Category: 2020-21 Season

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.

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.