Narrabri Stingrays duo compete at NSW Country Regional Championships

Narrabri Stingrays Swimming Club youngsters Charlie-Lea Hulbert and Boston Hughes both travelled to Inverell on the weekend where they competed at Swimming NSW’s 2025/26 season Country Regional Championships event at the Inverell Memorial Swimming Pool.

This year’s NSW Country Regionals were held across three venues, which included Leeton and Goulburn, with swimmers able to choose where they competed for an action-packed weekend of racing.

The Narrabri duo were up against some of the state’s best young swimmers as 48 clubs were represented in Inverell, and the two Stingrays certainly did both their club and their town proud.

Eleven-year-old Stingray Charlie-Lea has been enjoying a successful 2025/26 season so far, and she impressed once again across the weekend as she returned home with four medals and four new personal best times.

Her first event of the weekend was the 11-years girls’ 50-metre freestyle, in which she set the tone for the weekend with a 1.87-second PB and a bronze medal finish.

She then placed third in her second event of the weekend, the 100-metre backstroke, and she secured her best PB of the weekend as well in that event as she shaved 6.99 seconds off her qualifying time.

The 100-metre freestyle was next for Charlie-Lea and she secured another medal in that event as she swam her way to a second-place finish and a 2.85-second PB.

The Narrabri Stingray then placed seventh in the 50-metre breaststroke before swimming her way to another medal, this time in the 50-metre backstroke as she placed second and secured a 2.46-second PB.

She then ended her weekend with an eighth-place finish in the 100-metre breaststroke event.

Nine-year-old Boston has also been impressing during the 2025/26 campaign, and he competed in five events across the weekend and returned home with three new personal best times.

The Stingray kicked off the weekend with the 50-metre freestyle, in which he placed eighth, before swimming his way to a sixth-place finish and a 5.85-second personal best time in the 100-metre backstroke event.

He then secured his best finish of the weekend in the 100-metre freestyle as he claimed fifth spot while setting a 2.96-second PB.

Next up was the 50-metre breaststroke, in which Boston placed 10th, and he then finished off his weekend with a sixth-place finish and a 2.45-second PB in the 50-metre backstroke.