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CLUB PRESENTATIONS 2001
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PRESENTATION NIGHT 2001

A warm welcome to all our swimmers, their parents and friends to our annual presentation night. A special welcome to Kerrie Love, representing our sponsors, the ANZ Bank. Unfortunately a few of our invited guests are unable to attend tonight because of other commitments but we do have apologies from the Member for Illawarra, Marianne Saliba, the Lord Mayor, Councillor George Harrison, and our local Ward Councillors, Vicki King and Mark Yates. Also our Pool Super and Patron Arthur Bristoe cannot officially attend but will be with us in spirit. We thank all our invited guests for the help and sponsorship they have given us over the past 12 months.

On the note of sponsorship, it is always difficult to gain sponsorship no matter what club you are and how determined the members are. Again, this year we were fortunate to receive major sponsorship from the ANZ Bank and from Dapto Leagues Club and we thank them very much for their support. Also, some of our hard working committee managed to get some wonderful prizes for our Trivia Night from local businesses and both parties should be congratulated on a great effort.

It has been a mixed season for us in swimming. Club Points Score nights have been well attended, despite the early season bad weather. It is always pleasing to see new faces around the pool, especially those parents who don’t mind helping out with a watch or running cards. Club Championships have just finished with many events keenly contested. These saw a total of 11 new records set, with outstanding efforts by Letteisha Bensley and Eliza Vesey setting 4 and 2 new records respectively.

Competitive swimmers have not been as successful as in recent years but with the retirement of many of our older swimmers and the Club going through a rebuilding phase this was to be expected. It was great to see many new faces making our Country squad and all our squad members acquitted themselves extremely well with many personal best times. Congratulations to Anita Sernig and Ellen Wooton for qualifying for nationals. Ellen has done extremely well this year and has been named our Swimmer of the Year, while Anita has won the Gudgeon trophy for gaining the Club most points at the South Coast Championships.

The Club has been active as usual on the social scene with our annual trip to Durras, the recent Trivia night and several get togethers during the year. These are always fun events and are a great opportunity to meet new friends with a common interest. Don’t be shy in joining in next season.

The pool heating is well on track. Work is scheduled to commence at the end of this season and Council have given a
commitment to complete work on heating of the 50m pool by October 2001. This is fantastic news - no more freezing cold water in October and November!!

A huge congratulations to our Club person of the Year – Tara Dyer. This is the first time since its inception that this award has gone to a non-committee person. This says heaps for the huge effort Tara has put into the Club this year. Beside training and competing herself, Tara has found time to do many other things around the Club that often go unnoticed. These include helping out on points Score nights, guiding younger, inexperienced swimmers learn the ropes at carnivals, assisting her mother with the huge requirements of Social Secretary, and spending many a Sunday morning at the Dapto markets raising money for the Club.
To top all that Tara is a regular instructor at our free Learn to Swim classes and showed her commitment to that this year by gaining her Austswim certificate. All this while coping with school and the many new and different brothers and sisters arriving at home at different times throughout the year. Well done and many thanks to Tara on a super effort.

Congratulations to all our swimmers who are taking home trophies tonight and we hope to see you all back next October.

Norbert Sernig

President, on behalf of the Committee

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Age Group	Place	Boys	Girls
15 and over	1st	Clinton Parsons	Anita Sernig
	2nd	Kieran Sernig	Ellen Wooton
	3rd	Nathan Mitchell	Teagan Southwell

13 & 14 years	1st	Dennis Papadimas	Kelly Nichols
	2nd	Thomas Hughes	Corinne Glass
	3rd	Lee Scerri	Leisha Southwell

11 & 12 years	1st	Ben Carrick	Samantha Bates
	2nd	Zac Ioannou	Leanne Kidd
	3rd	Michael Neall	Elise Kidd

9 & 10 years	1st	Mathew Carrick	Eliza Vesey
	2nd	Brendan Neall	Melissa Papadimas
	3rd	John Neall	Jamie Robins

7 & 8 years	1st	Wade Dyer	Letteisha Bensley
	2nd	Damien Robins	Karina Langley
	3rd	James Ralphs	Leah Schlegel

6 and under	1st	Kyle Noronha	Tahlia Oldroyd
	2nd	Cohen Fell	Brigette Doward
	3rd	Tyson Perry	Mackenzie Cheadle

