The Official Newsletter of Masters Swimming Victoria

www.au sivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au www.au sivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au June 2011 www.aussivic.com.auon THE BLOCKS The Official Newsletter of Masters Swimming Victoria www.aussivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au www.aussivic.com.au Congratulations 2011 National Swimmers of the Meet Jennie Bucknell & Mark Thompson - Powerpoints Contents Call for Officials 2 Coaching in Sri Lanka 3 National results 4 Around the Clubs Malvern Marlins 5 Geelong Catfish 6 Casey Seals 6 Surrey Park 7 Gippsland Flippers 7 Forms Sale Sadasts Interclub 8 Casey Seals Splash Interclub 9 State SC Championships 10 Masters Games Flyer 11 September Newsletter Submissions are due September 1. Please submit report in word format and images separately to ebony.ebenwaldner@gmail.com Upcoming Meets June 25 Sale Sadast Morwell July 23 Seals Splash Casey Arc August 6 State SC MSAC 20-28 Mildura Masters Mildura on the blocks vol 9 nos 2 June 2011 ISSN 1835-9493 2011 Masters Swimming Victoria Published by Masters Swimming Victoria Level 2, Sports House, 375 Albert Road, Albert Park, Victoria 3206. t 03 9682 5666 f 03 9682 5444 e admin@mastersswimming.org.au w www.aussivic.org.au Masters Swimming Victoria is now on

MEMO TO: All Victorian Masters Swimming Clubs FROM: MSV Board DATE: Tuesday 7 th June 2011 SUBJECT: Shortage of officials for pool events At the recent MSV Board Meeting, the Technical Director advised the meeting that there are not enough qualified officials regularly available for the Victorian pool events. This is now a serious issue for the organisation and action needs to be taken to attract people to volunteer for these positions. We need your (the Clubs) assistance in encouraging people to qualify for these technical positions. At the request of the Board, the Technical Director, John Marshall, provided data on which clubs our officials are associated with. The table below shows the distribution by club of our available pool deck officials. The numbers in the table clearly do not even vaguely correlate with the membership numbers of each of the clubs in MSV. Qualified Part qual Trainee Total (no club) 2 1 2 5 VDC 1 1 VMV 5 1 4 10 VNL 1 1 VSP 1 1 9 3 6 18 Since the original data was presented at the board meeting, another of our qualified referees has retired so the total is now 9. Of the 9, one is semi retired, one is about to relocate interstate and another lives well out of Melbourne and consequently only officiates at a few meets so the core group is 6 rather than 9. Under MSA rules, there are 6 positions on pool deck which have to be covered by a qualified official for the meet to satisfy its sanction requirements i.e. for records to be certified and for times to be eligible for Top Ten etc. This is the minimum number of officials and is based on having one Inspector of Turns (IoT) at each end of the pool. We can theoretically have one IoT per lane at each end of the pool which means we could use up to 24 officials on deck for a meet at MSAC. In practical terms, 3 or 4 IoTs at each end is a reasonable balance between officials having too many lanes to cover and having too little to do which means 10 or 12 officials are needed per meet. Day 2 of the recent LDSC meet highlighted how tight the current position is. Only 4 of the fully qualified referees were available plus 2 of the partly qualified. Since the 2 partly qualified are accredited in some positions on pool deck we were just able to cover all 6 required positions. Rostering the bare minimum of officials is a risky situation because it leaves no scope if anybody falls ill for example or simply doesn t turn up on the day. One less official and the meet would have been reduced to a time trial. At first glance, having 6 trainees is a good position to be in however, day 2 of the LDSC again highlights how tight the numbers are. Only 2 of the trainees were available and one of those did the marshalling because none of the normal marshalling team, including trainees, were available. We were only able to cope with that shortage in marshalling because it was a long distance meet. If it had been a sprint meet, we would have had to have taken another official off pool deck and that still would have left us short in marshalling. All the preceding information serves only to highlight that we need more officials to be able to ensure we can cover meets adequately, let alone cater for the inevitable retirements. Where will they come from? Most likely from clubs, either swimmers who want to give something back to their sport or associates of swimmers who are interested in getting involved with the sport even though they don t participate themselves. Having a swimming background is an advantage to a swimming official but it is not mandatory. Some sports do have paid officials and many of them officiate regularly because it is a good supplement to their normal income. Masters Swimming is unlikely to be attractive to a professional official because it only offers maybe 8 or 10 opportunities to work per year and then with no regular or predictable pattern to it. Why would a potential professional official put in the amount of time required to train as a swimming official and be assessed as competent in each discipline when they can only work infrequently and irregularly? More common than paid officials, particularly with team sports, is that it is mandatory that each team or club has to provide an unpaid official as a condition of entry into a competition. ACTION: The Board is asking all clubs to submit ideas on finding more individuals to train as officials. Please send all thoughts on the matter to the office. Lists of willing candidates would be appreciated.

