Georgia Marris

Georgia began learning to swim at Helen's School of Swimming on Auckland's North Shore from 6 months old. From the age of three years she began having lessons with New Zealand swimming representative, Phillipa Gower (nee Gould) in the neighbour's pool.

Georgia first competed for New Zealand at the 2012 Trans-Tasman Tri Series. The following year she competed at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.

She has broken a number of New Zealand age group short course records including 13 years 100m freestyle, 16 years 200m freestyle and 17 years 100m freestyle.

At the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, Georgia was part of the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay team that placed 7th.

At the 2016 New Zealand Open Championships Georgia was first in the 200m freestyle and third in the 100m butterfly.

In 2017 Georgia was second in the 200m freestyle and third in the 400m freestyle and 100m butterfly at the New Zealand Open Championships. At the meet she qualified for the 2017 World University Games.

She is currently based in the United States where she is on scholarship at the University of Florida.