Swim Club members and friends are invited to step-up to clean-up Drummoyne Pool and its surrounds on Sunday 5 March 2023 as part of the Clean Up Australia day.

Former Club Treasurer and Club Historian John Towns has registered the “Sisters Bay Drummoyne” group as a community group for clean-up day.

We will meet at the western end of the pool car park at 10am on Sunday 5 March 2023. 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 Adrian on 0424 561 831.

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 mobilized into action, then so could the whole nation! And so it was that Clean Up Australia Day was born in 1990.

The results for Saturday 25th February 2023 including the 200m Freestyle Championships, the Tom Williams 50m Freestyle Handicap Final and the heats for the Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly Handicap have been published here.

Well we were gifted another warm and sunny day last week and the forecast is for more of the same this coming Saturday. Action in the pool will be hot again starting with the 200M Championship races.

We’ll have seniors and age group races and then the Open finals for male and female swimmers to see who the fastest 200M Freestyle swimmers in the club are.

There have been some fast swims over the last few weeks and it will be interesting to see if any of the club records get a nudge.

As usual we’ll have shorter races for those that aren’t able or don’t want to do the 200M race.

The next race on the program will be the 50M Freestyle events including the finals of the Tom Williams 50m Freestyle Handicap for male and female.

The finalists in each race are:

ID	Name
1626	Arabella DIXON
1376	Isabelle KERR
674	Cara PARKER
1375	Abigail KERR
1598	Liz MANISCALCO

ID	Name
1614	Arden HARTLEY
802	Matthew O’CONNOR
1600	Tarek BHATTI
1501	Cohen VAN LOO
1640	David SMITH

The final event of the morning will be 50M Butterfly along with shorter events.

The butterfly races serve as the heats for the Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly (H’cap) Trophy. Last year’s trophy winner was Yunus Yaqub.

New swimmers still welcome

It’s been great to see that we still have new swimmers coming along to see how things work at Drummoyne Swimming Club.

Please encourage your friends to come on down on a Saturday morning to give swim club a go.

To encourage new swimmers and parents and others to jump in and have a race we will offer random prizes for people who have their first swim of the season in March. Keep an eye out for this.

March is almost upon us. It’s time to start thinking about raising money for Reachout.com. We need a few more peeps to sign up and create a competitive fundraising spirit. Who knows, if we raise enough money Thorpie might come visit us again!

Why support L4L

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.

At Drummoyne Swimming Club we aim to provide a fun, safe and supportive environment for young people (and the not so young) to strive and achieve.

ReachOut is a safe place where young people can openly express themselves, get a deeper understanding and perspective on what’s happening in their lives, connect with people who will provide judgement-free support, and build the resilience to manage their challenges now and in the future.

Our goals are very much aligned.

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

Sign up now

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.

Club Goal

Last March we raised an incredible $15,562.43. This was on top of our stellar 2021 effort where we raised over $10,000.00 as well.

We’ve set a club goal of raising $5,000 this time 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.

All going well we’ll smash our fund raising goal again!

The results for Saturday 18th February 2023 including the 100m Freestyle Championships and the Tom Brown 50m Backstroke Handicap Final have been published here.

After all the excitement of the 400M championship and the Battle on the Bay last week you’ll all need to back it up again because we’ve got another action packed Saturday of racing.

Championship races continue, this time with the 100M Freestyle event.

This will be followed by 50M handicap backstroke including the very special Tom Brown Trophy race.

The final race of the morning will be the 200M Medley.

As usual we’ll have shorter events for the younger swimmers.

Tom Brown Backstroke Trophy Race

This trophy race is named in honour of the amazing Lynette Brown’s grantfather and is always an exciting event. The finalists for the Tom Brown 50m Backstroke Handicap trophy race are:

ID	Name
1674	Eloise PIDD
1377	Gavin TANNER
1502	Lincoln VAN LOO
1345	Adrian BELL
1113	Jaxon LEWIS
1501	Cohen VAN LOO
1389	Hayden HOWARD
1126	Denver PELLY

We’ll have a new champion this year as neither of our last two winners, Jude Wilson and Cara Parker made the final this summer.

Members of the Brown clan will be there to preside over the ceremony.

Well done to all our swimmers at the Battle on the Bay.

We put up some fantastic performances and claimed second place behind Leichhardt, who fielded a strong team as usual. Congratulations to them! Congratulations also to Ashfield and Enfield Swim Clubs for their outstanding efforts.

Special call outs to our top 5 performers and teams:

• Tom Smith and Harry Finn – 4th and 5th in U6M
• Harriet Bhatti, Isabelle Kerr and Alenna Finn – 1st, 3rd and 4th in 7-8W
• Rex Wilson, Hugo Smith and Yunus Yaqub – 1st, 3rd and 4th in 7-8M
• Erica Bhatti, Abigail Kerr and Georgia Romaniuk – 2nd, 4th and 5th in 9-10W
• Jude WIlson – 2nd in 9-10M
• Cohen van Loo* and Noah Hale* – 2nd and 4th in 11-12M
• Marcus Svoboda – 4th in 13-14M
• Denver Pelly and Luka Taylor – 1st and 5th in 15-16M
• Will Taylor – 5th in 17-49M
• Kate Svoboda – 2nd in 50-99W
• Tarek Bhatti – 4th in 50-99M
• Denver Pelly, Will Taylor, Matthew Svoboda and Dave Bolton – 2nd in the mixed 17-49 relay
• Denver Pelly, Marcus Svoboda, Lukas Taylor and Cohen van Loo – 2nd in the mixed 15-16 relay
• Zoe Romaniuk, Jess Bell, Marcus Svoboda and Will Bolton – 2nd in the mixed 13-14 relay
• Charlotte Allan, Elizabeth Allan, Evelyn Kerr and Jaxon Lewis – 4th in the mixed 13-14 relay
• Georgina Maniscalco, Leni Wilson, Cohen van Loo and Noah Hale – 3rd in the mixed 11-12 relay
• Erica Bhatti, Abigail Kerr, Georgia Romaniuk and Jude Wilson – 2nd in the mixed 9-10 relay
• Mia Sendelbeck, Skye Lewis, Oscar Hale and Lincoln van Loo – 4th in the mixed 9-10 relay
• Both our 10 x 50M relay teams, who were magnificant!

Results

The full carnival results for this and previous carnivals can be found on or Battle on the Bay page.**

Feedback

Leichhardt have asked for feedback about the carnival so that they and we (plus Ashfield and Enfield) can plan future Battles.

Any feedback from club members on the good, the bad and the ugly would be greatly appreciated. Please direct your feedback to please contact Adrian by email – president@drummoyneswimclub.com.au.

* subject to republication of results.

** a couple of results were being clarified at the time of publishing this post. So, if the results are not available on the Battle on the Bay page by the time you read this they will be there very soon.