Coach Peter Bishop And Swimmers Chalmers, Wilson, Harris Obtain 2022 SASI Awards

The annual South Australian Sports activities Institute (SASI) Awards celebrated its athletes, coaches and staff at the Adelaide Convention Center last Friday. SASI, Australia’s first state sports activities institute, marked its fortieth anniversary on the awards ceremony.

SASI acknowledges athletes and coaches from all packages, like seashore volleyball, canoe dash, and hockey, for his or her excellent contributions and achievements over the previous 12 months. Three of the eight principal occasion winners come from SASI’s swim program.

Two-time Olympian Kyle Chalmers received Male Athlete of the Yr for his spectacular performances on the FINA World Championships and Commonwealth Video games over the summer season. At Worlds, Chalmers earned a gold medal within the blended 400 free relay that set the world report of three:19.38, splitting a 46.98 on his leg. He additionally anchored the lads’s 400 free relay to get silver with a 46.60 cut up.

Chalmers adopted up with three golds on the Commonwealth Video games within the 100 free (47.51) and the lads’s and blended 400 free relay. In his 100 free prelim swim, Chalmers lowered the Commonwealth Games record to 47.36. Together with a victory within the males’s 400 free relay, the squad took down the Commonwealth Video games report with a 3:11.12. Chalmers additionally picked up a silver within the males’s 400 medley relay that completed in 3:31.88.

Two-time Olympian Madi Wilson was the recipient of the Amy Gillett-Secure Award, the eponymous honor that memorializes SASI’s beloved observe bike owner and rower. The award acknowledges an athlete’s dedication to sport by means of ardour and persistence. Wilson was part of the successful blended 400 free relay at Worlds, splitting a 52.25. Moreover, she grabbed gold within the ladies’s 400 free relay and two silvers within the ladies’s 800 free relay and blended 400 medley relay.

On the Commonwealth Video games, Wilson hauled three relay golds and one bronze within the 200 free (1:56.17). Wilson was a part of the prelim blended 400 medley and free relays, with each occasions received by the Australians at finals.

Earlier this yr, Wilson was appointed as a member of the Australian swimming workforce’s management group. She additionally runs clinics the place she coaches junior swimmers. Moreover, she and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Meg Harris personal a clothes model named ‘Dally and Co.’

Peter Bishop, the pinnacle coach of the SASI swimming program, was named Coach of the Yr. He coaches Chalmers, Wilson, Harris, and Tokyo 2020 Olympians Matt Temple and Zac Incerti. Bishop has been the pinnacle coach at SASI since 2017.

SASI additionally acknowledges Program Athletes of the Yr, through which Harris was named the Swimming Athlete of the Yr. She received gold within the ladies’s 400 free relay on the 2022 World Championships, splitting 53.00, and earned bronze within the 50 free, tying with American Erika Brown in 24.38. Harris was additionally a part of the prelim blended 400 medley and free relays. Transferring on to the Commonwealth Video games, Harris took house a silver medal within the 50 free, going 24.32.

Different Award Winners

• Feminine Athlete of the Yr – Jess Stenson (Athletics)
• Para Athlete of the Yr – Kaitlyn Schurmann (Para-cycling)
• Junior Feminine Athlete of the Yr – Lucy Austin (Netball)
• Junior Male Athlete of the Yr – Maxwell Liebeknecht and Dylan Stanton (Biking)
• Service to Sport Award – Tim Rawlins (Efficiency Analyst)