A club for people of all ages and abilities who enjoy swimming and socialising.
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:
The 50M Freestyle was sponsored by Warren and Jan Rapp.
Winners:
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.
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.
The RSL Swim Club was pleased to be able to hand over our annual “Fine Monies” to the Sailability Charity group. This not for profit organisation provides sailing experiences for the disabled and is a great cause. It is run by volunteers.Ian Bourke(RSL President), Martin Tabone (Sailability), Steve Harper and John Hennessy are pictured at a presentation function at the RSL Club. Well one to our members who presented themselves for fines due to various transgressions throughout the year.
Today saw a successful start of the Winter Swim program with a large attendance of our hardy swimmers turning up for a swim in the ocean at Cronulla. Well done to our team and a great morning was enjoyed by all. Show-off of the day was Steve Murray who swam zero seconds off his nominated time. The picture shows the team entering the water.
As of 26th March there will be no access possible to the clubhouse.
Will advise when any change occurs.