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This year alone the 13-year-old has won 29 at national championship level, and "quite a few" more have come at lower-level meetings.
Among those are 23 golds, five silvers and a bronze, won in both swimming and surf life-saving.
The year 9 Kavanagh College pupil might need to find some extra space for them if she continues in the same way, although that was not a problem just yet.
``They sit at home on the wall; it's pretty good,'' she said.
All the achievements were memorable, although she made special mention of the 400m individual medley gold from the short-course national championships, in which she broke her own national record.
It was one of four national records the Neptune swimmer broke at that meeting.
She was not sure exactly what made her so successful, but a quality over quantity approach to training was working well.
"I actually don't train as much as a lot of girls my age,'' she said.
"So I guess there's that, but I train especially hard when I do train.''
That involved a lot of pace work, swimming at race pace, while also doing technique-based training.
Alongside swimming, she competes in surf life-saving for St Clair and has had success there too.
Unsurprisingly, she most enjoyed the swimming events in surf, although she said the board events were fun too.
"I kind of like swimming more but I guess I'd get pretty bored without surf, so it's kind of a good balance.
"I'll keep doing them both, I think, they complement each other.''
Her next goal was to make a New Zealand team and gain experience internationally.