The results for Saturday 12th March 2022, including the 4x50m Individual Medley Championships have been published here.
Results Week 18
Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly Handicap – Final
The results of the final for the Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly Handicap held on 12 March 2022 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1656 | Yunos YAQUB | 1 |
| 1401 | Georgia ROMANIUK | 2 |
| 1389 | Hayden HOWARD | 3 |
| 1586 | Rex WILSON | 4 |
| 1357 | Zoe ROMANIUK | 5 |
| 1587 | Jude WILSON | 6 |
| 1598 | Liz MANISCALCO | 7 |
| 674 | Cara PARKER | 8 |
Winner: Yunos YAQUB
Week 18: Fred Congdon 50M Butterfly Finals and Medley
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 |
Battle on the Bay Wrap Up – in pictures!
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]
Ian Thorpe visit and Canada Bay Cup – Saturday 19 March
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.
Drummoyne wins 10x50m Relay at 2022 Battle on the Bay!
After a week of flooding rains, the skies turned blue at the perfect time for the 2022 Battle on the Bay swimming carnival at Drummoyne Pool!
We had a huge turnout for the carnival with 263 swimmers from Ashfield, Enfield, Drummoyne and Leichhardt Swimming Clubs.
The climax of the carnival was the hotly-contested 10x50m relay between the fastest swimmers from each club, with Drummoyne’s “A” team just touching out Leichhardt “A” in a tight finish!
Congratulations to Drummoyne swimmers Skye Lewis, Rex Wilson, Hayden Howard, Esther Romaniuk, Lily Borozan, Tadhg Donnellan, William Taylor and Sophie O’Brien for taking out Top 3 positions overall in their age groups.
Drummoyne came second in the overall team score, based on average points, with the Battle on the Bay Club trophy going to Leichhardt Swimming Club.
Thank you to all of the volunteers and sponsors, including Ribs & Burgers Drummoyne, who made this such a successful event and a valuable fundraising effort for the Club.
The full results of the 2022 Battle on the Bay swimming carnival have been published here.
Results Week 17
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.
Week 17: 100M Breaststroke Champs and Battle on the Bay!
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 |
Join up to the Laps for Life Challenge!
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.
Step Up to Clean Up around Drummoyne Pool!
Open invitation to all to step-up to clean-up Drummoyne Pool and its surrounds on Sunday 6 March 2021 as part of the Clean Up Australia day.
Former Club Treasurer and Club Historian John Towns has registered “Friends of Drummoyne Pool” as a community group for clean-up day.
If anyone is interested and able, meet at the western end of the pool car park at 10am on Sunday 6 March 2022. 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 Duncan Lyon.
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 mobilised into action, then so could the whole nation! And so it was that Clean Up Australia Day was born in 1990.
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