Marcus Ryan will join Tamworth City team-mate Clementine Monet at the open water nationals after swimming a qualifying time at the NSW 5km championships in Sydney on the weekend.
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Competing in only his first competitive open water swim, Ryan finished 10th in the 16-years boy's event, his time of 1:04:21:41, two-and-a-half minutes under the qualifying time for nationals of 1h 07mins.
He had only qualified to compete at the state championships the previous weekend at the Country Regional Championships at Taree. He had to swim a 400m in under 4mins 35seconds, which he did.
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The nationals will be held at Lake Kawana on the Sunshine Coast on March 13 and 14. They were originally scheduled to be staged at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith on the weekend just gone but were pushed back in response to COVID-19 related border closures.
Monet had already qualified for the nationals. She did that back in December at the "John Saliba'' Open Water Championships.
Improving two minutes on her time from then, she finished fourth in the 16-year girl's race on the weekend.
Marcus' nationals qualification comes after his younger brother James swam his way to the [pool] nationals in April.
