NOVEMBER 2000(No.1)

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FROM THE PRESIDENT
To all the new members a warm welcome to Friday night swim club. Please feel free to come up and say hello, or even help out with time keeping. It’s a great way to meet other people and the help is very much appreciated. The committee members will be wearing their club t-shirts to help you recognise them easier.
WHAT’S NEWS
Next club meeting will be December 5th in the Clubroom at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
Fundraiser: Have you picked up your box of chocolates? See Wendy Dyer if you would like to be involved in this fundraiser for the Club. Christmas stickers will also be on sale for $2.00/sheet. Also Wendy will be holding a stall at the markets next week, if you have anything that you would like to donate to the stall, see Wendy and she will organise to have it picked up.

The following carnivals have been targeted for the Summer Season:
19/11/00 - Oak Flats 9-10/12/00 - SCAT District Championships – Venue: Dapto- closes 24.11.00
16/12/00 - Illawarra Red Devils Summer Carnival – Venue: Unanderra-closes 24.11.00
5-6/1/01- NSW AGE Championships (9-12yrs) (Qualified Swimmers Only) – Venue: SIAC
13-14/1/01 - NSW Age Championships (13-18yrs) (Qualified Swimmers Only) – Venue: SIAC
14/1/01- Shellharbour-Warilla Development Meet
20/1/01 - NSW Relays (Selected Swimmers Only) – Venue: SIAC
21/1/01 - SCAT Development Meet – Venue: Warilla
27-28/01 - NSW Country Regional Championships
17/2/01 - Shell Age Heats & SCAT Sprint Championships – Venue: Dapto
23-25/2/01 - NSW Country Championships (Qualified Swimmers Only) – Venue: SIAC
17/3/00 - SCAT Interclub Championships (Selected Swimmers Only) – Venue: Dapto
25/3/01 - Brophy Shield (Selected Swimmers Only) – Venue: AIS Canberra
In order to qualify for the South Coast Development Squads a swimmer must: Swim 2 local carnivals Swim at a South Coast Championship Or Development meet. For any other information with regards to the carnivals please feel free to browse our web page on the internet, or see Tina Southwell for entry cards.
POOL SIDE
Telopea Meet: 25 Swimmers represented the Club at this meet achieving 141 PB’s out of 163 swims. This calculates at 86% PB’s!
The following swimmers qualified for Country at this meet: Corinne Glass, Briarna Southwell, Teagan Southwell, Leisha Southwell, Samantha Bates, Ben Carrick, Zac Ioannou, Clinton Parsons, Jane Schober, Ellen Wooton & Kaine Love.
The following swimmers qualified for State at this meet: Corinne Glass, Briarna Southwell, Leisha Southwell, Clinton Parsons, Jayne Schober, Ellen Wooton & Kaine Love.
Medallists: Samantha Bates: 3 silver; Ben Carrick: 1 silver, 2 bronze; Corinne Glass: 1 bronze; Tom Hughes: 1 silver; Leanne Kidd: 1 gold, 1 silver; Kaine Love: 1 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze; Clinton Parsons: 2 silver, 2 bronze; Jayne Schober: 3 bronze; Briarna Southwell: 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze; Ellen Wooton: 3 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze
COACHES CORNER
Swimmer of the Month: Tom Hughes "Congratulations Tom"
There were 7 swimmers that achieved 100% P.B’s at the Canberra meet, they were: Corinne Glass, Samantha Bates, Michael Neall, Ashley Robinson, Daniel Robinson, Briarna Southwell & Leisha Southwell.
Get ready for the South Coast & Tablelands Championships, all junior and senior swimmers must compete in the 400m freestyle event. Please see Kate for Tadpole & Dolphin entries.
GOSSIP GALORE
Canberra Trip: The Swimming Club Team away excursion was not only a huge success from a swimming point of view, but the "Seniors" enjoyed themselves too. Many would agree the real action occurred away from the pool, with the parents providing the majority of the entertainment. Here are some of the (non-swimming) highlights of the weekend:
While one group of parents visited a local shopping centre, another group sneaked away to an infamous district in Canberra "window shopping", or that’s what they said…however several brightly wrapped packages were discovered amongst their luggage later that night…hmmm
Everyone enjoyed eating at El Dorado’s Friday night (Photos on web)
Plenty of drinks, nibblies and heaps of laughs every night, however it was too much for one parent who after knocking over a glass or 2 of wine on Saturday night was last seen dragging a garbage bag across the room on her way to bed.
…And did you hear about the elite swimmer who discovered he had been attacked in the night with toothpaste, and then promptly searched in the dark for his attackers. He wiped toothpaste on the" perpetrator" only to discover (to his embarrassment) an unfamiliar "adult" voice exclaim, "Wrong One!" He had revenged himself on the attacker’s Mother! It must have been very dark!
A huge Thank-You is extended from the entire Club to our terrific Bus Drivers, Keith Parsons and Lou Scerri whose enormous efforts made the weekend so enjoyable.
Don’t forget to visit the Photo Gallery on our Website for snapshots of the weekend!
WEB WORLD
Visitors to our Site as of 12/11/00 total 1834! Pages updated this month include Photo Gallery, Club News and Meet Results.