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Swim Ireland has announced its 10-person team for the European Short Course Championships that will happen December 13-17 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2017 World Championship team members\u00a0Nicholas Quinn<\/strong>,\u00a0Jordan Sloan<\/strong>,\u00a0Brendan Hyland<\/strong>,\u00a0Mona McSharry<\/strong> and\u00a0Connor Ferguson\u00a0<\/strong>will make the trip to Denmark in December. The team is rounded out by\u00a0Danielle Hill<\/strong>,\u00a0Conor Brines<\/strong>,\u00a0Alex Murphy<\/strong>,\u00a0Darragh Greene<\/strong> and\u00a0Calum Bain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Eight of the ten swimmers competing were in action this past weekend at the Amsterdam Swim Cup and Manchester International meets. McSharry broke the Irish record at the\u00a0Amsterdam meet in the 100 SCM breast (1:05.27) while Ferguson broke his 100 and 50 back Irish records with a 52.40 in the 100 and a 24.26 in the 50.<\/p>\n

Ferguson and McSharry are also coming off of medals at the World Junior Championships this summer where McSharry won the 100 breaststroke gold and 50 breast bronze while Ferguson won silver in the 100 back.<\/p>\n

Ben Higson<\/strong>, National Senior Team Head Coach said,\u00a0\u201cThis team forms a large part of the core group of athletes that we have\u00a0identified\u00a0as our primary prospects for the next Olympic Games and it will be good for me to see them race for the first time in a Championships environment,\u00a0particularly as I work with most of them as either full-time or in-touch athletes within the National Centre in Dublin. To expose key racing skills in a short course\u00a0environment\u00a0early into a season is\u00a0always important and this group has also been selected with\u00a0strong\u00a0relay opportunities in mind. Shane Ryan<\/strong> is unavailable for selection, which is always a pity, but this group will all be looking to establish\u00a0themselves well as we head into the long course section of the season\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Adding to this, Jon Rudd<\/strong>, National Performance Director said, \u201cTo have such fine early season performances in the short course pool in Amsterdam is exciting for us and this raises the bar for these athletes as we head into Copenhagen. We\u2019re all very clear that short course racing is a means to an end but it does force athletes to focus on key racing skills in preparation for the long course season ahead and this team of ten is most certainly ready, willing and able\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Swim Ireland contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Athlete<\/strong><\/td>\nHome Programme<\/strong><\/td>\nCoach<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Calum Bain<\/td>\nUniversity of Stirling<\/td>\nBradley Hay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conor Brines<\/td>\nLarne<\/td>\nPeter Hill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conor Ferguson<\/td>\nNational Centre (Dublin)<\/td>\nBen Higson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Darragh Greene<\/td>\nUniversity College Dublin<\/td>\nEarl McCarthy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Danielle Hill<\/td>\nLarne<\/td>\nPeter Hill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brendan Hyland<\/td>\nNational Centre (Dublin)<\/td>\nBen Higson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mona McSharry<\/td>\nMarlins (Ballyshannon)<\/td>\nGrace Meade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alex Murphy<\/td>\nNational Centre (Dublin)<\/td>\nBen Higson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicholas Quinn<\/td>\nUniversity of Edinburgh<\/td>\nChris Jones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jordan Sloan<\/td>\nBangor<\/td>\nPaul Dennis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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