Alice Springs Invitational Swimming Carnival

On the weekend swimmers from Alice Springs and Darwin competed in the Alice Springs Invitational Swimming Carnival.

Swimming was of a high standard with the competition between Clubs fierce.

Overall our team swam very well with most swimmer achieving personal best times and many individual medals were won. The Carnival also gave our younger and new swimmers invaluable competition experience.

Some fantastic swims over the weekend included: Stella Taylor who improved over a minute in the Open 400m freestyle and 30 seconds in the Open 800m freestyle; Jayce Brown one minute 20 seconds in the Open 400m freestyle; Jarrod Cross one minute in the Open 200m backstroke; and Anastasia Pannell 33 seconds in the U10 200m Individual Medley.

Age Champions:U7 Taea Patterson-Fahy; U8 Erica Portelli, Callum Saville; U9 Harry Newton; U10 Anastasia Pannell, Corwin Turner; U11 Abbey Brown, Charlie Newton; U13 Brad Van Luenen, Teagan Hancock; U14 Jayce Brown, Stephanie Hanlon; U15 Darcy Kerr; U16 Ben Fuller, Jordy Hickey; 17 and Over: Sarah Cullanane.

Sprint Champion: Ben Fuller; Male Distance Champion: Jarrod Cross; Overall Champion Boy: Jayce Brown; Champion Club: Alice Springs.