Ashfield Swimming Club

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!

A chilly grey start to Week 7 saw numbers a bit down, certainly in the first half hour. A late influx though meant that the relay teams were mostly intact, and the Shonks were victorious again. Well done (and get well soon, Peter R!) Let’s look at that handicapping again next week pls.

Claire Barry won SoTW with a great 50 m backstroke qual last week, her 2nd for the year. Well done Claire!

Remember to tell your friends to come along and try swim club before Christmas. We have three more weeks to go until the break.

See you next week!

Week 6 dawned cloudy and dull but it was anything but dull in the pool. The first week of the Relay Challenge was on and there was much tactical non-swimming to conserve energy for the last race. The two winning teams were the Shonks and the unnamed team of Willem, Laura, Caroline and Claudia, in two blistering finishes. Well done!

We had a tie for SoTW this week. With lots of qualifications last week we had to do a countback,  and with 3 qualifications each so far this season it went to Evie Millar and Evelyn Mawer. Congratulations girls!

See you next week!

A cloudy but bright morning for swim club. The mystery stroke was butterfly which is always fun… we had lots of different interpretations on show.

A few people bravely attempted 200m IMs which was also pretty impressive.

We had 5 qualifications from last week and the swimmer of the week was William Jenkins. Well done William!

The sheer quality of the raffle prizes this week meant that choosing was a tough decision…

…and there was much scrutiny of the 50m times ahead of the relay challenge next week.

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.