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This week swim club starts to get a little bit more serious. We have the heats for the first trophy of the season – the Geoff Roper 200m Freestyle Handicap trophy.

As with any handicap race, the winner could be anyone. Junior swimmers who are improving quickly have an especially good shot at taking home this silverware. So don’t miss the heats this weekend or you’ll be no chance to pick up the trophy!

Our races this week are:

• 100m Freestyle
• 100m Breaststroke
• 200m Freestyle (the Geoff Roper Handicap Trophy heats)

George Wheaton BBB entries

Next week we will be holding heats for our 2nd trophy race of the season – the wonderful George Wheaton BBB handicap race.

BBB is short for Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly.  It’s a unique event in which competitors race each other with different “B” strokes in the same race on handicap.  So  a swimmer in one lane may swim Butterfly, another Breaststroke and a third Backstroke!

To seed the event, we need to know which “B” stroke you will swim.  You must have already completed a 50m Time Trial for your chosen stroke, so if you’re new to the club this season, choose a stroke for which you’ve already set a time.

To nominate your B-stroke please complete this form at the end of this link.  

A reminder that Drummoyne Swimming Club hosts free squads for members.

New swimmers are always welcome. We’re particularly seeking to boost our numbers of young adults. So, if this is you feel free to pop down to an adult squad and jump in to lane 1 or 2.

Day	Start time	Squad
Monday	6:00	Adult Squad
Tuesday	6:00	Junior Squad Parents are welcome to join in
Wednesday	6:00	Adult Squad
Thursday	6:00	Junior Squad Parents are welcome to join in
Friday	5:30	Adult Squad Followed by breakfast

Congratulations to Zoe and Matthew

Zoe Romaniuk and Matthew Svoboda are our Club Captains for 2022-2023. Congratulations to them both. It is fitting that they are our new club leaders given that they both scooped the pool as club champions last season.

We look forward to big things from both our new Captains this season.

Thanks very much to Rose Tunstall and Xiomara van Schaik and Tadhg Donnellan for their efforts as Captains last season.

The men’s and ladies social nights are coming up in November so keep the following dates free:

Ladies Social Night Out – Thu 10 November, 7pm at the R&B Grillhouse

Men’s Social Night Out – Thu 17 November, 7pm at the R&B Grillhouse

It was great to see so many swimmers out and enjoying the warm and sunny conditions last Saturday. The junior swimmers are really demonstrating how another year of training and growing can help improve your times. For some of us older swimmers it was a demonstration of what another year can do to your times in the other direction. Such is life…

This week

Pretty soon things are going to get serious but for this week we have another week of events to help you get back in to the swim of things:

• 50M Freestyle
• 50M Backstroke
• 200M Freestyle

As usual we’ll have 30M and 20M races for the kids and time trials for new swimmers plus 4 x 30M and 4 x 20M Freestyle longer races.

Merchandise

We have some new club merchandise for sale. We’ve got bucket hats, towels and mesh training bags. We’ll put these on display for anyone that is interested this weekend.

This new merchandise is from Agon Swimwear. They’ve also done a nice camo men’s and ladies costume design and we’ll take orders for those in the next couple of weeks.

Club Captains

We’ve received the following nominations for Club Captain’s. If you want to nominate to be Club Captain this season please see Adrian Bell early on Saturday morning. A vote will be taken with the raffle sale.

Ladies Captain nominations

• Zoe Romaniuk

Men’s Club Captain nominations

• Lukas Taylor
• Matthew Svoboda

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (the Royal Commission) shone a spotlight on thousands of cases where organisations in Australia failed to protect children in their care from abuse.

Drummoyne Swimming Club prides itself on providing an inclusive family friendly and safe environment for all swimmers. We are a little unusual compared with some other swimming clubs in that we have a high level of parent participation and involvement in club activities and administration. However, no organisation including us, is immune from the risk of nefarious activities.

The Child Safe Standards recommended by the Royal Commission provide a framework for making organisations safer for children. They have been accepted by the NSW government. Based on extensive research and consultation, the Standards provide tangible guidance for organisations to create cultures, adopt strategies and act to put the interests of children first, to keep them safe from harm. Swimming NSW has adopted and is implementing the Child Safe Standards and as a constituent organisation of Swimming NSW we need to comply and demonstrate that we are complying.

