Cooktown Amateur Swimming Club members lit up the pool with 38 placings and 28 personal best performances when they travelled to Malanda to compete on 16 November. Photo: Supplied.
The strength of Cooktown’s swimming ranks was on display for all of Far North Queensland to see when 11 junior athletes travelled to Malanda to compete in a short course transition meeting on 16 November.
Cooktown Amateur Swimming Club was missing some of its senior stars due to graduation commitments but the members – aged eight to 16 – who made the four-hour trip to the Atherton Tablelands for the meeting shone in their absence and competed in a combined 62 events against more than 100 other swimmers from across the state’s far north.
The Cooktown crew took home 18 first placings, 13 second placings and seven thirds for the meeting, with the 11 swimmers recording 28 personal best times between them on the day.
One of the standout performances of the meeting was delivered by Cooktown’s Rudi Habermann, who finished in the pool with six wins and six PBs.
Adele Dooley, Job Kuruduadua and Archer Meyer also impressed in their first carnival outside of Cooktown.
Once the action in the pool had concluded, the swimmers headed to Lake Eacham to cool off and reflect on their stellar efforts at the meeting.
The Cooktown swimmers warm up before hitting the pool in Malanda against more than 100 competitors from across Far North Queensland on Saturday morning. Photo: Supplied.
