Candice Wall and Jayke Rees impress in swimming events – 2011 Australian State Teams Championships
Candice Wall of Western Australia and Jayke Rees of New South Wales impressed the arena in preliminary rounds of the 50m freestyle swims in their respective age group. The event took place in the first session of the championship on September 17, at the
Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), Canberra.
Wall presented a wonderful swim in qualifying rounds of the two-lap event by posting a time of 26.00 seconds. With her phenomenal effort, the 14-year-old Wall remained 0.10 seconds ahead of her following swimmer, Jemma Schlicht of Victoria, who qualified
into the final with a second fastest qualification of 26.10 seconds. The third qualification spot of the freestyle discipline was secured by Lauren Rettie of Queensland, who remained only 0.18 seconds slower than her former finisher and posted a time of 26.28
seconds.
Then, the arena sighted the immense effort of the 14-year-old Lucy Soden of Victoria, who remained only 0.02 seconds slower than the third fastest finisher and entered the finals with a timing of 26.30 seconds. The Victorian swimmer was only a touch away
from her subsequent competitor, Sophie Taylor of New South Wales, as she remained only 0.07 seconds behind her and submitted a time of 26.37 seconds.
Subsequently, Rettie’s team-member, Lizzie Gannon emerged as the sixth fastest swimmer of the event. The 13-year-old Gannon was just 0.12 seconds slower than her preceding swimmer and reported a time of 26.49 seconds.
Later on, 15-year-old Rees dominated the prelims of same event in his age group category. Rees clocked a time of 23.52 seconds for top qualification spot of the event. He was followed by Jack Currie of Victoria, who was just 0.07 seconds slower than Rees
on the finishing wall and clocked a second best time of 23.59 seconds. Currie was trailed by Ryan Parker of Queensland, who settled as the third fastest swimmer with a timing of 23.62 seconds.
Meanwhile, Andrew Walker of Western Australia earned fourth finishing spot of the swim by producing a time of 23.64 seconds. Lachlan Wells of Victoria was the fifth fastest swimmer to enter the final rounds, as he remained only 0.03 seconds away from Walker
and concluded his swim in a time of 23.67 seconds.
Moments later, Phil Soalheira of Queensland obtained sixth qualification spot of the freestyle knockout swim, by touching the wall in 23.79 seconds. Jacob Hansford of New South Wales ended up seventh as he remained 0.25 seconds slower and posted a time of
24.04 seconds. Jake Hodgetts remained just 0.02 seconds slower than him and earned eighth spot in 24.06 seconds.
Furthermore, these finalists will compete with each other in the semi-final to qualify for the final rounds.
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