2025 NATIONAL PREP MEET (AUS)
- Saturday, March 15th & Sunday, March 16th
- Brisbane Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Entries
The state of Queensland within Australia is set to host a two-day ‘national prep meet’ this weekend, giving athletes a chance to tune-up ahead of June’s all-important World Championships Trials.
Domestic swimmers aren’t the only ones set to compete, as Olympic champion and world record holder Thomas Ceccon of Italy is entered in the competition.
As a refresher, 24-year-old Ceccon has been training at St. Peters Western in Australia since last year. The versatile ace was entered in the Brisbane Senior Metro Championships on the books for last weekend; however, the meet was cancelled due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
Versatile Ceccon is expected to race the men’s 100m/200m free and 100m/200m backstroke events this weekend.
19-year-old Aussie Olympian Flynn Southam represents Ceccon’s primary contender in both the freestyle distances, although Southam is also taking on the off events of the 400m and 800m free. But Jamie Jack of St. Peters Western will also be in the mix, having clocked a new lifetime best of 48.27 in the 1free at last year’s Queensland Championships.
Additional foreign athletes include Finnish national record holder Laura Lahtinen and New Zealand speedster Michael Pickett.
Key Entrants
- Bond – Hannah Casey, Jesse Coleman, Joshua Collett, Milla Jansen, Tilly King, Flynn Southam
- Finland – Laura Lahtinen
- Italy – Thomas Ceccon
- New Zealand – Michael Pickett
- Somerville House Aquatics – Joshua Conias
- St. Peters Western – Jaclyn Barclay, Hannah Fredericks, Jamie Jack, Bailey Lello, Kai Taylor
upon looking at the worlds criteria again, I noticed that swimming aus is using the world aquatics QTs this year
Hope see Arnie Kyle & Mcvoy in Singapore
Arnie won’t be there
The entries are out for NSW Open and there’s a lot of big names missing but at least we’ll get to see how Kaylee is tracking.
I think part of the reason why Kaylee suddenly dropped out of racing late last year was to process her breakup with Brendon Smith as I notice all their photos together have been deleted from Instagram so hopefully she’s recovered physically and mentally post Paris
They broke up in August, that’s when she deleted the photos, and she also mentioned the breakup on a podcast in october.
When there’s so much emotional and intimate investment into a relationship it’s hard to process I’m sure .. it’s not something that’s merely transactional
Good to see Will Yang back racing for the first time since Paris!
I was a little concerned we might not see him back this season
It’s time for the new kids to step up towards LA28 anyway.. tbh I’m surprise Matthew Wilson is still swimming despite his recent results
nsw states entries:
kaylee mckeown
sienna toohey
olivia wunsch
matt temple
william yang
brittany castelluzzo
abbey connor
thomas nowakowski
alex perkins
bradley woodward
enoch robb
joshua edwards-smith
lucas matzerath
louise hansson
I wonder when we’ll see Cam McEvoy swimming again ? I thought he would have entered this meet as well
NSW Open usually gets a few big names and entry list should come out today (or at least this week). He may be on that. It’s next weekend.
Maybe NSW Open next week? Entries should be out any time now. If not then nationals in April.
No McEvoy at NSW Open! ☹️
Must be taking an extended break after “eloping” to get married recently .. might be starting a new family soon like Kyle Chalmers
I feel like if he weren’t competing this year he’d have announced it so still have hope he’ll be at nationals.
this meet will be very inch resting
might not be able to read too much into his in season times bc i think hes changed his training regime a bit this year, but jamie jack is definitely tracking to make the senior international team this year — maybe even individually in the 100 with a 47 mid by end of season.
max also looks substantially better this year vs last in the 100 — maybe he can also hit a 47 high. theres actually quite a few 47 flat start candidates this year on the mens side — kyle, flynn, jamie, will, max, kai
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Kyle and his fiance have just announced they are expecting a baby. Hope Kyle will still swim in Singapore.
The Aussie men won the 4×1 not so long ago
oh true, i think my point was more so that the aussie men appear to have much more potential depth atm in the 100 vs the women, which is new. and i forgot about cartwright — thats 7 guys who could potentially go 47 flat start, which almost rivals the depth of the us men. they would still def need kyle to be in form though as the pointy end of the stick
sommerville and da silva are also looking sharp and poised to drop but their pbs are a bit back — i feel like theyre probably only in 48ish range
Oh there’s plenty of potential and I could definitely see Jack going 47 this year but for the most part everyone gets stuck at 47 high to 48 mid. Perhaps we need more guys to follow the 50/100 path like Jack instead of 100/200.
thats a good point — probably why will leaped ahead of the pack last year.
i think its probably unlikely many of those guys will shift to the 50/100 bc of the relay potential with the 100/200 and culturally australian swimming seems to favor grinding out volume vs power based work (probably why bh overcorrects so much w his sprint revolution lol)