Kenneally (18), a food science and physical education student at the University of Otago, is targeting the 200m breaststroke for the Commonwealth Games.
Her best time for the long course race is 2min 33sec, which she must reduce by six seconds to 2min 27sec to reach Swimming New Zealand's selection standard of 900 Fina points.
This target is not beyond Kenneally, who has made rapid progress this year under the direction of coach Gennadiy Labara.
It was a significant advance to win three gold medals and one bronze in the open age group at the spring championships.
She set a New Zealand open female short course record in the 200m breaststroke in a time of 2min 27.19sec to join the ranks of former Olympians Liz van Welie and Danyon Loader as the only Otago swimmers to hold current New Zealand open records.
Kenneally also set New Zealand 18-year-old records in the 50m breaststroke (32.04sec) and the 200m breaststroke.
She also won the 100m breaststroke (1min 08.99sec) and a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley (2min 16sec).
They were all per-sonal best times.
"I was pleased. It was the first time I'd won New Zealand titles and broken records," Kenneally said.
"The work with Gennadiy is paying dividends."
Kenneally's 200m breaststroke short course time was worth 840 Fina points.
She is on a tough training programme of 10 two-hour swims at Moana Pool each week, three sessions in the gymnasium and one dryland training session.
Coach Andy Adair's Waves swimmers, Shane Patience and Phoebe Williams, were the only other Otago swimmers to better 800 Fina points at the spring event.
Patience scored 844 points when finishing second in the 1500m freestyle in a time of 15min 14.85sec.
Williams scored 835 points when she won the women's 15-16 years 800m freestyle in 8min 39.49sec.
It was the fastest overall time in the event.
She won four other gold medals in her grade.
Stef Gillespie (Waves) won gold medals in the 400m freestyle (4min 25.41sec) and 800m freestyle (8min 59.36sec) in the girls aged 13 and 14 grade. Gillespie (14) improved by 10.49sec when she broke the 9min barrier in the 800m for the first time.
It was worth 747 Fina points.
Neptune was the fifth-ranked club in the competition and the top-ranked club in the South Island.
Its 14 swimmers contested 43 finals and set 25 Otago short course records.
