CHRD NEWSLETTER Upcoming Events 18-19th Mar CHRD Club Championships 28th Mar - 4 Apr Australian Age + MC Championships Adelaide 7-14 Apr Australian Open Swimming Championships. Adelaide 17 Apr SMNW 12/U Development Meet 1st May 3:00pm approx. CHRD Club Presentation Castle Hill RSL 14th May CHRD Trivia Night Castle Hill Bowling Club (Olympic Theme) 18/19th March Reminder to check timekeeper roster http://www.castlehilldolphins.com.au/docs/carnivals/roster/ CHRD%20Club%20Championships%20-%20TO %20ROSTER.pdf Program available to download from website http://www.castlehilldolphins.com.au/docs/carnivals/programs/ 2016%20CHRD%20Summer%20Champs%20-%20Program %20-%2019-03-2015.pdf Please check the food roster for Saturday night. AGE & OPEN NATIONALS Good luck to the team of fifteen Dolphins heading down to Adelaide for either the Australian Age or Open Championships. This is the biggest team in Dolphins history including 4 debutants. We wish them all the best and look forward to hearing your experiences.
Saturday, 21 November 2015 Monday, 21 March 2016 Quisque auctor erat vel nunc ultricies RECENT RESULTS Balmoral Swim for Cancer On Sunday 13th march a team of Dolphins entered in the the Balmoral Ocean swim for Cancer. The team was represented well across multiple events in the 250m junior swim and 1km ocean swim. We also entered3 a team in the HMAS Penguin Shield to which we were the victors. This event was a 4x250m relay. Congratulations to our team members on your performance. Matt Rofe, Luke Marsden, Luke Herzog and Davis Erwin. Our competitors included. Tristan and Kieren Morson, Karl and Tyrone Albertyn, Amy gibbons, Georgia and Caitlin Sultana, Annabel Fryer, Luke Herzog, Luke Marsden, Davis Erwin, Matt Rofe, Ben Rofe, Alex Weeks and Matt Freeman. Well done to all who swam and raised Childrens Cancer Institute Australia. We look forward to the event next year with an even bigger team. CHRD NEWSLETTER 2016
RECENT RESULTS NSW Speedo Sprints - Finals On Sunday 13th March the NSW Speedo Sprint Finals were held at Sydney Olympic Aquatic Centre. Eighteen Dolphins were representing the SMNW Area. Exciting racing by all Dolphins with many pb's and a couple of medals achieved. Congratulations to Elina Napernikova, Cailley Culnane, Grace Michell and Marius Boll on achieving their medal performances. The swimmers were given opportunities to work with different coaches from the SMNW district with swimmers grouped into age groups I hope that all the athletes have learnt some new things and use this to help give them an advantage at future carnivals. Austin Fowler Coach G S B Top 10 Elina 1 1 Cailley 1 Grace 1 Marius 1 Jayden 1 Christina R 1 Laura 2 Regan 1 Veronica 1 Clayton 1
RECENT RESULTS NSW National Prep Meet On Saturday 12th March the Dolphins had twenty-three athletes at the NSW National Prep meet. This meet was the last chance to gain a National Age or Open qualification. All swimmers put in huge efforts on the day with some collecting personal bests. Congratulations to Jayden Weymark on achieving his National time in the 800m Freestyle. RSL State Championships Congratulations to the team of Dolphins who represented on behalf of Zone 4 that the State RSL Swimming Championships. This year the championships were held that the Mt Druitt Aquatic Centre. Our Dolphins contributed greatly to the success of Zone 4 placing second at the meet, with 21 Gold, 18 Silver and 10 Bronze
RECENT RESULTS NSW State Open Championships Over the weekend of 4-6 March the NSW State Open Championships were help at SOPAC. The Dolphins team consisting of twenty-six members embarked on the major benchmark meet of the season. The team representing Dolphins has doubled in size from the team who represented last year. The field was star studded with many swimmers from interstate and overseas were there to compete and fine tune their racing before the Olympic selection trials in April. Congratulations to Caitlin Walsh and Sienna McDonald who made made A & B Finals. Congratulations to Ellie Cole on her Gold medal in the 100m Backstroke. The national team added two new members with Christina Kwon and Rebecca Yabsley both achieving their time in the 100m Breaststroke. Congratulations girls. NEWS LOST T-SHIRT T-shirt of a 14 yr old boy went missing two weeks ago? Blue Hurley shirt - with Orange writing on the front. T-shirt was on top of his bag in the corridor near the family change room. Please contact Michelle Rofe with any information
