Short course results
The Coast and Valley Short Course Championships were held on the weekend of June 16 and 17 at the Peninsula Leisure Centre in Woy Woy.
The championships were used by many athletes as a lead up to the NSW Country and State Age and Open Championships in July and August.
The Under-9 girls division was dominated by Hunter's Abigail Sweeney and KPD's Piper-Lily Walker.
The boy's competition was dominated by Charlie Hawke from Y Valley Aquatic while Toukley's Harrison Williams showed he would be a swimmer for the future.
The Under-10s was well contested in the boys between Mitch Robinson from Y Valley and Lachlan Braddish from Woy Woy.
The girl's division was dominated by Michaela Hazell from Hunter who broke four individual and two relay records.
The Under-11s was dominated by KPD's Benjamin Yates who broke three individual records and one relay record.
In the girl's, the competition was shared between Jade Frith of Novocastrian and Eden Leary of Gosford Stingrays.
The Under-12s was dominated by Kincumber Pacific Dolphins' Ashleigh Power and Novocastrians' Chloe Jones who broke seven records between them.
The boy's division was a closely fought out competition between Zak Taylor of Y Valley Aquatic, Tristan Brooker of NuSwim and Harry Loader of KPD.
The Under-13s group was dominated by Australian Age medallist Bradley Woodward of Mingara Aquatic.
Bradley broke three individual and two relay records.
The girl's division was dominated by Mingara Aquatic swimmer Odette Hodgson and Woy Woy's Rachel Wood.
Both girls competed in many events over the course of the meet.
The Under-14 girl's event was dominated by multiple Australian Age Medallist Abbey Harkin of Novocastrian who won the majority of her events and broke five records.
The boy's competition was dominated by multiple Australian Age medallist Oliver Moody of NuSwim and Lachlan Vane-Tempest of Minagra Aquatic.
In the Over-15s age group Ryan Leonard of Hunter broke two records in the boys event and outscored his opposition.
In the girl's, the Hunter's Meg Bailey and KPD's Cassandra van Breugel outscored their rivals.
At the end of the meet Coast and Valley Swimming Association president Mr David Hinds presented the Swimmer of the Meet Awards.
In the male competition Bradley Woodward of Mingara Aquatic scored 138 points and broke three individual records and two relay records.
"Bradley is such a committed young athlete who gives his very best in every race he contests," said Mr Hinds.
In second place was Oliver Moody of Nu Swim who scored 129 points and broke six records.
In third place was Hunter's Ryan Leonard who scored 125 points and broke two records.
In the female competition Meg Bailey from the Hunter club showed her class and scored a massive 180 points and broke nine records.
"Meg displayed form in all disciplines over all distances," said Mr Hinds.
In second place was Abbey Harkin from Novocastrian who scored 147 points and broke five records.
In third place was Mingara Aquatic's Odette Hodgson who scored 118 points.
Overall 77 records were broken out of 140 events.
In one race alone the top eight went under the previous record and all eight swam under the State Age qualifying time.
At the end of the two days of competition Central Coast club Kincumber Pacific Dolphins was declared CVSA Club Champions for the first time scoring 1378.5 points, second place to Hunter on 1359.5 points and third place to Mingara Aquatic with 1242.5 points.
Email, 21 Jun 2012
Andrew Jones, Lakes Grammar School