PORT Macquarie Swimming Club will send its largest contingent of juniors to the State Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, at Homebush, this weekend.
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The squad, aged from nine to 12 years, has been training hard under the guidance of coaches Cheryl Neville and Michael Mullens.
Since the start of the season, seven individuals have swum faster than the challenging qualifying times set by NSW Swimming.
Another 13 swimmers were added to the squad to contest the relays.
The 10 years and under boys relay team has a real chance of a medal as they made the top 10 in 2009 when they were all aged nine.
Ben Adams is the lone representative in the nine years 50m freestyle.
Leading the 10 years charge are Jack Daly (100m backstroke, 200 IM, 200m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m backstroke), Mitchell Everingham (100m backstroke, 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle), Jacob Foy (100m backstroke, 200 IM, 50m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 100m freestyle, 200m backstroke) and Samuel Harris (200 IM, 50m freestyle).
Mekayla Everingham (200m backstroke, 100m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 200 IM, 200m freestyle, 100m backstroke) and Ebanie Martin (100m breaststroke, 50m freestyle, 200m breaststroke) will fly the 12 years flag.
Adams, Foy, Daly and Everingham make up the 10 years and under 4 x 50m freestyle relay line-up while Ashlyn Dures, Bianca Jamieson, Lily Howard and Jade Milroy take on their female counterparts.
The two squads – Everingham (backstroke), Foy (breaststroke), Daly (butterfly) and Adams (freestyle); and Jamieson (backstroke), Dures (breaststroke), Howard (butterfly) and Milroy (freestyle) – will also contest the 10 years and under 4 x 50m relay teams.
Mekayla Everingham, Martin, Megan Cooper and Jamie-Lee Wentzell fill the 11/12 years 4 x 50m freestyle relay positions.
That quartet – Cooper (backstroke), Martin (breaststroke), Everingham (butterfly) and Wentzell (freestyle) – will contest the 11/12 years 4 x 50m medley too.
Adams, Foy, Daly and Everingham are joined by Darcy Howard, Matt Kemp, Samuel Harris, Angus Thompson, James Peck and Joe Begbie in the Fred Lane 10 x 50m freestyle relay.
The Fanny Durack 10 x 50m freestyle relay features Mekayla Everingham, Martin, Dures, Cooper, Lily Howard, Milroy, Wentzell, Amy Mutton, Lily Smith and Zara Phillips.
