Race At Your Pace!
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.
The results for Saturday 5th February 2022, including the 100m Butterfly Championships and the 100m Freestyle Special Events, have been published here.
Hopefully you are all recovering well from last week’s medley mayhem. Because we know you can never get enough butterfly it’s time for some more… This week our races are:
We’re signed up to get involved with Laps for Life in support of youth mental health again this season – Laps for Life is a swimming challenge that raises money to support youth mental health initiatives by Reachout.com.
We’ve set a club challenge and, over the course of March, use Adult and Junior Squads to meet our collective goal. Please sign up and seek donations from friends and family along the way.
Sign up here – https://www.lapsforlife.com.au/fundraisers/drummoyneswimmingclub.
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 7 March 2021. 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.
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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