Cranbrook Swimming: Meet Report
Cranbrook had 12 students representing CAS at the CIS Championship swim meet on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 of May. This was Cranbrook’s biggest representative team at the swim meets history and the team achieved some excellent results. CIS brought together all the independent schools from across the state, battling it out for a top 3 position in any event to gain selection for the All-Schools Championships late May.
Highlights
- 4 Golds
- 5 Silvers
- 5 Bronzes
- 7 Fourth places
- 2 CIS Records
- 15 New School Records
- 8 Students qualified for All Schools
Full Report
Night One
All 12 students competed on night one with the 50m Freestyle “Dash for Cash” races and the Freestyle & Medley relays being held. From the 7 races Cranbrook competed in on night 1, Cranbrook broke 6 new school records. The night kicked off with Noah Kemp in the 50m Freestyle, finishing 4th in a time of 25.70 breaking the school record by .10 of a second and missing selection by less than .10 for All Schools. Marcus then tried to bring out his 50m speed skills which is his less favoured event, finishing a strong 3rd place in a 23.69.
Our Junior 13-14 Years Relay team consisting of Noah Kemp, Aidan Park, Carter McGee and Preston Irawan went on to get two 3rd place finishes in the 4 x 50m Freestyle and Medley Relays. In the Medley Relay they smashed their own school record by 5.7 seconds, which they had already broken at CAS by 5 seconds, so in total this season the team had broken the record held since 2013 by 11 seconds. They continued their recording breaking form by going on to break their own Freestyle relay record by 2 seconds.
The Senior 17 & Over Relay teams also competed in both the Medley and Freestyle relays. The Medley team consisting of Tate Sirianni, Oscar Holland, Marcus Da Silva and Max Moylan bettered their own record by 1 second and finished a commendable 7th place. The Freestyle relay team with the same members except Oscar substituted for Axel Robinson, finished 3rd gaining selection for All Schools and breaking their own school record by 2 seconds.
We finished the night with the all age 6 x 50m Freestyle race which has a swimmer from 12yrs Charlie Roberts, 13yrs Carter McGee, 14yrs Noah Kemp, 15yrs Luke Cassidy, 16yrs Oliver Minning, 17 & O Marcus Da Silva, the team set a new school record and finished 4th behind Trinity, Knox and our next door rivals Scots. We were narrowly beaten by Scots with a very close finish with Scots hitting the wall just over 1 second in front of us.
Day 2
After a late finish on night one, the students were back at the pool by 7:30am the next day for a full day of individual races.
Aidan Park started that day off with the Junior 200m Breaststroke finishing 2nd in a time of 2:33.40, which was a 3 second PB and a 10 second PB from the start of the season. Aidan went on to swim the 50m Breaststroke finishing 5th in a time of 31.60, which would have placed him 3rd in the 15yr age group and also went on to come 5th in the 100m Breastroke. Aidan was swimming in a very fast age group, which beat majority of the 15 years age group. Aidan narrowly missed Nicholas Stoupas Cranbrook record in the 50m breaststroke by .30 of a second, Nichloas’s time break the national record back in 2022.
Next up was Noah Kemp in the 50m Butterfly. Battling sickness Noah showed true Cranbrookian spirit by finishing 2nd in a new school record of 27.53. Noah went on to race 4 more individual races. He went on to set 2 more school records in the 50m Backstroke coming 1st in a 29.39 and 2nd in the 100m Freestyle in a time of 56.53. Noah’s final race of the day was 100m Butterfly were he won the race in a 1:03.69. Noah also placed 3rd in the 100m Backstroke in a time of 1:06.00. Noah finished the meet with 2 Golds, 3 Silvers, 1 Bronze, 2 Relay Bronzes and 7 swims at All Schools.
