Race At Your Pace!
Well the Battle on the Bay carnival was a wonderful afternoon. Great weather, great racing, great BBQ and great company. Thanks to all our competitors who swam wonderfully and especially to all the volunteers who helped the carnival run as smoothly as ever.
Check out the results page to read up on all our swimmers performances.
A big thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Battle on the Bay on Saturday 17th February 2024, included the many volunteers who helped to run the carnival like clockwork. We have received very positive feedback from other Clubs who expressed envy at the many Drummoyne family and friends who willingly help us in running such a successful carnival.
The full results of the carnival have been published here, including the many medal winners from Drummoyne. Congratalations to everyone who won an award and swam PB’s in our annual battle against the other Clubs!
This week we have an enormous all day schedule.
Firstly we have normal Saturday morning racing with both a championship event and a trophy race.
The trophy race is the Tom Brown 50M backstroke handicap final. The race is named in honour of Lynette Brown’s Grandfather. What an amazing connection the Brown family have with the club.
Then, after just a couple of hours rest we have the 15th installment of the Battle on the Bay. Will this year be our year?
The race order this Saturday morning is:
| Event | Detail |
| Sprint | 100M Freestyle Championship races Plus shorter non-competitive races if there are takers for them |
| Form Stroke | 50M Backstroke handicap races including the final of the Tom Brown 50M backstroke handicap trophy race. 30M and 20M Breaststroke |
| Disatnce Event | 200M Medley 4 x 30M and 4 x 20M Medley races |
Battle on the Bay starts at 14:00. Please be early to get a warm up in and to help set up.
The order of events is:
We will have a BBQ and a monster raffle with over $1,500 worth of prizes.
A friendly reminder for swimmers and spectators that the club’s user agreement with Belgravia Leisure – who manage the pool – does not cover pool entry fees. All swimmers and spectators attending our swim club meets and squads must pay pool entry fees with each visit (via casual entry fees or by scanning multi visit passes).
Payment of entry fees allows Belgravia Leisure to maintain the quality of the facilities and services.
If a pool attendant is not at the entrance when you arrive please make sure that you pay entry fees on the way out.
Note that Belgravia Leisure offer a range of casual visit and multi visit pass options. Detailed about these options are shown below and are available on the Drummoyne Swimming Centre website.
If any members, parents or carers have any questions about this please feel free to contact Club President Adrian Bell on 0424 561 831.
Here is a look ahead at our upcoming events and activities.
| Date | Activity |
| Ongoing | Adult squads are on as usual; Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 6 am in Lanes 1 and 2. All swimmers are welcome. |
| Ongoing | Junior squads recommence 9 January: Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 6 am in Lanes 1 and 2. All junior swimmers and parents / carers are welcome. |
| 17 February 2024 | Battle on the Bay @ Drummoyne Swimming Centre. |
| March 2024 | Laps for Life raising $$$ for Reachout.com |
| 3 March 2024 | Clean Up Australia Day around Drummoyne Pool |
| Late March 2024 | Drummoyne Swimming Centre 120 year Birthday celebration! |
This year we are hosting the 15th installment of the Battle on the Bay!
This year registration is via TeamApp. Please confirm your attendance and the strokes you wish to swim by going to the Team App Events page.
Battle on the Bay is always a great afternoon. It’s a good chance to come together as a Drummoyne team and fight it out against our neighboring clubs from Leichhardt, Ashfield and Enfield.
Where: Drummoyne Swimming Centre
When: Saturday 17 February 2024
What time: 14:00 – 19:30 (warm-up from 13:30)
Why: So Drummoyne Swimming Club can be crowned the greatest swimming club in the universe, ever.
What races:
Fees: $7.00 plus pool entry (pool entry to be paid on the day in the usual fashion). Event fees can be paid online – Square Online Payment.
We will need plenty of volunteers on the day with timekeeping, selling programs and helping with the BBQ. Please put your hand up to help if you can.
This week our sprint events are the 100M Freestyle and the 100M Butterfly.
These will be followed by the 200M Freestyle.
