The Yeronga Yeast (weird choice, mitchiboy) entered day 6 with big vibes knowing that our tik tok has gone viral with 33,000 views!!

Neve continued her Eras tour by kicking off our 50 flys. She knew she was tough when she walked in and continued to show our juniors how you swim fast, consistent Fly. Macca had a great warm up for his 50 Breast tomorrow, getting those old bones moving at the same time rather than independently and our new fossil, Jake (aka Unc) slid just under his PB in his first race of the meet.

Oscar and Henry up next. Oscar had a solid swim right on PB but said he was flowing off Macca’s slipstream and just warming up for the breast tomorrow. Henry slayed a great PB, hitting 4 from 4 matching rates start to finish—well earnt. Luka, fresh from his learnings yesterday, followed a much better process and a nice PB to match his efforts. Layla continued her run of reaction time PBs while Jess and Lola thought they were turning for their next lap rather than finishing! Isla, Milli, and Lizzieee jumped on the PB train with great backend racing and an end to their States campaign for 2025. Miguel and Alex A++ were back in action, desperate to reTURN to their backs, with their eyes on tomorrow’s prize. The bromance rounded us out with two great swims and two great PBs to boot. Let the yeast ferment 🍞

Vickiii 100 back up next and a great heat swim to prep for the final tonight. Jake’s post 100 free reflection demonstrated that even fossils have lots to learn! Never again will we be exiting the water and saying it was easy!

In what was the best swim of the morning, Lola put together a fantastic 200, narrowly missing the finals. Transferring her process from warm up straight into the race bodes well for her pursuit of that national time.

The end of the era, the final show, tears a-flowing for this girl. She’s stuck out more years at YP than I’ve been coaching there, and as always, she finished with a smile. An absolute icon of everything we want our athletes to become—I will be telling her story and using her as my amazing human example for a long time. Happy retirement, Neve! Enjoy the next chapters of your life!!

Breaststroke girls were up next and Mia, fresh off being sick, attacked her 100 breast in style. Executing her race plan to a tee, Mia slayed the first 50 in under 40 seconds and did what she did best on the way home with a tough backend. Eliana followed close on her heels with a 200 Breaststroke, literally jumping and down behind the blocks with anticipation for her pet event. And own it she did—sticking to the 50 by 50 plan of slay, cook, eat, devour. A PB and a National Time to get that bread 🥖

Sadie has continued her streak of being YP’s lonely last competitor in the heats session, giving herself the space to focus on her race process—and nail it! She powered through her 100 Bk and into another comfortable PB. Epic work, Sadie, and well done on finishing this rollercoaster week on a high.

We were back for another round of finals with Vicky’s 100 Bk. After picking apart her heat swim, which was filmed by our QAS biomech Gurleen, we applied this year’s biomech work to Vicky’s warm up and race plan. With her skills and stroke looking slick and span, the time had come to step up—be fast, fierce, fast, furious, ferocious. In a word (well, four), the yeast was ready. The croissant come out well done and Vicki swam a much smarter race rounding out day 6!!

And that means one to go!!!