Whats happening; THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS ON THE WEEKEND! The Carnival was a fabulous success. Newsletter w/c 12th February 2018

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1 Newsletter w/c 12th February 2018 THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS ON THE WEEKEND! The Carnival was a fabulous success. Whats happening; Sunday 18th February - Normal Nippers All Ages Sunday 25th February - Last Nippers for the Season All Ages Saturday 24th March - Nippers end of Season Party (TBC) Sunday 20th May - Bronze, SRC and Life Saving Awards presentation Saturday 26th May - Club presentation Night (TBC) PATROL ROSTER Patrol Gear Room, First Aid Room Showers: Showers and First Aid Room are for first aid treatment only please do not use the showers or store personal belongings. The Patrol Gear room is only for Patrol items only. Your assistance in keeping these areas clean and tidy is appreciated. Use the following links to keep on top of your patrols and hours: Patrol Calendar SLSA Members Portal Coffee Cart Service Each Sunday, bright and early, you can find the brilliant people from three beans set up and ready to wake you up at the ever so convenient location, upstairs in the club house how good is that?!?!

2 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMPETITORS OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKENDS.. Lots of fun and Medals for all our Masters, Opens and Nippers Branch Carnivals. Read more below. Well done to all our Water Nipper competitors who had great Carnival. THANK YOU TO ALL THE WATER SAFETY, IRB CREWS AND OFFICIALS, WITHOUT YOU GIVING UP YOUR TIME OUR MEMBERS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COMPETE. CONGRATULATIONS to the Red Rockets who are the NSW under 19 s women s representative team at the ASRL. BOAT NEWS!! Over the last two weekends have been a weekend of R&R for our boat crews as we opted out of any carnivals and Branch Championships. Key highlights were:

3 DD s crews getting used to the conditions of Perth, training out of Fishos All Butt One caught a monster of a wave in at queensie, and then proceed to nearly lose Snel out the side of the boat when the sweep oar snapped on the last push [trough lollies - guess which oar he had] Reality Kings and All Butt One sporting the red and yellow for patrol Nick Varley has a new under 23 s team out on the water in the afternoons Squishing 6 crews under a ¾ sized tent as the double was AWOL in the Collaroy club following the nippers carnival Our 3 sweeps went around the cans 31 times over the two days (DD doing 45% of those with 14 trips) Every crew made the finals with a final medal tally - gold (3) silver (1) bronze (2) - back to back branch champs for Mudguts in mens reserves Col White that was an impressive row after watching All Butt One finish in second place, after trailing all crews significantly following a mishap at the start Red Rockets - shaking off falling out of the boat in a highside at the shorey, to win convincingly in their next race This weekend could be shaping up to be epic with forecasts of large surf thanks to a cyclone off shore! Who's who in Team Q - Introducing Bill If you haven t seen Bill Sheridan on the sand yet, you would definitely know him from his photographs! But how does a man from Redfern end up capturing the Northern Beaches boaties at their finest? It was 1976 and Bill got an invite to study antiquities (old stuff) at a university in Greece. Prior to going he took a few snaps of Australian things to do a slide show while over there (and by slide show I really do mean slides, this is prepowerpoint people). A couple of lovely German school teachers were in the audience and asked Bill to send over some slides of Australian surf carnivals (remembering this is also pre-facebook so it required a lot of faith that Bill would snap these pics and post them to Germany..must have been some lovely ladies). Back home Bill heard about a significant carnival at Collaroy and decided that was his shot (literally). Seeing a random man snapping some pics the President at the time requested the footage. Liking what he saw he kept inviting Bill back and the rest as they say is history! I would include a pic but he s always the one behind the camera! BRANCH CARNIVAL NEWS!! NIPPERS Congratulations to Queensie Nippers who participated in the Branch water & beach carnivals over the past 2 weekends. You competed in true Queensie style, with lots of enthusiasm and most of all with great sportsmanship. Thank-you to carnival comp manager Andrew Townsend for all his organization, parent water safety, masters officials and age managers for making everything run smoothly. Branch water highlights: Our young gun U9 Eli won Silver in the swim. Eli joined the U10 team Ben and Sam to make up a board relay. The U11 powerhouse water team Reid, Toby and Hamish, Chloe, Sophia and Bronte competed strongly in both board and swim, an age group showing outstanding team commitment. Ella (U12) joined Laura (U13) to finish 5 th in the board rescue heat. The gun U13 s were 10 th in the Cameron relay-archie, Marcus, Laura and Mercy. Branch Beach highlights: The day began with the newly formed march past team looking fab and doing Queensie proud. This was followed by our all-age who made the Final: Congrats Eli, Briony, Cooper, Nieve, Marcus and Maddi. There were lots of top 6 finishes with points for Queensie. Highlights included: U14: Gold in the 2 person R and R: Maddi & Zahra U13: Bronze in the 2 person R and R: Alex & Amelie U13: Finalists in the mixed relay: Zoe, Olivia, Marcus and Ben. U12: Chloe, Nieve and proudly represented the U12 s!! U11 Gold in the sprint relay: Cooper, Truth, Leo and Zach U11 Gold in the sprints and flags: Cooper U11 Finalist in flags: Zach & Truth U10 4 th Position in the mixed relay: Briony, Luana, Sam & Ben U10 4 th Position in flags: Luana

