
MSQ State Championships 2022 Summary & Results
The 2022 MSQ State Swimming Championships were held in Cairns at the Tobruk Memorial Swimming pool 20-22 May.
After much preparation by many our Cairns clubs, we were pleased to welcome 240 swimmers from throughout Australia to Cairns for a great three days of swimming, fun and friendship.
Cairns Regional Councillor Max O’Halloran and North Queensland Regional Manager Belgravia Leisure Cairns Kendell Thessman joined Ted, Craig, and Cheryl for the opening of the State Championships on the Friday morning.
The first two events on Friday morning were the Male and Female 4 x 25m relays which were great to watch. There was fierce competition between clubs to see who would finish first. Swimming was enjoyed by all with lots of smiles and fun throughout the meet.
The pool was fast with many PBs plus many records being set:
- World records – 4
- National Records – 46
- Queensland State Records – 133
- Victorian State records – 18
- New South Wales Records – 3
- Northern Territory Records – 1
Saturday night was the Gala Evening at the Tobruk Pool. Thank you to Tobruk staff, Jarrod, Brad, Mandy and all her staff for the great decorations, organising the food, and serving the food throughout the night. To Jarod for mixing the Blue Lagoon complementary drinks on arrival and served by Brad. The ten piece band ‘The Marias’ were amazing and kept most dancing all night.
On Sunday we finished with a BBQ and the presentations. Congratulations to all award winners:
- Male Swimmer of the Meet – John Cocks from Malvern Marlins
- Female Swimmer of the Meet – Gillian O’Mara from River City Masters
- Best Swimmer 18-29 years – Kady Ibell from UQ Masters
- Best Swimmer 30-49 years – Todd Robinson from Southport Masters
- Best Swimmer 50-69 years – John McKaig from Townsville Aquaholics
- Best Swimmer 70+ years – John Cocks from Malvern Marlins
- Maria Maina Trophy – Highest Average Points, Small Club – Nudgee College Masters
- Max Gillespie Trophy – Highest Average Points, Large Club – Gympie Gold Fins Masters
- George Corones Trophy – Highest Club Points – Miami Masters
- Jenny Mack Trophy – Highest combined points for the 100m and 200m Breakfast events – Caleb Langelaan from Cotton Tree Masters
- Club Relay Award – Highest Average Club Points in relay events – Miami Masters
- 2021 Coach of the Year – Alessandro Mariani, Rackley Masters
- 2021 Volunteer of the Year – Greg Flanders, Brisbane Southside Masters
Thank you to our major sponsor John Munro, JMS Goggles, for providing the swim caps plus the Male and Female Swimmer of the meet trophies. John, your support is greatly appreciated.
Thank you also to the following who worked tirelessly over the three days:
- MSQ Officials – John Barrett, Colin Carter, Terry Major, Rob Lucas, Michele Burley-Jones, Heather Butler, Karen Whitworth, Cheryl Brodribb, Liz Alfredson, and Laura Garner
- Recording – Kathy and Deb from the Far North Queensland Junior Swimming Club and David Findlay (MSQ Systems Administrator)
- Meet Director and Check Starter – Ted Bunt (MSQ VP North)
- MC and Sound – Craig Needham
- Chief Timekeeper- Brian Brodribb
- Marshalls – Cairns Clams members
A big thank you to Tobruk pool for all the catering for lunches for officials and non-swimming volunteers (they were gratefully appreciated) also for the Gala Evening on Saturday night and the Sunday BBQ lunch.
To our Far Northern clubs who supported the event over the three days, with raffle prizes and to clean up Sunday, a big thank you. A great team effort.
Craig had plenty of give aways, thanks to Chemist Warehouse and Zoggs, and kept all amused with questions to win a prize.
Thank you to all for travelling to Cairns for the 2022 MSQ State Short Course Swimming Championships with many travelling considerable distances. We loved having you in Cairns and hope to see you again for the 2023 GBRMG.
Cheryl and Ted.

