A club for people of all ages and abilities who enjoy swimming and socialising.
Our pre Christmas swim saw cooler conditions and a large attendance.
Massive Christmas Hamper Prizes in the raffle draw and the 4x50M annual Christmas Pudding relay the feature event. The Poppett family provided a magnificent leg of ham which ensured everyone was well fed.
Our thanks to Sue and Bill Bertram for organising the Hamper prizes.
The winning team in the 4X50M pudding relay was Lizzie Lodge, Graham Purches, Kylie Mulholland and Steve Harper. Congratulations to the winning team.
Perfect conditions with a high tide and a light breeze saw fast times and many breaks. The Gary Ballard 200M Freestyle award went to closest to handicap time. Winners were Gordon Williams (Male) who was .47 secs off and Ann Woods (Female) who was .2 secs off.
Well done Gordon and Ann.
Sea Horses are duty team next week when the 4x50M Christmas Pudding Relay is on again.
Today the Woolooware High School Student Council reps visited us at Gunnamatta baths to take part in our annual swim carnival and social get together. The main prize is the 10 a side Gary Schmalfeldt Memorial trophy with 5 teams competing. The aim is to be closest to your nominated time. The school suffered from lack of local knowledge and the RSL ‘A’ team were the winners on the day.
Both parties enjoyed a great morning and we look forward to meeting again next year.
Our thanks to the school for continuing to show enthusiasm for this great day.
Anne Schmalfeldt presented the winning team with the trophy.
Gary Schmalfeldt, along with Don Saunders, was instrumental in starting this tradition when he was a teacher at the school and it is now one of the club’s most popular carnivals with great participation.
Well Done to all involved.
Great attendance this Sunday with the 400M Freestyle sponsored by the Supercoach being the Marquee event of the day. The prize was for swimmers closest to the “break time”. This was hotly contested and the winners were Jan Rapp (Female) and Ross Smith (Male).
Our annual swim with the Woolooware High School is on this Friday (13th Dec), being there at 9.00 for setup and registration.
Photo shows Ross and Jan receiving their award from Supercoach and Captain Lisa doing something weird with her index finger near the Supercoach’s ear.
Bluebottles are on duty next Sunday.
Our youngest member Mina Wood celebrates her birthday last Friday.
Congratulations Mina
Good swimming conditions today with the main event being the prestigious President’s Trophy which was awarded for closest to handicap time in the 50M Freestyle.
Cheryl Poppett swam well to beat a hotly contested competition. She receives her award from the President.
Next week’s prize event will be the Paul Crowe 400M Freestyle. The Jellyfish relay team will be the duty team on the day.
