HC News

HC Swimmers' Success at Australian Age Championships

16 April 2024

HC Swim Club recently sent a team to compete against the best age group swimmers in Australia. Our team, lead by Head Coach Rachel Brennemo, of William Botterill-James, Daniel Francis, Eli Jones, Ewan McIlwraith and Daniel Shilcock, held their own ranking 86th out of over 200 clubs- an impressive achievement for a team of 5 […]

Tasmanian State Short Course Championships

13 September 2023

45 HC Swimmers performed at the recent Tasmanian Cripps Short Course State Championships, supported by coaches Rachel Brennemo, Harry Kink, Dylan Harris and Mitchell Rickards. As a team we achieved 118 personal bests, along with 16 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 19 bronze medals. We also had five state records broken by Daniel Shilcock, […]

Victorian Age Championships

12 September 2023

HC Swim Club achieved some fantastic results at the 2023 Short Course Victorian Age Championships. Our team was represented by Daniel Shilcock, Eli Jones, Tommy Direen, Ewan McIlwraith, Lara Pederson, Molly Duffy, Ruby Biggins and Leila Joscelyne. Along with coaches; Rachel Brennemo, Dylan Harris and Mitchell Rickards. Swimmers performed excellently at this high level of […]

New Zealand Short Course Championships

7 September 2023

Swimming Tasmania recently sent a high performance team to the New Zealand Short Course Championships. The Tasmanian head coach for this trip was HC Swim Club's head coach, Rachel Brennemo. Swimmers from HC Swim Club were: The following records were broken in this event by HC Swimmers: HC Swimmers achieved an impressive 20 personal best […]

Success at National Age Championships

13 April 2023

HC Swim Club has made a big impact on the National stage at the recent Age Championships with our swimmers placing in finals, swimming personal bests and breaking state records. Will Botterill-James, Daniel Shilcock and Eli Jones represented HC Swim Club along with head coach Rachel Brennemo. Not only this, but HC Swim Club was […]

Top Performing Club - Tasmanian Sprint Championships

February 12, 2023

With 20 Gold Medals, HC Swim Club was the top performing club at the recent Tasmanian Sprint Championships

State Record - Daniel Shilcock

February 12, 2023

Daniel Shilcock broke the Tasmanian State LC Record for 16 years 50m Backstroke at the recent Tasmanian Sprint Championships.

New National Standards Achieved

February 25, 2023

Jessalyn Potter swam another Open National Standard in 50m Free over the weekend. Jessalyn has now qualified for the 50m & 100m Breaststroke as well as the 50m Freestyle. Eli Jones swam an Age National Standard in 800m and 1500m as well, in the one race!

Age National Qualifiers

February 26, 2023

Currently we have the following swimmers with National Age qualifying times: Will Botterill-James, Eli Jones, Daniel Shilcock, Vincent Stock & Daniel Francis *(due to Daniel's age he is too young to compete this year at Age Nationals; however, has already swam a qualifying time for the age group above)

State Records Broken!

March 20, 2023

Congratulations to Daniel Shilcock who broke the 100 Backstroke record (3 times!) along with the 50 Backstroke record for his age group in Tasmania at the recent State Championships

HC SWIM CLUB SWIMMERS WHO RANK TOP 20 IN THEIR AGE IN AUSTRALIA - Long Course

March 24, 2023

Congratulations to the following swimmers who have top 20 rankings in their age group in Australia this summer: Daniel Francis, 13 years: 100 Free: 57.14 5th 200 Free: 2.06.43 7th 100 Fly: 1.04.47 12th 100 Back: 1.08.05 18th 200 Back: 2.21.83 6th Eli Jones, 14 years: 800 Free: 9.12.53 13th 1500 Free: 17.31.64 7th 400 IM: 5.01.85 15th Will Botterill-James, 14 years: 100 Fly: 1.02.55 20th 200 Fly: 2.14.99 7th Daniel Shilcock, 16 years: 50 Back: 26.93 3rd 100 Back: 59.04 5th 200 Back: 2.12.16 12th 50 Free: 24.38 16th 200 IM: 2.13.20 12th 200 Brst: 2.26.55 13th Jessalyn Potter, 18 years: 50 Free: 27.19 13th 50 Brst: 33.51 6th 100 Brst: 1.15.32 12th 200 Brst: 2.49.58 15th Additional swimmers who achieved national qualifying times: Liam Duffy, 18 years: 100 Fly: 58.74