4 U9 Silver in the sprint relay: Eli, Tas, Thomas & Leon U9: Bronze in sprints: Eli U9 mixed relay team finalists: : Eli, Tasman, Emilia, Aly, Thomas, Leon, Lucy, Alyssa. U8: Gold in sprint: finalist in flags: Jake. Well done all other U8 s n your first carnival and making up your relay teams: Jake, Lucas, Jayden, Ky, Charlotte, Jessica, Jake,Luke, Jaya, Kaiyan, Jessie and Chloe. Queensie Nippers cannot compete at carnivals unless they are supported by our Queensie Officials and water safety who volunteer their time at Branch. A HUGE Thanks to Water safety: Emily Thornton, Phil Kelly, Matt Gee, Matt Rowe, Mac House, Zoe Prelc, Trudy Rebbeck, Anthony Rose, Jake Condon, Chris Shaw, Hayley Economous. IRB x6 included Andrew Thompson-Ko, Andrew Townsend, Adrian Halliday, Justin McGirr, Jayson Elkins. To Junior branch water officals: Craig Susans, Allan Tier, Mark Clare-Nazer, Kevin Harris, Col White and Robyn Holt. Junior branch BEACH OFFICIALS: Robyn Henderson, Steve Nelson, Annabel Nelson, David Shearsby, Ross Collins, Mel Way, Greg Gardner, Joe Iemma, Sue Brown, Ian Johnson, Gero Ferrugio, Simon Dorahy, Linda Burrell, Shelly Hoy, Steve Hoy, Gabi Davis, Merrillee Linegar, Phil Bird. MASTERS WATER There was a good rollup of Queenscliff Masters water competitors at the Branch Championships held at Collaroy on Saturday 3 February. The weather was fine and hot and the surf was small with a very testing shore break that put paid to many finishes. Branch champions were: * 150yrs Taplin (Pete Nankervis, Peter Dean and Sam Hart) * 110yrs Ski Relay (Matt Carey, Mark Clare-Nazer and Chris Allum) * 150yrs Ski Relay (Jez Lai, Dave Slennett and Grant Henderson) * 110yrs Swim Teams (Chris Allum, Pete Nankervis and Josh Ferrett) * 170yrs Swim Teams (Danny White. Tim Hayes and Phil Bird) * 30-34yrs Double Ski (Chris Allum and Sam Hart) * 30-34yrs Ski (Chris Allum) * 70yrs+ Swim (Danny White) * 70yrs+ Tube (Danny White) * 70yrs+ Ironman (Danny White) * 70yrs+ Board Rescue (Danny White and Ed Kwanten. The club was sad to learn of the death of Michael Crowe aged 56years. VALE MICHAEL CROWE.. Michael the eldest son of Life member David and Dot -both deceased - had been in ill health for a number of years.he had competed for the club in swimming and junior R&R in the 70s and had played a mountain of rugby for Wakehurst through junior and sub district ranks. He was a long term patrolling member and for many years a capable patrol captain.

