School Sport Australia – Swimming Championships 2025
Last week, Shore School had three students, Harrison A, William B, and Jonty J, qualify to represent New South Wales at the School Sport Australia Swimming Championships, held in Brisbane.
The qualification process is highly competitive and lengthy in its duration, requiring the boys to be at the top of their game for many months, dating all the way back to February and March for the GPS season, where they were selected to represent GPS at the CIS championships.
From the CIS championships in early May, they were then selected to represent CIS at the NSW All Schools championships held in late May. At the NSW All Schools championships, they were then selected to represent NSW at the nationals. Ultimately, this is the best of the best, and for Shore to have three swimmers qualify is a remarkable effort.
To start us off, we had a cold morning, warming up in a 33 metre long pool with backstroke flags 7 metres from the wall – however, Jonty took it head on with a great swim, placing 4th, and also had the Intermediate 400m Freestyle, placing 7th in a PB swim.
Harrison was next up with his 50 metre Freestyle event, qualifying 2nd for the final and walking away with a bronze medal in a tight contest between the top 4, with only 0.11 separating them. This was a brilliant result from Harrison in his first school nationals experience.
William was the next and he had a full programme, after qualifying through for all four of the 50 metre events, and coming away with the following results:
- 50m Butterfly – 8th
- 50m Freestyle – 5th
- 50m Breaststroke – 7th
- 50m Backstroke – 3rd – with 0.07 between 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Harrison also teamed up with his NSW teammates for a winning 4 x 50m Medley Relay, and William had a silver medal-winning NSW team in the 4 x 50m Freestyle relay.
A fantastic result from all three boys who represented Shore and the state of NSW with distinction at this championship.
This concludes the 2025 swimming season, a wonderful year for the swimming team.
Go Shore!
Mr Tom O’Keeffe
Head of Swimming
