FEBRUARY 2001(No.1)

Would you like to contribute to our newsletter or website? Items may be submitted by phone 42214800 to Sandi Wooton or email: sandi_wooton@uow.edu.au, or to Julie Glass on 42718731, email: kglass@1earth.net. Newsletters are published once a month during the Winter and fortnightly during the Summer. However, the website will be updated more frequently. So be sure to check out our website on a regular basis
http://daptoswimclub.cjb.net
WHAT’S NEWS
The Trivia Challenge!
HAVE YOU BOOKED YOUR TABLE YET? Trivia Nights are always lots of fun so gather together your favourite Team and reserve a table for a great night full of laughs and friendly competition! RSVP to Sandra Neall (02)42618423 or Norbert Sernig (02)42562778; 0409120612 by the 23rd of February. Or fill in the Trivia Night Booking Sheet now available in the Club Room. Details are as follows:
Venue: Dapto Leagues Club
Date: March 3rd Time: 7:30 PM
Cost: $10 per person: Teams to be made up of a maximum of 8 per table

Attention All Swimmers: Have you paid your Registration Fees? All Club Members must be financial in order to be eligible to win trophies during Point Score, and to swim in the Club Championship events!
Market Stall
Our Social Secretary Wendy Dyer is organising another Swimming Club Market Stall. If you have any pre-loved treasures you would like to donate for this worthy cause please see Wendy Dyer ASAP!

Pool Heating Update
Keith Oehm reports the pool heating is still on target with work commencing at the end of this season. Completion date: September 2001!

Accommodation - Country Championships
Full payment is due by Friday the 16th of February with Tina Southwell. The cost for our accommodation is $25 per person per night.

Please Keep Our Clubroom Clean!
Parents please instruct your children to wash & tidy up the kitchen area after preparing any food. Leftover food, dirty dishes and utensils have been left for others to clean up.
Let’s not share our Clubroom with those nasty invaders, cockroaches, ants & mice. Do your part to ensure we all enjoy a safe & healthy environment.

Club Meeting
Next club meeting will be Tuesday the 5th of March in the Clubroom at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend.

Club Clothing Update
The new Dapto Swimmers have finally arrived!
Girls costumes: $48
Boys costumes: $35
Sports bags are also available for $40
Swimming caps: $5
A limited range of old stock is slowly dwindling. See Tanya Bates, Julie Glass or Lynne Parsons Friday nights for all your club clothing needs.
Club Championships
It’s almost that time of the year again…Club Championships! The 400 metre freestyle is the first event of the Championship series. Entries for this event close on the 23rd of February. All other events close on the 2nd of March.
The Club Championship program will be available on the notice board in the clubroom and also detailed here > The 2001 Club Championship Programme.
Cards for these events may be obtained from Tina Southwell.

Help Needed
Dapto Swimming Club is hosting the SCAT Sprint Championships & Shell Age Heats on Saturday the 17th of February, and all families are asked to bring along a plate of goodies. It is important that as many people as possible volunteer to help out on the day, so please come forward and offer your services. Duties include setting up the pool, cleaning up after the carnival, timekeeping, raffle tickets, serving snacks to the Officials etc…don’t miss out there are plenty of jobs on offer!

Upcoming Carnivals
17/2/01 - Shell Age Heats & SCAT Sprint Championships - Venue: Dapto - Entries
Closed
23-25/2/01 - NSW Country Championships (Qualified Swimmers Only) – Venue: SAC Entries Closed
17/3/00 - SCAT Interclub Championships (Selected Swimmers Only) – Venue: Dapto
25/3/01 - Brophy Shield (Selected Swimmers Only) – Venue: AIS Canberra

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. Please remember that all entries must be given to Tina before the closing dates other wise they will not be accepted.
POOL SIDE
NSW State Age Championships 13+:
Our junior reps at the recent NSW Age Championships were certainly a hard act to follow, but the seniors were not about to be outdone. Eight competitors swam at this meet. All swam well, with Corinne Glass swimming all PB's for her events, Nathan Mitchell 2 PB's, Ellen Wooton 1 PB & 3 finals, and Anita Sernig 3 finals.
Congratulations team!
State Age 13/14 Girls Relay Teams:
Ashley Robinson, Kelly Nichols, Ellen Wooton & Corinne Glass represented our club in this event finishing 22nd in the State. Well done girls.
Ellen Wooton collected gold as a member of the 13/14 Girls SCAT freestyle relay team.

