Objects of Substance - Fifty metre Freestyle Trophy

Sarah McLeod (2020) holding the 50 m Freestyle Championship trophy with the silver goblets for winning both the 50 m Freestyle Championship and School Swimming Championship in 2020.

In 1965 and 1966, there appears to be an anomaly in the interpretation of the criteria of the trophy as it seems that girls scoring the highest individual points at the Interhouse swimming were included and their names appear on the trophy. Magazine reports indicate that the 50 metre Freestyle Championship was won by Barbara Devenish-Meares in both years and she, with four other swimmers, received the School Championship Cup for the most individual House points. This confusion is understandable with the same terminology being used in the prize list for both interschool and interhouse competition and with only photographic evidence to substantiate the School Championship Cup’s existence.