Always a wonderful privilege to look back on a successful season and this year we could certainly do that. So wonderful to have so many club members join in Saturday’s Golden Gala celebrations!!
A big thank you to former Australian Dolphins team members and our guest panellists for the night – Sam Sheppard, David Schlicht and Jemma Schlicht. Incredibly fortunate to have these three there sharing so honestly about the highs and lows of training and competing.
Thank you also to MC, David Hay and Alex Robson and her phenomenal organising committee for another brilliant evening.
We were honoured to have a few Life Members join us – Katrina & Anthony Schlicht, Sharon Brian, Lauren McLaverty and David Schlicht – thank you for your continued support for the club.
A special thank you to Lauren who also presented her namesake trophy to this year’s winner, Will Cao.
Wonderful to have our coaching team there as well and welcome to the newest members of the team – Shay Mansell and Mel Klamt!
To all our coaches, swimmers and their parents – well done on your achievements during the 2022/23 season and congratulations to our Swimmers of the year, Alannah Torrance and David Schlicht; and to all our 2022/23 season award* winners :
COACHES’ AWARDS
Junior Squad – Ellie Gurvitch
Development Squad – Fraser Blair
State Squad – Hamish Evans
National Target – Isabella French
National Squad – Isabella Osborn
Performance Squad – Mayan Bhaskar
MAJOR AWARDS
Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year
Harry Hay
2023 Australian Open Water Championships Men 19 years old 5km – 8th
Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year
Mackenzie Hunter
2023 Australian Open Water Championships Women 17 years old 5km – 2nd and 7.5km 3rd
2022/23 Junior Male Swimmer of the Year
William Cao
200m LC Freestyle 2:17.42, 408 FINA points Vic Age Championships
2022/23 Junior Female Swimmer of the Year
Lucy Reed
200m LC Freestyle 2:24.85, 474 FINA points Vic Age Championships
2022/23 Age Male Swimmer of the Year
Toby McOmish
50m LC Freestyle, 22.88 / 763 FINA points Australian Age Championships
2022/23 Age Female Swimmer of the Year
Isabella Osborn
100m LC Butterfly, 1:01.11, 748 FINA points Victorian Age Championships
2022/23 Male Swimmer of the Year
David Schlicht
400 IM SC, 4:01.44, 919 FINA points Australian Short Course Trials
2022/23 Female Swimmer of the Year
Alannah Torrance
100m SC IM, 1:02.13, 752 FINA points Victorian Open Championships
Lee Armstrong Award
Amelia Blake
Paul LaceyAward
Harry Hay
Lauren McLaverty Award
Will Cao
2023 Club Championships Age Group Winners:
9 years Female
1st Lucy Olsen, 2nd Isabella Tomietto, 3rd Saba Sachdeva
9 years Male
1st James Hall
10 years Female
1st Isabella Paddle, 2nd Estella Ouyang, 3rd Charlotte Davey
10 years Male
1st Fraser Blair, 2nd Daniel Hsu
11 years Female
1st Zara Barr 2nd Sophie Lui 3rd Ellie Zhang
11 years Male
1st Edward Barnaby and Kevin Huang, 2nd Taj Walker
12 years Female
1st Lucy Reed, 2nd Sophie Hall, 3rd Tayah Dickson
12 years Male
1st Nico Robson, 2nd Tullie Williams, 3rd Mack Jaski
13 years Female
1st Kathryn van Gaal, 2nd Sanya Arya, 3rd Olivia Liu
13 years Male
1st William Cao, 2nd Adam Hsu, 3rd Sebastian Liu
14 years Female
1st Heidi Chuah, 2nd Olivia Mac,
14 years Male
1st George Xie, 2nd Alex Haigh, 3rd Christopher Botuyan
15 years Female
1st Isabella Osborn, 2nd Judy Eman, 3rd Bella Murchie
15 years Male
1st Jack Gibson, 2nd Hamish Robson, 3rd Toby Callaghan
16 years & over Female
1st Alannah Torrance, 2nd Charlie Millard, 3rd Amelia Blake
16 years & over Male
1st Toby McOmish, 2nd Harry Hay, 3rd James Lewena
*for more information about the awards, please head to our website for a summary: https://mlcaquatic.com.au/club-records-2/
