Shore Swimming

Shore Swimming

Shore Swimming Club – National Age Championships

During the school holidays, we had five swimmers represent the Shore Swimming Club at the National Age Chamionships that were held on the Gold Coast. In order to compete at this carnival, you must achieve qualifying times which are extremely difficult and as a result this is the highest level of competition on offer in swimming.

For the Shore Swimming Club, in our first year, it was very exciting that we were able to field a team of five swimmers at this event, which included two relays and a handful of individual swims.

The swimmers we had represent Shore Swimming Club were:

  • James Bestic – 50m Free, 4 x 50m Medley Relay & 4 x 50m Free Relay
  • Daniel Becker – 4 x 50m Medley Relay & 4 x 50m Free Relay
  • Ethan Ng – 50m Free, 100m Free & 4 x 50m Free Relay
  • Harry Pollitt – 50m Breast & 4 x 50m Medley Relay
  • Paul Russell – 4 x 50m Medley Relay & 4 x 50m Free Relay

The swimmers performed exceptionally well across all these events, represented the Shore Swimming Club with distinction and soaked in the atmosphere of the event as well as enjoying the Gold Coast.

Thank you to the Shore Swimming Club for organising this trip, the boys had a wonderful time and are already making plans for a bigger and better trip next year.

T O’Keeffe
Shore Swimming Club

NSW CIS Championships

NSW CIS Swimming Championships was held across Monday night and Tuesday 1 and 2 May at SOPAC. Shore had 12 boys racing as well as three relay teams which is a great representation from Shore at such a high level Meet.  

The team performed with great Shore spirit as they all put in their best efforts throughout the entire carnival. We had many top 10 placing finishes with the following results:

  • Will Bestic – 50m Fly (7th), 100m Back (3rd), 50m Back (4th), 200m Back (2nd)
  • Ethan Cook – 200m IM (10th), 200m Breast (5th), 50m Breast (2nd), 100m Breast (5th)
  • Alexander Freischmidt – 100m Free (10th)
  • James Hoskins – 50m Back (10th)
  • Billy Jones – 50m Breast (5th), 100m Freestyle (9th)
  • Ollie Kelly – 100m Fly (6th)
  • Noah McLaren – 50m Free (4th), 200m IM (5th), 100m Free (3rd)

We had three relays compete and our Intermediate 4 x 50m Medley Relay (James Hoskins, Ethan Cook, Daniel Becker and James Bestic) performed strongly and finished with a 4th placing just missing All Schools selection.

The two other relay teams were our Junior boys in both the 4 x 50m Medley (Will Bestic, Sam Chan, Jonty Jagger and Noah McLaren) and 4 x 50m Freestyle relay (Noah McLaren, Jonty Jagger, Ollie Kelly and Will Bestic) and both have qualified through to All Schools in fantastic performances.

Along with these two relay teams, Will Bestic, Ethan Cook and Noah McLaren have qualified in individual events for the upcoming All Schools championships.

Well done to all boys involved and keep up the good work in the pool!

T O’Keeffe
Acting Head of Swimming