By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
2025 Western Australia Age & Open State LC Championships
December 19-22, 2025
HPC Perth, Perth, Australia
Lengthy Course Meters (50 meters)
Dwell Outcomes
Breaststroke has for some time been a weak spot for the Australian girls’s swimming crew, however a bunch of gifted younger swimmers rising by the ranks purpose to fill that hole.
The newest is 15-year-old Brielle Dredge from the Kwinana Swimming Membership, who broke by on the Western Australia State Championships the weekend earlier than Christmas.
Dredge swept the breaststroke races, profitable the 50 in 31.96, the 100 in 1:08.40, and the 200 in 2:30.35. Her earlier finest within the 100 breaststroke was a 1:09.70 completed in July.
“I felt actually sturdy,” stated Dredge after the breaststroke swim. “I used to be simply specializing in my approach greater than something.”
That point within the 100 ranks her Third-fastest all-time amongst Australian 15-year-olds, behind solely Leisel Jones (1:07.49 – 2000) and Sienna Toohey (1:07.01 – 2024).
Toohey, now 16, was a member of Australia’s World Championship crew over the summer season and is the front-runner to occupy that slot by at the very least the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games.
Dredge is now developing quick behind her. Each swimmers come from exterior of the standard swimming hubs – Toohey in Albury, New South Wales, and Dredge in Kwinana. They’re each their golf equipment’ solely entries on Swimming Australia’s all-time high 10 age group lists in any age class.
Additionally in these breaststroke races was a member of Australia’s final nice golden technology of ladies’s breaststrokers: Sally (Foster) Hunter. Now 40, Hunter completed 2nd within the 50 breaststroke (32.08), and Third within the 100 breaststroke (1:11.27). She is the present Western Australia File holder in all three girls’s breaststroke races in lengthy course.
Hunter raced on the World Masters Championships earlier this 12 months. There, she gained and set World Data within the girls’s 40-44 50 breaststroke (31.48) and 100 breaststroke (1:09.24).
Hunter represented Australia at a lot of worldwide meets together with the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Video games. She has eight relay World Championship medals and a 2008 Quick Course World Championships silver within the 200 breaststroke.
Learn the complete story on SwimSwam: 15-12 months-Outdated Brielle Dredge Swims 1:08.40 within the 100 Breast at WA State Championships
