Swimmers' Six Pack: Day 9 Age Championships

SWIMMERS’ SIX PACK

Olivia Galea | St Peters Western, QLD

Olivia Galea has already come to the attention of open water head coach Fernado Possenti after her strong 5km win in choppy seas at the 2025 Open Water Nationals in Busselton. One of the few who can juggle an open water and pool program, Galea is following in the strokes of Dolphin Moesha Johnson who won Olympic silver in the open water marathon and competed in the La Defense Arena pool at the Paris Olympics. Here at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre, Galea secured silver in the 1500m freestyle and bronze in the 800m free. Her final event is the girls’ 15 years 400m freestyle today.

Lucy Porter | Westside Christ Church, WA

A budding breaststroker from Western Australia, Lucy Porter helped her state team to bronze in the mixed 16-17-years 4x50m medley relay. Coached by Jon Harrison at Westside Christ Church swim club, Porter also won individual bronze in the girls’ 16 years 200m individual medley. Today she will contest the girls’ 16-years 50m butterfly.

Allegra Crean | Marion, SA

Proving herself as an all-rounder, Allegra Crean proudly wore the maroon swim cap of Marion across nine events, covering every stroke. Crean took out the girls’ 15-years 200m individual medley in a South Australian record time of 2:1.30. To close off her stacked program, Crean will contest the 200m backstroke with one of the top seed times but will be up against Darwin’s Macey Sheridan and SOPAC’s Heidi Shumack.

Luke Lee | Carlile, NSW

One of Carlile’s rising young stars, Luke Lee has been a consistent finals contender and PB breaker. In the boys’ 15 years 400m freestyle Lee shaved a mammoth 6.7s off his PB to claim bronze (4:01.48). He also won 200 backstroke silver. Look out for Lee in the 50m backstroke today as he goes up against the likes of Olympian Matt Dunn’s son Lukas and double national record breaker Christopher Montana.

Reef McMeeking | Bond, QLD

The record-breaking US-based age group swimmer from the Hydro Swim Club, Ft Myers Florida is the son of former US open water swimmer and coach Corey McMeeking. Reef McMeeking had a purple patch in March, swimming PBS across a range of breaststroke distance. He won the boys’ 14 years’ 400m IM and last night raced the 200 IM and won a second gold. McMeeking currently boasts a red hot 200m breaststroke PB of 2:03.58 – which he races today.

Felix Dressel-De Bruyn | Melbourne, VIC

Raw speed saw the Victorian get off to a flyer and hold strong in the boys’ 18 years 50m butterfly, snatching silver from lane 2. Dressel-De Bruyn also won silver in the 200m breast and bronze in 100m breaststroke. He will contest the 100m fly today but will face tough competition from USC Spartans Joshua Moore and Southside’s Thomas Booth.