WAIS Swimmers Ready for Australian Championships

Published On: 17 March 2009

Blair Evans has a busy schedule ahead

The search for the next generation of Australian swimming talent will begin in Sydney tonight as the 2009 Australian Swimming Championships get underway at the Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.

The Australian Swimming Championships has raised names such as Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Libby Trickett and Stephanie Rice in the past, and three WAIS athletes will be competing at the pool that made waves around the world in 2000, for the Sydney Olympic Games.

Blair Evans, Amy Lucas and Steve Neuwert will all represent WAIS at the Championships over the next few days.

Evans will have a busy schedule in Sydney, talking the 400 individual medley as well as the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle events.

Amy Lucas will concentrate her efforts on the 100m freestyle and the 100m, 200m backstroke double.

Steve Neuwert – who has only recently returned from a stint in the US college system – will go up against former WAIS athlete and world record holder Eamon Sullivan in the 50m and 100m freestyle events.

WAIS IASP athlete, Jeremy McClure will also be in action in Sydney in his first major meet since representing Australia at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.

The 2009 Australian Swimming Championships run from March 17-22.