The finalists and relay swimmers to attend the finals of the Speedo Finals in Sydney next weekend have been announced.  Swimmers are to meet SMNC team Manager Tania Shapespeare in the grandstand on the Lane 1 side of the pool on the starting block line under the Wingham Swimming Club banner. Good luck to all taking part!  Team list link.

 

President of Swimming Mid North Coast, Faye Rowles has undergone surgery on her hip this week and will be out of action for some time. We wish you, Faye, a speedy recovery - you haven't got time to lay around with the proposed trip to New Zealand and the winter  Development Squads to organise !

 

It is sad to announce that Cundletown Swimming Club has applied to the Office of Fair Trading for cancellation of the Club. At a Special Meeting held in February a decision was made to wind up the Club. Cundletown, whilst only a small Club, has been a member of the Area for many years and has held carnivals at the Cundletown Pool on a number of occasions. With the closing of the pool, continuation of the Club was not a viable proposition. We would like to thank the past Committee members, Life Members and swimming families for their commitment with the Club over many years and are sad to see the Club disband.

 

Registrars Report Block 4 Kempsey 30/01/2010.  Link.

opportunity for swimmers with a disability to get a classification at a country centre. Bookings are essential. Links.  Flyer.    Expression of interest.       Facts Sheet.

 

Block 4. Kempsey. Unfortunately there were some mistakes in the medal presentations. Obviously I cannot check or even contact all the individual swimmers -------so please can secretaries or race secretaries please ask your swimmers to check they they got the correct medal.   Link to medal winners. Please check the attached lists for details. Those marked in RED are the most likely errors or omissions but there may be others. I would like to get mistakes fixed asap as the season is almost over. If possible please collect any that have been given out in error and send them to Speedo next week and I will try and sort them out there. (Some of those marked just didn't colect but others arrived to collect medals to find there wasn't one left).  Thanks for your help--------please give this your priority as it is important to those kids.

 

Registrar's Report Block 3.  Link.

 

With Block 3 of the Championships being conducted next Saturday 5th. December a check on member registrations has revealed that some members have been competing at meets without being registered with Swimming NSW and the area. There are some swimmers entered for Block 3 who are not registered. Clubs are asked to check that their swimmers entered  for Saturday are registered to prevent embarrassment as these swimmers will not be allowed to compete at the meet unless registered.

Bellingen conducted a successful Meet Saturday 28th. November. The weather was fine but hot. There were 695 entries received from 120 swimmers. The highlight being the 6x50m Tim Mullen's Memorial Relay which brought out some of the senior swimmers, including the Referee of the meet Janelle Barnett to fill the gaps in the teams. Sawtell took out the Relay closely followed by Kempsey in second place and Port Macquarie third.  Once again Leah Bird set the records tumbling, breaking the Women's 13/0ver 100 F/S (1-00.04). 13/over 100 BS (1-06.73) 13/over 100 Fly (1-05.60, 13/over 200IM (2-28.93), 15/over 50F/S (27.75), 15/over 50BK (31.68), 15/over 50Fly (30.53).  See photos.

 

Block 2 Championships. Registrar's Report.  Link.

 

Block 1 Championships. Registrar's report.  Link.

