Armadale Masters Swimming Club

N E W S L E T T E R

December

2017

CLUB CONTACTS

President: Ross Doherty 9496 2821 AMSC.President@hotmail.com

Head Coach: Jeffrey Sanders 0411750767 AMSC.CoachJeff@gmail.com

Secretary: Vanessa Toop 0435 060 905 AMSC.Secretary@hotmail.com

Club Captain: Colin Gibson 0447143881 AMSC.Captain@gmail.com

Attention! IMPORTANT INFORMATION !

Ho ho ho.

Come join The Fun!

Life is a beach. See you there.

CHRISTMAS FUN TRAINING SESSION THIS THURSDAY 21st DECEMBER

Our normal silly season Christmas fun day is on this Thursday night at the Cannington pool.

We have arranged to have lanes 1, 2 & 3 all to ourselves and you can be assured it will be a fun light-hearted training session, with the usual games, prizes and fun events. Maybe even a slide or 2!

REQUIREMENTS:

The ability to forget your age and respectability, laugh long and loud, shout, scream and generally show the rest of the pool that we love Christmas, our club and the friendship we enjoy.

Hope to see you all there.

Master of Ceremonies: Greg

Captain’s Report

Completed Events since the last Newsletter

Sun 26th Nov – Melville Masters LiveLighter Club Challenge

The 2017 LiveLighter Club Challenge campaign finished on a warm

Sunday morning at Melville Aquatic Centre on Sunday November 26th

for the annual Melville Masters Challenge Series Event. We had a team

of 8 swimmers registered but this was reduced to 7 during warm up,

unfortunately Gill was struck down by a stomach bug and had to watch

from the stands ☹ Most of us had to reacquaint ourselves with the pool

competition format and a 50m pool (it’s such a long way to the end!)

after such a long break between the last club challenge and having to

deal with being in open water swimming mode.

At the end of the day we finished 7th out of 17 clubs with 50 points,

another solid result. There were many great swims for the day, the

standout performance goes to Andy “Superfish” Johnson who won all

three of his events for max points! Although there were no pb’s, there

were 6 new age group club records set with Lexie setting two, Heather

smashing her own 50m breaststroke record by over 8 seconds and

Graham setting 3, which included knocking off Fettes 100m free from

2012 and smashing his own 100m backstroke record by nearly 13

seconds. Our men’s relay team in the 4 x 50m men’s medley, Graham,

Chas, Andy and Colin set a new club record for the 200-239 Age group,

well done team!

Sat 2nd Dec – Rotto Swim Thru (Crofts)

Sat 9th Dec – Freo Ports Swim Thru (see Greg’s RAMOS report)

Sat 9th Dec – Presentation and Awards Evening

Sun 17th Dec – MSWA Open 10km Coogee Beach - Cancelled

Upcoming Events

Thurs 21stDec – Greg’s Xmas Fun Night

Tues 26th Dec – No training

Sat 30th Dec – SWA Mullaloo OWS – MSWA Bonus points round

13th Jan – Cottesloe Classic Mile

21st Jan – Claremont Masters Swim Thru Perth MSWA OWS Rd #3

26th Jan – Australia Day OWS Mandurah

RAMOS

R. A. M. O. S. ?

REGULAR ARMADALE MASTERS OCEAN SWIMMERS. RAMOS REPORT FREMANTLE PORT BEACH SWIM 2 OCT 2017

The Port beach swim is a favourite of the Ramos group, it almost always

provides perfect conditions, and this morning was no exception.

The wind was a gentle breeze, the sun was shining, the water flat as a pool

with excellent clarity affording magnificent visibility.

Several hundred swimmers arrived and registered for the different swim

distances available. A 1.25 km rectangular course gave swim distance

choices of 1.25, 2.5 and 5 km distances. This year the course and distances

were different in order to conform with the latest Swimming WA programs.

As usual the Ramos team was spread amongst the different distances with our

Head Coach Jeff leading by example, opting to test his skills with the 4 lap 5

km course. What a great effort, and well done Jeff.

A big welcome to Donovan our newest member: Our Don smashed the 2.5 km

course despite a big Xmas party hangover.

Ramos was well represented by the following swimmers;

Heather and Charles Croft, Gillian and Collin, Liz and Hans, Ross, Jeff, Greg,

Donovan, Graham Hicks, Jacquie and Fettes.

All completed the swims with the following exceptional results;

Graham Hicks and Donovan came 1st in their age groups

Gillian came second in her age group

Colin, Fettes and Charles all placed 3rd in their age groups

Hans 4th in his.

It is worth noting that all other members came between 5th and 8thoverall in

their respective age groups. This is an amazing statistic and shows the quality

of Armadale coaches, training and swimmers.

On a personal note if you check the times between the Super fish Gilly and the

fat boy you can see how closely we swim, this all bears well for our Port to

Pub Rottnest swim duo next year, with neither being able to claim they swam

further.

As usual the swimmers and supporters enjoyed a great breakfast after, sorry

Jeff, we could not wait.

Any swimmers who think they would like to take the challenge and swim in

the ocean, please have a chat to one of the regulars, most swims have a 500 m

intro swim, so it is a great place to start.

Greg.

“THE SEA, ONCE IT CASTS its SPELL, HOLDS ONE IN IT’S NET OF

WONDER FOREVER”

We are planning more Saturday/Sunday Beach swims after the Festive Season. Stay tuned.

A great Presentation Evening was had by all. Here are the award winners followed by a few photos, mainly of Jeff:

Armadale Masters Swimming Club 2017 Award Winners Club Championships 2017 1st Gillian Caruso - 45 points Jeffrey Sanders - 72 points 2nd Suzanne Sullivan - 40 points Graham Hicks - 54 points 3rd Yvonne Hunt - 31 points Derek Bishop - 44 points Club Endurance 1000 2017 1st Rowena Burch - 941 points Charles Croft - 880 points 2nd Heather Croft - 855 points Jeffrey Sanders - 827 points 3rd Gillian Caruso - 355 points Graham Hicks - 320 points Open Water Swimming 2017 1st Gillian Caruso - 72 points Charles Croft - 72 points 2nd Rowena Burch - 36 points Colin Gibson - 56 points 3rd Heather Croft - 32 points Gregory Frey - 44 points Pool Competition Swimming 2017 1st Gillian Caruso - 80 points Andrew Johnson - 114 points 2nd Tania O'Sheehan - 35 points Charles Croft - 67 points 3rd Sarah Dean - 24 points Jeffrey Sanders - 35 points Club Swimmer of the Year 2017 1st Gillian Caruso - 98 points Jeffrey Sanders - 92 points 2nd Rowena Burch - 92 points Graham Hicks - 91 points 3rd Heather Croft - 73 points Charles Croft - 87 points Training 2017 Timothy Pillay Dave Green 2017 Not Awarded in 2017 Year Badges 2017 5 Years William Stevens 15 Years Gillian Caruso 20 Years Nicole Badani

Heather Adams 25 Years (Officially awarded in 2016)

Bill Stevens (Blossom) 5 Years

Rowena Burch

2nd Place Open Water Swimming

Greg Frey

3rd Place Open Water Swimming

Jeffrey Sanders

1st Place male Club Championships

Graham Hicks

2nd Place Club Championships

1st Place Club Swimmer of the Year

BIRTHDAY WISHES Many happy returns to:

Jenny Finlay 27th December

ENJOY YOUR DAY

Wishing you All A Happy New Year

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