Author: John Hennessy

Club races were held with strict Covid practices in play.

Cool conditions, but a good morning’s swimming was held with water temps warm. Thanks to Poppetts for providing a magnificent ham and Ken Davidson for his generous 12 bottles of wine for raffle prizes.

Two swimming awards today:

1) The annual Christmas Pudding 4X50 relay with each member of the winning team receiving a Christmas Pudding from the RSL Club. The winning team members were Jack Kirkland, Lyn Bryan, Bill Jury and Gordon Williams.

2) Peter Kerr sponsored the 200M Freestyle event for closest to handicap time. Winners were Elizabeth Whitcombe(F) and John Hennessy(M).

Great conditions for swimming with the Gary Ballard 200M Freestyle the prize event of the day.

Congratulations to Kylie Mulholland (female) and Craig Smith (the other one) who swam closest to their time on the day.

Birthday celebrations to Grant Conway who provided a calorie loaded chocolate cake for the occasion. Graham Purches donated a home made Christmas Pudding in case anyone was still hungry.

Thanks to Carol and Bernard who donated 2 hooded towels and a box of chocolates for raffle prizes.

Next week will be the pre Christmas swim with extra catering and plenty of Christmas cheer. The main event will be the 4 X 50M Christmas relay with each winning member receiving a Christmas Pudding donated by the RSL.

Good conditions with a high tide and plenty of swimmers. The great Supercoach, (Paul Crowe), donates the prize for the 400M Freestyle today and there was hot competition.

The winners were Ann Wood (1.46 sec from handicap time) and Paul Rugg (2.17 sec from time).

Congratulations Ann and Paul and thanks to Supercoach for his generous prizes.

Captain Lisa presents the prizes on behalf of Supercoach.

Different conditions today with a blistering strong cross wind in 40 degree heat.

We still had a good number of swimmers register and a successful morning.

The main prize was the Presidents 50M freestyle with the award going to closest to their handicap time.

Winners were Steve Murray (Male) and Joyce Grounds (Female).

Photo shows Steve and Joyce receiving their awards fro Club President Paul Rugg.

A busy morning down the Bay with Nippers, Triathlon Club and ourselves all using the water. A great attendance this morning with 2 trophy races. The Bob McKenna Memorial Trophy for the 100M and sponsored by Paul Cavanagh was won by Bill Jury. In the 400M freestyle Steve Harper provided the prize which was won by Anthony Picone.

Great to see Sidney Mulholland swimming with us after spending the year studying in Adelaide.

Finally a perfect day for our Sunday swim: high tide, no wind and warm sun. There was a great attendance and 2 events had prizes attached.

The 200m Freestyle was sponsored by Bill Jury and the winners were:

• Lisa Hedge (Female)

• Grant Conway (Male)

The 50M Freestyle was sponsored by Warren and Jan Rapp.

Winners:

• Ian Bourke (Male)
• Elizabeth Whitcombe (Female)

Winner of the October pointscore was Grant Conway.

Better conditions, but with a sharp cold southerly breeze saw our swimming recommence after two weeks of cancellation due to weather.The prize events were the Joan Harper and Barbara Murphy 400M freestyle and the Lyn and David Bryan 50M freestyle.

Winners were Yasmin Denhi-Stalker and Bill Jury in the 50M, Paul Rugg and Elizabeth Whitcombe in the 400M.

Paul Rugg was .67 from his time. Elizabeth was 1.75 from her time.

Bill was .11 and Yasmin .26 from their 50M time. Congratulations to our winners of the day.

Perfect swimming conditions with no wind and a high tide. The prize event of the day was the 200M freestyle with Don Saunders the sponsor. Congratulations to Cheryl Poppett (Closest female) and Grant Conway(Closest male).

Photo below, Don with Cheryl and Grant. Lisa just thought of a funny joke.

Great conditions again with good attendance by our swimmers. A belated mini presentation of the awards from last season was conducted. Our normal function was not possible during the year due to crowd limitations.

• Congratulations to:

• Greys Pointscore champion John Irvine.
• Summer Pointscore winner John Hennessy.
• Male Champion Phil Short.
• Female Champion Deborah Jenkins.
• Most Improved Lyn Bryan.
• Club person of the Year John Irvine(again)
• Foxytail Award (most cunning) Jack Kirkland.
• Winter Swimming Points Champion Carrol Daly. Congratulation to all the other award winners on the day

Some Photos below:

A great turnout for our opening day with a couple of new members joining the club.Conditions were good for swimming and it was Captain’s Trophy day.

Lisa supplied 2 prizes, one for 200M and the other for the 50M. Congratulations to the winners Christine Parrish(50M) and Andre Picone(200M).

Next week we will have delayed presentations from our last season.

Note the superb social distancing in the photo of Lisa presenting the winners with their prize.