Coaching in Sri Lanka - Bruce Allender I had the opportunity for a volunteer coaching gig with the Swimming Coaches Association of Sri Lanka in May this year. This was a series of theory and practical workshops over a week, and followed on from the pioneering work in setting up the Association several years ago by Anita Killmier when she lived in Sri Lanka. In the intervening period the usual political changes have occurred, in common with sporting bodies around the world, and the mid level coaches at pools, schools and universities have struggled to maintain an effective level of coaching proficiency. Other factors are the prohibitive cost of bringing in top-level coaches to teach and only basic coaching standards and accreditation. But it did mean that the type of course MSA developed for their L1M Coach training was at about the right level of most of coaches, and stretched some of them. My presentations were a cut down version of the L1M - nowhere near as good as the specialist professionals we use, but hopefully managed to get the principles across (with a translator and lots of gesticulating). It helped that many of the coaches still remembered Anita with great admiration, which boosted my credibility. The workshop program was a work in progress, they did not really know what they wanted, and neither did I until on the ground - for example they suddenly asked for help with the rules and regulations of swimming. Apologies to John Marshall, because being but a trainee official in the Victorian system, I still endeavoured to sound like an authority (after quickly re-reading the FINA and MSA rules fortuitously on my USB stick). Hopefully they have no serious new bad habits, and I managed to correct a few. But that was also part of the pleasure of being there, the desire to learn across the whole swimming spectrum (drew the line at swimming pool maintenance). Coaches from all over the country attended the workshops, with up to 70 at some sessions. They really are starved of current information of swimming, so it was a pleasure to see their enthusiasm and hear their questions. The swimmers themselves were incredibly keen to learn and improve, but just did not know how. Translating the theory into practise remains one of the challenges, with the coaches telling the athletes to do things because they were told to themselves, but not really knowing why. There is now a strong interest in learning to swim especially after the tsunami and the realisation of how many folks cannot swim. AusSwim and ASCTA have been involved in programs already and in Colombo city there are increasing numbers of excellent pool facilities. It is a visit for someone else to get out into the countryside and coastal areas to coach the coaches and teachers there that is the best way to amplify the message and outcomes. And the best compliment at the end - Thankyou, you talked at a level we could understand.

Congratulations to all Victorians who participated in the 2011 National Championships in Perth Trophy Inscription Winner 2011 Founders Trophy Founders Cup Donated by Mary Connolly National Treasurer 1976-84 for Claremont (MSWA) National Champion Club Annual Pointscore Competition (To commemorate Jack Brown - John s contribution to establish Masters Swimming in Australia) Runner-up Trophy 2011 National Championships Club Pointscore 2 nd Place Blacktown (MSNSW) Masters Swimming Australia Visitors Trophy 2011 National Championships Visitors Blacktown (MSNSW) Trophy for the top scoring club Vorgee Female 2011 Vorgee National Championships Jennie Bucknell (VPP) Swimmer of the Meet Female Swimmer of the Meet Vorgee Male 2011 Vorgee National Championships Mark Thompson (VPP) Swimmer of the Meet Male Swimmer of the Meet Vorgee National 2011 The Vorgee National Aerobics Talays (MSTas) Aerobic Award Award Vorgee National 2011 The Vorgee National Aerobics Talays (MSTas) Aerobic Trophy Trophy Annual Pointscore National Heart 2011 Heart Foundation Perpetual Elena Nesci (WCM) Foundation Trophy Trophy Masters Swimming National Championships Coach of the Year 2010 Masters Swimming Australia Francis Godden (VDC) Coach of the Year Official of the Year 2010 Masters Swimming Australia Noel Partridge (NCK) Age Group Trophy 72-119 years Age Group Trophy 120-159 years Age Group Trophy 160-199 years Official of the Year 2011 Masters Swimming National Championships 72-119 Years Relays Point Scores winner 2011 National 120-159 yrs Relays Pointscore Winners Donated by Josie Sanson MS South Australia 2011 Masters Swimming National Championships Relay Trophy 160-199 years Donated By Queensland Branch Powerpoints (VPP) Claremont (WCM) Claremont (WCM) Age Group Trophy 2011 National 200-239 yrs Relay Point Claremont (WCM)

