli Fielder and Maddie Reynolds on your achievements with Grange SLSC and recognition at the State Surf Sports Awards

⭐UPDATE⭐
🩵 Congratulations to Western Aquatic Swimming Club members Olive Charleson, Marley Hicks and Kateirha Young for their selection in the School Sport SA state 13-19 swim team. These ladies are exceptional competitors in the pool. This year the School Sport Australia 13&O swimming championship will take place at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre from Saturday 25th to Thursday 30th July. The state 12&U swim team will be announced next week 💦

💦 On Friday night these two little ladies, Sophie & Emily R (11 & 9) represented us at the new Adelaide Aquatic Centre for the first meet of the Norwood Swimming Club Sprint Series.

They were up against a challenging 12&U age grouping. Sophie had her usual solid showing mixing it in the top-10, just off her best pace after a big week on school camp. While little sis Emily continued her consistent improvement with 3 more short course PBs.

I expect more of our swimmers will be looking forward to competing in the new Adelaide pool.

💦🩵 On Saturday a small contingent represented our Western Aquatic Swimming Club at Immanuel's first meet of the short course season.

🏊🏻‍♂️ Corey (10) backed up after last weekend with another great personal performance. Whilst he wasn't in the medals this week, he continues to display consistent improvement with 4 out of 4 PBs.

🏊🏻‍♂️ Marley (15) also backed up, continuing to establish herself as a premier senior swimmer for the club. She charged to 3🥈 and 1🥉 along with another PB in the 50 Free.

🏊🏻‍♂️ Angus R (10) is a little charger, getting his short course season off to a fantastic start, averaging 3.3 seconds improvement in 4 out of 4 PBs.

🏊🏻‍♂️ Oliver R (12) kicked it off much like his little bro, but averaging a whopping 5.7 seconds improvement in 4 out of 4 PBs, including a 15 second demolition of his 100 IM.

Sadly no photo of the team, clearly it was hard to catch them. They really have kick started short course season in a big way. Thanks Immanuel Piranhas Swimming Club for a great meet 🩵💦

💦 Well Western Aquatic Swimming Club supporters, it has been a while between posts. Our swimmers officially got the 2026 short course season underway, with Chloe 16, Marley 15, Meka 12, Angela 12, Sophie R 11 and Corey 10 competing at the STARplex Meet #1 on Sunday.

All swimmers made their presence known, with everyone in the medals (17 total) and 17 SC PBs falling ⏱️

🏊🏻‍♂️ Chloe - 2🥉
🏊🏻‍♂️ Marley - 5🥇1🥈 and 5 PBs
🏊🏻‍♂️ Meka - 1🥇1🥈 and 4 PBs
🏊🏻‍♂️ Angela - 2🥈 and 1 PB
🏊🏻‍♂️ Sophie R - 2🥇2🥈 and 5 PBs
🏊🏻‍♂️ Corey - 1🥈 and 2 PBs

A great first outing. Expect a lot more great performances over the next month, with weekly meets throughout May.

Thank you STARplex Swim Club for hosting 🩵

💦🤗 Well that's another big weekend of competition done and dusted for Western Aquatic Swimming Club. A small contingent of swimmers headed to the mid-north for the Port Pirie Open Carnival on Saturday, and another into the hills for the Onkaparinga Open Aggregate Point Score Meet 3 on Sunday in Woodside.

⏱️ Port Pirie performances:
🏊🏻‍♂️ Corey, 10 - 🥇🥇🥇🥈 + 4 PBs 🤯
🏊🏻‍♂️ Angela, 12 - 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈

⏱️ Onkaparinga performances:
🏊🏻‍♂️ Emily, 9 - 3 PBs, W9-10 2x 2nd & 6th overall W9-10 aggregate
🏊🏻‍♂️ Sophie, 11 - 2 PBs, W11-12 1x 2nd 1x 3rd & 6th overall W11-12 aggregate
🏊🏻‍♂️ Harper, 12 - 2 PBs, W11-12 2x 2nd 2x 3rd & 4th overall W11-12 aggregate

A brilliant effort by all the swimmers, with 11 PBs across the weekend, and some excellent racing.

Thank you to Port Pirie Amateur Swimming Club - PPASC and Onkaparinga Swimming Club for each playing host to our swimmers this weekend 👏🏻🩵💦