Altona Swimming Club

Presentation Night
Friday 4th of May.
Newport Power Football Club,
Bryan Martyn Reserve,
Market Street,
Newport,
commencing at 7pm.
A light supper will be served following the presentation of trophies, medals and awards.
Cost $10 per adult/child or $30 a family.
Could you please advise of your attendance by Monday 26th of April.

AGM
Monday 7th of May
Club Rooms
Starts 7pm

You can contact me on 0421425378 or email me at corbett.edith.k@edumail.vic.gov.au.

Club committee, captains & executive positions for the year 2012 - 2013 nominations are now open.

1) Club Captains & Vice captains - nominations are to be to club prior to the commencement of the committee meeting listed for April 16th at 7pm
Club Captains ( 1 female & 1 male)are to be Senior swimming members (16yrs or older).
Vice Captains ( x2) may be 13 yrs or older if there is no Senior nomination.
Captains will be announced at the annual presentation night & AGM.

2) Executive positions of President, Vice President (x2), Secretary & Treasurer nominations are to be to the club one hour prior to the AGM.

3) Committee member position (10 of) nominations are to be to the club one hour prior to the AGM.

At this point in time the Annual General Meeting is set for Monday May 7, 2012 in the club calendar, which is to be confirmed by formal notification & advertising.

All position holders are required to be club members, either life, Swimmer, Recreational Swimmer or Non Swimmer. Membership applications & payment can be taken with nominations.

Please give serious consideration to being involved with the club & its future.

Thanks & regards,
Steve Biggs
President

Congratualtions & well done to all the swimmers who have represented the club during the sprint season, at State Sprints, District Sprints and All Juniors. There have been many PB's with great results across all age groups.

The best of luck to the many qualifiers representing Metro West & the club for the upcoming All Junior semi finals on the 31st March & finals on the 1st April.

Pat passed away early Monday morning (27th Feb) after a long respiratory illness.

Her funeral is to be held on Friday 2 March at 11am at Chapel of Repose, Memorial Park, Dohertys Road, Altona North

The family have requested no flowers, rather donations made to the Cancer Council.

It has been decided to postpone club this Wednesday (tomorrow) night (2nd) which the distance champs 1500m was to be swum.

The 1500m will now be swum the following Wed, 9th Nov, on the same night as the parent / Child handicap.

There will probably be only 1 heat of the 1500m, however if a second heat needs to be conducted we will program it with another club night also.

Parents - dust of your swimmers and come and enjoy a night of fun on Wed 9th with the parent (25m) / child (50m) handicap.

If a parent does not want to swim, come anyway, as we can pair children up, usually with an older swimmer so they can enjoy the fun also.

See you on Wed 9th.

Just a reminder about Christmas Breakup.

We have decided to hold it on Sunday afternoon so hopefully more families can attend.

When: Sunday 11th of December 2011
Where: Club Rooms
Time: 3pm Onwards

Pool - Jumping Castle from 3pm to 5pm
Members need to pay pool entry.
BBQ, salads and desserts provided.
BYO Drinks
RSVP Friday 9th of December to Edith or Steve
Come & celebrate the passing of another great year.

Daniel Cave was selected by Swimming Victoria to join the 2011/12 Swimming Victoria Junior Talent Squad. Selection criteria requires swimmers to perform in the top 3 or 4 of a 100, 200 or 400m event or top 6 in 200IM at last years long course age state championships, and be aged 11 or 12 at state champs. Daniel qualified for selection with his 100 & 200m breast stroke finals results.

Daniel is pictured with Wayne Lawes (Hailerbury), one of the Australian swim team, Victorian & Olympian Coaches., during one of the Victorian Junior Talent Squad clinics, recently conducted on October 8th by Wayne Lawes

Altona was well represented in the Metro West 7-10's heats held recently on Saturday 15th October by Thomas Willis, Sarah Willis, Timothy Roberts, Kirralee Smith, Nicholas Prassinos & Aydan Kovach.

Metro West will be well represented in the 7-10 finals in November by Altona swimmers with quite a number of top ten places resulting in finals positions.

Well done & thank you to all the swimmers.

Steve Biggs

President

A big thanks to all who were able to come to the Bowling Night.All seemed to have fun. We discovered that one of our parents doesn't spend her days saving wild life but actually goes Bowling.

Congratulations to Renea for the first strike. Well done Bill with a score of 156 just beating Lee with a score of 151. Monique showed a great improvement in her score from her first game.

This Saturday ( 2nd July) we are having a Working Bee at the club rooms to give them a tidy up, and getting them looking smarter inside & outside.

The Working Bee commences approx. 10.30am until approx 12.30, with the BBQ fired up approx 12 noon.