Australian Age group swimmers are getting excited to pack their bags and head for the sunny Gold Coast for the 2021 Australian Age Swimming Championships that will run from April 5-12. Due to reduced number of meets across the country, Swimming Australia has revised the qualifying times to allow more swimmers the opportunity to qualify for Nationals. The program also looks a bit bigger with the addition of the Age and Open Multi Class Nationals that will run at the start of the meet. This will be a great chance for our para swimmers to get more quality racing in before the trials in Adelaide in June. There was big news this month with the announcement that Australia will not be sending a team to the FINA World Junior Championships in Kazan in August nor the World Universiade Games in Chengdu, China. Instead, the country?s best young swimmers will be racing at these Age Nationals in hopes of being selected for the Australian team that will race together in the green and gold at a team-based event in August.

Our F-Teamers are ready to race. Keep your eyes out for these young guns: 

Lucinda Macleod (16) Griffith University

Seeded 2nd in the 200m Freestyle (2:01.21), Seeded 3rd in the 400m Freestyle (4:16.58), Seeded 3rd in the 800m Freestyle (8:47.02),Seeded 6th in the 100m Freestyle (56.68), Seeded 11th in the 200m IM (2:22.81)

Tiana Kritzinger (16) Nudgee College

Seeded 1st in the 800m Freestyle (8:43.10), Seeded 1st in the 1500m Freestyle (16:38.72), Seeded 2nd in the 400m Freestyle (4:13.16), Seeded 2nd in the 400m IM (4:50.54), Seeded 5th in the 200m IM (2:19.96) Seeded 3rd in the 200m Butterfly (2:15.46)

Mikhaila Flint (15) St Peters Western

Seeded 2nd in the 100m Butterfly (1:01.91), Seeded 7th in the 50m Freestyle (26.88), Seeded 11th in the 100m Freestyle (58.37)

Matilda Smith (16) The Hobart Aquatic

Seeded 1st in the 200m Breaststroke (2:29.44), Seeded 2nd in the 100m Breaststroke (1:10.73)

Sophie Healy (16) Norwood

Seeded 3rd in the 100m Backstroke (1:03.98), Seeded 6th in the 400m IM (4:58.34)

Collette Lyons (15) Kinross Wolaroi

Seeded 1st in the 400m IM (4:54.39), Seeded 2nd in the 200m IM (2:20.06), Seeded 8th in the 100m Butterfly (1:03.35)

Multi-Class

Taylor Corry (26) Nelson Bay

Seeded 1st in the 50m Backstroke (32.43), Seeded 1st in the 50m Butterfly (29.97), Seeded 2nd in the 50 Freestyle (28.36), Seeded 2nd in the 100m Butterfly (1:07.07), Seeded 4th in the 100m Freestyle (1:02.07), Seeded 4th in the 200m Freestyle (2:19.78)

Katja Dedekind USC Spartans

Seeded 1st in the 50m Freestyle (27.78), Seeded 1st in the 100m Freestyle (1:00.22), Seeded 1st in the 100m Backstroke (1:07.49)

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