F-Teamers Off The Blocks For Opens
Our Age Group F-Teamers shined at last week's Nationals and now it's time for our Open swimmers to step up to the blocks at the 2021 Australian Swimming Championships that kick off on Wednesday at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre. With last year's Nationals raced virtually due to Covid, swimmers are eager to finally race against the best in the country to see how they are positioned in the lead up to Trials that will be held in June. The meet runs till April 18 and if it's anything like Age Nationals, we're sure to see our F-Teamers put up some fast times.
NSW F-Teamer Meg Bailey is gearing up for a big meet. "I'm really looking forward to Nationals this week and getting some racing under my belt. I'm hoping to post some good times with little rest coming into the meet."
Heats will be run at night with finals taking place in the morning. This is to give the swimmers a chance to get used to the race schedule in Tokyo.
Here's the schedule of events that our Funkita F-Teamers are competing in:
Wednesday
Open 200m Freestyle
Carla Buchanan, Lulu Macleod
17-20 Women 200m Freestyle
Gabi Peiniger, Stef McCarthy, Jemima Horwood
Open 100m Breaststroke
Tessa Wallace, Sarah Beale, Tianni Gilmour, Mikayla Smith
17-20 Women 100m Breaststroke
Georgia Powell
Open 50m Backstroke
Holly Barratt, Abigail Schoorl
17-20 Women 50m Backstroke
Olivia Lefoe, Layla Day, Gabi Peiniger, Ashley Weill
Open 400m IM
Blair Evans, Meg Bailey, Sophie Caldwell, Emily White, Mikayla Smith
Thursday
Open 50m Breaststroke
Tessa Wallace, Mikayla Smith
17-20 Women 50m Breaststroke
Georgia Powell, Crystal Edwards, Stef McCarthy
Open 200m Butterfly
Meg Bailey, Tianni Gilmour, Emily White
Open 100m Freestyle
Holly Barratt, Carla Buchanan, Lulu Macleod
17-20 Women 100m Freestyle
Gabi Peiniger, Crystal Edwards, Stef McCarthy
Open 100m Backstroke
Holly Barratt, Abigail Schoorl
17-20 Women 100m Backstroke
Olivia Lefoe, Layla Day, Ashley Weill
Friday
17 ? 20 Women 1500m Freestyle
Emily White
Open 1500m Freestyle
Sophie Caldwell
Open 400m Freestyle
Carla Buchanan, Sophie Caldwell, Lulu Macleod, Emily White
17- 20 Women 200m Backstroke
Olivia Lefoe, Ashley Weill
Open 100m Butterfly
Meg Bailey, Holly Barratt, Tianni Gilmour, Emily White, Abigail Schoorl
17-20 Women 100m Butterfly
Gabi Peiniger, Stef McCarthy, Olivia Lefoe, Crystal Edwards
Open 200m IM Blair Evans, Tessa Wallace, Meg Bailey, Gabi Peiniger, Sarah Beale, Sophie Caldwell
Saturday
Open 50m Freestyle
Holly Barratt, Jemima Horwood, Abigail Schoorl
17-20 Women 50m Freestyle
Crystal Edwards, Gabi Peiniger, Olivia Lefoe, Stef McCarthy, Layla Day
Open 200m Breaststroke
Tessa Wallace, Sarah Beale, Mikayla Smith
17-20 Women 200m Breaststroke
Georgia Powell
Open 50m Butterfly
Holly Barratt, Abigail Schoorl, Tianni Gilmour
17-20 Women 50m Butterfly
Gabi Peiniger, Olivia Lefoe, Stef McCarthy, Crystal Edwards
Open 800m Freestyle
Lulu Macleod