Race At Your Pace!
The results of the final for the Tom Brown 50m Backstroke Handicap held on 19 February 2022 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1587 | Jude WILSON | 1 |
| 1286 | Shay DONNELLAN | 2 |
| 1586 | Rex WILSON | 3 |
| 1113 | Jaxon LEWIS | 4 |
| 1657 | Nicole BHATTI | 5 |
| 1375 | Abigail KERR | 6 |
Winner: Jude WILSON
Our first event this Saturday will be the 100m Freestyle Championship race.
For our second event this week we have another one of our premiere trophy races – the Tom Brown 50m Backstroke Handicap Final. The Tom Brown Final will be followed by 50m, 30m and 20m backstroke events as usual.
To round out the morning’s swimming we have the 200m Medley along with 4 x 30m and 4 x 20m medleys.
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1586 | Rex WILSON |
| 1587 | Jude WILSON |
| 1286 | Shay DONNELLAN |
| 1375 | Abigail KERR |
| 1113 | Jaxon LEWIS |
| 1657 | Nicole BHATTI |
| 1243 | Elise BOROZAN |
| 689 | Joseph COLLEY |
| 770 | Lukas TAYLOR |
We are delighted to announce that members of the Brown family will be attending to present the Tom Brown perpetual trophy to the winner.
Lynette Brown provided us with an interesting bit of history on some of our club trophies, including the Tom Brown:
Back in the 1970’s George Brown, Bill Gallie & Fred Congdon decided that the club needed a trophy for each of the form strokes. This was to encourage everyone to try different stokes. Prior to that, you entered for your preferred BBB stroke each week, so if you liked Breaststroke that’s all you swam until the Championships started.
So George named the Trophy after his father Tom Brown and, as his family liked Backstroke, he took the Backstroke trophy. Bill Gallie was a Breaststroke fanatic and Fred Congdon was passionate about Butterfly.
In recognition of the Club’s stellar fundraising efforts in the 2021 REACHOUT.com Laps for Life Challenge Ian Thorpe AM will be paying us a visit.
It’s been a while in the making with diary clashes and COVID restrictions but Ian 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.
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.
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 finalists for the Tom Williams 50m Freestyle Handicap – Mens to be held on 26 February 2022 are as follows:
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1609 | Hugo SMITH |
| 1504 | Noah HALE |
| 281 | James SIMMONS |
| 1640 | David SMITH |
| 639 | William TAYLOR |
The finalists for the Tom Williams 50m Freestyle Handicap – Womens to be held on 26 February 2022 are as follows:
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1488 | Mia SENDELBECK |
| 1401 | Georgia ROMANIUK |
| 1033 | Georgia KIRKPATRICK-JONES |
| 1112 | Hannah SVOBODA |
| 1356 | Evelyn KERR |
The results of the final for the Bill Gallie 50m Breaststroke Handicap held on 12 February 2022 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1587 | Jude WILSON | 1 |
| 1356 | Evelyn KERR | 2 |
| 1485 | Rebecca NICHOLS | 3 |
| 1586 | Rex WILSON | 4 |
| 1613 | Peter HARTLEY | 5 |
Winner: Jude WILSON
The results for Saturday 12th February 2022, including the 400m Freestyle Championships, have been published here.
This week’s highlight will be the Bill Gallie 50M Breaststroke Handicap trophy final.
This race commemorates one of the club’s long serving volunteer administrator and coaches.
Bill won the Australian Breaststroke Championship in 1925 and became a Life Member of the Club after acting as Hon Secretary and Race Referee for over 20 years from 1963.
The finalists for the race are shown below. Will Evelyn Kerry make it two years in a row?
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1586 | Rex WILSON |
| 1587 | Jude WILSON |
| 1485 | Rebecca NICHOLS |
| 1457 | Toby HANSEN |
| 1115 | Marcus SVOBODA |
| 1356 | Evelyn KERR |
| 1600 | Tarek BHATTI |
| 1613 | Peter HARTLEY |
The full schedule for this week is:
We’re 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.
Sign up here – https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub.
Duncan Lyon is in the Top 10 for individual fundraisers and the Club is currently sitting in 4th place (largely thanks to Duncan and Sue-Ellen Forster at this stage). And 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.
You may recall the Club was the most successful fundraiser amongst Swimming NSW Clubs last season and won a visit by Ian Thorpe… Well clashing commitments and COVID have delayed things but all going well, we will see Ian at the pool before the season is finished.
Last season we had a massive 100 competitors in the Battle on the Bay! Can we get a few extras this time round?
Please register your attendance and nominate your strokes here: https://forms.gle/wu9RdqeJN4Z9zyhDA
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).
A number of DSC swimmers battled the 3+ metre swell at Manly on Sunday morning to compete in the 40th instalment of the Cole Classic Ocean Swim.
Well done to junior swimmers for completing the 1km event: Jaxon Lewis, Noah Hale, Cohen van Loo, Oscar Hale and Skye Lewis. Skye swam an incredible 00: 24:25.
The kids dragged along Adam Lewis and Nathan Hale.
A big congratulations to the wonderful DSC ladies who completed the 5km event: Kristy Lewis, Hannah Svoboda, Melissa Lewis, Julie-Ann Ryan and Natalie Borozan.
Kristy Lewis, Hannah Svoboda, Melissa Lewis, Julie-Ann Ryan and Natalie Borozan
Check out the Cole Classic website for more information if you’re interested.
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