2025 Mattioli Victorian Age LC Championships

That’s a wrap! RSC had an amazing 5 days of racing at the Mattioli Victorian Age Long Course Championships at MSAC from Dec 14-18th. It was an intense 5 days of competition with both morning and evening sessions. Our swimmers battled it out in the pool with the best swimmers in the state and gave it their all!

Congratulations to Ringwood for finishing 14th overall which is a fantastic effort from all our swimmers!

Congratulations to our medalists:

Thomas Poppins 12

🥉200 Free Relay

🥈100 Free

🥉200 Back

🥈200 IM

🥉100 Fly

🥇200 Free

🥉200 Breast

🥇400 Free

🥉200 Medley Relay

🥉100 Breast

🥈400 IM

Thomas was also awarded overall Victorian Age Champion boy in the 12 year old age group for accumulating the highest aggregate points! Congratulations! ⭐️

Jayden Zheng 13

🥉200 Free Relay

🥈100 Breast

🥈200 Breast

🥉200 Medley Relay

🥉400 IM

Thomas O’Toole 12

🥇1500 Free

🥉200 Free

🥉200 Fly

🥈400 Free

🥇800 Free

Liam Joy 13

🥉200 Free Relay

🥉200 Medley Relay

Austin McNaught 13

🥉200 Free Relay

🥉200 Medley Relay

Finalists:

Luca Ascenzo (800 Free), Hana Durcova (200 Breast), Kailey Faulkner (1500 Free), Ella Irvine (1500 Free), Liam Joy (100 Fly), Thomas Poppins (100 Free, 200 Back, 200 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Breast, 400 Free, 50 Free, 100 Breast, 400 IM), Thomas O’Toole (100 Free, 1500 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Free, 200 Fly, 400 Free, 800 Free), Matilda Young (100 Back, 400 IM), Jayden Zheng (100 Breast, 1500 Free, 200 Breast, 400 Free, 800 Free, 400 IM).

Congratulations to our first time State swimmers:

Callum Kapoor, Elisha Lay, Emily Liu, Austin McNaught, Reece Papp, Justin Zhu and Mia Gu

You all did yourselves proud and have many more exciting Championship events ahead!

We had 24 swimmers overall (17 individual) take part in the Championships. Individually we had a 71% PB rate and a 100% PB rate for our relay teams including two medals! Massive effort from our swimmers on the big stage!

We are incredibly proud of our swimmers for competing, supporting each other and riding the highs and lows. There were great vibes poolside!

Thank you Bella and Andrew for supporting our swimmers and parents in the lead up and through an incredibly emotional roller coaster! - we truly appreciate your efforts and we ended up with some fantastic results!

Day 1:

Silver- Thomas Poppins 12yr 100 Free 59.25

Bronze- Thomas Poppins 12yr 200 Back 2:33.59

Silver- Jayden Zheng 13yr 100 Breast 1:11.60

Bronze- A big congratulations to our 12/13 boys relay A team for taking home the Bronze medal in the 200 Freestyle Relay. Some massive swims by the boys!

Day 2:

Gold - Thomas O’Toole 12yr 1500 Free 18:13.19

Silver- Thomas Poppins 12yr 200 IM 2:26.96

Bronze- Thomas Poppins 12yr 100 Fly 1:07.06