Author: John Hennessy

Our club had a small team attend the 85th AIF swimming carnival at Southport QLD.

All our team swam very well and everyone can be proud of their efforts.

The club came 4th in Mens pointscore despite only have a small presence.

Championship Swim results:

• John Butterfield 1st
• Brian Havilah 2nd
• Joyce Grounds 2nd
• Ann Wood 2nd
• Ingrid Moon 3rd
• John Hennessy 3 X 3rds.(Free,Back,Butterfly)

Relay:

Tobruk Shield (Lisa, Eric, Joyce,John Butterfield). 3rd place.

Handicap events:

• Brian Havilah finalist 50M
• Lisa Hedge finalist 100M

Next years carnival is at Coffs Harbour 19th March.

A big high tide with a southerly wind for the last day of our Championship races.

Congratulations to Lisa Hedge and Andre Picone who won both 50M and 100M Freestyle Championship events.

Steve Murray and Lisa Hedge are the overall Club Champions for the season – Well Done on some great swimming.

The prize event of the day was the Dave Dopson 50M Freestyle for the swimmers closest to their handicap time. Winners were Lisa Hedge (F) and Eric Wood (M). Eric was exactly on his time.

Good luck to our swimmers attending the AIF Carnival in Southport next weekend. A normal swim program will be held at the Bay next Sunday.

Beautiful swimming conditions today with no wind and warm pool temps.

200M Freestyle Championships were run and Lisa Hedge and Steve Murray were winners of the Female and Male categories.

Next week the 100M and 50M freestyle championships are scheduled.

The prize event of the day was the 100M Freestyle sponsored by the Garlands.

Sandy Picone was victorious is the Female and new member blow-in Alan Villagrand had the hide to be 0.00 off his handicap time and clean up the Male prize.

Well Done Sandy and Alan.Photo of Sandy (left) and Alan (right) receiving their prize from Rod and Di Garland. Lisa is thinking about her next fine.

A strong southerly wind making conditions a bit uncomfortable, but a good attendance resulted in a successful day’s swimming.

Congratulations to Lisa Hedge and Steve Murray who were Female and Male 400M champions.

The prize event of the day was the Les Cavanagh 50M freestyle Memorial Trophy for the swimmer closest to their handicap time. Steve Murray was again successful, well done Steve.

Phil Short won his age group in the Shark Island swim last weekend and he was presented with his trophy by Club Captain Lisa and Vice Captain Cheryl. Phil had left for home when the winners were announced on the day. Congratulations Phil on a great swim.

Perfect conditions with swim numbers down a fraction due to some swimmers participating in the Shark Island Swim.

The prize event of the day was the 50M with Jon Jenkins sponsoring the prize.

There were 2 swimmers dead heated for the female prize: Kylie Mulholland and Carrol Daly.

A coin toss determined who received the prize and Carrol won the toss. Congratulations both swimmers.

In the men’s there were amazingly close results with 1st and 2nd being .03 and .04 secs from their time.

The winner was John Irvine, Congratulations John.

Sea Slugs are on duty next week.

Friday 5th Feb.

Today our club was privileged to have the family of Warren Bradley visit us to participate in our Friday Swim in honour of Warren.

This was a fantastic gesture on the morning of Warren’s Funeral Service and our club enjoyed a very special morning with them.

An incredible way to honour a great friend and father, husband, grandfather and extended family.

Warren will be sadly missed by our club, but not forgotten.

Thanks for sharing the experience with our members.

Busy day with the annual club Age Championships to be contested and the prize event of the Ian Bourke 50M Freestyle as well.

There were a number of outstanding swims in the Age Categories and congratulations to all our winners on the day.

Good luck to some of our members who will be swimming in the Shark Island swim this Sunday.

The Ian Bourke award was for the closest to handicap time in the 50M Freestyle. Winners were Joyce Grounds (F) and Jack Kirkland(M).

Sea Horses are the Duty team next week.

A chilly southwest breeze made swimming conditions a little challenging although the water was still warm. The main trophy event was the 50M Freestyle prize for closest to their time. This was sponsored by the Picone family.

Winners were:

Ingrid Moon (F) and Alex Zavgorodniy(M).

Congratulations to our winners for getting close to their time in trying conditions.

Perfect conditions with warm sunny day and little wind. Swimming returns in a restricted format with no catering after the swim due to current Covid framework.

The Annual Shirts Vs Skirts trophy was conducted today with 10 a side 50M relay.

In a shock result the Skirts managed to upstage the Shirts with a narrow victory. All member of the Shirts team have been temporarily suspended from the club.

The other trophy event on the day was the 400M freestyle with Lisa Hedge the winner(again).Congratulations to the day’s winners.

Beautiful sunny day with next to no wind made swimming conditions perfect.

Feature race was the annual “Double Wire to Wire” Owen Coulter race sponsored by Jim Silva. This is the longest event on the clubs swim calendar.

Paul Cavanagh presented prizes on behalf of Jim.

Winners were Christine Parrish(F) and Craig Smith(M) who demonstrated superb precision swimming over the long course.

Greys are swimming this Wed and Fri and regular Sunday swims continue next week.

Jack LeBreton accepted Craig’s prize.

The photo bombing is getting a bit more subtle.