West Coast and City of Perth dominated the Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle overnight, finishing one, two in a nail biting finish between the two WA clubs.

Adam Lucas’ personal best for the Men’s 200m IM is a second lighter today following his Gold Medal at the Telstra Trials in Sydney.

Athens Olympian Travis Nederpelt has secured his place at the Montreal World Championships after victory in the Men’s 200m Butterfly in Sydney last night.

City of Perth’s Michael Jackson added a Bronze medal to WA’s tally after a personal best performance of 55.69 for the Mens 100m Backstroke last night.

Western Australia’s 23 member State Age Team travelling to Brisbane for the 2005 Fisher & Paykel Australian Age Swimming Championships is brimming with talent and will provide plenty of competition over the five day meet.

Western Australian swimmers have performed admirably on the first two days of competition in Sydney with fourteen athletes making finals appearances.

Western Australia’s 26 member State Team to compete at the 2005 Telstra Trials in Sydney has been announced with team captain Jono Van Hazel at the helm.

Adam Lucas is one of WA's most exciting swimmers. After being selected on the 2004 Olympic team, Adam's swimming future looks bright.

Australian 200m LC & SC Breaststroke record holder Jim Piper has finished the 2004-2005 FINA World Cup Series with an overall ranking of third handing the West Coast swimmer US$20,000.

This years Summer Sprints attracted a field of over five hundred swimmers and recorded two WA All Comers, three WA All Time and five WA Residential records for the meet.

The 2005 Club Premierships were a great success with West Coast taking out the A division while Swan Hills, Central Aquatic and Lawley Aquatic won B,C and D respectively.

ASAOC Chief Executive Officer, Chris Conway welcomes three new staff members Brooke Shea, Sarah Aulin and Courtney Jobe to the ASAOC team.

Having been close runners up in the past few years, City of Perth are this year the overall winners of the Metropolitan Club Championship Shield for the most points scored during the SunSmart State Championship Series. West Coast, their main rivals and winners in the past several years, have been relegated to runners up while Arena finished third. Mandurah were once again outright winners of the Country Club Shield ahead of Broome and Kambalda.

In an upset over the performance in recent years, City of Perth topped the list for the most points recorded by a club at the 2005 SunSmart State Relay Championships. West Coast were runners up with Arena coming in third. There was an increased number of entries this year and a total of thirty three State and Country records were broken at the meet.

New sandgroper, Jim Piper, has returned to his pre Olympic form taking out a silver medal in the 200m Breaststroke event at the World Cup Meet in Moscow. Piper clocked 2:06.98 to claim the silver medal behind Russian, Grigory Falko beating his rival Ed Moses from USA.

In 2002 FINA changed Rule GR7.1 in order to limit the amount of advertising allowed on swimmers’ competition swim wear. Swimming Australia has just released an important information update regarding use of logos on swim wear at the 2005 Australian Championships.

A number of WA's multidisability swimmers posted personal best times at the recent SunSmart State Championship series of meets. Many of these bettered the time currently recognised as the Australian record for the event, however recognition by the appropriate authorities is still pending. Congratulations to all these swimmers.

WA swimmers Lisande Dingjan (Fremantle Port), Bobby Jovanovich (City of Perth), Amy Lucas (West Coast) and Stephanie Winter (west Coast) were selected to wear the green and gold on the 2005 Australian Youth Olympic Festival Team. At the meet conducted at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre from 20 - 23 January, they did us proud.

A most successful 2005 SunSmart State Open/Junior Championships was conducted at Challenge Stadium over the weekend 13 - 16 January. The meet saw thirty four new Australian, State and Country records set by eight of our swimmers. Garth Kates set provisional a new Australian record for 15 year olds while Lauren Winter broke an Open State record, which had stood for almost fifteen years.

The 2005 SunSmart State Championships conducted at Challenge Stadium from 6 - 9 January confirmed the depth of talent in Western Australian Age group swimming with sixty seven new Australian, State and WA Country records being set. City of Perth's Corey McIntosh was the stand out performer during the four days of the meet.