Swimming

7A Soccer Back Row: Dylan Murphy, Joshua Nixon, Timothy Ludovico, Cooper Brown, Jamie Strudwick, Lucas Munoz Middle Row: Jordan De Leo (Coach), Thomas Throssell, Hayden Boffey, Benjamin Challot, Daniel Fitzgerald, Zachary Robinson, Roberto Iazzi, Hacca Psaila Front Row: Kyron Milosavljevic, Toby Robertson, Raymond Teakle, Nicholas Bradford, Matthew Mustica, Joshua Martelli, Max Thorniley

7C Soccer Back Row: Reilly McClure, Milan Marocchi, David Black, Lachlan Allen, Charles Clark Middle Row: Mr Riccardo Carbone, Lex Agate, Blake George, Ashwyn Menon, James Ellery, William Dickinson, Lucas Di Nardo Front Row: Basil Gerad Cyril, Nathan Filippou, Conor Brazil, Michael Soares Poeira, Filipe Lagrenade 7B Soccer Back Row: Jake Boska, David Cain, Lorenzo Maio, Damon Ferrante, Dean Law Yim Wan, Conor Doyle Middle Row: Mr Jordan Randazzo (Coach), Thomas Miocevich, Jamie Heslop, Nicholas Radonjic, Ethan Ryan, Luca Crevacore, Tyrone Mola FRONT ROW: Dimitri Sarris, Benjamin Olivieri, Ian Xavier, Jacob Arvino, Kyron Milosavljevic

7D Soccer Back Row: John Le, Saad Fallah, Jarrad Scott, Justin Nguyen, Jarrad Nicholls, Muhau Maliti Middle Row: Mathieu Mai, Joseph Eng, Angus Ladhams, Kaya Foti, James Tong, Sean Fidock, Kosta Paraskov Front Row: Jayden Nguyen, James Dinh, Alexander Nguyen, Alistair Hunt, James Greenwell, Alasdair Cooper, Anthony Nguyen Absent: Declan Paton, Ms K.McVernon (Coach)

Mr Dion Mepham Head Swimming Coach

The 2013 swimming season was a huge success for Trinity College. It was not successful in the traditional way, measured by the winning of a PSA title, but in a much more fundamental way. That of improvement. Any team who can continually improve on their best effort has achieved great things and the 2013 TC swim team did just that.

I must make mention of the efforts of Captain of Swimming, Liam Pardini (12.4) and his great leadership team. Liam rallied his troops early in Term 3 of 2012, with a determination and a force of will that offered no compromise. He and his fellow Year 12s, demanded that the swimmers showed up for training regularly and believed in the mantra of ‘pride in personal performance’.

The year started with over 50 new Year 7 boys trying out for the team during the summer holidays. These boys then trained as a group until the Inters.

Many others attended training for the first time in years and there was a real buzz around the training pool. The leadership team created great atmosphere with war cries and the parents provided beautiful breakfasts.

By Inters night, we were confident that Trinity would once again rise above the sixth position that had been occupied for too long.

The night itself, was one of great anticipation and excitement. Liam Pardini (12.4) gave a memorable speech and it was battle time.

Trinity did not disappoint. We produced the most outstanding age group ever seen at PSA level. Our U/13s won all bar three races. Liam Martin (7.5) and Jamie Heslop (7.6) produced some great individual results, with Liam winning the division 1 freestyle, breaststroke and butterfly and Jamie winning division 2 breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. However, the relays were the highlight of the night. The U/13 age group won three of the four relays: division 1 medley – Ethan Bradley (7.4), Jamie Heslop (7.6), Kane Hughes (7.5) and Baily Hughes (7.4); division 1 freestyle – Alexander Pearson (7.6), Steven Miller (7.3), Dylan Salvia (7.5) and Liam Martin (7.5) and division 2 medley – Riley Townsend (7.5), Kelly Schneider (7.5), Justin Ng (7.8) and Zack Lane (7.4). The U/14s, whilst winning no races, produced nearly 100% personal bests and improved their point score, from 2012, by over 50%. The U/14 age group is up against some very stiff competition, but in years to come, the likes of Callum Lauriston (8.6), Carl Braut (8.1), Michael Nicoli (8.7), Ethan Taylor (8.4) and others will come to the fore.

Damon Marciano (9.5) won the division 2 freestyle for the U/15s in a time that would have also won him the division 1 title. He and his peers swam beautifully against tough competition to improve their score from 2012 by over 10%.

The U/16 (young) division, perhaps embraced, more than anyone, the enthusiasm of ‘new TC swimming’. They attended training in great numbers and their performances on both Quads and Inters nights were significant. As a group, they improved the most time, dragging over a minute off their collective personal bests. In most cases, the swimmers in this division are only 1-2 seconds away from winning events. It would be unfair to single out individuals in such a strong team effort; however, Aidan Richards (10.1), Jarrod Ng (10.3) and James Valentine (10.1) shouldered much of the Inters workload.

The older U/16 age group, performed above expectations, with Michael Braut (11.4), Kent Jenkinson (11.5), Thomas Rigoll (11.1) and Bailey Cole (11.1) filling places in many races. It was disappointing to note that for the first time TC could not field a full team in this age group and that despite repeated efforts, a number of boys refused to swim for the College. Perhaps, as leaders of the school for 2014, some boys may reconsider this stance, in light of the Men for Others ethos of the College.