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New Registrar and Treasurer needed for next season

Swim club is a success because of the hard work put in by the volunteers that help run it. Every contribution is important, be it informal jobs like helping out with timing and setting up and packing up on Saturday through to the more formal jobs that come with being part of the club’s management committee.

After many years of service two committee members will be handing over the baton after this season.

Michael Donnellan our Registrar is stepping aside from that role. Michael has, on our behalf, successfully wrestled with the beast that is Swim Central to sort out our registration and membership data. Thankfully the system is much more user friendly these days for swimmers and the Registrar.

Phil Hayward has ably handled the accounts as Treasurer and will leave the role with the club in a strong financial position. Phil will continue with his other roles at the club – coaching and refereeing.

Thanks to both Michael and Phil for their contributions in the roles of Registrar and Treasurer.

The Registrar and Treasurer roles will need to be filled ahead of next season. If you think that you have the skills and capacity to assist with either of these roles please reach out to Adrian on 0424 561 831 for more information.

The results for Saturday 12th March 2022, including the 4x50m Individual Medley Championships have been published here.

This week is a week to sort the real swimmers from pretenders. It’s a tough program with Butterfly and the Medley. At least there is a 50M Freestyle to keep the rest of us interested.

The program starts with the 200M Medley Championship races. A nice way to start the morning!

This will be followed by the 50M Freestyle event.

Then we have our last perpetual trophy for the season with the final of the  Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly (H’cap). Duncan Lyon won the trophy last season. WIll he bring the trophy back and hand it over?

This season’s finalists are:

1656	Yunos YAQUB
1587	Jude WILSON
1389	Hayden HOWARD
1357	Zoe ROMANIUK

Good luck to you all!

Regular Butterfly events will follow.

Upcoming

19 March	Ian Thorpe visit and Canada Bay Cup
26 March	End of season fun day
14 May	Presentation night

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.

Canada Bay Cup

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.

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:

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

The results for Saturday 5th March 2022, including the 100m Breaststroke Championships and Week 5 of the 100m Freestyle Special Events have been published here.

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’s events

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)

Battle on the Bay

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:

• Putting on a Ribs & Burgers BBQ. Our generous sponsor Ribs & Burgers are supplying the produce and a team of DSC chefs will be cooking up a storm of Beef and Vegan burgers.
• Holding a monster raffle with over $2000 worth of prizes
• We’ll also be collecting money for Laps 4 Life

Upcoming Events

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.