NEWS CHRD Winter 2016 Season calendar - DRAFT Please see attached the draft copy of the CHRD Winter 2016 season. This calendar details all the activities and meets that the Dolphins will be involved in over the season. TEAM APP - We have an APP!! Please make sure you have downloaded our app. In addition to the website this is our other main source of communication with members. This app is available on iphone or Android devices as well as online web portal. Download and registration instructions on the attached flyer. Relay for Life - Castle Hill Showground (21st and 22nd May, 2016) This year the Castle Hill RSL Dolphins will be participating in the Relay for Life at Castle Hill Showground. Registration fee for team members is $20 each, and this includes a shirt and breakfast on Sunday morning. If you are interested in joining Team CHRD, please email me at michelle.rofe@au.ey.com with your details (including the day and time that you would like to participate). The event runs overnight, so we will be looking for some dolphin insomniacs who can come along and walk through the night! Further details in the flyer attached or contact Michelle on michelle.rofe@au.ey.com. HOODIES FOR SALE. The Dolphins team hoodies are for sale and will come in handy as it starts to head towards the winter season. Flyer attached or contact Shane Hurley
CHRD TRIVIA NIGHT Olympic Theme Castle Hill Dolphins Major Fundraiser for the year will be held on Saturday 14 th May 2016 at the Castle Hill Bowling Club We will also be having a live band.. Tickets are $30 each and over 18s event only Bookings made through Try Booking: www.trybooking.com/ktdz Bistro and Bar will be open. Nibbles can be brought in but no Alcohol PRIZES for Silent Auction: We are also looking for prizes to make up the silent auction prizes. If you can help out please call Rachel on 0416279117 Alternatively leave the prizes with Nathan Doyle. SAVE THE DATE CHRD PRESENTATION 1ST MAY 2016 Castle Hill RSL 3:00pm approx
UPCOMING EVENTS SMNW 12/Under Development Meet Sunday 17th April, 2016 Loreto Normanhurst. SMNW will be holding a Winter Short Course 12 & Under Mini Meet on Sunday 17th April 2016 at Loreto Normanhurst. As per Swimming Australia's guidelines for development carnivals, the meet will be limited to 4 hours duration. Individual entries are due to close at 5:00pm on 4th April but will close earlier if the 4 hour timeline is reached beforehand. Entries can be done on line via the SMNW website http://metronwnsw.swimming.org.au/
UPCOMING MEETS Swimming Australia - Australian Age and MC Championships 28 March - 4 April 2016. Adelaide, South Australia Swimming Australia - Australian Age and MC Championships 28 March - 4 April 2016. Adelaide, South Australia Qualifying times apply. More information available on the website SMNW 12/Under Development Meet 17 April 2016. Loretto Normanhurst Program of events attached. ENTER AT: http://metronwnsw.swimming.org.au/ SMNW Short Course Championships PROPOSED - 11/12 June SOPAC More information to come shortly.
TECHNICAL UPDATE A Word of Thanks - Summer 2015-2016 Our summer season virtually finished with the championships - winter swimming starts on Friday, 06 May). Thank you and well done to all those who helped run our Friday nights throughout the summer. Somehow we always came up with enough volunteers every night. In addition many people also volunteered their time as officials for area level activities. AND - as a reward you all get to do it all over again during our coming winter season. Club Championships Yet another successful championship is over. On each of the four nights we needed to provide a lot Technical Officials Marshalls, Checkstarters, Starters and Timekeepers. The nights went pretty smoothly due to the efforts that everyone put in. Our thanks to everyone who helped out. We couldn t have done it without you. We also thank those who helped set up and put away all the equipment and those who contributed to the Saturday night suppers. We needed a Chief and 24 Timekeepers, on every night. Thank you to our chiefs, Lena and Nick, and all those parents who operated the timing devices. We also thank Deidre Rees, our Carnival Convener, who organised the Timekeeper roster. Although not technically TOs, without the computer people we wouldn t have had the neatly compiled results. We thank all the operators for their work over the four nights. We also thank our Referees. Three of our Life Members, Tom Fegan, John McIntosh and Graham Taylor came along to assist with the refereeing. Our three trainee Refs, Andrew Marcer, Debbie Sharp and Jill Stone also made a major contribution. All three will begin the final training phase for Referee this week. New Technical Officials Over the course of the championships five Dolphins were assessed for TO Qualifications. Congratulations and well done to Ric Fogolin (Starter), Jane Oates (Marshall & Checkstarter), Teresa Marsden (Checkstarter), Kim Morrisey (Marshall) and Boris Napernikov (Timekeeper). Teresa and Kim will complete their qualifications early in our winter season. Boris assessment followed his successful completion of the on-line training package. Thank you to John McIntosh (a long serving Dolphins now retired and living on the central coast) and Ben Choo (Galston Swimming Club) who conducted the assessments.