5 SURF LIFE SAVING LONG SERVICE AND PATROL SERVICE AWARDS.. Did you know that Surf Life Saving issues Long Service Awards for the following years of Service. The Club recently awarded a few of these to Long Service members at the AGM. If you qualify for 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 75 years award please logon or create a SLSA portal account. Click here to find out how. Surf Life Saving National Patrol Awards, SLSA also issue National Patrol Awards for 10, 15, 20 years patrol service. The Club is keen to recognise our members and would appreciate recognising our Long Serving Patrol members. Please logon or create a SLSA portal account. Click here to find out how. You apply through your portal account. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEWLY APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS.. KEN PRIOR - Deputy President I joined the club in 1996 when my two boys joined nippers, surf clubs were new to me. Ed Riley immediately threw me a whistle, and an age managers shirt to run the under 8's. The following year I was asked to be Chairman of Junior Activities commonly referred to as "Big Nip". I did that for 3 years before passing the baton to Bert Bertrand. However in the meantime I threw a whistle and age managers shirt to Rob Daniel, he stll hasn't forgiven me! Nipper parents at the time who all helped included Barb Riley, Tim Hayes, Phil Bird, Nick Shorter, Tom Mitchell, Andrew Somerville, Baz Antella, Paul Taylor and Tony Abbott to name a few. Peter Daley and David Piper were inspirational leaders of the club. I have continued to be a patrol member on and off over the years as time permitted, learning an enormous amount from Jimmy Ashton. I look forward to contributing more to the club in an administrative role in the future. MADDIE PERKINS - Junior Club Captain For those who don t know me or haven t seen me around the club, my name is Maddie Perkins and I am exited to be the Junior Club Captain this season I ve been a proud member of Queensie for almost 10 years now and have loved every moment of being a part of the club. As well as being Patrol 12 Captain, I ve also been a Bronze and SRC trainer for the last 5 years, and I m member of the IRB Racing Team. If you see me on the sand, please come up and say hi! I d love to meet as many new members as possible and hear great ideas about new and exciting things for the club to do. BEACH AND WATER TRAINING Nippers, Cadets and Open training with our wonderful and skillful Coaches Queensie Nippers and Cadets and Open Training, now has it s own App using the Team App platform download it now, to stay up to date with all the latest information. Follow these steps: 1. Download Team App from the Apple or Google Play app store via the following links App Store: Google Play Store: 2. Sign up to Team App. Please identify Kids or Competitors name and age groups. You will be sent an to confirm your registration. 3. Log into the App and search for QUEENSIE NIPPERS or "Team Q Board". 4. Choose your applicable access group(s).

6 5. If you don t have a smartphone go to to sign up and view this App online. NEW AT THE UNIFORM SHOP!! CHEEKI insulated 600ml bottles. Unbelievable price $10 so get in quick to get your Queensie bottles, before they run out. We have just received a New order of T-shirts. Queensie hoodies, towels, hooded towels, zipped white shirts, swimming costumes, backpacks are available at the Queensie shop and could be great Christmas gifts. Don't forget you can get your Sunscreen from the Shop as well. Pop into the Shop in the New Year.

7 MEMBERSHIPS NOW OVERDUE All membership forms are now overdue,if you have not renewed you are not covered by insurance on the beach or at any training. Please click here to get all forms needed. Please return to office ASAP if the office is unattended please leave them in the drop box at the top of the stairs or alternatively to Carla This season, Aussies 2018 competitors will head over the beautiful west side of Australia to Scarborough Beach in Perth, Western Australia from the 14th April until the 22nd April. Perth is an expensive trek when considering airfares, equipment logistics and accommodation. Competitors are encouraged and urged to get involved with fundraising to help get to Perth. Please contact Garry Farrar ( or or Col White ( or for all fundraising efforts you would like to commence for your 2018 Aussies campaign.

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