BLUE Lake Y (BLY) Swim Club had seven athletes compete at the 2020 SA State Championships in Adelaide last week.
Off the back of the SA Country Championships the previous week, BLY athletes competed among 979 swimmers from 65 clubs.
Among those were Australian Olympic athletes who will compete at Tokyo 2020, which made for some exciting racing.
Hayley, Aleisha and Mikayla Pearson, Haydn Lowe, Annabelle Solomons, plus Thomas and Nicholas Bignell flew the BLY flag at the event and returned with positive results.
There were medal wins, a record achieved, several swims in finals and some impressive personal bests.
Thomas Bignell set a new SA Country record in the 15 boys 50-metre breaststroke and was presented with a certificate for his achievement.
He finished second in the final of the same event at the SA State Championships to claim the silver medal, while he also won silver in the 100-metre breaststroke, along with a bronze in the 200-metre breaststroke.
For Solomons and Lowe it was their first taste of competing at state level, with the former swimming in a final and both achieving some impressive PB’s.
Mikayla Pearson and Nicholas Bignell swam PB’s in all of their events, while Aleisha Pearson achieved a personal best in all but one of her events.
A tight race in the 16-year-old girls 50-metre fly saw Hayley Pearson finish fourth by 0.09 seconds, to narrowly miss out on the bronze medal.
