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Matthew White is attending the national breaststroke camp - first from region for over a decade! Club Night begins 2nd of October at the Glemmore Pool - see you there! |
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 MATTHEW WHITE - ATTENDING THE NATIONAL BREASTSTROKE CAMP
First swimmer from the region to attend in over a decade! congratulations Matthew White.  NATIONAL AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN SYDNEY 13TH - 19TH APRIL 2009 6 swimmers represented Rocky City Swimming club - our largest contingent yet and we had amazing results. Congratulations to these members and coach Shane. Miranda and Jared have now qualified for Flipper squad with Qld Swimming, Maddison, Liam and Todd for Bronze squad and Rhys for Jnr Development squad. ROCKY CITY placed 38th from 203 clubs. MIRANDA BELL - 16YRS GIRLS - 6 events: 18th - 100 free 4th - 400 free 8th - 100 back 10th - 200 free BRONZE - 800 free SILVER - 200 back MADDISON BYGRAVE - 13YRS GIRLS - 2 events: 13th - 100 Free 11th - 50 Free RHYS MAWN - 15YRS BOYS - 2 events: 100 Breast 200 Breast JARED O'HANLON - 13YRS BOYS - 3 events: GOLD -100 Breast 4th - 200 Breast 24th - 400IM LIAM RAYFIELD - 13YRS BOYS - 3 events: 9th -100 Breast 12th - 200 Breast 11th - 400IM TODD RUSSELL - 15YRS BOYS - 4 events: 4th -200 Fly 50 Free 200 Free 8th - 100 fly AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS & WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS 2009 MARCH 17TH - 23RD SYDNEY MATTHEW WHITE - OPEN 5th - 200 Breast 7th - 100 Breast 11th - 50 Breast SCHOOL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS - APRIL 2009 Primary Competition: Cooper Blackwood and Laura House Secondary Competition: Jodie Mulvihill; Liam Rayfield; Gabrielle Wilson; Madison Iskov; Maddison Bygraves CQ CHAMPIONSHIPS - MARCH 2009 Congratulations to all of the Rocky City Swimmers on a gutsy effort at the CQ Championships. The swimmers were a credit to the club and were rewarded with some great times for all of their hard work throughout the season. Rocky City claimed 2nd place with 40 swimmers competing. We were very proud of the strength of our swimmers. We gave a good fight to retain the CQ Champion title, however it is a hard to beat a team that has a lot higher competitor numbers. Thank you to the many supporters for their help on the day with tents and timekeeping. Thanks to the many businesses that supported our club with sponsorship of the club shirts: - CQ PODIATRY - SPLASH-A-BOUT - WENDY'S CITY CENTRE PLAZA - KAWANA KITCHENS - BENCRAFT - TREND INTERIORS - FITZROY ELECTRICAL - BERSERKER TAVERN - BELL THOMASSON - TOMKINS PROPERTY AGENTS - CITY HEART MEDICAL Congratulations to the many swimmers from Rocky City who were named Age Champions and Runner Up.    FEBRUARY 2009
Rhys Mawn was the winner of the Kevin Clamp Memorial at the Blackwater carnival. Rhys was awarded this for winning the 100m breastroke. This is the 5th year in a row that a Rocky City member has collected this award. Matthew White has won it the previous 4 years.  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS - DECEMBER 2008
Congratulations to the 15 state age and open atheletes who competed at the State Championships. Rocky City was awarded 2nd place for Queensland Country. During the carnival Matthew White achieved times to be eligible for the Swimming Queensland Gold Squad. Matthews program is now supervised by the Queensland Academy of Sport and Scott Volkers will be attending training sessions for all Rocky City Swimmers in February for a few days. OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS FOR 2008/2009 SEASON
Brian McLeod was chosen as a member of the Triathlon Australian Youth Olympic Team Brian and Matthew McLeod selected as Qld Academy of Swimming members 5 athletes attended National Surf Life Saving Championships, where all made finals of their chosen events and two received medals. Sam Bell awarded a gold medal at the National Surf life Saving Championships. 4 athletes were State Surf Life Saving Championship medalists.  |
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