Genesis makes splash in rankings

Genesis Aquatics is “excited” by the success of its swimmers in state and national rankings which have been sent out by Swimming Queensland.

The club, at Genesis Christian College, Bray Park, had three swimmers in the national top 20 and 13 in Queensland’s top 20 for their events.

“We were surprised to see how many were on the list,” said Rick Pendleton, Genesis Aquatics Assistant Coach and lead Club Coach.

Extremely happy

“But extremely happy. We’re delighted for every one of them and this is a great sign for the club going into the future.”

Kiara Vanstyn, Margot Dawson and Olivia Gittins have national top 20 rankings, the latter was in the Queensland Open Water Development squad last year.

Lauren Whalley and Callen Berg have eight and seven state rankings respectively, on the listings, in different events.

“Rankings in multiple events are exactly what we want to see,” said Pendleton, “it shows great potential going forward.”

Australian Top 20 rankings for last season:

Kiara Vanstyn - 16^th 400m Freestyle

Margot Dawson – 18^th 400m Freestyle

Olivia Gittins – 17^th 1500m freestyle

Queensland Top 20 times:

Olivia Gittins – 12^th 800m Freestyle, 7th 1500m Freestyle

Lauren Whalley – 16^th 50m Backstroke; 16th 100m Backstroke; 12th 200m Backstroke; 15^th 200m IM; 17^th 50m Freestyle; 19^th 100m Freestyle; 13^th 200m Freestyle; 14^th 400m Freestyle

Kaelah Bourke – 19^th 50m Backstroke; 14^th 50m Freestyle

Kaitlyn Weldon – 18^th 200m Backstroke

Ellen Gittins – 17^th 50m Breaststroke; 13^th 100m Breaststroke; 19^th 200m Breaststroke

Margot Dawson – 17^th 100m Freestyle; 14^th 200m Freestyle; 8^th 400m Freestyle

Kiara Vanstyn – 5^th 400m Freestyle

Callan Berg – 6^th 50m Freestyle; 12^th 100m Freestyle; 14^th 200m Freestyle; 2^nd 400m Freestyle; 11^th 100m Backstroke; 10^th 50m Butterfly; 9^th 200m IM

Felix Nielsen – 16^th 50m Freestyle; 5^th 100m Freestyle; 4^th 400m Freestyle; 20^th 50m Butterfly

Xavier Clarke-Bates – 18^th 50m Freestyle; 13^th 50m Backstroke; 16^th 100m Backstroke; 20^th 50m Butterfly

Matthew Turner – 20^th 200m Freestyle

Robert Soltermann – 14^th 800m Freestyle

Mitchell Enchelmaier – 19^th 50m Breaststroke

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