Next week we are competing for trophies again with a heat and a final. First up we will have the heat of the Tom Williams 50M Handicap trophy and then the final of the Bill Gallie 50M Breaststroke handicap race.
Next week, Saturday the 11th is also Battle on the Bay at Leichhardt. Racing starts at 3pm with warm-up from 14:30. If you’re not racing feel free to come along and cheer for the Drummoyne teammates. We’ll need a few volunteers to help with timing so please put your hand up if asked.
The club will be participating in Reachout.com’s Laps for Life again this season. The event will commence in March. Keep an eye out for comms about this and start thinking about family and friends that you can hit up to donate.
The Battle on the Bay is coming up fast and we need to confirm our swimmers soon…
The details for the event are: Saturday afternoon of 11 February at Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre. The event commences at 15:00. Warm-up from 14:30.
If you’re planning to come along please confirm your attendance and strokes here: https://forms.gle/eRYbR6FbGZaqrp1m9
If your name is not on the list please text Adrian on 0424 561 831 asap.
Entries close Sunday 29 January.
Events will include: 50m freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly, 30m form stroke races for youngsters (7 – 8 years), 20m form stroke races for 6 and under plus 4 × 50m relays and the mega 10 × 50 mega relays.
Why participate: So Drummoyne Swimming Club can be crowned the greatest swimming club in the universe, ever.
Fees: $7.00* plus pool entry (pool entry to be paid on the day in the usual fashion).
Payments can be made by:
1) following this payment link (preference) https://square.link/u/7YWtXzTQ, or
2) by EFT ($7 per swimmer only) (refer to Google form link for details)
3) by Square Tab at Swim Club
* plus transaction fee
After a week of flooding rains, the skies turned blue at the perfect time for the 2022 Battle on the Bay swimming carnival at Drummoyne Pool!
We had a huge turnout for the carnival with 263 swimmers from Ashfield, Enfield, Drummoyne and Leichhardt Swimming Clubs.
The climax of the carnival was the hotly-contested 10x50m relay between the fastest swimmers from each club, with Drummoyne’s “A” team just touching out Leichhardt “A” in a tight finish!
Congratulations to Drummoyne swimmers Skye Lewis, Rex Wilson, Hayden Howard, Esther Romaniuk, Lily Borozan, Tadhg Donnellan, William Taylor and Sophie O’Brien for taking out Top 3 positions overall in their age groups.
Drummoyne came second in the overall team score, based on average points, with the Battle on the Bay Club trophy going to Leichhardt Swimming Club.
Thank you to all of the volunteers and sponsors, including Ribs & Burgers Drummoyne, who made this such a successful event and a valuable fundraising effort for the Club.
The full results of the 2022 Battle on the Bay swimming carnival have been published here.
It is now confirmed that Drummoyne will be hosting the 2022 Battle on the Bay Swimming Carnival.
The Battle on the Bay is a fun and competitive swimming carnival between local swimming clubs in the bay area. Read more about it here.
The event will be held Saturday afternoon on the 5th of March 2022. Please lock this date into your calendars.
More details to follow in the new year.
The full results for the 2021 Battle on the Bay have been published here.
Congratulations to Abigail Kerr, Christian Taylor, Isabelle Kerr, Jody Fowler, Rex Wilson, William Taylor and Ziani Viola on winning individual medals for top 3 positions in their age groups.
Our thanks go to Ashfield Swimming Club for professionally hosting the carnival at their brand new pool and congratulations to Leichhardt Swimming Club on taking out the Battle on the Bay trophy this year.
The entries and program for the 2021 Battle on the Bay have been finalised, with a record number of 363 swimmers this year from Ashfield, Drummoyne, Enfield, Leichhardt and Marrickville Swimming Clubs!
It’s fantastic to see so many clubs and swimmers in the twelfth year of the carnival, which was started by Drummoyne Swimming Club back in 2010.
Unfortunately, as a result of the large number of entries this year, the organisers have had to limit the number of events to fit everything into the available pool time. It was decided to keep the relays at the end of the carnival, as these are always the highlight, and to cancel the breaststroke events.
Accordingly, the program will be reduced to the following events:
Further details of the carnival, including the rules and full carnival program are available here.
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