Open	1st	Clinton Parsons	Anita Serng
	2nd	Nathan Mitchell	Ellen Wooton
	3rd	Kieran Sernig	Teagan Southwell

NO.1 POINTS SCORE

Age Group	Place	Boys	Girls
15 and over	1st	Nathan Mitchell	Tara Dyer
	2nd	Kieran Sernig	Anita Sernig
	3rd	Clinton Parsons

14 years	1st	Thomas Hughes	Kelly Nichols
	2nd		Teagan Southwell
	3rd		Ellen Wooton

13 years	1st	Dennis Papadimas	Jeanette Easton
	2nd	Lee Scerri	Corinne Glass
	3rd		Laura Scerri

12 years	1^st	Zac Ioannou	Ashley Robinson Leisha Southwell
	2nd	Ben Carrick
	3rd	Michael Neall	Jolie Nichols

11 years	1^st	Harrison Vesey	Tahlia Ioannou
	2nd	Daniel Robinson	Elise Kidd
	3rd	Anthony Russell	Kerryn Mirande

10 years	1^st	Mathew Carrick	Briarna Southwell
	2nd	Kyle Van Woerkom	Jasmin Robins
	3rd	Nathan Remfrey	Megan McLauchlan

9 years	1st	Michael Fletcher	Maddison Smithers
	2nd	Ellis Fell	Jamie Robins
	3rd	Dylan Noronha	Laura Russell

8 years	1^st	Wade Dyer	Katrina Fletcher
	2nd	John Neall	Leah Schlegel
	3rd	Zachary Swindells	Rhiannon Perry

7 years	1st	Jacob Dunstan	Letteisha Bensley
	2nd	James Ralphs	Jaimi Van Woerkom
	3rd	Tim Swan	Brielle Baker

6 years	1st	Tyson Perry	Tahlia Oldroyd
	2nd	Cohen Fell	Laura Gouveia
	3rd	Jack Kearton	Zoe Vesey

5 and under	1st	Kyle Noronha	Kazilee Bensley
	2nd	Simon Swan	Mackenzie Cheadle
	3rd	Joel Rieck	Michaella Peacock

Overall	1st	Mathew Carrick Zac Ioannou	Kazilee Bensley

NO.2 POINT SCORE

Place	Boys	Girls
1st	Kyle Noronha	Jeanette Easton
2nd	Michael Fletcher	Katrina Fletcher Kerryn Mirande
3rd	Ellis Fell

NO.3 POINT SCORE

Place	Boys	Girls
1st	Ben Carrick	Kelly Nichols
2nd	Zac Ioannou	Leanne Kidd
3rd	Brendon Neall Dennis Papadimas	Tara Dyer

MINOR POINT SCORE

Place	Overall
1st	Thomas Marsh
2nd	Jarrod Clarkson
3rd	Megan McLauchlan

TROPHIES & AWARDS

PETER WHELAN TROPHY	Thomas Marsh
VI SCHOFIELD RELAY	Kieran Sernig - Jamie Robins
ERNIE FURBANK HANDICAP	Megan McLauchlan
HARRY SCOFIELD HANDICAP (over 18)	Michael Vesey
GUDGEON TROPHY	Anita Sernig
MOST OUTSTANDING REPRESENTATIVE SWIMMER - 12 YEARS & UNDER (Marianne Saliba Trophy)	Briarna Southwell
SWIMMER OF THE YEAR (Bob Fairley Trophy)	Ellen Wooton
CLUB PERSON OF THE YEAR	Tara Dyer
NATIONAL QUALIFIERS	Anita Sernig - Ellen Wooton
SERVICE MERIT CERTIFICATES (8 Years service to the Club)	Teagan Southwell

CLUB RECORDS

Letteisha Bensley	7 years	25m Butterfly	28.45
		25m Backstroke	26.44
		25m Breaststroke	29.72
		50m Freestyle	46.89

Eliza Vesey	9 years	50m Freestyle	39.00
		50m Backstroke	44.90

Leanne Kidd	12 years	50m Backstroke	37.59

Samantha Bates	12 years	200m Medley	2.52.16

Zac Ioannou	12 years	50m Breaststroke	40.01

Anita Sernig	Open	200m Medley	2.31.13