Recording Summary
Planning for this meet commenced in May 2019 which originally was to put together the 2020 version of this meet. COVID-19 came along and the meet in Cairns was postponed two years. The Meet Designers consisted of MSQ Director Recording – Martin Banks and MSQ Administrator – Christina Scolaro, in conjunction with our Swim Meet Committee – Emma Maxwell, Gillian O’Mara, Tracy Clarkson, and John McKaig.
We had another State Championships in between on the Sunshine Coast in 2021 which gave us a chance to learn. We had run with a non-AOE timing system which received plenty of feedback. Self-marshaling was attempted which mostly succeeded but could use some work, and a restriction of six individual events per person was imposed. We had started the meet with the 50m Freestyle to get more people at the pool for an exciting start. For the first time in my ten years of swimming at Masters State Championships, the atmosphere was exciting right from warm-up and the opening of the meet and Heat 1 was fast and full of energy.
For 2022 we wanted to build on the successes and lessons learnt. With one of the best pools in Australia offering a short course configuration we were very excited at the opportunities that lay before us in Cairns. Much thought was put into the program specified for 2022 with the objective to improve it and provide opportunity for records to be broken. We have always looked to provide an efficient and well spread out meet program, provide regular changes to the order of events to ensure we are not favouring any one group of swimmers each year, and also include points of difference to what other states are doing at their meets. We are still the only state to offer a comprehensive Meet Guide and Program, Entry List, Timeline and Statistical Results Analysis providing our teams, entrants and spectators all the support information they will need.
We were once again able to offer up to nine individual events per entrant. We switched a few events around, changed the usual 4x50m relays to the 4x25m relays, and added a 4x100m Women’s and Men’s relay. These are all relay events rarely included at a State or National level meet of this size. The Men’s and Women’s 4x25m Freestyle relays were placed at the beginning of the meet to once again get more people to the venue for the opening, and get racing started in an exciting way. 15 records fell in the first six heats of the meet with six of those being Australian – that is how we start a meet in Queensland! Across the entire meet we saw an incredible 205 records broken from all across the country, including 46 Australian and four World Records.
With more than 240 entrants from 44 clubs, it was the largest non-SE Queensland State Championships recorded. We saw the highest number of swimmers in the youngest two age groups as well as an ex international swimmer or two choosing to compete, plus our highest number of interstate entrants (19 from 9 clubs) including world record holders. We are still the only State to offer all 400m events separated out into each stroke at our Championships. The combination of good programming, clear and consistent announcing and the appropriate level of marshaling/check starting, produced a high quality meet, with plenty of positive feedback received and impressive results. This has raised the bar, laying down the next challenge to improve in 2023; our Long Course Championships at Mackay. We will continue to strive to offer the best championships meet in the country.
For all MSQ State Championships 2022 Meet results, click here.
Martin Banks, Director Recording.
Club Awards
George Corones Trophy – Highest Club Points – Congratulations to Miami Masters.
Club Total Points – Top 5 |
Athletes |
Entries |
Relays |
Total Meet Pts |
||
1 |
QMM |
Miami Masters |
25 |
184 |
23 |
1888 |
2 |
QUQ |
University of Queensland Masters |
17 |
146 |
15 |
1598 |
3 |
QCS |
Cairns Clams Masters |
22 |
158 |
18 |
1285 |
4 |
QNA |
Noosa Masters |
18 |
146 |
14 |
1266 |
5 |
QCD |
Belgravia Masters Team |
10 |
86 |
8 |
693 |

Steve from QMM
Max Gillespie Trophy – Highest Average Points, Large Club – Congratulations to Gympie Gold Fins Masters.
Club Average Points – Large Clubs – Top 5 |
Athletes |
Entries |
Relays |
Total Meet Pts |
Total Relay Pts |
Average Pts |
||
1 |
QGF |
Gympie Gold Fins Masters |
6 |
54 |
5 |
625 |
100 |
104.17 |
2 |
QUQ |
University of Queensland Masters |
17 |
146 |
15 |
1598 |
284 |
94.00 |
3 |
QMM |
Miami Masters |
25 |
184 |
23 |
1888 |
421 |
75.52 |
4 |
QSC |
Sunshine Coast Masters |
6 |
49 |
5 |
430 |
66 |
71.67 |
5 |
QNA |
Noosa Masters |
18 |
146 |
14 |
1266 |
234 |
70.33 |

Gympie Gold Fins
Maria Maina Trophy – Highest Average Points, Small Club – Congratulations to Nudgee College Masters.
Club Average Points – Small Clubs – Top 5 |
Athletes |
Entries |
Relays |
Total Meet Pts |
Average Pts |
||
1 |
QNB |
Nudgee College Masters |
2 |
18 |
0 |
144 |
72.00 |
2 |
QIP |
Ipswich City Masters |
2 |
18 |
0 |
120 |
60.00 |
3 |
QMF |
Mossman Meteors Masters |
4 |
36 |
0 |
216 |
54.00 |
4 |
VCS |
Casey Seals |
2 |
16 |
0 |
105 |
52.50 |
5 |
CDW |
Darwin Stingers Masters |
2 |
16 |
0 |
97 |
48.50 |
Club Relay Award – Highest Average Club Points in relay events – Congratulations to Miami Masters.
Relay Award – Top 5 |
Athletes |
Relays |
Total Relay Pts |
Average Relay Pts |
||
1 |
QMM |
Miami Masters |
25 |
23 |
421 |
16.84 |
2 |
QUQ |
University of Queensland Masters |
17 |
15 |
284 |
16.71 |
3 |
QGF |
Gympie Gold Fins Masters |
6 |
5 |
100 |
16.67 |
4 |
QNA |
Noosa Masters |
18 |
14 |
234 |
13.00 |
5 |
QBM |
Bunna-barra Masters |
10 |
9 |
128 |
12.80 |

