Race At Your Pace!
A full write up of the Battle on the Bay has has already been published here and results are available here. But here are a selection of photos to bring back some memories from a great day. [Apologies to everyone I missed or took a blurry photo of]
In recognition of the Club’s stellar fundraising efforts in the 2021 REACHOUT.com Laps for Life Challenge Ian Thorpe AM will be joining us pool side on Saturday the 19th of March.
Please keep the date free and make sure you and the whole family come along. Invite your friends to come for a swim as well. It will be a good opportunity to introduce some new people to the club.
Ian Thorpe is not the only celebrity that will be joining us on the 19th. Club Patron and City of Canada Bay Mayor Angelo Tsirekas will also be joining us for the Canada Bay Cup. It will be suburb v suburb battling it out for bragging rights. Mayor Angelo is looking forward to the locals taking the title from the Barbarians who controversially won the inaugural race last season.
All going well, we will be joined by representatives of the Boolaroo Speers Point Swimming Club who battled it out with us at the top of the Swimming NSW club fundraising leader board. Our two clubs spurred each other’s fundraising efforts on late into the night at the end of last March. Boolaroo may even put in a team of Barbarians for the Canada Bay Cup.
Remember, we’ve signed up again to get involved with Laps for Life in support of youth mental health this season – Laps for Life is a swimming challenge that raises money to support youth mental health initiatives by Reachout.com.
The challenge officially starts on 1 March so now is teh time to register:
Sign up here – https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub.
We’ve got a big weekend of swimming with regular swim club in the morning followed by the Battle on the Bay in the afternoon. I hope you are all feeling fit!
This week we have two hundred metre races with 100M Freestyle and the 100M Championship race as well as the 400M Freestyle.
| CHAMPIONSHIP – 100m Breaststroke |
| Molly Wark & Les Henry U/10 100m Freestyle – Week 5 |
| 35 and Over 100m Freestyle – Week 5 |
| 400M Freestyle (plus 4 x 50M, 4 x 30M and 4 x 20M) |
We’ve amassed a very healthy team to swim in the 13th edition of the Battle on the Bay. It’s great to be hosting the event. Saturday afternoon promises to be a lot of fun even if it is raining cats and dogs. So get ready to scream your lungs out in support of your fellow Drummoyne swimmers!
As well as racing we will using the event as our major fund raiser for the year. We’re:
| 6 March 2022 – Clean Up Australia Day |
| 19 March 2022 – Ian Thorpe Visit to swim club |
| 26 March 2022 – Last day of swim club: 800M Championship and family fun day |
March is upon us and it’s time to get going with the Drummoyne Swimming Club Team in the Laps for Life Challenge. We’re raising money in support of youth mental health.
Laps for Life is a swimming challenge that raises money to support youth mental health initiatives by Reachout.com.
Sign up here – https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub.
We’ve set a club challenge and, over the course of March, we’ll use Adult and Junior Squads to meet our collective goal. Please sign up and seek donations from friends and family along the way.
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 6 March 2022. 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.
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.
This week we have an action packed morning of racing including an intriguing Father v Son battle in the final of the Tom Williams 50M Freestyle Handicap race.
The order of events is as follows:
| CHAMPIONSHIP – 200m Freestyle |
| Finals Tom Williams 50m Freestyle (H’cap) – Mens |
| Finals Tom Williams 50m Freestyle (H’cap) – Womens |
| Heats Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly (H’cap) |
Tom Williams 50M Freestyle Handicap Finalists are:
Mens
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1609 | Hugo SMITH |
| 1504 | Noah HALE |
| 281 | James SIMMONS |
| 1640 | David SMITH |
| 639 | William TAYLOR |
Womens
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1488 | Mia SENDELBECK |
| 1401 | Georgia ROMANIUK |
| 1033 | Georgia KIRKPATRICK-JONES |
| 1112 | Hannah SVOBODA |
| 1356 | Evelyn KERR |
Keep your diaries free for the following:
5 March 2022 – Battle on the Bay – make sure you register asap if you haven’t already…
6 March 2022 – Clean Up Australia Day
19 March 2022 – Ian Thorpe visit to the pool!
It’s time to sign up to the Drummoyne Swimming Club Team in the Laps for Life Challenge in support of youth mental health this season – Laps for Life is a swimming challenge that raises money to support youth mental health initiatives by Reachout.com.
Sign up here – https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub.
Duncan Lyon is sitting in the Top 20 for individual fundraisers and the Club is currently sitting in the Top 10 place (largely thanks to Duncan and Sue-Ellen Forster at this stage). It’s a great start because the challenge doesn’t officially start until March.
We’ve set a club challenge and, over the course of March, we’ll use Adult and Junior Squads to meet our collective goal. Please sign up and seek donations from friends and family along the way.
We need to finalise our entries the Battle on the Bay by this Saturday 26/02! Unfortunately, there will ne no late entries allowed.
So, if you haven’t already done so please register your attendance and nominate your strokes here asap: https://forms.gle/wu9RdqeJN4Z9zyhDA
Where: Drummoyne Swimming Centre
When: Saturday 5 March 2022
What time: 14:00 – 19:30 (warm-up from 14:00)
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).
Our first event this Saturday will be the 100m Freestyle Championship race.
For our second event this week we have another one of our premiere trophy races – the Tom Brown 50m Backstroke Handicap Final. The Tom Brown Final will be followed by 50m, 30m and 20m backstroke events as usual.
To round out the morning’s swimming we have the 200m Medley along with 4 x 30m and 4 x 20m medleys.
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1586 | Rex WILSON |
| 1587 | Jude WILSON |
| 1286 | Shay DONNELLAN |
| 1375 | Abigail KERR |
| 1113 | Jaxon LEWIS |
| 1657 | Nicole BHATTI |
| 1243 | Elise BOROZAN |
| 689 | Joseph COLLEY |
| 770 | Lukas TAYLOR |
We are delighted to announce that members of the Brown family will be attending to present the Tom Brown perpetual trophy to the winner.
Lynette Brown provided us with an interesting bit of history on some of our club trophies, including the Tom Brown:
Back in the 1970’s George Brown, Bill Gallie & Fred Congdon decided that the club needed a trophy for each of the form strokes. This was to encourage everyone to try different stokes. Prior to that, you entered for your preferred BBB stroke each week, so if you liked Breaststroke that’s all you swam until the Championships started.
So George named the Trophy after his father Tom Brown and, as his family liked Backstroke, he took the Backstroke trophy. Bill Gallie was a Breaststroke fanatic and Fred Congdon was passionate about Butterfly.
In recognition of the Club’s stellar fundraising efforts in the 2021 REACHOUT.com Laps for Life Challenge Ian Thorpe AM will be paying us a visit.
It’s been a while in the making with diary clashes and COVID restrictions but Ian will be joining us pool side on Saturday the 19th of March.
Please keep the date free and make sure you and the whole family come along.
All going well, we will be joined by representatives of the Boolaroo Speers Point Swimming Club who battled it out with us at the top of the Swimming NSW club fundraising leader board. Our two clubs spurred each other’s fundraising efforts on late into the night at the end of last March.
Remember, we’ve signed up again to get involved with Laps for Life in support of youth mental health this season – Laps for Life is a swimming challenge that raises money to support youth mental health initiatives by Reachout.com.
The challenge officially starts on 1 March so now is teh time to register:
Sign up here – https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub.
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