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

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.

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.

The results for Saturday 26th February 2022, including the 200m Freestyle Championships, have been published here.

This week we have an action packed morning of racing including an intriguing Father v Son battle in the final of the Tom Williams 50M Freestyle Handicap race.

The order of events is as follows:

CHAMPIONSHIP – 200m Freestyle

Finals Tom Williams 50m Freestyle (H’cap) – Mens

Finals Tom Williams 50m Freestyle (H’cap) – Womens

Heats Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly (H’cap)

Tom Williams 50M Freestyle Handicap Finalists are:

Mens

ID	Name
1609	Hugo SMITH
1504	Noah HALE
281	James SIMMONS
1640	David SMITH
639	William TAYLOR

Womens

ID	Name
1488	Mia SENDELBECK
1401	Georgia ROMANIUK
1033	Georgia KIRKPATRICK-JONES
1112	Hannah SVOBODA
1356	Evelyn KERR

Upcoming Events

Keep your diaries free for the following:

5 March 2022 – Battle on the Bay – make sure you register asap if you haven’t already…

6 March 2022 – Clean Up Australia Day

19 March 2022 – Ian Thorpe visit to the pool!

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.

Leaderboards

Duncan Lyon is sitting in the Top 20 for individual fundraisers and the Club is currently sitting in the Top 10 place (largely thanks to Duncan and Sue-Ellen Forster at this stage). It’s a great start because the challenge doesn’t officially start until March.

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.

We need to finalise our entries the Battle on the Bay by this Saturday 26/02! Unfortunately, there will ne no late entries allowed.

So, if you haven’t already done so please register your attendance and nominate your strokes here asap:  https://forms.gle/wu9RdqeJN4Z9zyhDA

Event Information

Where: Drummoyne Swimming Centre

When: Saturday 5 March 2022

What time: 14:00 – 19:30 (warm-up from 14:00)

Why: So Drummoyne Swimming Club can be crowned the greatest swimming club in the universe, ever.

What: 50m freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly, 30m form stroke races for youngsters (7 – 8 years), 20m form stroke races for 6 and under plus 4 × 50m relays and the mega 10 × 50 mega relays.

Fees: $7.00 plus pool entry (pool entry to be paid on the day in the usual fashion).

The results for Saturday 19th February 2022, including the 100m Freestyle Championships, have been published here.