QMM Relay World Record!
Regional Points:
MSQ Region |
Total Points |
Athlete Count |
Athlete Average |
Club Count |
Club Average |
|
1 |
Sunshine |
5650 |
73 |
77.40 |
11 |
513.64 |
2 |
South |
4105 |
62 |
66.21 |
10 |
410.50 |
3 |
North |
3746 |
66 |
56.76 |
8 |
468.25 |
4 |
Central |
776 |
16 |
48.50 |
5 |
155.20 |
Individual Awards
Male Swimmer of the Meet – Congratulations to John Cocks from Malvern Marlins.
Male Swimmer of the Meet – Top 5 |
|
Club |
Age |
Points |
|
1 |
John Cocks |
M |
VMV |
85-89 |
4629 |
2 |
Todd Robinson |
M |
QPB |
45-49 |
4042 |
3 |
Stephen Berting |
M |
QUQ |
40-44 |
3961 |
4 |
John McKaig |
M |
QTA |
50-54 |
3885 |
5 |
Caleb Langelaan |
M |
QCT |
45-49 |
3876 |

John Cocks VMV – 3 World Records!
Female Swimmer of the Meet – Congratulations to Gillian O’Mara from River City Masters.
Female Swimmer Of The Meet – Top 5 |
|
Club |
Age |
Points |
|
1 |
Gillian O’Mara |
F |
QRC |
45-49 |
4030 |
2 |
Kady Ibell |
F |
QUQ |
25-29 |
3911 |
3 |
Nola Macaulay |
F |
QUQ |
50-54 |
3879 |
4 |
Kim McKeon |
F |
QUQ |
60-64 |
3691 |
5 |
Christina Scolaro |
F |
QUQ |
50-54 |
3339 |

Gillian (left) with QRC team
Best Swimmer 18-29 years – Congratulations to Kady Ibell from UQ Masters.
Best Swimmer 18-29 years – Top 5 |
|
Club |
Age |
Points |
|
1 |
Kady Ibell |
F |
QUQ |
25-29 |
3911 |
2 |
Rhys Bailey |
M |
QGF |
18-24 |
3370 |
3 |
Declan Eskdale |
M |
QGF |
25-29 |
3252 |
4 |
Rick Van Der Zant |
M |
QTA |
18-24 |
2906 |
5 |
Catherine Prince |
F |
QGF |
25-29 |
2881 |

Kady Ibell QUQ
Best Swimmer 30-49 years – Congratulations to Todd Robinson from Southport Masters.
Best Swimmer 30-49 years – Top 5 |
Club |
Age |
Points |
||
1 |
Todd Robinson |
M |
QPB |
45-49 |
4042 |
2 |
Gillian O’Mara |
F |
QRC |
45-49 |
4030 |
3 |
Stephen Berting |
M |
QUQ |
40-44 |
3961 |
4 |
Caleb Langelaan |
M |
QCT |
45-49 |
3876 |
5 |
Andrew Cowan |
M |
QGF |
30-34 |
3650 |

Todd with Southport Masters
Best Swimmer 50-69 years – Congratulations to John McKaig from Townsville Aquaholics.
Best Swimmer 50-69 years – Top 5 |
Club |
Age |
Points |
||
1 |
John McKaig |
M |
QTA |
50-54 |
3885 |
2 |
Nola Macaulay |
F |
QUQ |
50-54 |
3879 |
3 |
Kim McKeon |
F |
QUQ |
60-64 |
3691 |
4 |
Christina Scolaro |
F |
QUQ |
50-54 |
3339 |
5 |
Martin Banks |
M |
QUQ |
50-54 |
3259 |

John McKaig QTA
Best Swimmer 70+ years – Congratulations to John Cocks from Malvern Marlins.
Best Swimmer 70+ years – Top 5 |
Club |
Age |
Points |
||
1 |
John Cocks |
M |
VMV |
85-89 |
4629 |
2 |
Paul Wyatt |
M |
NCR |
75-79 |
3820 |
3 |
Denise Robertson |
F |
QMM |
85-89 |
3254 |
4 |
Marijke Alderson |
F |
VPP |
75-79 |
3116 |
5 |
Narelle Phillips |
F |
QCD |
75-79 |
2971 |

John Cocks with Major sponsor, John Munro of JMS Goggles
Jenny Mack Trophy – Highest combined points for the 100m and 200m Breaststroke events – Congratulations to Caleb Langelaan from Cotton Tree Masters.
Jenny Mack Trophy – Top 5 |
|
Club |
Age |
Points |
|
1 |
Caleb Langelaan |
M |
QCT |
45-49 |
1655 |
2 |
Paul Wyatt |
M |
NCR |
75-79 |
1626 |
3 |
Kathryn Gill |
F |
QRC |
35-39 |
1470 |
4 |
Christina Scolaro |
F |
QUQ |
50-54 |
1412 |
5 |
Greg Chaplin |
M |
VCS |
60-64 |
1366 |

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