Author: Virginia Birch

Week 18 and we’re hurtling towards the end of the season. Club champs and Swim and Survive continued. Swimmer of the Week (with her second qualification of the year) was Isabella Kelly. Also pictured is Edward Bates with his award from last week (if you can make out the pic).

We also congratulated longstanding club member John Rayment on being awarded the Police Service Medal for 40 years service in the police force. We honoured his contribution by asking him to draw the raffle. Another terrible pic – sorry John.

Week 19 saw a cold and windy day but this did not deter our trusty timekeepers.

For the club champs we did the 100 m backstroke and 100 m butterfly – tough week.

Plus we had the final week of Swim and Survive, and a trainer from NSW Royal Life Saving ran the annual Resuscitation (CPR) course, which was well attended.

SOTW was shared this week by Oskar Stubbs and Luke Glasscock. Oskar qualified for 200 m breaststroke, and Luke for 30 m breaststroke. Well done boys!

And it was great to see former club president Grant O’Grady back from the UK and pulling on the budgies for a swim or two.

See you next week!

A spectacular morning for swimming this week – only a few more weeks to enjoy this wonderful view.

Club Championships continued this week with the  200m FS, 20m BK, 30m BF and 50m BK. A busy day but we still managed to do some club swims and a relay too.

SoTW was shared by Matilda Birch (who qualified for 50m FS) and Edward Bates (who qualified for 100m BR) – well done to them both! Edward had left early so missed his photo op.

And congratulations too to Oskar, Daphne and Laura who were presented with their medals for coming third in their respective age groups at the Battle On the Bay last week.

See you next week!

The Club Championships continued this week with the 200 IM, 20 FS, 30 BK, 50 FS all being swum. Records were broken so watch this space for details!

SoTW this week was Laura Willemsen – she hardly ever misses a meet and is now the second fastest over 400m in the Club. Her battles with Sarah, Daphne and Dani keep the crowds coming. Well done Laura!

Also pictured are Kaiella Stubbs and Josephine Steele who picked up their award from the previous week.

The Battle On The Bay took place on Saturday afternoon, and AASC had another great turnout.

Caroline BB put in a gold medal performance while Laura, Daphne and Oskar achieved Bronze medals & Aaron won silver. Our young swimmers achieved plenty of PBs and most importantly, enjoyed the carnival event.

See you next week!

Week 15 saw a bright and sunny Saturday for the start of the Club Championships. It was great to see so many swimmers lining up for the 400m FS, 20m BR, 30m FS and 40m BR.

Sally Steele was the well-deserved SoTW, for her epic swims the previous week. She did 2 x 200ms, a 100 m butterfly and she made her way to the Championships for all bar one event. Well done Sally!!

The first week of Swim and Survive got underway, with our club volunteers taking the kids through their safety skills at various levels. Thanks to everyone for giving their time.

See you next week!

The day dawned cloudy but mostly dry and the deluge held off so we could all get our last qualifying swims in before the championship round starts next week.

A big shout out to the timekeepers who braved the rain and managed to keep the timesheets (mostly) dry.

Swimmers of the Week went to Kaiella Stubbs and Josephine Steele, both of whom got their second qualification of the season last week. Well done girls!

And it was a red letter day for the club as we were presented with new lane numbers for the timekeepers. A big thanks to Susan McGrath Champ for producing these little beauties…

See you next week!

Welcome back to a new year with AASC!

We’ve had three great weeks of swimming to welcome in the new year.

SoTW in Week 11 went to Dylan Bennett, who posted quite a few qualifications early in the season and is close to qualifying on a couple of strokes at the moment.  Congratulations Dylan!

Then Jeremy Glasscock got  SoTW for great participation and regularly posting lots of swims. Well done Jeremy!

Sad to report that our Vice President, Aaron Langman, and his kids Leo and Eli, won’t be returning regularly this year due to other sport commitments on Saturday morning. We’ll certainly miss the sheer speed and swimming talent of all three Langmans.

Next week is the last week to qualify for races in the Club Championship, and that and Swim and Survive start on Feb 15th. See you next week!

The last swim club before Christmas saw the JC 1000, 100 and 50 m medleys, plus novelties for young and old.

SoTW was Leo Langman for 2 quals the previous week (400 FS and 100 BR). Plus we had 2 other special Swimmers of the Week – Peter Romero for bouncing back after being unwell in hospital, and Dave Durbin for effort after spending 18 years trying to swim under 3 mins for 400 FS.

Well done all round lads!

The bbq and monster raffle were a great success, and we had a record number of raucous redraws, after not having one all season.

Happy Xmas everyone, and see you back on the 18th Jan!

Week 9 saw the results of the Relay Challenge announced… and it came down to the wire. Final placings were:

Equal First: The Shonks (Peter Romero, Frank Funibaldi, Harry Millar, James Millar, Res: John Rayment, David Romero) and C.O.C Bots (Amelia Barry, William Jenkins, Isabella Kelly, Edward Bates, Res: Susan McGrath-Champ)

See you next week!

Week 8 is here already .. only 2 weeks of swimming to go until the Christmas break. A modest turnout today but those who came gave it their all.

SoTW was shared again between Ashleigh Seymour and Elise Pappas, both of whom have qualified for 3 new events this year. Well done girls! (Elise was away).

The Bates boys bought their grandad along and he proceeded to beat them soundly in the 100m freestyle – well done Geoff! After that he backed up for the relay, so he’ll sleep well tonight.

The third week of the relay challenge was closely fought, and though the Shonks were beaten on the day, who knows what the overall points count will say?

See you next week, as Dave Durbin defends his handicap relay title!