Max Moylan and Marcus Da Silva were next up in the 200m Freestyle. This is one of Marcus’s pet events and he did not disappoint. Marcus swam the race in a 1:51.81 winning the race in a new CIS and School record. Marcus broke Olympian and old Cranbrookian Swim Coach David McKeon’s record by over 4 seconds and the school record by 8 seconds. Max also swam a fantastic race finishing in 4th place with time which was 1.5 seconds quicker than the Cranbrook School record which shows how incredible Cranbrook is to have 2 such great talents at our school in the same event. Marcus went on to win the 100m Freestyle in a new CIS record of 50.55, he also finished 4th 100m and 7th in 50m Butterfly.
Tate Sirianni gained selection for All Schools after coming 2nd in the 100m Backstroke in a new school record of 58.80. Tate also finished 2nd in the 50m Backstroke in a school record of 27.74 and finished 6th in the 200m Backstroke.
Tate raced fellow teammate Axel Robinson in the same Backstroke races were Axel finished 4th in the 200m Backstroke, narrowly missing individual selection by .30 of a second, and finished 7th in the 50m Backstroke missing the school record by .03.
Carter McGee was other individual swimmer on Day 2 in the 13 years 100m Freestyle. Carter showed that size doesn’t matter as he stood behind the blocks with competitors all 2 foot taller than him. He finished a commendable 4th place in 59.87 breaking the 1 minute barrier for the first time.
Overall, on Day 2, of the 20 races swum by Cranbrook students, 14 races were eligible to have their School Records broken, and the students broke 9 which is an amazing feat. Marcus set two new CIS records and the team finished the meet with 4 Golds, 5 Silvers, 5 Bronze and 7 fourth places. Cranbrook will send 8 swimmers to All Schools Championships, again our largest team to compete at the championships. These students will aim to make the NSW team compete at the School Sport Australia Championships on the Gold Coast.
Individual Results
Charlie Roberts – 12 Years
- 6 x 50m Relay 4th – New School Record
Carter McGee – 13 years
- 100m Freestyle 4th – New School Record
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- Medley Relay 3rd – New School Record
- 6 x 50m Relay 4th – New School Record
Noah Kemp – 14 years
- 50m Backstroke 1st – New School Record
- 100m Butterfly 1st
- 100m Freestyle 2nd – New School Record
- 50m Butterfly 2nd – New School Record
- 100m Backstroke 3rd
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- Medley Relay 3rd – New School Record
- 50m Freestyle 4th – New School Record
- 6 x 50m Relay 4th – New School Record
Aidan Park – 14 Years
- 2nd 200m Breaststroke
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- Medley Relay 3rd – New School Record
- 5th 100m Breaststroke
- 5th 50m Breaststroke
Preston Irawan – 14 Years
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- Medley Relay 3rd – New School Record
Luke Cassidy – 15 years
- 6 x 50m Relay 4th – New School Record
Oliver Minning – 16 Years
- 6 x 50m Relay 4th – New School Record
Tate Sirianni – 17 Years
- 100m Backstroke 2nd – New School Record
- 50m Backstroke 2nd – New School Record
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- 100m Freestyle 4th
- 200m Backstroke 6th
- Medley Relay 7th – New School Record
Oscar Holland – Opens
- Medley Relay 7th – New School Record
Max Moylan
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- 200m Freestyle 4th – Under the old School Record but Broken by Marcus Da Silva in the same race
- Medley Relay 7th – New School Record
Axel Robinson
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- 200m Backstroke 4th
- 50m Backstroke 7th
Marcus Da Silva
- 100m Freestyle 1st – New CIS Record
- 200m Freestyle 1st – New CIS Record
- 50m Freestyle 3rd – missed his own school record
- Freestyle Relay 3rd – New School Record
- 6 x 50m Relay 4th – New School Record
- 100m Butterfly 4th – missed his own school record
- 50m Butterfly 7th – missed his own school record
- Medley Relay 7th – New School Record
All Schools Qualifiers – 30th & 31st of May
- Carter McGee
- Noah Kemp
- Preston Irawan
- Aidan Park
- Tate Sirianni
- Max Moylan
- Axel Robinson
- Marcus Da Silva
Daniel Arnanmnart
Head of Aquatics