Roskill Swimming Club

24/10/2026

🔥 SATURDAY WRAP — NORTH ISLAND SHOWDOWN 🔥

What a fantastic day of racing from our Roskill swimmers in Rotorua!

The morning heats produced an outstanding 21 PBs from 28 swims, giving the team a 75% PB rate and earning six swimmers places in the evening programme.

Our evening results:

🏆 Austin Li — 1st in the 200m Butterfly
💰 Janessa Xie — 3rd in the 200m IM and 5th in the 100m Breaststroke
💰 Elliott Holland — 3rd in the 100m Freestyle and 3rd in the 200m Backstroke
👏 Alice Li — 4th in the 200m IM and 5th in the 200m Backstroke
👏 Kiarah Hayward — 5th in the 100m Freestyle and 4th in the 200m Backstroke
👏 Felix Mariano — 5th in the 800m Freestyle fast heat

The team delivered another eight PBs from ten individual evening swims!

Our relay teams also raced brilliantly:

🏊‍♀️ Girls A — 4th overall
🏊‍♀️ Girls B — 8th overall
🏊‍♂️ Boys A — 6th overall

Congratulations to Austin, Janessa and Elliott on earning cash-prize placings, and well done to every Roskill swimmer for the energy, teamwork and support shown throughout the day.

A huge thank you to our coaches, team managers and parents for helping make it all possible.

Bring on Sunday! ❤️🖤🤍

24/10/2026

24/10/2026

🏊‍♂️ NORTH ISLAND SHOWDOWN — SATURDAY MORNING

A strong morning of racing from Roskill in Rotorua!

From the results available so far, the team achieved:

🔴 28 legal completed swims
⚫ 21 personal bests
⚪ 75% PB rate
🔴 Nine confirmed finals swims

Congratulations to our six confirmed finalists:

❤️ Janessa Xie — 200m IM and 100m Breaststroke
🖤 Alice Li — 200m IM and 200m Backstroke
🤍 Elliott Holland — 100m Freestyle and 200m Backstroke
❤️ Kiarah Hayward — 100m Freestyle and 200m Backstroke
🖤 Austin Li — 200m Fly
🤍 Felix Mariano - 800m Free

We also have Alexandra Holland as first reserve in both the 200m IM and 100m Freestyle, and Tomas Woodruffe Creegan as second reserve in the 100m Breaststroke.

Felix Mariano finished fifth in the 14–15 400m Freestyle with a time of 4:35.18.

Some excellent PBs throughout the team, including two each from Alice, Chloe Lau, Elliott, Janessa, Krystal, Tomas and Zoe.

A fantastic morning—now it is time to recover, refuel and prepare for finals!

Finals warm-up: 4:00 pm
Racing: 4:45 pm

Good luck, Roskill! ❤️🖤🤍

23/10/2026

🏊‍♂️ NORTH ISLAND SHOWDOWN — SESSION 1

A strong opening session from Roskill in Rotorua!

Across the results available so far, our swimmers produced:

🔴 35 completed swims
⚫ 27 PBs
⚪ 77% PB rate
🔴 34.32 seconds dropped across the PB swims

Some great performances throughout the team, including three PBs from three races for Annabel Mai, two big PBs for Zoe Zhang, Liam Buys breaking 30 seconds in the 50m freestyle.

Plenty of confident racing, fantastic team support and a great platform for the rest of the weekend.

Well done, Roskill! ❤️🖤🤍

19/10/2026

Congratulations Kevin, selected for World SC Championships.

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New Zealand Team for the 2026 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m)

10/10/2026

Congratulations to Kaiya for being selected to represent Samoa Swimming

01/10/2026

NZ SHORT COURSE 2026 — WHAT A WEEK ❤️🖤🤍

Roskill finished 5th club overall with 9 swimmers, 50 individual events and 35 PBs

🏅 18 medals — 8 GOLD • 5 SILVER • 5 BRONZE

DANIEL KREGTING — 5 PBs
100 Back 54.63 🥈17–18 | 400 IM 4:26.07 🥈17–18 | 50 Fly 24.46 🥈17–18 | 100 Fly 52.91 🥇17–18, 4th Open | 200 Fly 1:57.85 🥇17–18 + 🥇Open | 200 IM 2:01.78 🥉17–18 + 🥉Open

KEVIN ZHANG — 5 PBs
200 Breast 2:07.49 🥇Open | 100 Free 48.51 🥉Open | 400 Free 3:49.39 🥇Open | 100 Breast 59.57 | 200 Free 1:46.06 🥈Open | 200 IM 1:57.88 🥇Open

ETHAN STOCKS — 5 PBs
1500 Free 15:51.71 🥉17–18, 5th Open | 100 Free 53.27 | 200 Back 2:04.14 | 400 Free 4:00.11 | 50 Back 26.94 | 800 Free 8:17.49 🥉17–18, 5th Open

BIANCA CHAN — 3 PBs
200 Breast 2:36.79 | 100 Free 1:00.41 | 50 Breast 32.88 | 100 Breast 1:11.13 🥈17–18 | 50 Free 27.51 | 200 IM 2:26.46

ETHAN CHAN — 6 PBs
200 Breast 2:32.90 | 100 IM 1:07.24 | 400 IM 5:11.85 | 50 Breast 32.84 | 400 Free 4:29.54 | 100 Breast 1:10.90 | 200 IM 2:24.20

OMATH ABEYKOON — 4 PBs
100 Free 54.93 | 50 Fly 26.16 | 100 Fly 57.24 | 50 Free 24.81

FELIX MARIANO — 2 PBs
1500 Free 18:24.03 | 100 Fly 1:04.24 | 400 Free 4:31.79 | 200 Free 2:06.95 | 800 Free 9:25.43

ARTUR CHERNENKO — 5 PBs
100 Back MC 1:15.82 | 50 Fly MC 31.23 | 200 Back MC 2:39.65 🥇MC | 100 Fly MC 1:09.41 | 200 Fly MC 2:43.46 — 1st MC / 456 pts | 50 Back MC 35.24 | 50 Free MC 30.53

AVA WINN
50 Fly 30.20 | 100 Fly 1:10.31 | 200 Fly 2:43.41

An awesome week from a small team — medals, PBs, finals and 5th club overall at a national championship.

Proud of every swimmer who represented Roskill. ❤️🖤🤍