Squad News

The younger squads have had an amazingly successful month in the various school championships. "Congratulations" seems a barely adequate word to use to praise the achievements of the individual swimmers and that of head coach, Steve Garner and his team. On the latest information to hand there are some 15 individual age champions that train with Steve, from a whole cross-section of schools. To date the following results are in, and for a relatively small squad, they are simply outstanding :

• James Medway - 2007 Grammar 15 Years Age Champion
• Jade Jowett-Crociani - 2007 Ascham Sub-Junior Champion
• Samantha Marshall - 2007 SCEGGS 15 Years Age Champion
• Rosie Carr - 2007 Glenmore Road PS 10 Years Age Champion
• Sammy Annear - 2007 Scots College 11 Years Age Champion
• Christian Heintze - St Mary's Cathedral College Under 15 Champion
• Stefan Heintze - St Mary's Cathedral College Under 13 Champion
• Nicole Sarapata - 2007 Queenwood Intermediate Age Champion
• Luke Aldous - St Charles College Junior Boys Champion
• Poppy Aldous - St Charles College Junior Girls Champion
• Jessica van Lieven - 2007 SCEGGS 13 Years Age Champion
• India Bertoli - 2007 Bondi PS Under 10 Champion
• Emma Radford - St Andrews 16 Years Age Champion
• Gigi Midgely - 2007 Bondi PS Under 11 Champion
• David Erho - 2007 Conservatorium HS Junior Champion

In addition, there are a number of swimmers from the squads who may not have won the Age Championship, but still won individual races at their school carnivals - these include Miriam Carr, Olivia Eadie, Will Badger and Emily Kass.

Well done everyone - a magnificent effort !

Over the next few weeks, and after all the school carnivals finish, head coach Steve Garner will be drawing up the club racing program for the the next few months. This will include the ESSA meet to be held on Saturday March 24 at 12.00 noon at the Des Renford Aquatic Centre, Maroubra. Please contact Steve asap if you are aged 10 or under and would like to be considered for selection in the Club's team.

Club BBQ

The barbeque will again be operating on Friday nights from 6.45pm, with the complimentary champagne, beer and wine again available to all parents and support crew. Remember that brothers and sisters of the swimmers have free entry so they can enjoy all the facilities of the centre, and have a delicious dinner, while the Race Squad battle out the point score placings!

Gym Membership

A reminder that the centre has a very modern, fully equipped gym, and they have agreed that exclusively for our club there is now a 25% discount on ANY gym membership for Swim Club members' immediate family.

Computerised results

We have a computerised race system which gives us all of the results straight after the meet concludes. These and other results are published on our website and can be viewed at Results.

SWIMMER OF THE MONTH FOR FEBRUARY

Congratulations to Sammy Annear!

With all these PB's being broken, winning the club's "Swimmer of the Month" is a big ask, and a huge achievement. Sammy Annear scored a perfect 12 points at both February meets which was a fantastic effort. Well done Sammy! You are the Club's Swimmer of the Month for February 2007.

Results from Race Night on February 23rd

On the 9th February, our swimmers achieved 25 PB's and they continued their good form on the 23rd with 22 additional PB's. Our whole club is based not upon just winning, but on each and every swimmer improving and challenging themselves by reaching new heights. With 47 PB's for the month, they are doing themselves proud!

Congratulations to the following swimmers who achieved a PB on the 23rd :

Isabella Blumenthal ; Ethan Blumenthal (2) ; Scarlet Clark ; Riley Evans ; Emma Radford ; Miriam Carr (2) ; Emily Kass (2) ; Rosie Carr (2) ; Jessica Gazal ; Sophie Kass ; Maddisen Gazal ; Sammy Annear (3) ; Mitch Evans ; Jack Evans ; Alessandra Gazal ; and Aiden Brown.

Swimmer of the Year

The competition for Swimmer of the Year is based on each swimmers performances throughout the year at club race nights, with a PB counting for 4 points, a near PB for 3, being within 1 second is worth 2 points and for each race entered 1 point is earned. Well done to all the swimmers over the last month - there were some stand-out performances and some big movers, particularly amongst the boys - it continues very crowded at the top of the table !

Following the race night on the 23rd, the current "Top 5" standings are as follows:

BOYS: Sammy Annear 38, Mitch Evans 32 ; Tui Ryder-Nuku and Jack Evans on 29 ; and Tom Mahony 27 .

GIRLS: Scarlet Clark 36 : Taneeka Johnston 29 : Lucy Vineberg 24 : and Maddisen Gazal and Mia Mahony both on 18. .

Note that the complete list is on our web site.

Membership fees

Membership fees for 2006/07 are now well overdue and swimmers who are not financial need to join or renew to swim this Friday or in this weekend's Speedo series. This is particularly the case for the swimmers participating at the Speedo Sprint series this weekend as it is an external meet. There are very serious insurance issues if a swimmer races in our club without being financial.

$50 is club membership for the full year to September 30, of which $26 goes to Swimming Aust for insurance and registration. If a swimmer has a mishap while competing or training for the club, and is not a financial member of the club then that swimmer is uninsured. It is in everyone's interests that the membership dues are paid. Accordingly we have to insist that each swimmer is paid up before being allowed to compete. Go to the website at www.cpswimclub.info to download the application form from the fees page. Failing that see Nish - the man behind the desk at race nights.

Cool Camps for Kids fitness training

Please support our friends at Cool Camps for Kids. They are now conducting health and fitness sessions Mon at 4pm and Wed at 5pm during the school term and more details can be found at www.coolcamps.com.au