Online Timekeeper Training If you are interested in qualifying as a Timekeeper you can now do the theory side of the qualification on-line and in your own time. Why not take advantage of the tween season break and start gaining a TO qualification. Once you have successfully completed the on-line training you will receive a certificate. You print this out and bring it to the club the next time you come. Arrangements will then be made for you to be assessed to become a fully accredited Timekeeper. To view the on-line training course visit the Swimming NSW training page - (https://nswtraining.swimming.org.au/). PLEASE NOTE: Online courses can be completed without being registered, however you must be registered with SNSW before you can be assessed. Dolphins successfully completing the online training should contact Ron Brettle to arrange their assessment. Ron can be contacted at the club of a Friday night or through our website at TO_training@castlehilldolphins.com.au. If you have any questions please contact Ron. Computer Operators Like most clubs these days we run our Friday night swimming using the Dolphin Oasis system. We need more computer operators to ensure that we can cover every Friday night. Our experienced operators can provide training and mentoring for newcomers. If you are interested, talk to the people on the recording table of a Friday night or contact our President, Andrew Marcer (president@castlehilldolphins.com.au). Technical Official training Swimming is a labour intensive sport. We always need more qualified TOs. The Metro North West Area will be conducting presentations for all TO positions (Marshall / Checkstarter, Starter, Chief Timekeeper, Timekeeper, and Recorder) next May. Full details will be promulgated as soon as they are available. Anyone interested in qualifying for any of the TO positions should contact Ron Brettle through our club website at: TO_training@castlehilldolphins.com.au.
Team Hoodies - Order Now New Design CHRD Team Hoodies are now available to order for swimmers and parents Size fitting dates: Fri: Wed: Thur: Fri: 6pm, 2 nd Oct 7pm, 7 th Oct 6:30am, 8 th Oct 6pm, 9 th Oct Orders close on 9 th Oct COST: $35 Pre-orders only Club Rep & garments will be avail for fitting after training and at Club Nights. Pre-paid orders only. Please email to confirm after you have made payment: uniforms@castlehilldolphins.com.au Payment details: Acct Name: Castle Hill RSL Dolphins BSB: 062 139 Account No: 0090 3692 Add SURNAME and Hoodie to payment details
CASTLE HILL RSL DOLPHINS NOW HAS ITS OWN APP Download our awesome new app now and stay up to date with all the latest information! Install the Castle Hill RSL Dolphins App on your smartphone or tablet now! Settings Follow these steps: 1. Download Team App from the Apple or Google Play app store. 2. Sign up to Team App. You will be sent an email to confirm your registration. CASTLE HILL RSL DOLPHINS NEWS EVENTS 3. Log into the App and search for "Castle Hill RSL Dolphins". 4. Choose your applicable access group(s). 5. If you don't have a smartphone go to castlehilldolphins.teamapp.com to sign up and view this App online. SCHEDULE PHOTOS CHRD NEWSLETTERS SPONSORS NSW SWIMMING COMMITTEE / COACH SOCIAL MEDIA QUALIFYING TIMES RESULTS CENTRAL SWIMMING AUSTRAL Need help? Contact: Nathan Doyle - Head Coach Email: doylen@castlehillrsl.com.au Phone: (02) 98461260 teamapp.com