Brooke King, 13, received two special awards during the Australian Deaf Games, being named the female swimmer and under-13 swimmer of the games.

Games organising committee chairman Alex Jones highlighted King’s achievements while discussing promising competitors at the event.

“She’s a perfect example of someone who’s going to bring home medals from Deaflympics and hopefully Commonwealth Games,” Jones said.

During Sunday’s swimming program, King won five gold medals, three silver and one bronze overall, competing in both her age category and open events.

Along the way, she broke age group records in the 50 metre freestyle, 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke.

Games marketing and communications co-ordinator Sherrie Beaver presented King with her special awards on Thursday morning at the games hub in Albury Entertainment Centre.

King said swimming in the open sections particularly proved a challenge.

“I was very nervous competing against 20 to 40 year olds,” she said.

“They were very hard, but I tried. I was surprised at the results I got, because I thought I might be last or something.”

After competing in her first Australian Deaf Games, King is keen to attend more, as well as the Deaflympics and the 2019 deaf swimming world championships in Brazil.

 At the moment she completes five training sessions a week.

“I’m thinking about pushing it to six or seven though because I really want to get to the Brazilian championships next year, hopefully,” she said.

During the Australian Deaf Games, the competing states are vying for the JML Cup, the trophy awarded to the state with the most points.

After Wednesday’s events, Victoria had won the most gold medals (32) but NSW had the highest number of medals overall (74).