WODONGA swimmer Mackensey House upstaged her more experienced rivals to win the open 100m freestyle title at the Ovens and Murray championships at Yarrawonga.
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House, 14, was competing in the open division for the first time and took home the Gordon Dowling Trophy in the impressive time of 1:01.88 on Sunday.
“It was good swimming against people of different ages,” she said.
“I’m really happy with it.”
House beat Wangaratta’s Maggie Skewes and Albury’s Mikaela Clemson to take the top honour.
Olympian Belinda Hocking holds the open 100m freestyle record at the Ovens and Murray championships with a time of 59.44.
House said she took a lot of confidence out of the two-day meet ahead of the Australian Age Championships in Adelaide at the end of March, where she will be one of five Wodonga swimmers to compete.
It was a big meet for the North Albury netballer, who won 10 of her 11 events.
As well as the open 100m title, House prevailed in the 50m and 100m events for freestyle, breaststroke and butterfly in her 14-year-old age group.
She also saluted in the 50m backstroke, 200m freestyle and 200m individual medley.
Wodonga City swimmer Euan MacLeod ended James Jarrous’ three-year reign as the men’s open 100m freestyle champion.
MacLeod hit the wall in 56.19 to edge Wodonga’s Harrison Evans and Wodonga City teammate Jarrous, who finished third, for the Dr Worch Trophy.
“It was a good swim,” he said.
“I’m really pleased to win it because James has been up there for a long time and is a top swimmer.
“We are just a small club at Wodonga City but we’ve got a great coach in Brenton Falkner.”
MacLeod didn’t trouble Riley Schmidt’s race record of 53.83 but enjoyed a strong two days in the pool at Yarrawonga, winning most of his 13 events.
He set new records in the 100m breaststroke (1:12.37) and the 100m backstroke (1:05.30).
It was a big weekend for the MacLeod family at Yarrawonga with Euan’s sister Lucinda and father Craig also breaking records in the pool.
Lucinda eclipsed the previous mark in the 11-year-old 100m freestyle when she hit the wall in 1:09.80 while Craig’s times in the over-35 100m freestyle (1:08.52), backstroke (1:21.36) and breaststroke (1:29.27) set new records.
GT Aquatics’ Ava Tuksar also had a meet to remember, breaking four records in the 11-year-old 50m freestyle (30.53), backstroke (36.67) and breaststroke (40.96) as well as the 100m backstroke (1:19.38).