Malvern Marlins This year we had 20 competitors at State Long Course Championships. Jan Jeffrey broke National records with her 100m and 200m Breast. and the State record for her 100m Free. Elana McNeil broke the State record in the 200m Fly and Michael Harding also achieved a State Record in the 100m Breast. We were second to Powerpoints overall. Our new club racing suits received lots of comments. Held over two weekends in May, LDSC attracted a small but hardy group of 7 Marlin endurance swimmers. Congratulations to Janette Dickey who broke the National Record in the 400 Fly by over 16 seconds and the State Record for 1500m Back. Pat Galvin and Michael Harding each broke the National Record for their age group in the 400m Breast. Our AGM was held on 28th March. Many thanks to the outgoing committee and welcome to Sharon Pretty, Beth Ashwood and Nicky Kerr who are returning to the committee after having a break. Following the AGM, long service awards were announced. Achieving 10 years of membership in 2011 are John Marshall, Eric Cirulis and Hilary Chatz and 20 year certificates were awarded to Michael O Flaherty, Wayne Woods and Trevor Skinner. A lively team of 20 Marlins headed west to Perth for the Masters National Swimming Championships in April. Seasoned campaigners and some new faces gave their all for our club, in and out of the water. Despite being unwell, Jan Jeffrey broke two National Records in the 200 IM. and 200 Back. Pat Galvin was chuffed to break his own National Record in the 200m Breast. by 5 seconds. (His younger female roommates must have given him wings!!) Nicky Kerr, Jan Jeffrey and George Corones (our 93 year old second claim member from Queensland) won every individual event they entered. Other multiple medal winners included Patrick Devine, Gerry Tucker, Brian Davis, Julia Burns and Joan Simpson. Joan also placed 3rd in the Open Water Swim. Marlins brought home 57 individual medals and 9 relay team medals altogether, well done! In this year s Swim Against Malaria, we raised over $270, by donating $5 each to swim 1500m. This money will go towards buying mosquito nets for children in malaria affected areas of the world. We celebrated the 21st Anniversary of the club at Georges in Camberwell on 21st May, with our annual Presentation Dinner. Julie Johnson was MC. Club Champions for 2010 were Jan Jeffrey and Pat Galvin, Best and Fairest was John Stanton, Most Improved was Mick Wilson and the Marlin Award went to Nicky Kerr. There were many other award winners, delicious meal and an entertaining slide show of club photos on the night! Thanks to Joan Simpson and the social committee for all the work they put in to make this, such a memorable night. Socially, we have also enjoyed a movie night to see Barneys Version. Congratulations to Michael Harding and his wife Sarah on the birth of their son Louis in April; a little brother for Isabella. Also to Sue Nevins on winning her age group at the King Island Imperial 20 ( i.e. 32 km) run on the Labour Day Long Weekend, Nicky Kerr for winning all 5 of the races she entered and her category of the Gatorade Triathlon series and Mick Wilson, who has just returned from Brazil, where he won the Pesadissimo Division of the 2011 Brazilian National Jiu Jitsu Championship.

