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ogan Vikings swimming clubNewsletter September 2013

Upcoming

EventsFriday

13th Sep.Friday

27th Sep.Saturday5th Oct.

Friday11th Oct.

Friday 18th toSunday 19th

Oct.

Club NightRaffle #1

Drawn

BSA OpenWater.

KawanaClub Night

Team MeetHeritage CityMaryborough

Club NewsThe new swimming season is well and truly upon us and with summer just around the corner it is time to bothreflect on a busy winter and look forward to things to come. This is also an opportunity to remind parents,supporters and swimmers of our collective responsibilities.

Since Nationals finished in April many things have occurred

A new committee has been appointed and is up and running. We have a new coach and he is really having a great impact on the swimmers. We have a number of new families on board and the enthusiasm they and their swimmers bring is

great. We have variety in the program with the introduction of Pilates on a Friday (some of the boys are

finding muscles and tendons they didnt even know existed)! Thanks Tania. We conducted an extremely successful short course meet which was not only a great fund raiser,

but a terrific advertisement for our club. Our swimmers competed in both the Brisbane and Queensland short course meets was well as

the John Paul College meet earlier in the year. They did us all proud!! We have 4 swimmers currently away with Drew at the National Schools swimming carnival in

Adelaide. We have a new underwater camera to help with technique and are working with Drew on other

equipment he would like to have.

In this edition:Page 1Club News

Page 2Coming up

Our Responsibilities

Page 3Swimmer Spotlight

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Coach Meetings

If you wish to have a meeting with Drew to

discuss how your swimmers is progressing or to discussthe squad structure please e-mail us and we can make a

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Coming up we have Our first 2013 Club night on Friday night Our first trip away as a club to Maryborough to compete in the Heritage City swim meet. We have

35 swimmers competing and a total of 83 people going. It will really feel like a Viking invasion. 2013 Brisbane Open Water Meet Saturday 5 thOctober - Nominations to Helen no later than

Friday 20thSeptember 2013 Queensland Open Water Championships 26thOctober - Nominations to Helen no later than

Friday 11thOctober 2013 Senior Metropolitan Championships 8 th10th November - Details not up on line yet

2013 Queensland Long Course Championships Saturday 14th20thDecemberNominations toHelen no later than 21stNovember

From a club perspective we are bidding for the date for our long course meet and continuallylooking at ways we can improve the club for the most important people in it, our swimmers.

Fingers crossed, Andrew Murphy has been using his well hidden charm and has a successfulbusiness ready to provide some significant financial support this year. Thanks Andrew.

Our responsibilitiesWith all this happening, it is timely for us as a committee to not only remember ourselves but also remind allparent supporters and swimmers of our commitment to providing a safe and supportive environment for ourswimmers to both achieve their goals and have fun.

The Club handbook is available at the club website and contains a myriad of information including our codeof conduct for all concerned with the club. We take this as our most serious obligation and both the club andeach family when you signed up, agreed to be also bound by the SAL ( Swimming Australia Limited) Childand Member welfare policy, which deals with many issues including

HarassmentBullyingUse of Social mediaMany other things.

A link to these policies can be found on both the Swimming Australia and Swimming Queensland Web sites.

The club handbook has the details of how to raise a concern should you have one as well as the contact

details of all committee members.As a parent, you can be a member of Swimming Queensland by registering as a parent. This does not costanything, but gets you access to information, and boosts our club numbers.

As a club we also have some individual responsibilities such as not having parents on pool deck duringtraining. This distracts the coach and the swimmers and has been a long held policy of the club. From timeto time you might see a committee member doing something on pool deck but this will always be around clubrequirements.Our most precious assets are our swimmers (sometimes we know it is hard to remember this)! Lets all worktogether to ensure they both learn the value of hard work and responsibility to each other whilst at the sametime have a great social environment in which to grow.

Thank-you again for making this a successful start to our new era as a club.

As a committee we are always keen to hear your views and any ideas.


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Swimmer SpotlightLOGAN VIKINGS QLD SHORT COURSE TEAM

Firstly congratulations to our QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSLuke HarrisGOLD 1500 freeCharly KuhnemannGOLD 50 back, 400free, 200 free, 400 IM,100 fly and SILVER in the 50breastLexie KuhnemannGOLD 50back and SILVER in the 50 breast

Ryan MurphyGOLD in 400 IM

Secondly there were many personal achievements at the meet.Jackson Aiono-Fatu8 second PB in his 200 back edging himcloser to National times. Carson BurgessTook 4 seconds of his50 back. Ethan BurtonAfter all the PBs he has done of late still managed another one!! 3 seconds off 100 back.Tori CartaTook a massive 15 off her 400 IM, 9 seconds off her 800 free and 3 off her 200fly. Julia ChristensenPBd in her 200 breast and placed top 10 in 200 breast, 50 breast and 100 breast. Chris Cover Nervous aboutgetting back into the pool after surgery but managed 12 seconds off his 200 breast placing in the top 10 and 4seconds off his 100 breast. Emily FinchUnwell on the day, still raced well placing 8thin her 50 breast. DanielHarrisTook over 3 seconds off his 200 IM. Luke Harris GOLD in the 1500 free and PBd in his 200 and 100

breast. Renee Holdstockplaced top 10 in both the 800 and 400 free. Ella HurstPBd in all her events taking 4seconds off her 100 breast and placed top 10 in her 100 back & breast. Tyler Hurst Took over 3 seconds off his400 fee and 200IM. Charly Kuhnemann Took home a whooping 5 GOLD and 1 SILVER!!! Lexie KuhnemannPBd in all her events taking home 1 GOLD and 1 SILVER as well as a top 10 finish in her 50free. ConnorMcGuirkPlaced in the top 10 for his 200 and 100 breast taking a huge 8 seconds off his 200 breast. RyanMurphyGold in his 400IM as well as taking over 2 seconds off his 200 back. Jayden NicollPBd in his 400IM,and did the PB of the meet taking a massive 23 seconds off his 200Fly. Mitchell PowerA 2 second PB in his 50breast and 6 second PB in his 100 breast placing top 10. Tayla Raines Placed top 10 in both her 200 breastraces and her 100 breast. Henry RohTook almost 10 seconds off his 400free and 3 seconds off his 200 freeplacing him 5th. Damien TroncPlacing top 10 in his 200 fly and 400IM but also taking 13 seconds off his 400IM11 seconds off his 200 breast. Alix WhitneyPBd in 5 of her 6 events taking over 2 seconds off her 50 back and

placed top 10 in her 100 free and 100 back.

Congratulations to all swimmers, you should all be very proud of your results!!

Helen Tronc 12th

Jayden Nicoll 16th

Renee Holdstock 22nd

Carsen Burgess 26th

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