According to the Australian Swim Team on Facebook, a total of seven individual Australian Age records (plus relay records) have fallen at the 2012 Australian Age Championships until now, meet including 4 by the hands of 13-year-old Kyle Chalmers from Norwood South Australia. Watch him break the Boys 12-13 100 freestyle record in the video below, with a scorching 52.29 ahead of the rest in 55+ seconds.

Swimming Australia's Junior Excellence Program (JX) Results for 2011 / 12 have seen 23 swimmers from the West Coast Swimming Club recognised. The program recognises rewards and encourages junior swimmers who, through their development of aquatic skills and fitness, achieve a high standard of swimming excellence.
Under the program, swimmers aged from 9 to 13 years, who accomplish times set  by Swimming Australia, qualify at Gold, Silver, Bronze or Green standard, depending on their best performance/s during the season.

ACHIEVEMENT OF SILVER JX STANDARD
James Andrews
Ashley  Grima
Natasha Hammond
Maddy Izzo
Georgia Kenny
Max Lambert
Demi Lynch
Brooke Traeger

ACHIEVEMENT OF BRONZE JX STANDARD
Jade Calverley
Nick Constantinopoulos
Henry Lambert
Tyson Lynch
Ellie McInerney
Kieran Stephens

ACHIEVEMENT OF GREEN JX STANDARD
Xanthia Clark
Yemaya Coleman-Smith
Kellie Dennis
Isaac Grima
Tommy Ford
Milton Kelsh
Adele Lynch
Stella Reidy
Summa Trowbridge

Friday 22nd of June sees our first point score competition for the 2012 / 13 swimming season. Warm up commences at 4pm and concludes at 4.45pm prior to the commencement of racing at 5pm. All entries for the event need to be made to Lea Traegar by Wednesday 20th of June via the email address linked below. The race program commences at 5pm and parent helpers to timekeep are required. This is a great opportunity for junior swimmers to understand the race protocols  of marshalling, dive block starts, turns and finishes. Swimmers can nominate for a maximum of 5 events.

Event 1                 8U 25m freestyle
Event 2                 Mixed 50 freestyle
Event 3                 8U 25m BBB back breast or butterfly
Event 4                 Mixed 50 breast 
Event 5                 Mixed 50 back 
Event 6                 Mixed 50 Fly 
Event 7                 Mixed 100 freestyle
Event 8                 Mixed 100 IM