St Peters Western wins Georgina Hope Foundation Age Championship pointscore

 

  
Swimming Australia, April 2, 2016: Queensland’s St Peters Western has successfully defended the 2016 Georgina Hope Foundation Australian Age Champion Club pointscore at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Adelaide tonight.

After six exciting nights of swimming it was the Brisbane-based Dean Boxall coached SPW team that charged away to take the prestigious WJ Harrison Trophy as Queensland again dominated the Inter-State pointscore.

After an early tussle with 2014 winner, Gold Coast’s TSS Aquatics, QLD it was St Peters Western (2500.5) that surged away from TSS Aquatics, QLD 1698.5 with Nunawading, VIC moving into third on 1270.5, narrowly ahead of fellow Victorian club Melbourne Vicentre, VIC 1120, with NSW sister clubs Carlile 1009 and Cherrybrook Carlile 845, followed by MLC Aquatic, VIC 770, UWA West Coast WA 573, Kawana Waters QLD 565 and Southport Olympic, QLD 538 rounding out the Top Ten.

Tonight’s  SPW individual gold medallists Jack Cartwright, Abbey Harkin, Caitlin Leslie and Nathan Robinson and the club’s 18 years and under 4x100m medley relay put the icing on the cake for the club with stunning swims on the final night.

It was a memorable night for Cartwright who won the individual 100 metres freestyle in a personal best time of 49.50 from Jake Kersten (TSS Aquatics, QLD) 49.94 and Louis Townsend (Rackley, QLD) 49.99 and then anchored the club’s relay team (Tristan Ludlow, Michael Ng and Clyde Lewis) to victory with a flying-start final freestyle split of 49.15.

Ludlow started off with an equally impressive 56.19 backstroke; followed by Ng’s breaststroke split of 1:04.86 and Lewis’ 54.21 in the butterfly.

Earlier in the meet it was Lewis, Ludlow and Cartwright who had secured a rare SPW trifecta in the 17-18 years 100m backstroke final.

And as hard s they tried tonight they fell agonisingly short of the Australian record by just 0.01.

At the other end of the freestyle spectrum came the stirring 1500m win to SPW’s Nathan Robinson who stormed home to clock a personal best of 15:29.54 ahead of Max Osborn (TSS Aquatics, QLD) 15:42.24 with New Zealand’s Zac Reid third in 15:50.44.

And it was his celebration that said it all with Robinson ecstatic with his performance which summed up the enthusiasm of a SPW group that showed why they are such a dominant force.

The girls were also in the thick of the action with Harkin winning the 17-18 girls 100m freestyle in 56.08 from New Zealand’s Abby Duncan (56.62) and Canberra’s Bonnie Zhang (56.69) while Caitlin Leslie (2:34.09) led a SPW quinella with Emily Krummel (2:36.83) in the 14 years 200m breaststroke with Lauren Robinson (Acacia Bayside QLD) third in 2:37.52.

SPW’s Head Coach, Michael Bohl was quick to congratulate his assistant coach Boxall and the team saying “hard work and team work certainly paid off with a host of personal best times – Dean’s happy that’s for sure."

Bohl is hoping the success continues when he takes his senior team – led by 2015 World Champion Mitch Larkin  - into Adelaide this week for the 2016 Hancock Prospecting Australian Championships after which the Australian swimming team will be named for this year’s Rio Olympics.

All the action starts on April 7 with the opening heats session at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre and running through until April 14.

2016 Georgina Hope Foundation Australian Age Swimming Championships, FINALS, Day Six:

GIRLS

17-18 years

 100m freestyle Abbey Harkin (St Peters Western, QLD) 56.08 Abby Duncan (Norwood, SA) 56.62 Bonnie Zhang (Canberra, NSW) 56.69

 200m butterfly Alice Stuart (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 2:10.81 Alexandra Good (Surrey Park, QLD) 2:15.00 Elia McMenamin (Cotton Tree, QLD) 2:15.13

 16 years

 800m freestyle Laura Taylor (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 8:45.39 Hayley McIntosh (New Zealand) 8:50.76 Madeleine Gough (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 8:51.58

 200m backstroke Connie McClelland (MLC Aquatic, VIC) 2:16.46 Tanya Stovgaard (Southport Olympic QLD)  2:18.72 Arna Couper (Good Shepherd, QLD) 2:18.92

 15 years

 200m individual medley  Sarah Beale (Acacia Bayside, QLD) 2:17.87 Mya Rasmussen (New Zealand) 2:18.61 Katie Strachan (Abbotsleigh, NSW) 2:19.63

 100m butterfly Charlotte Mitchell (TSS Aquatics, QLD) 1:01.51 Alexandria Perkins (Pelican Waters, QLD) 1:02.06 Lucy George (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 1:02.23

