Race At Your Pace!
The finalists for the Geoff Roper 200m Freestyle Handicap to be held on 14 November 2020 are as follows:
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1584 | Sally KUDRNA |
| 1506 | Nathan HALE |
| 1590 | Sienna JOSHI-KRAUS |
| 111 | Phil HAYWARD |
| 1597 | Sarah WALLER |
| 281 | James SIMMONS |
| 639 | William TAYLOR |
This week swim club starts to get a little bit more serious with with the heats for the first trophy of the season – the Geoff Roper 200m Freestyle Handicap trophy.
Last year’s winner was one of our fastest swimmers in Andrew Sharpe but, as with any handicap race, the winner could be anyone. Junior swimmers who are improving quickly have an especially good shot at taking home this silverware.
Our races this week are:
Next week we will be holding heats for our 2nd trophy race of the season – the wonderful George Wheaton BBB handicap race.
BBB is short for Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly. It’s a unique event in which competitors race each other with different “B” strokes in the same race on handicap. So a swimmer in one lane may swim Butterfly, another Breaststroke and a third Backstroke!
To seed the event, we need to know which “B” stroke you will swim. You must have already completed a 50m Time Trial for your chosen stroke, so if you’re new to the Club this season, choose a stroke for which you’ve already set a time.
To nominate your B-stroke please complete the form at the end of this link – https://forms.gle/VrzZWEb7Z5T8oeh38
The HSC is upon us and a number of our swimmers are now sitting their exams. Best of luck to them all!
On behalf of the club committee we hope everyone has been keeping well and fit during the COVID-19 lockdown and re-opening. Let’s hope that the only new waves are water related not virus related.
It’s been great to see members swimming safely in the ocean, estuaries, backyard pools and local pools now that they’ve re-opened.
Annual General Meeting
The club’s AGM is coming up on Monday 24th August at 7: 30pm. Like a lot of other community clubs we will hold the meeting online using Microsoft Teams.
If you wish to attend please contact Tim Doolan for details via president@drummoyneswimclub.com.au.
Also, if you are interested in helping out with the running of the Club or in a committee position please contact Tim about this.
Presentation night
By now we would normally have held the club’s awards presentation night for the 2019/20 season. However, given the present situation we have decided to remove any uncertainty surrounding large gatherings and defer the award of trophies to the beginning of the 2020/21 season, expected to commence in October 2020. We will provide more details in due course.
The finalists for the Fred Congdon 50m Butterfly Handicap to be held on 14 March 2020 are as follows:
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1504 | Noah HALE |
| 1457 | Toby HANSEN |
| 1114 | Kate SVOBODA |
| 1512 | Casey VAN LOO |
| 1395 | Michael KERR |
| 1215 | Kristen MAGUIRE |
The results of the finals for the Tom Williams 50m Freestyle Handicap held on 29 February 2020 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1469 | Tony VAN SCHAIK | 1 |
| 1501 | Cohen VAN LOO | 2 |
| 1515 | Fletcher WILLIAMS | 3 |
| 1115 | Marcus SVOBODA | 4 |
| 1486 | John NICHOLS | 5 |
| 1505 | Oscar HALE | 6 |
| 91 | Adam CHRISTODOULOU | 7 |
Winner: Tony VAN SCHAIK
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1494 | Charlotte ALLAN | 1 |
| 1309 | Ziani VIOLA | 2 |
| 674 | Cara PARKER | 3 |
| 1143 | Eve DOOLAN | 4 |
| 1211 | Mary-Lou DOOLAN | 5 |
| 1425 | Laura TAMBASCO | 6 |
Winner: Charlotte ALLAN
The results of the final for the Tom Brown 50m Backstroke Handicap held on 22 February 2020 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1484 | Ruby NICHOLS | 1 |
| 770 | Lukas TAYLOR | 2 |
| 1224 | Tim DOOLAN | 3 |
| 723 | David PARKER | 4 |
| 1491 | Daire HENDERSON | 5 |
| 1313 | Tadhg DONNELLAN | 6 |
Winner: Ruby NICHOLS
The finalists for the George Russell 400m Freestyle (Handicap) to be held on 25 January 2020 are as follows:
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| 1366 | Sienna HOWARD |
| 1033 | Georgia KIRKPATRICK-JONES |
| 1143 | Eve DOOLAN |
| 1358 | Kate ROMANIUK |
| 1431 | Thomas PEARSON |
The results of the final for the Five Dock Rotary 200m Individual Medley Handicap held on 30 November 2019 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 674 | Cara PARKER | 1 |
| 1313 | Tadhg DONNELLAN | 2 |
| 91 | Adam CHRISTODOULOU | 3 |
| 1427 | Ava CHEHINE | 4 |
| 714 | Kellen PARKER | 5 |
| 1425 | Laura TAMBASCO | 6 |
Winner: Cara PARKER
The results of the final for the George Wheaton 50m BBB Handicap held on 23 November 2019 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Stroke | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1476 | Isaac MCMANUS | Backstroke | 1 |
| 1191 | Matthew SVOBODA | Breaststroke | 2 |
| 1495 | Elizabeth ALLAN | Butterfly | 3 |
| 1491 | Daire HENDERSON | Breaststroke | 4 |
| 128 | Gerry TIBBERTSMA | Breaststroke | 5 |
Winner: Isaac MCMANUS
We were delighted to have the Wheaton family along to start the race and present the trophy to the winner.
The final for the George Wheaton 50m BBB handicap race will be held this Saturday and is one of the most hotly contested and historic trophy races of the season!
George Wheaton was a former secretary of Drummoyne Swimming Club who tragically died after racing his four sons in a “Father and Son” race at the Club in 1937. His last surviving son, Noel, who was racing with his father that day, would keenly follow the results of the race each year before he sadly passed away six years ago.
The BBB is a unique race in which the competitors race against each other swimming their favourite “B” stroke – Breaststroke, Backstroke or Butterfly!
The names of the finalists for this year’s race, including the ‘B’ stroke they will be swimming, are listed here.
We are delighted that members of George Wheaton‘s family will attend the final this Saturday to present the BBB trophy to the winner, including George Wheaton “Junior”, the great great grandson of the trophy’s namesake.