No friends but a Commonwealth Games berth? Worth it, says Sienna Toohey

At just 17, Sienna Toohey is the third fastest Australian woman in the 100m breaststroke. (Supplied: Channel Nine)

Seventeen-year-old Sienna Toohey has qualified for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games after winning the 100m breaststroke.

Moving to Canberra from Albury in regional NSW, Toohey says she does not have many friends in the nation's capital, but making the team makes the tough move worth it.

The swimming runs from July 24 to 29 at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Sienna Toohey has qualified for the Commonwealth Games, making her difficult journey away from home worth it.

The 17-year-old backed up her win at April's Australian Open by beating Ella Ramsay to the wall in the 100m breaststroke on the second night of the Australian Swimming Trials in Sydney.

Toohey won in 1:05.97, the third fastest time ever recorded by an Australian woman, with fastest qualifier Ramsay second in 1:06.70, which is outside the automatic qualifying time.

Ramsay, an Olympic and world championships silver medallist in the 4x100m medley relay, already qualified for next month's Games in Glasgow in the 200m individual medley and is likely to be part of the 100m breaststroke in Scotland.

But she was pipped by rising star Toohey, who has now beaten Ramsay at a third straight major national meet, adding her 2026 wins to victory at last year's world championship trials.

Sienna Toohey was elated to break the 1:06 barrier for the first time. (Getty Images: Matt King)

Hailing from Albury on the New South Wales-Victoria border, the teenager has moved to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.

"My older brother has come up for uni in Canberra," she told Channel Nine.

"It's hard not seeing my friends for quite some time. I don't have a lot of friends in Canberra, but that just made it all worth it."

Toohey said she had spoken to coach Shannon Rollason before the race about hitting 1:06 for the first time, with Rollason backing her to become the fourth Australian woman (after Leisel Jones, Sarah Katsoulis and Chelsea Hodges) to go under that barrier.

When Toohey saw her time, the look on her face — mouth agape and eyes wide — suggested it still came as a bit of a shock.

Meanwhile, an unwell Kaylee McKeown maintained her standing as Australia's backstroke queen despite receiving "a bit of a touch-up" from Iona Anderson.

They both qualified for the 100m for the Commonwealth Games, kicking off next month in Glasgow.

Kaylee McKeown won the 50m and 100m backstroke, with the 200m still to come. (Getty Images: Matt King)

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