Geelong Catfish We have had 5 of our squad swimmers regularly contesting the open water swims locally and one who travels further. John and Lynette enjoyed the evening Malvern Marlins meet despite goggle malfunctions and slow times. Lynette backed up and joined the other five Catfish women on the Sunday morning at Kardinia Pool for their Swim Classic. In its third year this is a meet for all ages with competitors ranging from 6 years old to 68. As there are relatively low numbers of Seniors entering, the age categories are wider than Masters Swimming but it was fun to line up with the youngsters encouraging them to respect their elders and give us a head start! (They didn t) At least we were used to a fast turn-around of events. Port Mussels squad had a number of Juniors and Seniors and we both tried to recruit for our clubs. Another local open water event is the Moorpanyal 1000, the largest free bay swim. It is a very friendly event with lots of spot prizes and often jelly fish to contend with. John always swims well and Lit and Lynette have become regulars at this event. Martin from the Western Alligators joined us this year in beautifully calm conditions. I only encountered 3 jelly fish but copped a nasty sting from the 2nd one. The Geelong Catfish have been out and about at meets in their new t-shirts and are hoping their new website will go live soon. Casey Seals The Casey Seals are once again preparing for the 24 Hour Mega Swim. We will be participating at the inaugural event at the Casey Arc on July 16th and 17th. The last 24 hour mega swim we participated in the club raised $4,457.00 for MS, with Michael Taylor our biggest contributor raising $1,655.00. Well done Mike. Anyone wishing to support the Seals in this event can donate at www. megaswim.com Talking about events at the Casey Arc the Seals are also preparing for the annual Seals Splash. As some of you may recall, last year we had to cancel our Seals Splash due to a lack of entries, so we do hope you all keep this date free in your diaries and support us this year. The program can be found at the back of this newsletter or can be downloaded from the Masters Swimming Victoria website. The Seals had a good turnout at the State Short Course long distance meet, with Ebony Ebenwaldner setting nationals records in the 400m and 800m Backstroke and Sarah Byron setting a new state record for the 800m IM. We also had almost every seal do a P.B s (of course including the swimmers who hadn t swum the event before). For those who were at the State SCLD event you would have seen the new Seals uniforms. Our new club bathers have now been complimented with new Club Caps, T-Shirts, Deck Shirts and Towels. The club would like to congratulate Nicole Berry and her partner Chris on their recent engagement. We wish them all the best in the lead up to their nuptials we also wish them well in their house hunting. Finally, the club would like to congratulate Sonia Halsvik, Raelene Warren and Megan Gooey on their outstanding performances at the National Championships. Dates set 2011. Come and Enjoy 9 Days of fantastic sport & recreation. August 20th - 28th Welcome to the new sports for the 2011 Games - Chess, Sotball, Touch Football. Get a team together and come to our wonderful city and enjoy the games. Nothing reveals so much about us as how we play the games we play. The team look forward to seeing you all again in 2011. http://www.milduramasters.com.au/

Surrey Park Seahorses Surrey Park Seahorses held their Annual Swimathon in May this year and once again swimmers raised funds for Down Syndrome Swimming Victoria. The Swimathon ran from Friday 1st April to Sunday 3rd April and 15 Surrey Park Swimmers competed during the Swimathon. Swimmers completed 37 events and swam a total of 72,450m. Somewhat short of the usual 100,000m plus of recent years perhaps due to the absence of a few Surrey Park swimmers who were unable to compete due to injury or absence overseas. Tom Fanning, with 5 swims, topped the table with over 10km swum, followed by Cassie Williams-Hill with just over 8km. Ian Betts swam just shy of 7.5km, Martin Haagen 6.75km and Darryl Flukes swam just over 6.5km. Amanda Kozik with the Seahorse banner A total of $2648.00 was raised for Down Syndrome Swimming Victoria. The Aggregate competition is again being hotly contested by Seahorse members with Ian Bett in the lead with 125, Mark Taylor second with 103 and Martin Haagen third with 83 and 19 Seahorses are working their way through the Aerobic program. There is still plenty of time for members to make their presence felt in both these competitions. Surrey Park Seahorses will celebrate their 20th Birthday this year and plans are already in the pipeline for a grand celebration to be held in October. The committee is hoping to locate all past Seahorse members to help us celebrate this important milestone. Gippsland Flippers With State Long Course and Nationals in Perth been and gone, we are happy to say we had swimmers in each. Peter Wilson made the Top 5 in 3 events in Perth, joining Powerpoints as a second claim member to secure Silver and Bronze in two relays. Sue Graham, Don Coupe and Peter Wilson all came home with medals from Long Course. It seems refurbishment of change facilities is the go this year, with our local Latrobe Council presently doing their delayed Summer maintenance at both Morwell and Newborough pool change rooms, making us walk down chilly and draughty corridors to access temporary change rooms in the interim brrrr! We are just putting the finishing touches to our proposed inaugural Interclub with a program completely rehashed following the unavoidable cancellation last year. The date has been established as Saturday 12th November, 2011 at Warragul 25m 8 lane pool. The swim calendar shows it as a Pairs Meet, which it is not!, although it has two events which will require a Pair of swimmers doing a 2x50m relay. All of these proposals are subject to approval by the Swim Meet Committee. We hope to have the program out and into circulation in a week or two, and would welcome any constructive criticism you may have to offer. Please forward your ideas to Sue Graham on 5127 5743 or Don Coupe on 5127 2446.

