Parramatta City Swim Club

Yesterday 43 members attended our club's annual ten pin bowling afternoon at Tenpin City Lidcombe. As always, everyone had a great time and lots of pizza. This event has been held since 2010 as a reward for our hardy swimmers that compete during winter. Well done to Graeme H. and Jenny C. who had the highest scoring games.

The report has some interesting insight including an the increase in the downing of older Australian. There also has been a ongoing increase in downing of people born overseas with the highest countries being India, China, Nepal and the UK.

National Drowning Reports Every year, Royal Life Saving produces a National Drowning Report. The report examines the factors that contribute to drowning deaths in Australia.

The club's new Leaderfins pool lifesaving fins have arrived! With many of our competitors not having access to these fins last season, the club has invested in 6 new pairs to ensure our competitors are not disadvantaged in the future.
Pool lifesaving is critical to the club's strategy in retaining and attracting members, especially teenagers who are looking at retiring from swimming. Royal Life Saving - NSW ACT Tasmania

Congratulations to Romee L., Lina O. and Irene L. who represented NSW at the recent Australian Schools Championships in the Gold Coast. The girl’s won 9 individual & relay medals (Romee: 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze, Lina: 1 Gold & Irene: 1 Silver, 1 Bronze)
Romee & Lina were also part of the NSW U10 girls team that won the 4x50m freestyle relay in an Australian record time of 2:03.29. Well done girls and the Second Wind coaches!

Entries for Parramatta City’s qualification morning to be held on Saturday 14 September at Granville Pool are now open. See https://www.parracityswimclub.com.au/qualifying-sept-2024

The event is limited to Parra City club members. Entries are via Swim Central and will be $2 each.

Second claim swimmers with the club should email [email protected] with the events they wish to enter.

Anyone new to competitive swimming and who has not previously registered with a club is welcome to attend. Please contact the club for details on how to enter.

Congratulations to the 12 clubs members that received trophies at yesterday's Royal Life Saving - NSW ACT Tasmania presentation for the 2024 season. Special mention must go to our amazing U10 & U12 who had a clean sweep of the awards presented for both the NSW State Championships and the Interclub competition.

At yesterday's Royal Life Saving - NSW ACT Tasmania presentation for the 2024 season, Parramatta City was awarded The Judge Harvey Prior Memorial Trophy for the interclub point score. With this being only the clubs second season of lifesaving competition, it was a amazing to win over 60% of the age group awards for the Interclub competition. Congratulations to all the team, coaches and helpers. Much thanks must also go to Cumberland City Council for their support of our lifesaving program.

The progressive points score for the club's 2024 Winter Season up to the 29 June is now available. This will be the last update, with the final results announced at the Winter presentation in November.

NOTE THE DATE OF THE GIRLS POOLSIDE CHAT IS NOW 3 AUGUST
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The first “Girls Poolside Chat” will be at 10.30am on 3RD of AUGUST in the meeting room at the pool. Subsequent get-togethers will normally be held the week after the club monthly meeting. Any parent or swimmer wanting more information should talk to our wonderful older girls, Chiara, Eloise, Melissa & Michelle, who are running the sessions

The club’s July Newsletter in now available at https://www.parracityswimclub.com.au/news/20240630-newsletter

The newsletter contains the results of the club success at the SMNW Winter Championships and the NSW Pool Lifesaving Championships. It also provides information on what is happening over the next few months, including details of the new “Girl’s Poolside Chat” monthly get-togethers.

The first “Girls Poolside Chat” will be at 10.30am on 3RD of AUGUST in the meeting room at the pool. Subsequent get-togethers will normally be held the week after the club monthly meeting. Any parent or swimmer wanting more information should talk to our wonderful older girls, Chiara, Eloise, Melissa & Michelle, who are running the sessions

With significant growth over the past few years, Parramatta City has become the second largest swimming club in NSW in 2023-24. Well done everyone!
It is interesting that 5 of the 7 largest clubs in the state come from the Swimming Metropolitan North West Area.

Some great shots of Parramatta City Swim Club members competing at the recent NSW Pool Lifesaving Champs courtesy of Royal Life Saving - NSW ACT Tasmania.

The presentation for the club's 2023-24 summer season was held yesterday at Granville Swim Centre. The event was well attended with over 80 members in attendance.
Congratulations to all those that won awards. Special mention must go to Jethro C. and Ella M, for winning the male & female point score, respectively, and to Azalea M. for winning the Adrian Noonan Encouragement Award.

Congratulations to our club's captains and vice captains for the 2024-25 season. Captains are Melissa & Liam, and vice-captains are Celina & Tom.

