Axl aims to make a splash

Letitia Fitzpatrick
Updated March 17 2017 - 12:11pm, first published 9:21am
FIRST SIGNS OF SUCCESS: No-one had any idea what a good swimmer Axl was until he competed in his school swimming carnival in Wauchope recently.
FIRST SIGNS OF SUCCESS: No-one had any idea what a good swimmer Axl was until he competed in his school swimming carnival in Wauchope recently.

A seven-year-old from Wauchope is swimming at the state championships in Sydney next month.

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Letitia Fitzpatrick

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Senior journalist, Wauchope Gazette

Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.