State Short Course - Congratulations
Dear Powerpointers,
Congratulations to the team of 40 Powerpoints swimmers who competed at the State Short Course Championships at MSAC last weekend. Thank you to Rosa Montague, Jennie Bucknell, Helen Whitford and Laurie Healy for their work on the relays and individual entries. A huge effort and as you will read, it paid off. Great work competition team!
Overall Result
We came second with 1634 points. Marlins were victorious with 1777 points. Doncaster were third with 1185 points.It was a magnificent effort by a super group of people. Thank you to all those who swam.Relay Highlights
240+ Mixed 100m Medley RelayNational Record with a 1:14.77Steve Watkins, Marijke Alderson, Herbert Orenstein, Rosa Montague 160+ Mixed 100m Medley RelayNational Record with a 55.54Helen Whitford, Stuart Moffatt, Brett Davidson, Jennie Bucknell 160+ Mixed 200m Medley RelayNational Record with a 2:00.89 160+ Mixed 100m Freestyle RelayNational Record with a 50.16Stuart Moffat, Helen Whitford, Shane Gore, Jennie BucknellIndividual Highlights
Congratulations to the following people who scored maximum points for the club in individual swims - 50 points. They were all obviously age group winners. Melinda Kemp Stuart MoffattRosa Montague Michael MoloneyHelen Whitford Marijke Alderson broke a State Record in the 200m Breaststroke with a 3:32.71I feel the need to mention that Marijke also scored 49 points for the club Stuart Moffatt broke a National Record in the 100m Breaststroke with a 1:10.78 Rosa Montague broke 4 State Records in the:200m Freestyle with a 2:54.43100m Fly with a 1:39.22200m IM with a 3:31.61200 Fly with a 3:42.32 Peter Rainey broke a State Record in the 200m IM with a 2:25.58And Peter also scored 48 points for the club Helen Whitford broke 8 records, but individually she swam 4 National Records in the:100 Backstroke with a 1:09.3750 Backstroke with a 32.68200 IM with a 2:36.31200 Backstroke with a 2:29.22 And a State Record in the 100m Fly with a 1:10.90Great to see!
It was great to see:Aida Tuciute back racing for the club in both relays and individually. It was also great to Lizzie Hone, a long-time H20 swimmer, racing after 26 years of no pool compsChris Andrew showing of his speed - sub 30 secs for an endurance man is great effortAnna Lang swimming for the old club!Colin Moore, a speedy new recruit - sub 30 in both the 50m Free and FlySteve Watkins - surely driving from Tocumwal on the Murray to race for us, is worth a mention!Peter Rainey back in action swimming with probably more power than ever - great swim in the IMTime-keeping
Well, a big thank you to our main 3 non-swimming volunteers. But it was also a bit of a bungle! Robbie Friedman turned up for training, thinking the comp was on Sunday, so time-kept for a while. John Milne missed his race as he was so absorbed by recording the times. And Ken Holmes, well, there was no bungle there. Thank you very much Ken for coming along and giving Powerpoints much needed support. If there is ever a flipper competition Ken, we are entering you!Dinner
Thank
you to Liz Gosper and the social sub-committee for organising the post
race celebrations. This kicked off at the Pelican, with a solid dozen
sports stars downing a few well-earned drinks. Leo's,
in Fitzroy Street where else, was the host for our dinner. And what a
great dinner it was. 45 people attended, ranging from our finest
stalwarts, like Club Captain Laurie Healy, Les Pearce, the Ray's, Rob
O, to name but a few, to the Riordan, Andrew and Williamson families. A
whole heap of pasta, red wine and beer was consumed by a very merry
crowd. It was a great dinner. After hours
celebrations kicked on at the Mink Bar. A hard-core group drank strange
Russian concoctions til the wee hours of the morning. Apologies to
those who still had a hangover 24 hours later, but Capriosca's are one
of my favourite drinks. Peter Borain joined us, which was great. I was
very pleased to hear he will be back competing for the club soon until
someone mentioned that he is in my age group now! Ah well, I still do
hope to crack the top 100 in the Worlds in Perth. Maybe...
Anyway,
that is all for now. Who did I miss, what did I forget, I don't know.
But apologies if something slipped my mind. It was a great competition,
and thank you to everyone who helped out in the way they did. Swim on,
swim well, and remember, the club has many great training sessions on,
and to keep them, swimmers are needed in the water. So, see you soon?
Hope so.
Archer Talbot
President
