Short course is a wrap. We continued to show our learnings from this season at Australian Short course in Sydney.
Individual qualifiers Zac Attard, Shaun Champion and Audrey Jackson all achieved personal beat swims at the championship.
Audrey Jackson broke through with a 0.25 second best in the 50m freestyle. Audrey improved her ranking by 14 placings at her first Open meet. This great swim gave her a position in the B final. Her first finals experience at state or national level. Audrey qualified at Senior state two weeks prior. She put her reflections into action, made the race plan adjustments and won her heat. She finished 10th in her B final. Congratulations Audrey! It was great to see you soak up your finals experience.
Zac Attard swam the B final in the 200m Freestyle, on the opening night of competition. Zac exhibited his skills in this event. Zac improved from senior state, by 2.2 seconds and swim faster in the final. Congratulations Zac!
Shaun also improved from senior state. Shaun won silver in the 200m Freestyle, starting is week off with a bang, improving his personal best by 1 second. Shaun used technical improvements to help maintain his high standards and accumulated great racing intent.
He placed 4th in the 50m and 100m butterfly, both with season best times.
For the first time we swam 2 mixed relays, both placing in the Top 10.
Medley relay swimmers in relay order…
Shaun Champion, Ryan Hansen, Jasmin Foster, Audrey Jackson.
Freestyle relay swimmers in relay order…
Zac Attard, Shaun Champion, Syesha Anthony, Piper Marinas.
All swimmers produced their best efforts and lifted for each other. It was a great bonding experience. It was great to watch races with our swimmers, to talk about racing, the technical requirements and see their motivation to improve themselves. They could see what they need to do. We look forward to next year, as many more swimmers approach this level of competition.
Congratulations to all our Short Course competitors.
Go Team Abb!!!
