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2/12/08 - Carole Goodison

Orders for country T-Shirts must be in by 10th December with Jane Mitchell

1/12/08 - David Keil

A reminder to all swimmers that the proficiency Awards Night is this Friday 5th December at the pool. Please be there by 5:30 pm for warm up, ready for a 5:45 pm start. Hene there will be NO SWIMMING TRAINING ON FRIDAY

A reminder that the clinic with Jeremy will be on Saturday 13th December commencing at 9:00 am with the minnows therefore NO SWIMMING TRAINING on this day.

There is a mistake on page 2 of the newsletter under "GIPPSLAND MEET FEES". The extra levy was set by Swimming Victoria, not Gippsland Swimming as stated.

Entries for Meet 8 (Time Trial Bairnsdale on 10-01-09) and Meet 9 (Open Interclub, Traralgon, 17-01-09) need to be with Donna by Wednesday 10th December.

2/11/08 - Updates to meets 9 & 11
An announcement was made at Morwell Meet on Sunday about changes that have been made to the Programmes for Meet 9 & 11. Can everyone please ammend their listings so that when you come to enter you enter the correct races.

Meet 9 :  #57/58 are 10/11 50m Backstroke NOT 100m. #61/62 are deleted ( no double up on the 10/11 50m Breaststroke ). Therefor, relays become event # 61/62, 63/64, 65/66.

Meet 11 : there is a new event #53/54 - 8&Under 50m Backstroke (they only had three events ). Therefor, relays become #55/56, 57/58, 59/60.

20/10/08 - Message from the Committee
The president & the Committee of the Sale Swimming Club would like to remind all Club Members that they must be registered with the Sale Swimming Club before they can  participate in training sessions, club nights and swim meets. Like most sporting organisations this is due to the strong public liabilities rules that all clubs must follow.

Thanks, David

29/09/08 - Andy Barnes
GSI Meets are $7 NOT $5 as printed in the program. $7 covers all swims.

10 & under team with coaches Donna Rowand, Paul Morrison, Des Phillips and Debbie Taylor

Age champions Hollie Rowand, Sara Morrison and Megan Keil

Sale Swimming Club minnows and dolphin squads travelled to Churchill October 11 for the 10 & Under Carnival. The meet catered for the younger swimmers and races were all 25 metres in length, except for the 100m individual medley.

Sale continued to show success in junior competition - the team had an outstanding day, returning with 14 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze.
The girls took out the honours with 3 age champions between them:
Megan Keil claimed the 8 years girls age champion, winning all five races entered. Sara Morrison won the 7 years girls age champion with three gold and two silver and Hollie Rowand took out the 6 years and under girls age champion winning 2 gold, 2 silver and a bronze.

Emily Morrison and Shaylee Wedlock both excelled in the 25m freestyle each winning gold in their age groups. This completed Sale's clean sweep of 1st place for every girls age group, in the freestyle events.

The youngest team member Hannah Shepherd (5) showed confidence beyond her years, swimming with great determination and winning three bronze.

Orin Giesbers was best swimmer for the boys, taking home a gold, two silver and a bronze.

Results:
Megan Keil (8) : 1st girls 8 years 25m butterfly, backstroke, breastroke, freestyle, 100m individual medley.
Sara Morrison (7): 1st girls 7 years 25m backstroke, freestyle, 100m individual medley; 2nd 25m butterfly, breastroke.
Hollie Rowand (6): 1st girls 6 years & under 25m breastroke, freestyle; 2nd 25m backstroke, butterfly; 3rd 100m individual medley.
Shaylee Wedlock (10): 1st girls 10 years 25m freestyle; 2nd 25m backstroke, breastroke, 100m individual medley; 3rd 25m butterfly.
Orin Giesbers (9): 1st boys 9 years 25m butterfly; 2nd 25m backstroke, 100m individual medley; 3rd 25m freestyle; 4th 25m breastroke.
Jordan Rowand (9): 1st girls 9 years 25m backstroke; 3rd 100m individual medley; 4th 25m breastroke.
Emily Morrison (7): 1st girls 7 years 25m freestyle; 4th 25m butterfly, backstroke; 5th 25m breastroke, 100m individual medley.
Hannah Shepherd (5) 3rd girls 6 years & under 25m backstroke, breastroke, freestyle.
Joel Cowell (9): 6th boys 9 years 25m butterfly, breastroke, freestyle, 100m individual medley.
Joshua Tatterson (10): 6th boys 10 years 25m butterfly, backstroke, 100m individual medley.
Lachlan Craft (9): 6th boys 9 years 25m backstroke.
Lachlan Shepherd (10): 6th boys 10 years 25m freestyle.