NSW State Development Meet 4th October 2009 Swimming Mid North Coast’s D squad travelled to Sydney for this meet. Most of these swimmers have never swum at this venue and was a big event for them. The team members were, in the boys events—Jack Binstadt from TSA and James Mitchell from Laurieton club.  In the girls events—Abbey Gorton from Wingham, Courtney Ryan from Taree, Tess McWade from Kempsey, Jess Hawken from Crescent Head and Caitlin Dewbery from Port Macquarie club. All of them have achieved personal best which was great.  To be a such a big exciting venue and to still do your absolute best .  Wow! Jack competed in the 10 year old boys with PB’s in all the 50 metre events for that age group—Back 49.27,  Fly 56.95, 50 Free 42.59 and 50 Breast 1.00.48.  James PB in the 50 Fly 48.92 and 50 Free 37.61. He also competed in the 50 Back 30.34 and 100 Individual Medley 1.50.77. James competed as an 11 year old. For the girls—Abbey as a 12 year old all PB’s  50 Breast 50.61, 49.45 Back, 42.85 Free and 100 IM 1.41.31. Tess also in the 12’s 50 Breast 53.65 PB, back 50.17 PB, free 38.93 PB, Fly 48.29 PB and 100 IM 1.42.19 PB. All her swims PB’s. Courtney also in the 12’s breast 51.14 PB, Back 43.91, free 35.65 and IM 1.32.08 PB. Jess in the 14 and over events achieved a PB in each of her events—breast 46.70, back 42.84, free 36.15 and  fly 37.14. Caitlin the youngest of the bunch at 10 also achieved PB’s in all her swims—breast 52.32, back 41.59, free 35.12 and fly 46.36. A great achievement over all for the area with 25 PB’s from 29 swims. Also thanks to Linda Dewbery who was the Manager of the team and is part of the areas Development Committee.

The photo taken on the day at the pool is of Linda and the team handing a cheque to the President of the area, Faye Rowles, for $2500.  Linda as an employee of Bank of Queensland was entered in a competition with their employees to find the volunteer of the company.  Linda won $5000 as one of the 6 finalist in this competition.  Linda had to nominate the sporting groups that she worked with and Port Macquarie Swimming Club and Swimming Mid North Coast have received half of the amount each as she works tirelessly for each of these groups.     Faye Rowles Acting Publicity Officer Swimming Mid North Coast

There are still a number of Clubs who have not returned their Affiliation form and payment to the Area Registrar. If you are one of these Clubs, please attend to this matter. Remember, if you are not Affiliated with the Area  and paid your members registrations to Swimming NSW, you will not be allowed to compete in the first carnival at Sawtell 31st. October, so if you have entered please check that your Club is financial!

The ATSC meeting (formally the ALEC Committee) met recently to allocate Referees to the Area Meets this season. The Committee also discussed updates to rules and in particular the to the Swim Costume rules. Swimmers must make themselves aware of what they can wear and what they cannot wear this season. Clubs wishing to have officials qualified are asked to contact Janelle as soon as possible. The Committee is also going to continue with the visits to Clubs during the next few months.

Meet Entry closing dates.  These will be strictly enforced and unless prior arrangement are made with the Race Secretary, entries received late will be returned to the Club. Remember that entries have to be submitted and signed by the Club Race Secretary, they are not to be sent by individual swimmers. Entry times for Championship events are those times registered on the Area data base. We do not have access to Swimming NSW approved School Meets or interstate Meets. If you have any doubts, submit your time and include information as to where the time was set. Club times will not be used. Swimmers without times can compete but will be entered as "no time". This does not apply to events with qualifying times. "Remember that there are qualifying times for some events in the Championships. If you do not have a time, make arrangements for a time trial for the event and have it verified before submitting. Do not leave it to the last moment.

The minutes of the AGM, together with the programmed dates for the 2009-10 season can be found on the website under forms, minutes etc. There has been a change of Executive with Faye Rowles being elected President and Ann Pilkie Secretary. Pam Guyer remains as Treasurer and Linda Dewbery as Race Secretary. Robert Guyer has had a change of rolls and is now the Registrar. There are some qualifying times to be finalised so the programs for the Blocks can be advertised. Also there may be a change of venue for the Speedo Sprint Heats.

Club Registrars are reminded that all Registrations with Swimming NSW must be done online and now manual registrations will be accepted. Club Affiliations with Swimming Mid North Coast are due 1st. October. Fees remain at $20 per Club. Forms can be downloaded from the website and are to be returned to the REGISTRAR 15 North St., KEMPSEY 2440 together with the fee of $20. The member fee for the Area will be included in the Swimming NSW fee who will return it to the Area. Please do not send this fee direct to Swimming MNC.