Author: Adrian Bell

Hopefully you are all recovering well from last week’s medley mayhem. Because we know you can never get enough butterfly it’s time for some more… This week our races are:

• Championship – 100m Butterfly
• Note: This season we’re opening the U12 age group for record attempts. We have historic records but don’t race for these every year because U12 100M Butterfly is not a Championship event and there are no points on offer. If your kids are interested in having a crack at the record please nominate on the day.
• 100m Freestyle, including Week 4 of the 100m Freestyle Special Events (Molly Wark & Les Henry Under 10’s and 35 and Overs)
• 200m Freestyle

Laps for Life

We’re signed up to get involved with Laps for Life in support of youth mental health again this season – Laps for Life is a swimming challenge that raises money to support youth mental health initiatives by Reachout.com.

We’ve set a club challenge and, over the course of March, use Adult and Junior Squads to meet our collective goal. Please sign up and seek donations from friends and family along the way.

Sign up here – https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub.

Open invitation to all to step-up to clean-up Drummoyne Pool and its surrounds on Sunday 6 March 2021 as part of the Clean Up Australia day.

Former Club Treasurer and Club Historian John Towns has registered “Friends of Drummoyne Pool” as a community group for clean-up day.

If anyone is interested and able, meet at the western end of the pool car park at 10am on Sunday 7 March 2021. Bring hat, gloves, water, sturdy plastic bags and shoes suitable for rocks and bush around Sisters Bay – the area next to the pool.

For further information about participating in this day, please contact Duncan Lyon.

About Clean Up Australia

Clean Up Australia inspires and empowers communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment.

What was started thirty years ago, by an “average Australian bloke” who had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard has now become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event.

Of course, Australia’s waste challenges can’t be solved in just one day, so over the past three decades, Clean Up Australia has evolved into an organisation that works with community, government and businesses to provide practical solutions to help us all live more sustainably every day of the year.

Today our focus is as much on preventing rubbish entering our environment as it is removing what has already accumulated.

It is hard to believe that this initiative began as the inspiration of one man, Ian Kiernan. An avid sailor, Ian was shocked and disgusted by the pollution and rubbish that he continually encountered in the oceans of the world. Taking matters into his own hands, Ian organised a community event with the support of a committee of friends, including co-founder Kim McKay AO.

This simple idea ignited an enthusiasm and desire among the local community to get involved and make a difference. And surely if a capital city could be mobilised into action, then so could the whole nation! And so it was that Clean Up Australia Day was born in 1990.

Register now for BoB

This year we are hosting the 13th instalment of the Battle on the Bay!

Will 13 be our lucky number and will we swim away with the trophy?

Please register your attendance and nominate your strokes here:  https://forms.gle/wu9RdqeJN4Z9zyhDA

Event Information

Where: Drummoyne Swimming Centre

When: Saturday 5 March 2022

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: 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.

Fees: $7.00 plus pool entry (pool entry to be paid on the day in the usual fashion).

Volunteers Needed

We will need plenty of volunteer on the day with timekeeping, marshalling and helping with the BBQ. Please put your hand up to help i

Want to keep up with your kids?

Want to stay ahead of your kids, try and catch your kids or just improve your efficiency in the water.

The club is considering organising adult stroke correction squads.

We will need to know how many people are interested and what the preferred day and times might be.

If you are interested please complete the form at the end of this link.

If you have any questions about this please contact Adrian on 0424 561 831.

Chicken and Chips Casting Agents (C&C) are looking for confident swimmers to be a part of a beautiful new TV commercial and have contacted us…

Please find below the casting call for any swimmers that may be interested in applying.

C&C are looking for a male swimmer in his 20s-30s and a female swimmer in her 20s-30s. No acting experience required but you must be a confident swimmer and be comfortable filming underwater.

This is a paid campaign for the successful applicants.

Click HERE to apply, or go to www.chickenandchips.com.au and follow the Casting Calls link, and for more information.

You can submit a video as part of your application. C&C will be in touch if any additional footage is needed, and if you are successful in progressing to the next round.

Applications close Friday 28th January, 2022.

Racing this week

This week’s races are:

• 50M Freestyle
• The 50M Backstroke Championship
• 400M Individual Medley

As usual there will be shorter races as well. So, if the 400M Medley sounds daunting there will be an option to do a 200M Medley or a 4 x 30M or 4 x 20M Medley instead.

Great performances last week

There were some great performances last week, including from Brody Manners. Brody stepped up from 20M Freestyle to do his first 30M Freestyle event. Brody completed his 30M Freestyle time trial in style. Well done Brody!

Join the DSC Laps for Life fundraising effort again this year

Last summer the Drummoyne Swimming community got right behind Laps for Life. We raised an extraordinary amount of money for a relatively small social swimming club.

We’re going around again this summer. So, please dig deep and help if you can. 

Why are we supporting Laps for Life? Because suicide is the leading cause of death for young people in Australia? That means that each year, more young people die by suicide than in car accidents or from cancer.

Every dollar you donate to our fundraising page will help ReachOut provide all young people in Australia with the support they need to be happy and well.

To join up simply go to the Laps for Life website and connect to our team –

https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub

Raffle Prizes Wanted

As you know Drummoyne will be hosting the 2022 Battle on the Bay Swimming Carnival on Saturday the 5th of March.

The Battle on the Bay is a fun and competitive swimming carnival between local swimming clubs in the bay area. It’s also a good opportunity for the Club to raise finds to pay for things like upgrades to our timing equipment.

If you know of any local businesses that might be able to donate goods or services for us to raffle off could out please reach out to them and ask the question.

Battle on the Bay provides exposure to over 400 swimmers and their families so it’s a good chance for local businesses to make themselves known to people in the broader area.

Please contact Adrian on 0424 561 831 if you want more information about this.