 14 years

 200m freestyle Laticia-Leigh Transom (Brisbane Grammar, QLD) 2:02.16 Kaylee McKeown (Pelican Waters, QLD) 2:03.68 Anthea Warne (Miami, QLD) 2:04.72

 200m breaststroke Caitlin Leslie (St Peters Western QLD)  2:34.09 Emily Krummel (St Peters Western. QLD) 2:36.83 Lauren Robinson (Acacia Bayside QLD) 2:37.52

 12-13 years

 100m backstroke Charli Brown (Carlile, NSW) 1:04.62 Brooke Otto (Somerset, QLD) 1:05.47 Olivia Nguyen (CA Tritons, VIC) 1:06.38

 400m individual medley Jessica Madden (SLC Aquadot, NSW) 4:59.40 Ella Campbell (Kawana Waters, QLD) 4:59.63 Jenna Forrester (St Peters Western, QLD) 5:01.75

 Multi-Disability

 11-15 years

 400m freestyle Madeleine McTernan (Coffs Harbour, NSW) 5:12.67 Monique Wegner (Unattached, QLD) 5:13.62 Georgia Smyth (Corrimal, NSW) 5:34.98

 16-18 years

 400m freestyle Nikesh Harding (Abbotsleigh, NSW) 5:07.31 Megan Botha (CA Tritons, VIC) 5:08.41 Casey Stevens MLC Marlins, VIC) 6:10.73

 BOYS

 17-18 years

 100m freestyle Jack Cartwright (St Peters Western, QLD) 49.50 Jake Kersten (TSS Aquatics, QLD) 49.94 Louis Townsend (Rackley, QLD) 49.99

 200m butterfly Theodoros Benehoutsos (Greece) 1:58.59  Dom Richardson (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 2:01.12 Thomas Wotton (Playford Aquatic SA) 2:01,23

 16 years

 200m backstroke Myles Bailey (Woy Woy, NSW) 2:04.16 Zachary Attard (Cherrybrook Carlile, NSW) 2:05.93 Connor O’Neill (TSS Aquatics, QLD) 2:07.68

 1500m freestyle Nathan Robinson (St Peters Western, QLD) 15:29.54 Max Osborn (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 15:50.44 Zac Reid (ne Zealand) 15:50.44

 15 years

 200m individual medley  Elijah Winnington (Bond Swimming, QLD) 2:06.52 Leon MacAlister (Carlile, NSW) 2:09.36 Harrison Rieck (Unattached, QLD) 2:09.66

 100m butterfly Donovan Lee (Singapore) 55.34 Elijah Winnington (Bond Swimming, QLD) 56.11 Aaron Mansfield (Kawana Waters, QLD) 57.27

 14 years

 200m freestyle Nick Jennens (Carlile, NSW) 1:55.91 Csongor Cellie (Kawana Waters, QLD) 1:57.03 Lachlan Byrne (Sunnybank , QLD) 1:57.09

 200m breaststroke  Sebastian Leavy (Newmarket, QLD) 2:22.90 Ryan Bicknell (Nunawading, VIC) 23:23.36 Joshua Gilbert (New Zealand) 2:25.45

 12-13 years

 100m backstroke J Edwards-Smith (UWA West Coast, WA) 1:00.24  Thomas Hauck (All Saints, QLD) 1:00.54 W Sharp (Cheltenham, VIC) 1:02.28

 400m individual medley T Neill (Rackley, QLD) 4:49.64 R Bonsall (UWA West Coast, WA) 4:51.40 C Brackin (SOPAC, NSW) 4:54.15

 Multi-Disability

 11-15 years

 400m freestyle Ben Popham (Westside Christ Church, WA) 5:07.70 Darcy Gilson (Singleton, SA) 4:40.42 Ben Robins (Cherrybrook Carlile, NSW) 4:40.54

 16-18 years

 400m freestyle Jordan Dessent (Abbotsleigh, NSW) 5:01.71 Jack Ireland (Gladstone, QLD) 4:40.11 Hayden Ross (Bayside, VIC) 5:23.64

 WJ Harrison Trophy – Top Ten Pointscore

 1^st St Peters Western, QLD 2500.5

 2^nd TSS Aquatics, QLD 1698.5

 3^rd Nunawading, VIC 1270.5

 4^th Melbourne Vicentre, VIC 1120

 5^thCarlile, NSW  1009

 6^th Cherrybrook Carlile, NSW 845

 7^th MLC Aquatic, VIC 770

 8^th UWA West Coast WA 573

 9^th Kawana Waters QLD 565

 10^th Southport Olympic, QLD 538