The results for Saturday 4th March 2023 including the 100m Breaststroke Championships, and Week 5 of the 100m Freestyle Special Events have been published here.

It’s been a glorious season so far but we’re well and truly turning into the last lap. Sadly, there are now just 4 more Saturday morning swim meets.

This week…

Our Championship series continues with the 100M Breaststroke race.

The second event of the day will be the 100M Freestyle. This event will be on handicap as usual.

The final race this week, our distance event, is the 400M Freestyle handicap.

As usual there will be shorter events in all races. In practicular there will be 200M Freestyle races for those who haven’t qualified for the 400M race and 4 x 30M and 4 x 20M events for the young ones.

Recap on last week

We had some great racing last week. Some of the highlights included:

• Matt O’Connor and Arden Hartley dueling it out in the final of the men’s Tom Williams 50M handicap trophy race. Matt took out the race this time but Arden continues to improve each week and will win many trophies in years to come.
• Arabella Dixon taking out the women’s Tom Williams trophy – with a few seconds to space.
• Elizabeth Allan and Erica Bhatti pushing each other all the way to the wall for second place in the women’s Open 400M Championship race. Well done to both of you!
• Liv Sendelbeck winning 1st prize in the raffle securing the Ribs & Burgers Grillhouse voucher. This should dispel any notions in Liv’s mind that the raffle is rigged. This probably also means we can close the swim club’s complaints department 🙂

Haven’t swum yet? Have a race for extra raffle tickets and a chance to win!

Parents, grandparents, younger siblings, friends, past members and everyone else who loves Drummoyne Swimming Club… if you haven’t raced this season there is still time!

We want to incentevize you all to have a swim over the last 4 weeks of racing.

So, we’re offering the chance to win prizes for all swimmers who have their first race in March.

Every person who has their first swim in March will receive 3 x bonus raffle tickets in the week they swim.

Adults who have their first swim in March will also have a chance to win a bottle of wine and a club swim cap.

Kids who have their first swim in March will have a chance to win a pair of goggles, a club swim cap and a bag of lollies.

What’s coming up…

Date	Activity
1 March 2023	Laps for Life commences. Don’t forget to sign up and start your fundraising.
5 March 2023	Clean Up Australia Day @ Sisters Bay next to the pool.
25 March 2023	Last day of Swim Club for season 2022-23. Family Fun Day and 800M Championship race.
6 May 2023	Presentation Night is nominally set for 6 May. The final date will be confirmed in due course. Keep an eye out on social media for confirmation.
22 August 2023	Annual General Meeting

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.