27/09/2026
A strong first day at the office for our team - a couple at only their first or second national level meet of this kind and all the swimmers stepping up well and able to assess and feedback their race learnings well. Great job team
Congrats to our medalists Alyssa Lawson, who won age GOLD for her 100 IM and then Open bronze tonight with a PB swim and Quinn who won GOLD in the 200 BRS multiclass.
Race Results by event:
100 Back
Gemma - coming back from injury (ankle) and a heavy football season Gemma raced with her usual personality and attacking nature. Over her lifetime best but raced all the way to the wall, finishing 23rd in her age group.
Elesiya - also coming back from an injury plagued year and slowly getting her racing confidence back up - gave great race feedback and with her 100 Im following actually made instant changes after this event for her next one so well done Elesiya!! - 14th in age.
200 BRS
Chian-Ying - a terrific swim following her race plan well and building strongly throughout for a PB and 6th overall in her age group—looking good for her preferred events later in the week.
Quinn achieved a PB swim, an S19 NZ record, and GOLD. Apparently she has officially retired from BRS today, so a great way to go out, Quinny lol !
Shane - again a much improved intent swim from Shane as he has raced this progressively better over the last month or so slowly working on his race target plans. He got much closer to his back end goal time today so we move forward strongly over summer in this event. 11th in his age group
100 IM
Elesiya – a gutsy effort improving strongly her BRS and backstroke legs to PB and finish 8th in her age group.
Alyssa, joining us from Australia, had a good hit out in her age group final to win GOLD and then showed much improved skill and pace in the open final for BRONZE open level.
Ning - a superb first-ever nationals swim for Ning. He raced confidently and backed himself in the first half of the race to PB and finish 5th
Shane - a 'get in there and give it a good crack' effort from Shane today - he has worked hard on his backstroke and really held that leg strong today, finishing right on his best swim for 9th in his age group.
800 Free
Jess Richardson –6th in her age group - a fighting swim. She kicked off the first half of the race hard but ran out of puff at the end, finishing just over her best swim.
Holli – 7th overall - a sterling effort in only her 3rd ever 800 free – she raced right to the end and will benefit from this good hit out today for her upcoming races
All the best for Day 2 team 💙💚
