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.
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.
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.
About Clean Up Australia
Clean Up Australia inspires and empowers communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment.
Ian Kiernan – the inspiration for Clean Up Australia Day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tom Brown 50M Backstroke Handicap Finalists
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.
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.
Reminder: Sign up for Laps for Life 2022
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:
We’re 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.
Duncan Lyon is in the Top 10 for individual fundraisers and the Club is currently sitting in 4th place (largely thanks to Duncan and Sue-Ellen Forster at this stage). And the challenge doesn’t officially start until March.
DSC rising to the top of the Laps for Life Leaderboard
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.
The Thorpedo
You may recall the Club was the most successful fundraiser amongst Swimming NSW Clubs last season and won a visit by Ian Thorpe… Well clashing commitments and COVID have delayed things but all going well, we will see Ian at the pool before the season is finished.
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).
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