The Sale & District AUSSI Swim Team ANNUAL INTERCLUB SWIM MEET PROGRAM OF EVENTS 1 50 m freestyle - Chris Fielding Trophy (Closest to nominated time. Must enter time to 100th of a second. eg 36.15 sec) 2. 25 m butterfly/sidestroke 3 200 m freestyle 10 min BREAK 4. 50 m backstroke 5 50 m breast stroke 6 Mixed Norm Fargher Relay (closest to nominated time, enter on the day) All events can be entered. Competition Details: 5.15 5.45 pm Warm up (1 Lane of the 25 metre indoor heated pool will remain available for warm up /cool down during the evening) 6.00 pm Start VENUE: Morwell Leisure Centre, McDonald Street, MORWELL. (Vic Roads Map reference: map 340 F:5) Postal Entries Close Wed 22 nd June-cost $30 (incl. Supper); $20 (no supper) Entries accepted on the day up to 5.00pm. Cost $35 (inc supper); $25 (no supper) Supper for Spectators $10 all please register for supper. Guest Swimmers are most welcome Medals awarded to 1 st, 2nd and 3 rd placings in each male and female age group for aggregate points from events 2,3,4,5. Relay to be entered on yellow cards on the day. Gender and club mix OK. Raffle tickets available on the day. Accommodation at COAL VALLEY Motor Inn is recommended - 51 346211 ENTRIES Club or individual entries on pink and blue cards with payment to: SADAST: c/o Sue Clifford PO Box 264 MAFFRA 3860 ENQUIRIES (A/H) 03 51 472553 Email phillcliff@b150.aone.net.au

Casey Seals Masters Swimming Club 2011 Seals Splash Saturday 23 July 2011 Entries Close Wednesday 20 July 2011 Casey Arc Pool 25 Metres, Cnr Overland Drive & Princess Hwy, Narre Warren. Anyone attempting a record on the night needs to provide one timekeeper!! Warm-up 6.00pm Start 6.30pm Early Bird $30.00 before 20 July 2011 On the night before 6.00pm $40.00 Spectators $5.00 Events: Up to 5 individual events can be entered. A warm-up/cool down pool is available during the night. 1. 100m Choice 2. 25m Butterfly 3. 25m Backstroke 4. 200m Choice 6. 25m Breaststroke 7. 25m Freestyle 8. 100m IM Modern Facilities Awards Supper Raffles AUSSI Vic pink/blue cards Entries to: Seal Splash PO Box 2302 Fountain Gate Vic 3805 BSB Number: 333-000 Bank: Bendigo Bank Account Number: 115885410 Account Name: Casey Seals Masters Swimming Club Enquiries to: Seal Splash Coordinator email: splash@caseyseals.com.au

2011 Masters Swimming Victoria Short Course Championships Saturday 6 August 2011 DATE Saturday 6 August 2011 EVENT DETAILS TIME VENUE Warm up 8.30 am to 9.15 am (Cool down/warm up facilities will exist for the remainder of the meet in 3 lanes of the other 25m competition pool). Start 9:30am Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) Aughtie Drive Albert Park (Melways 2K D7) 25m Indoor Competition Pool COST Registration $20 Individual Event $5 per event (Max. 6) Relays $20 per team CONTACT Masters Swimming Victoria Sports House, Level 2, 375 Albert Road, Albert Park VIC 3206 Phone: 9682 5666 e-mail: admin@aussivic.com.au PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 1 100m Backstroke 2 200m Freestyle 3 50m Breaststroke 4. 100m Individual Medley 5 200m Breaststroke 6 50m Backstroke 7 100m Butterfly 8 4 x 50m Mens Freestyle Relay 9 4 x 50m Womens Freestyle Relay BREAK 10 200m Individual Medley 11 100m Freestyle 12 50m Butterfly 13 200m Backstroke 14 100m Breaststroke 15 50m Freestyle 16 200m Butterfly 17 4 x 50m Mens Medley Relay 18 4 x 50m Womens Medley Relay IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CLUB SECRETARIES Details for Club Entries will be e-mailed directly to Club Secretaries. Closing date for Club Entries to the office is Thursday 28 July 2011at 5.00pm

Swimming (min. age 18) Masters Swimming South Australia State Aquatic Centre, Oaklands Park Friday 7 - Sunday 9 October Contact John Gamlen (08) 8263 9958/0401 121 347 Registrations now open For specific event information visit www.australianmastersgames.com