Race At Your Pace!
The finalists for the Boy’s and Girl’s Tom Williams 50m Freestyle Handicap to be held on 27 February 2021 are as follows:
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1288 | Skye LEWIS |
| 1375 | Abigail KERR |
| 1124 | Xiomara VAN SCHAIK |
| 1356 | Evelyn KERR |
| 1112 | Hannah SVOBODA |
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1587 | Jude WILSON |
| 1603 | Felix SHARP |
| 1506 | Nathan HALE |
| 1492 | Ian ALLAN |
| 375 | Matthew ELLIS |
The results of the final for the Bill Gallie 50m Breaststroke Handicap held on 13 February 2021 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1356 | Evelyn KERR | 1 |
| 1476 | Isaac MCMANUS | 2 |
| 1479 | Simon HOWARD | 3 |
| 723 | David PARKER | 4 |
| 281 | James SIMMONS | 5 |
| 1596 | Lois WALLER | 6 |
Winner: Evelyn KERR
The results for Saturday 13th February 2021, including the 400m Freestyle Championships, have been published here.
This Saturday we have a chock-a-block race meet with:
The Bill Gallie Trophy is awarded to the winner of the 50m Breaststroke Handicap Event.
The trophy was first awarded in the 1990-91 season.
Bill Gallie was a local legend and 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. Bill coached at Drummoyne Swimming Pool for many years and taught a number of the older swim club members how to swim.
The finalists for the Bill Gallie 50m Breaststroke Handicap are as follows:
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1211 | Mary-Lou DOOLAN |
| 1596 | Lois WALLER |
| 1476 | Isaac MCMANUS |
| 1525 | Davina KITE |
| 1479 | Simon HOWARD |
| 723 | David PARKER |
| 1356 | Evelyn KERR |
| 1372 | Melissa KERR |
| 281 | James SIMMONS |
| 1613 | Peter HARTLEY |
This information was buried deep in our newsletter last week so just to make sure you know about what is coming up here it is again…
As you know we’ve got the 2021 Battle on the Bay coming up on the 20th of February. That’s our chance to come together as a club and show our neighbouring clubs just what we’re about by knocking Leichhardt off the top of the leader board and having “Drummoyne” inscribed on the trophy.
Following on from the Battle on the Bay we’ve got a few other initiatives planned, including:
The Canada Bay Club All Schools Relay – This new relay will be held on the 27th of February 21 and we’ll put out some information about, this starting next week. The trophy for this race is dedicated to the Canada Bay Club – one of our great supporters over the years.
See this week’s separate post about how to register for this event.
The Food Bank Raffle – As some of you may remember last season we donated the proceeds of one of our raffles to support Bush Fire relief. We’re looking to continue that concept again this season. As a club we’re going to support Food Bank.
The proceeds from our raffle on the 27th of February will be donated to Food Bank to support the work they are doing fighting hunger.
Did you know that: three in ten Australians now experiencing food insecurity had not gone hungry before the pandemic and that young people – Gen Z are being hardest hit by the impact of COVID-19?
Foodbank is addressing this crisis by supplying more food and groceries than ever before to charities for distribution to vulnerable people.
As a second charitable initiative, we’re proposing to get involved with Laps for Life 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.
We’ll set a club challenge and, over the course of March, use Adult and Junior Squads to meet our collective goal. Swimmers will be asked to seek donations from friends and family along the way.
More information about both these charitable initiatives will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.
As the north easterly blew out (and thankfully took the blue bottles with it) the Drummoyne Swimming Club lap burners blew in, to conquer the infamous Cole Classic.
It was a magical day on the Northern Beaches on Sunday as many of the club’s members, young and old, took on the challenge to swim from Shelly Beach to Manly Beach. Some reported swimming over stingrays and through schools of fish as they headed out through the ocean aquarium at Shelly. Water temp was refreshingly tepid, underwater visibility was so crystal clear you could see the ripples in the sand on the ocean floor. While there was a bit of dump at the beach landing end, all of our swimmers survived and crossed the blue finish line in great time.
Special mention must be made of Club Captain Rosie Tunstall, who smashed out an awesome 19:26 in the 1 km race. A true inspiration to us all.
Natalie Borozan, Kristy Lewis and Melissa Kerr took on the 5km mental and physical challenge, completing the event in mind boggling time. Annette Jamieson proved yet again what a legend she is, coming 4th overall in the 5km event.
Great to see the younger ocean swimmers join in. Noah Hale, Cohen Van Loo and Evie Kerr new to the 1km event, and Jaxon Lewis, now practically a seasoned pro.
It would be remiss not to mention the older club representatives. Our junior squad coach, Phil Hayward, always leading by example together with Nathan Hale and Davina Kite, competing in the 1km and 2km events respectively. The adult squad crew was ably represented by Craig Corcoran.
Congratulations to all of the competitors and we hope next year a bigger contingent from Drummoyne Swimming Club will join in the Cole Classic fun.
If you want to check out the times for our DSC swimmers you can do so online.
Written and contributed by Davina Kite
Our second relay for the year is the Canada Bay Club sponsored All Schools Relay.
The “All Schools Relay” is a relay race for everyone associated with a local school. It’s open to kids, parents, grandparents and others – just nominate the school you have an association with.
This relay race will be held on Saturday the 27th of February 2021 at Swim Club.
Please follow this link to enter. Please remember to enter for each person who is planning to swim – Enter here.
We want to use the event to encourage new swimmers to come along and give swim club a go. So, please spread the word amongst your school friends and ask them to come down for a free trial. It would be optimal if they could come down for a race before the 27th to get a time.
The format will be a mixed handicap relay. The number of participants will be determined from the entries received. There may be more than one team from some schools.
The new Club Records for the 2019-20 season have been updated on our web site here.
Congratulations to Andrew Sharpe, Hannah Jamieson, Kristen Maguire and Ziani Viola on breaking new records during the season!
The results for Saturday 6th February 2021, including the 100m Butterfly Championships, and Week 4 of 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:
As you know we’ve got the 2021 Battle on the Bay coming up on the 20th of February. That’s our chance to come together as a club and show our neighbouring clubs just what we’re about by knocking Leichhardt off the top of the leader board and having “Drummoyne” inscribed on the trophy.
Following on from the Battle on the Bay we’ve got a few other initiatives planned, including:
The Canada Bay Club All School Relay – This new relay will be held on the 27th of February 21 and we’ll put out some information about, this starting next week. The trophy for this race is dedicated to the Canada Bay Club – one of our great supporters over the years.
The Food Bank Raffle – As some of you may remember last season we donated the proceeds of one of our raffles to support Bush Fire relief. We’re looking to continue that concept again this season. As a club we’re going to support Food Bank.
The proceeds from our raffle on the 27th of February will be donated to Food Bank to support the work they are doing fighting hunger.
Did you know that: three in ten Australians now experiencing food insecurity had not gone hungry before the pandemic and that young people – Gen Z are being hardest hit by the impact of COVID-19.
Foodbank is addressing this crisis by supplying more food and groceries than ever before to charities for distribution to vulnerable people.
As a second charitable initiative, we’re proposing to get involved with Laps for Life 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.
We’ll set a club challenge and, over the course of March, use Adult and Junior Squads to meet our collective goal. Swimmers will be asked to seek donations from friends and family along the way.
More information about both these charitable initiatives will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.
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