The Gold Coast Suns Jack Hutchins was a talented junior, both on the football field but also in the water. The feature video below from SUNS TV feature, reveals how the boy from Mansfield, Victoria made the choice between two promising careers in sport.

Jack Hutchins raced alongside Eamon Sullivan and others at the national swimming championships, the trial event for the world championships which were held in Rome and in Sydney for the world swimming trials, his suit tore just before his 50-metre freestyle race but still he swam 24.11 seconds, finishing 53rd behind Matthew Abord’s winning time of 21.9 seconds. He achieved all of this as a 16 year old.

He was recruited by the Gold Coast as one of the club’s underage recruits in 2011and made his debut in Round 5, against Port Adelaide

Hutchins was fortunate enough to play in the Suns first ever win in Melbourne, a moment he says was one of the greatest in his life.