Bairnsdale Pre-Season Report

Congratulations, once again, goes to our team of 18 swimmers who attended the Bairnsdale Preseason Meet this weekend.
Sale once again returned home jubilant with, not only 4 Age Group Winners;  14 Firsts, 8 Seconds , 9 Thirds and 47 PB s, but we also had the top scoring female and male overall!

 Well done to Megan Keil (8) who took the female honours after winning all her 8&under events, and also to Ian Melrose (11) top male scorer winning all 4 of his 11/12 year events. Not surprisingly they both took away their age group medals, as did Alessia Colombo (9) and Megan Raine (15).

The remaining ribbons were won by David Colombo ( 2nd 50m fly), Megan De Wys ( 2nd 50m Breast), Zoe Henderson ( 3rd 50m Breast), Stephanie Poland (1st 50m Breast, 2nd 50m Free and Back, 3rd 50m Fly), Alexandra Tonkin ( 3rd 50m Back) and James Vandersteen (3rd 50m Breast).

Special mention must also go to Stephanie Poland’s outstanding PB’s taking 17.25secs off  her 100mFree and 2.94 from her 100mBreast. Melanie Smethhurst showed improved form taking an amazing 9.69secs from her 100mBreast and 4.77secs from her 50m Breast. Zoe Henderson also had a good day achieving PB’s in her 100mBreast, 100m Free and 50m Back.

James Vandersteen made a great return after his shoulder injury with a combined PB count of 30.57secs over 7 swims…looks like everything’s working well again then!

Well done to the 3 girls relay teams as well. The 9&under team of Zoe Henderson, Megan Keil, Paegan Hare and Jordan Rowand cruised home to take 1st place ahead of the Trg girls team. The 12&under girls( Stephanie Poland, Melanie Smethhurst, Tahlia Colley and Alessia Colombo) finished in 3rd and the girls open team
( Alexandra Tonkin, Teigan Brown, Megan De Wys and Megan Raine) took 2nd place.

Well done girls! Let’s hope we have a better show of boys at the next meet so we can show off our males talent in the relays.
Well done to all swimmers and coaches you’re all obviously doing a great job!

Donna Rowand

UP COMING SWIM MEETS:

Dear SV Districts and Clubs

I write to inform you about the 2009 All Junior Competition. As you are no doubt aware, the planning for the 2009 All Junior Competition has caused some unprecedented and unexpected challenges to Swimming Victoria.

These challenges have included the following:

1. ▪       Date change by the 2009 F1 Grand Prix impacting upon the availability of the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre (MSAC) during March 2009
2. ▪       Scheduling of other significant events in Geelong (an alternate venue identified for the 2009 Country All Junior Competition) including the Avalon Air Show, Schoolgirls Regatta and a Rotary Conference.
3. ▪       Significant impact on accommodation availability in Geelong due to the aforementioned events.
4. ▪       Labour Day Weekend in March 2009
5. ▪       MSAC unavailable on other dates throughout March and April 2009 due to existing bookings.

Much consultation and discussion about this event has been undertaken this week by the SV Competitions Committee, SV Board Members including Director of Competitions, Director of Metropolitan Swimming and the Director of Country Swimming and SV office staff including the Executive Director and the Event Coordinator.

In an effort to maximise the number of participants due to compete at MSAC for the Metro and Country All Junior Competition for 2009, Swimming Victoria will be conducting both the 2009 Metro and Country All Junior Competition at MSAC on the weekend of 21 & 22 March 2009. The details on how specifically this will occur will be circulated in the coming weeks.

Please communicate the above information to the relevant members and stakeholders within your clubs/district. We will keep you updated on any further information that will arise regarding this event.

Cc: Director of Competitions, Director of Metropolitan Swimming, Director of Country Swimming

Kind regards

Kellie

The 2008 winter swim meet fixture can be found at:
http://www.gippslandswimming.org.au