St George Inter - District meet - 10 Nov.

This was our first invitation to this meet - as of early next year NSW Swimming has changed the district system, which means we are moving from the Eastern Suburbs Swimming Association to St George - it will make very little difference to our club, and has no impact on our club nights.

This is quite a high level meet (inter-district as distinct from district) and our squad of 15 swimmers (our largest race squad for some time) did our club proud. With 7 Gold's, 1 Silver and 4 Bronze medals it was a wonderful result for our club. Add to that a total of 27 PB's and 5 very close 4ths and it was a spectacular day for our club which is one of the smallest in the region.

Huge congratulations to :

Gold Medals

Ethan Baker ; Jasper Goodall (2) ; Petra Goodall ;Emily Kass ;Jacqui McGuirk and Matt Small

Silver Medal

Petra Goodall

Bronze Medals

Cameron Harkins (2); Emily Kass ; Matt Small

Personal Bests

Sammy Annear ((3, including 3 seconds in the 50m breastroke), Ethan Baker, Isabella Blumenthal (3, with a combined total of almost 28 seconds, which is extraordinary), Jasper Goodall (3 ), Petra Goodall (2), Cameron Harkins (3, including over 5 seconds in the 50m breastroke), Jade Jowett-Crociani (3, one of over 6 seconds in the 50m breastroke), Emily Kass (2), Doris Kong (3, including a whopper of over 13 seconds in the 200m IM), Daniel Leech (2), and Cecile Vadas (2).

This was an outstanding achievement and head coach Steve Garner and assistant coach Fi Tyler were ecstatic at the effort, and the improvement in times right across the board.

Well done team !

FINA World Cup

The club had its first ever representative at this level in the Sydney leg of the World Cup held two weeks ago.

Samantha Marshall swam in the FINA World Cup in the 50m and 200m breastroke (she had to pull out of the 100m on Friday as she had her school exams on).

She qualified for both finals, with a PB in the 50m (breaking the NSW Age record in the process). She was a little swamped in the 50m final but did really well in the 200m, coming 4th. She did a 3.5 second PB to do this, and only missed coming 3rd by 0.2 of a second to a World Championship silver medallist. Importantly she did the last 50m the fastest of any of the girls (including Leisel) and stormed home in the last 20m to beat Jade Edmiston (current world record holder in the 50m breastroke) into 5th. Another 2 or 3 metres and she might have got 2nd (according to the AIS coach).

Sam turned 15 a few months ago. Her (short course) time of 2.25.26 two weeks ago broke the 15 years NSW All Comers age record by over 10 seconds and also broke the NSW Open record (that was set in 1996) by almost a second. She is now ranked 5th in Australia for the 100m short course breastroke and 4th in the 200m.

Well done Sam, and particular congratulations to head coach Steve Garner who has self evidently done a wonderful job in developing Sam as a swimmer over the last two years.

SOPAC Qualifying Carnival on October 20

The club had a squad of 13 representatives for this important qualifying carnival held at Homebush. (primarily the Metropolitan Championships on December 15 and the State Age Championships in January).

Full results next newsletter of how the following went !

Sammy Annear, Ethan Baker, Claudette Blake, Harriet Cadell, Will Carver, Jasper & Petra Goodall, Cameron Harkins, Jade Jowett-Crociani, Daniel Leech, Tom Mahony, Samantha Marshall and Cecile Vadas

2007 / 2008 Racing Program

As advised separately by Head Coach Steve Garner, it is the intention that as many as possible of the squad swimmers compete at external race carnivals to get "match fit" and to hone their racing skills. Apart from the SOPAC invitation meet (see above), the following carnivals are now on the schedule :

(primarily the Metropolitan Championships on December 15 and the State Age Championships in January). Further details are on the club web page.

MEMBERSHIP

The new Swimming year commenced on October 1st. All Club membership fees are now due. The annual membership fee for the Club is $60 for swimmers, and $25 for non-swimmers. Membership is essential to compete in external swim meets, and club nights and it also provides the all-important insurance cover.

The membership form attached here and available at the Centre or on the web explains family discounts. Other information is also available at the website www.cpswimclub.info

Please print the membership form, fill in, and return it with the appropriate fees, by Friday October 19, to Cook and Phillip Swim Club, PO Box 454 Double Bay NSW 1360, OR it can be handed to Tim, Glenn, David or Steve at this Fridays' Club swimming night at the Centre.

Cool Camps for Kids fitness training

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

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!