BENDIGO East Swimming Club’s young guns put forward yet another strong performance against Victoria’s best at the 2018 Victorian Age Short Course Championships in Melbourne.
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The championships were held across three days from at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.
Bendigo East had 13 swimmers qualify for the meet competing in 62 individual events, with 36 personal best times recorded.
Four swimmers made it to finals competing in 12 different finals.
In many of the finals they were the only country swimmers to qualify swimming against metropolitan swimmers.
The club was represented by 13 swimmers - Hunter Boswell, Layla Day, Ella Downing, Harry Downing, Lily Eldridge, Veda Haines, Cameron Jordan, Emily Kearns, Zalli Lau, Ziggy Lau, Aimee McMahon, Claudia Mountjoy and Varlee Nihill.
Finalists and results were as follows:
Layla Day:girls 15 50m freestyle (third); girls 15 100m individual medley (fifth); girls 15 100m butterfly (sixth); girls 15 200m backstroke (fifth); girls 15 200, freestyle (eighth).
Harry Downing: boys 15 200 backstroke (eighth).
Lily Eldridge: girls 14 100 individual medley (sixth); girls 14 200m breaststroke (sixth; girls 14 100m breaststroke (sixth).
Cameron Jordan: boys 16 200m breaststroke (third); boys 16 100m breaststroke (third).
Emily Kearns: girls 13 100m backstroke (10th).