A happy Parramatta City State Pool Lifesaving team at the end of a very tiring but successful three days at SOPAC

Full results for the recent State Pool Lifesaving Champs are now available on the club's website at
https://www.parracityswimclub.com.au/statechamps-lifesaving-jun-2024
Overall the club collected five 1st, 10 2nd and 12 3rd individual medals as well as medals in three relays. This was a significant improvement on last year’s result. The club was also placed 2nd in the overall points score for the Royal Lifesaving clubs.
Well done team!

Royal Life Saving - NSW ACT Tasmania post about the recent State Champs include some good photos of Parra City competitors. Do you know who they are?

Highlights from the 2024 NSW Pool Lifesaving State Championships Royal Life Saving and Surf Life Saving NSW teamed up to host the 2024 NSW Pool Life Saving State Championships.

The progressive points score for the 2024 Winter Season is now available. With only 5 points separating the top 10 places, it is still anyone's to win. Amazing, 54 swimmers have competed in races so far this season!

Congratulations to the 21 club swimmers that competed at the NSW State Pool Lifesaving Championships over the weekend. These championships include swimmers from many of the strongest Surf Lifesaving Club in the state and therefore winning any medals was going to be tough. Therefore, it was wonderful to see more than 2/3 of the team winning at least one medal in either an individual or relay event. Even more pleasing, was the way our members challenged themselves and supported each other over the three days.
Much thanks must also go to the members that gave their time to officiate/help over the weekend. Thanks also to Royal Life Saving - NSW ACT Tasmania for putting on such a well organised event!
Full results will be issued when the become available.

Over the next three days, 21 members of the club's lifesaving team, aged from 10 to 59, will be competing at the NSW Pool Lifesaving Championships at SOPAC. The level of competition will be fierce as competitors from Surf Lifesaving will again be competing this year.
Our club may not win as many medals as others, but our close knit team will certainly stand out for our club spirit over the weekend. We wishes all our members the best of luck and have a great time!

Congratulations to 36 swimmers from the club that competed at SMNW Winter Championships last weekend. It was wonderful to see that 60%+ of the swims were personnel best.

Full results for the event can be found at https://www.parracityswimclub.com.au/winter-champs-2024

Overall, the club came away with 9 Gold, 20 Silver & 10 Bronze individual medals, which is the club’s best results at a district championships in many years. Special mention must go to Romee L. with 9 individual medals, Eileen Jia L. with 8 medals, Taehyun K. with 7 medals, David L. with 6 medals and Lina O with 3 medals.

Much thanks must go to coaches Bobby, Justin, Micah & Lucas for all their hard work preparing the swimmers for the weekend.

Much thanks to the 25 members that gave their valuable time yesterday to help with the BBQ and cake stall at Bunnings Rydalmere. Profits from the event will be used to cover training and accreditation cost of our volunteer instructors and coaches.
Much thanks to Bunnings Warehouse Australia and The British Sausage, Ham & Bacon Co. for they wonderful support.

As usual, the club will be running a BBQ and Cake Stall on Monday of the long weekend at Bunnings Rydalmere. If you are in the neighbour tomorrow, drop in, say hello and buy a sausage sandwich and some cakes to support the club.

Best wishes to the 36 swimmers from Parra City who will compete over the weekend at Sydney Metro North West (SMNW) Winter Short Course Championships at SOPAC. With over 1000 swimmers attending, even qualifying for this event should be seen as an achievement. We hope everyone achieves plenty of PBs and has a enjoyable time.

The full race program is now available at https://www.parracityswimclub.com.au/winter-champs-2024

The club’s June Newsletter in now available on the club website at https://www.parracityswimclub.com.au/news/2024606-newsletter.

The newsletter contains the results of the AGM and details on what is happening over the next few months, including details of our upcoming competitions.

Please read the newsletter so you do not miss out on anything happening within the club.

Today, 19 of the club's volunteer swim instructors completed their annual resuscitation course. Our club is so lucky to have these wonderful people that give their time freely each week to teach the local community and our members. Much thanks must go to Royal Life Saving - NSW ACT Tasmania and Cumberland City Council for their support for our learn to swim efforts.

Congratulations to the 51 swimmers from the club that received a 2023-24 JX Junior Excellence award from Swimming Australia. This included 8 Gold, 10 Silver, 11 Bronze & 22 Blue awards. This is an amazing result for our small club!

If you are wondering what Granville and Sydney looked from the air in 1943, go to maps.six.nsw.gov.au and set the background to the 1943 air imagery. The background setting is on the top right of the screen.
The image below is of Granville & Clyde, with Granville Pool in the middle of the image.