Ashfield Swimming Club

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!

Blue skies greeted us again and the chill in the air made us very grateful for the balmy water temperature. In fact, the water was the best place to hang out during club announcements…

Ben Bates was this week’s SoTW as he qualified for the 200m free last week plus notched up the most swims which gave him the edge. Well done Ben. No pic as he had already left to go and play cricket. Now that’s dedication.

Amelia Barry proved a natural announcing the race results in place of her dad.

This week our Club Captains and Vice Captains for the season were announced. Congratulations to Evelyn Mawer and Alfie Jellett who were voted Club Captains, and Claudia Indge and Harry Millar who were voted Vice Captains. What a great team of young people to lead us through the season.

Next week the Relay Challenge begins, so get your team together and start working on your team name. Let the mind games begin!

See you next week.

We were blessed with great weather again last week and the conditions were perfect for swimming.

Plenty of qualifications from last week and Olivia Pappas got SoTW for her back-to-back qualifications over two weeks. Well done Olivia!

We finished up with the Welcome Breakfast – a great spread that was quickly devoured by our hungry swimmers. Thanks to everyone who baked/prepped/purchased something, and to David for organising it all and for his supreme vacuuming skills.

See you next week!

Welcome to another season of swimming, salt water
and socialising at AASC.

Week 1 started bright and sunny, and it was great to see a decent turnout (it can be tough getting used to those early starts on a Saturday). Brilliant to see so many old faces, plus we also had some new members to the club, so  welcome to those families!

Here’s the Millar/Lester clan lining up for a family race – I’m pretty sure young Evie would have wiped the floor in this one.

Week 2 saw another good turnout and plenty of brave souls swimming the 400m.

After a huge number of qualifications in week 1 (good to see the kids have been swimming in the off-season), Sam Barry and Rosalie Bouf shared SoTW this week for their double qualifications. Well done kids! (Rosalie not pictured as she was away).

See you next week!

The 2018/19 season wound up at the end of May on a rainy Saturday. We had the always-entertaining Biathlon, followed by novelty races for all ages, a  barbecue and everyone’s favourite, the monster raffle.

Then we had our Presentation Night in mid May, where we recognise all the swimmers for their great efforts throughout the year. A special thank you to David, Sally and Craig for organising and hosting a great evening.

See you in October!

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AASC took a record number of participants to the annual Battle of the Bay last Saturday, this year held at Drummoyne Pool. A great day was had by all and we came away with multiple age-group placings.

Leo Langman came 1st in his age group, Sam Barry placed 2nd  in his and Eli Langman came 3rd in his. Well done boys!

Sarah Judge came 3rd in the Ladies division, Aaron Langman came 1st in his division and Willem Willemsen came 3rd in his division.

That’s 3 from 3 for the Langman family! Well done to all of these winners and placegetters – what a great achievement for our club. Congratulations!

Our 10 x 50 relay team faced up against none other than Australian Olympic swimmer James Magnusson, in a very exciting race to end the evening. Here are the magnificent 10 before the race…

and James with some of our young swimmers…

James was pitted against David C-W in the first leg and I think David may have just pipped him…

It was a great finish to the day. Thanks to all who raced and those who came to cheer them on.

As we get to the pointy end of the season, there’s so much going on that it’s hard to keep up!

Heidi Jessup won Swimmer of the Week in Week 15 for smashing the 50m butterfly qualifying time with 33s flat. Poppy Rimondi got the award in Week 16 for her qualifying time in the 50 m backstroke. Well done girls and sorry I didn’t get a pic.

Week 17 saw Isabel Steele get the award for qualifying for 50 m butterfly. 

It’s been a busy few weeks as the club championships have progressed. The stakes are high and Chris has been working overtime trying to corral everyone into their races.

We have also squeezed in club swims and some exciting relays too.

The camping trip to Coledale took place last weekend and by all accounts it was a great weekend and the kids loved taking to the surf with the Coledale nippers.

Swim and Survive continues and our club members, young and old, are helping to teach kids important water safety techniques. Thanks to all our vollies for giving up that extra hour on Saturday mornings.

See you next week!