2023/24 SENIOR State and Queensland State Championships were held at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic centre Homebush Sydney from Sunday 10 to Saturday 16 December

Also at the same time swimmers from the top end of the region swam at the 2023 Queensland State Championships from Saturday 9 to Friday 15 December.

Fifty-one swimmers from 11 clubs swam in 218 events at SNSW State and 12 swimmers from 5 clubs swam in 51 events in Queensland State.

Swimmers from most states of NSW also swam as well as overseas countries.

Those countries were the Netherlands, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Japan and several clubs from New Zealand.

This all made for good swimming and large entries.

Some of the 50 events went to 36 heats x 10.

SNSW results for Swimming North Coast swimmers were as follows:

Medalists:

Ethan Blockey Macksville MC 17, 1st 50 Back, 2nd 100 back, 3rd 50 Breast,3rd 100 Breast, 4th 200 medley, 5th 100 free, 5th 100 fly, 6th 50 fly, and 6th 50 free.

Hamish Carmichael Forster 12 2nd 100 Breast and also 2nd 50 Breast.

Joel Fleming Forster 17 2nd 100 fly, 4th 50 free, 4th 50 fly and 5th 100 free

Millie Edwards Coffs Harbour 16 3rd 200 fly, 3rd NSW 50 back, 5th 200 medley and 7th 100 fly.

Keeley Smith Macksville 15 3rd 100 Breast and 3rd 200 Breast and 4th 50 Breast.

Bridie Gordon Coffs Harbour 12 3rd 50 Back and 10th 100 Back.

Sebastian Webster Stroud MC 14 3rd 50 Breast, 4th 100 breast and 10th 50 free.

Top ten placings were:–

Aidan Arnison 16 Alstonville 10TH 100 Back, Courtney Clark Coffs Harbour 17 8th 200 fly, Rekkii Bryne Dorrigo 21 8th 50 breast and 9th 50 fly, Sophie Scislo Forster 14 5th 100 fly, Kiera Hetherington Macksville 17 8th 100 back, Leah Pickvance Macksville 16 5th 100 free and 5th 50 free, Makaylah Schatzman Macksville 14 9th 50 free, Brielle Woodger Macksville 17 6th 200 fly and 4th 100 fly, Chase Burke Maclean 13 6th 1500 free, Jett Burke Maclean 15 9th 200 fly, Bianca Harison Port Macquarie 12 10th 50 Breast, William Bradshaw Stroud MC 16 9th 50 back, 10th 400 free and 7th 100 back, Caitlin McDonald Stroud 14 4th 100 Breast and 7th 200 Breast.

Relay For Macksville 7th 4 x 100 medley- Kiera, Keely Brielle and Leah.

Queensland results were:

Sophie Mayes 18 Alstonville 2nd 50 fly, 4th 50 free, 6th 100 free and 200 Medley.

Will Hensley also from Alstonville 5th in 1500 free.

Macksville

Further placings for Ethan 18th 200 free.

Further placings for Kiera 19th 50 free, 12th 200 medley, 11th 200 free, 20th 100 free, 61st 50 back, 80th 50 fly and 15th 100 fly.

Further placings for Leah 35th 100 back, 13th 50 fly and 20th 100 fly.

Further placings for Makaylah 59th 50 fly.

Further placings for Keely 25th 50 free, 16th 200 medley, 33rd 100 free, 26th 100 fly and 32nd 50 fly.

Further placings for Brielle 20th 50 free, 13th 200 free, 18th 100 free, 59th 50 fly and 64th 100 fly.

Tessa Elsley 14 26th 200 back.

Mitchell Hornick 14 69th 50 free, 19th 100 back, 37th 50 back and 19th 200 back.

Chelsea Stringer 14 48th 100 Breast, 74th 50 free, 36th 50 fly and 38th 50 Breast.

Declan Sutton 21 16th 100 fly, 18th 50 free, 18th 200 medley, 13th 50 back, 14th 50 fly, 22nd 100 back, 13th 100 free and 20th 200 back.

Keeley Sutton 14 43rd 100 back.

Relays 29th 4 x 50 medley 12-14 Keely Chelsea, Tessa and Makaylah

24th 4x 50 free same girls

13th 4 x 50 medley 15-17 Kiera Keely Smith, Brielle and Leah

12th 4 x 50 free same girls

Well done to all those swimmers.

By Faye ROWLES