Shellharbour-Warrigal Development Carnival:
Congratulations to all swimmers who attended this carnival. We had 32 swimmers attend winning a total of 26 medals. Medal winners on the day included: Samantha Bates, Ben & Matthew Carrick, Kane Hensen, Tom Hughes, Zac Ioannou, Leanne Kidd, John & Michael Neall, Jade Oldroyd, Daniel Robinson, Briarna & Leisha Southwell, Kyle Van Woerkom and a special mention to Leah Schlegel who in her first carnival won a bronze
in the 9 yrs 50m free! Lettisha Bensley, Zac Ioannou, Kerryn, Mirande & Maddison Smithers all swam 100% PBs at this carnival! Our relay teams also did well with 2 gold & 1 silver medal.

SCAT Development Carnival:
We had 20 swimmers compete, winning a total of 25 medals: Julia Corderoy, Wade Dyer, Michael Neall & Kelly Nichols won a total of 13 medals between them. Other medal winners were Tom Hughes, Zac Ioannou, Leanne Kidd, Brendan & John Neall, Eliza & Harrison Vessey.
Our relay teams won a gold and a bronze. Well done to all our representatives at this carnival!

Albion Park Development Carnival:
Congratulations to Leanne Kidd and Teagan Southwell who qualified for Country in the 100m freestyle at this carnival!
Twenty-one swimmers attended the carnival. Medal winners on the day were: Ben & Mathew Carrick, Tom Hughes, Zac Ioannou, Leanne Kidd, John & Michael Neall, Kelly Nichols, Jade & Tahlia Oldroyd, Teagan & Leisha Southwell & Kyle Van Woerkom.

Good luck to our 19 swimmers who have qualified for the NSW Country
Championships at Homebush later this month!
GOSSIP GALORE
Ellen Wooton & Anita Sernig attended an Illawarra Academy of Sport Presentation Night at Shellharbour Workers Club on the 2nd of February. Ellen & Anita received Scholarship Certificates as members of the Academy’s Elite Swimming Squad.

Hell of a Time!
Dead, exhaustion, pain, hurting, tired, out of breath…put these words together and there you have it, The Threadbo Alpine Training Camp!
After 5 days of intensive training, I was aching from head to toe. Most of the daily
schedules went like this:
* 6:00 a.m. – alarm went off * 6:30 – walk over to the pool and do a 2 ¼ hr swim session *
breakfast and 10 minutes to get ready for our 8-12 km walks * Come back & collapse on bed * Eat lunch * Gym set * Another 2 ¼ hr swim set * Eat dinner * BED! Woh! Even thinking about that makes me tired.
Nah, it wasn’t just all hard work and sweat. In between I had heaps of fun. We watched movies in the Hotel, played PlayStation, talked, and one day we got a game of basketball happening. We all shared a lot of laughs and jokes.
One thing I’ll have to remember to take next time on a camp are matches (for the toilet). Don’t worry, that’s another story!
The swimming sessions and walks were a real challenge for me. Nighttime reminded me of a prison camp. Lights were out at 9:00 and the only communication that our room had with the next was by knocking on the wall (1 knock meant hello and 2 knocks meant goodnight)
But I feel I gained a lot out of the camp, mentally and physically. I enjoyed learning new things. And apart from bringing home new skills and learning experiences, I know I came back with some new friends.
Yes the Training Camp was hard work, but it made me determined to train hard and to do well in my sport. It inspired me to keep on going (even when I’m dead in training) and especially in times of those dreadful 200 butterfly’s…As the saying goes, No Pain, No Gain! ELLEN WOOTON (BUCK)
COACHES CORNER
Tahlia Ioannou and Patrick are progressing on up to the Dolphins Squad.
Congratulations and keep up the great work!
A MESSAGE FROM TONI & KATE: Ensure you are on time for training. It’s importantto arrive before the starting time.

We wish all our swimmers good luck at all of the upcoming school carnivals. Enter as many events as you can to increase your chances of getting through to the next carnival!
TONI & KATE

SWIMMER OF THE MONTH FEBRARY 2001

LEANNE KIDD
Congratulations Leanne. All that hard work really does pay off!