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We have a big and varied day at the pool for the second last week of swim club. As well as the regular racing program, we have the great Ian Thorpe visiting us, we have a monster raffle and we have a morning tea.

In the pool

Championship race	100M Backstroke Championship
Short distance Freestyle	100M Freestyle Molly Wark & Les Henry U/10 100m Freestyle – Week 6 35 and Over 100m Freestyle – Week 6
Long Distance Event	200M Freestyle
Relay	The Mayor’s Canada Bay Cup We’re joined this year by a group of swimmers from Boolaroo Speers Point Swimming Club on Lake Macquarie. Mayor Angelo Tsirekas will present the trophy to the winning team.

Out of the pool

Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe is visiting us as the Patron of REACHOUT.com after our excellent fund raising efforts last season in the Laps for Life Challenge. Ian will talk about the wonderful work that Reachout.com does on youth mental health. Following that Ian will assist Mayor Angelo to start the Canada Bay Cup and present the trophy. Ian will then stick around for a short while to meet swimmers and pose for photos.

Swimmers from Boolaroo Speers Point swimming club who also raised an extraordinary amount of money in the Laps for Life challenge will be joining us as well. It is great to be able to share Ian’s visit with them.

Huge Raffle

This week we have a huge raffle to close out fund raising efforts for the season: This week’s prizes include:

• 4 x Box tickets to watch the GWS Giants at Spotless Stadium. This prize has very generously been donated by Channel 7 and is valued at over $1,500.00
• A Learn to Sail voucher donated by Drummoyne Sailing Club. This is also a great prize and the Learn to Sail course provides an excellent introduction to sailing.
• A Ribs&Burgers Voucher
• A box of Vegan Chocolates
• A pair of Budgy Smugglers
• A bottle of wine

Morning tea

After swimming we’ll have a morning tea to meet and mingle with Ian and our visitors from Lake Macquarie. Lynette Brown has secured a supply of chocolates. Please bring a plate or cake to share.

In recognition of the Drummoyne Swimming Club’s stellar fundraising efforts in the 2021 REACHOUT.com Laps for Life Challenge Ian Thorpe AM will be joining us pool side this Saturday the 19th of March from 9:30.

Members, please make sure you and the whole family come along. Invite your friends to come for a swim as well. New swimmers are always welcome.

Who is this Ian Thorpe bloke?

Ian Thorpe is an Australian swimming icon who needs no introduction to most of us over 30s. And a lot of the youngsters will know him from his excellent commentary stints on Olympic broadcasts. Some of the youngsters may not know why us adults are quite so excited about Ian joining us pool side this weekend. So, to help get them up to speed (and to relive some amazing memories) find below a bunch of clips of Ian’s feats.

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.