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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.

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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!

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 4th February 2023 including the 100m Butterfly Championships and Week 4 of the 100m Special Events have been published here.

The results for Saturday 28th January 2023 including the 50m Backstroke Championships have been published here.

Well it was a lovely start to the 2023 calendar year last Saturday. Congratulations to Phil Hayward for fending off the kids to take out the George Russell 400M Handicap final. It’s good to see an adult keeping up on the handicap times, especially when the kids improve so rapidly from week to week.

This week things start to get a little bit tougher:

Our first race is the 50M Backstroke Championship. The fastest back strokers across all ages will go into the Open final and battle it out for the Championship title.

This will be followed by the 50M Freestyle handicap events.

As usual there will be 30M and 20M versions of both events for the young ones that prefer a shorted distance.

These shorter events will be followed by one of the great races the 400M Individual Medley. Good luck to all the swimmers who take this on!

There will also be shorted medley events.

The results for Saturday 21st January 2023 including Week 3 of the 100m Freestyle Special Events have been published here.