So, as a club we’ll be updating our policies and operational practices to ensure we provide a first rate child safe culture with values and practices that guide the attitudes and behaviour of all our volunteers and coaches. The following values will be at the heart of our approach:

• The best interests of children and their protection from harm is paramount.
• Child abuse is not tolerated and must not happen.
• Children’s rights are understood and respected.
• Concerns about child safety raised by children and their parents and carers are acted on.
• Reporting abuse is not obstructed or prevented.

You’ll hear more about this over the season but anyone who is interested in contributing to this activity is welcome to help. If you wish to help out or if you have any questions about it, please feel free to contact Adrian Bell.

1 week until the season kicks off

After the winter hiatus, Saturday morning swim club racing starts again next Saturday the 8th of October.

It will be great to see all our returning swimmers and to welcome any new swimmers that join us.

Week 1

We will ease or way into the season with:

• 50m Freestyle (handicap)
• 50m Breastroke (handicap)
• 200m Freestyle (handicap)

As usual we will have 30m and 20m races for those swimmers not yet up for 50m in freestyle or breastroke and 4 x 30m and 4 x 20m for swimmers who don’t want to do the 200m.

There will also be time trials for new and upgraded swimmers (e.g. those moving from 20m to 30m and 30m to 50m).

Season Calendar

The full season calendar is available on the website if you want to look ahead at the upcoming program.

Free Trial

Please let your friends know that they are more than welcome to come along for a free trial to see if they like the Drummoyne Swimming Club experience. They can then join up if they do.

Registrations are open

For returning swimmers and those new swimmers who are ready, registrations are now open. Check out our Fees and Registration page for more information or head straight to Swimming NSW’s Swim Central website to register.

Don’t forget you can apply your NSW Government Active Kids Voucher when checking out of the Swim Central store. This will reduce fees for junior swim club members to $0 for the season.

Club Captain nominations

With a new season we need new Club Captains. Ximoara and Tadgh did a fantastic job last season and are eligible to nominate again as are all youngish swimmers.

If you wish to nominate to stand as a Club Captain this season please see Adrian Bell on pool deck or send an email to president@drummoyneswimclub.com.au.

See you next Saturday!

There are just 2 weeks to the start of swim club racing.

The first Saturday morning race meet is Saturday the 8th of October!

Squads have already started so head down to the pool and get training!

The season calendar has now been published. The season in a nutshell:

Date	Activity
8 October 2022	Saturday Racing Season starts 7:30 start
8 – 22 October 2022	Club Captain nominations and voting
10 November 2022	Ladies Social Night
17 November 2022	Mens Social Night
17 December 2022	Last Saturday before the holiday break
14 January 2023	First Saturday after the holiday break
25 March 2023	Last Saturday morning races of the season

Registrations are now open

Season 2022/23 memberships are now available to purchase on the Swimming NSW web site. After a minor technical glitch Active Kids vouchers can now be redeemed as part of the check out process.

Members can join the Club or renew their membership at the Swimming NSW Swim Central portal here:

For instructions on using the Swim Central portal, read here:

How To Register With Swim Central – Swimming Australia Online Support Portal

R&B Grillhouse return as a sponsor for 2022/23

The Seagrass Boutique Hospitality Group have generously agreed to extend their partnership with Drummoyne Swimming Club for the 2022/23 season.

The R&B Grillhouse return as a Gold Sponsor and will provide a heap of value to club members.

The R&B Grillhouse restaurant located at 4/77-105 Victoria Rd at Drummoyne was refurbished and re branded last year from a standard RIbs & Burgers restaurant to a flagship Grillhouse with more of a Steakhouse feel and more boutique food and beverage offerings.

You’ll find a succulent range of ribs and steaks, as well as hearty burgers, fresh salads, and moreish desserts. There’s also a full range of vinos, beers, and cocktails, although the thick shakes are so good it won’t just be the kids ordering this milky goodness.

Grab a feast to take away, order something delicious for delivery or even stop by for a sit down lunch or dinner and introduce yourself to some of the best food in town.

R&B Grillhouse will be offering weekly vouchers as raffle prizes and will be supporting our swimmers through the end of season male and female MVP prizes.

To support our valuable sponsor we’ll host our women’s and men’s social nights at the R&B Geillhouse. The women’s social night is planned for the 10th of November and the men’s social night is planned for the 17th of November. Please lock these dates away in your calendar.

If you still have credit on your Ribs and Burgers app you can use it at one of the other Ribs & Burgers stores including those nearby at Rhodes and the city.