Issue No.13 WINTER JUNE 2013 JUNE 2013 Well hello Winter!!! June is the month we have the pleasure of hosting our extremely popular Development Meet at home in our very own pool! It is also the month when the Metropolitan S/C Champs are held. So have fun, good luck & Go Team McCredie!! Club Calendar for JUNE 2013 Saturday 1st - PRESENTATION NIGHT!! Wednesday 5th - MONTHLY MEETING - All Welcome!! Friday 7th - PROGRAM 4 INCLUDING MYSTERY EVENTS & BBQ Friday 14th - PROGRAM 3 INCLUDING SPRINT SERIES Sunday 16th - BUNNINGS BBQ FUNDRAISER Friday 21st - PROGRAM 1 Sunday 23rd - DEVELOPMENT SWIM MEET AT GUILDFORD Friday 28th - CAPTAINS CARNIVAL (2 OF 3) & CLUB BBQ JUNE BIRTHDAYS Tayla G 1st 5 years Gabby 11th 15 years Matthew 12th 13 years Coral 14th 11 years Kayla 17th 14 years Liam M 30th 16 years To everyone celebrating a special occasion this month, we hope you all have a truly special and happy day from all your friends at McCredie Park!!
U P C O M I N G S W I M M E E T S. JUNE 2013 / JULY 2013 / AUGUST 2013 / SEPTEMBER 2013 DATE OF MEET NAME OF MEET VENUE ENTRIES CLOSE (TO DEBBIE) ON-LINE CLOSES Sunday 2nd June CARLILE SPEEDO CUP QUALIFYING MEET SOPAC CLOSED N/A Sunday 9th June CAMPBELLTOWN AN- CAMPBELLTOWN CLOSED N/A NUAL OPEN S/C MEET Sunday 23rd June McCREDIE PARK ASC DEVELOPMENT MEET GUILDFORD 14th June N/A Saturday 29th June Sunday 30th June Sunday 14th July Friday 19th July Saturday 20th July Friday 2nd August Sunday 4th August Friday 23rd August Sunday 25th August SYDNEY METROPOLI- TAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS AQUA BLITZ TOONGABBIE SC MEET NSW STATE OPEN S/C CHAMPIONSHIPS SPEEDO NSW STATE AGE S/C CHAMPS 2013 ENERGY AUSTRAL- IA S/C CHAMPS SOPAC 14th June 19th June SOPAC 7th June N/A SOPAC 5th July 10th July SOPAC 19th July 24th July SOPAC 9th August 12th August Sunday 22nd NSW SHORT COURSE SOPAC MEET RESTRICTED September DEVELOPMENT MEET TO AREA D SQUAD MEMBERS SPECIAL NOTE: if you DO enter any upcoming meets via the on-line system, can you please let Debbie know too! Thanks! QUOTE OF THE MONTH Don't let the fear of striking out, hold you back BABE RUTH
BUNNINGS BBQ FUNDRAISER - SUNDAY 16TH JUNE!! We are kindly seeking you support, once again, to assist in running our Bunnings BBQ on Sunday 16th June. If you can please spare an hour or two, it would be sincerely appreciated!! Names will be taken soon at Club Night so please don t be shy, come along and put your name down! It really is lots of fun and the kids get a real buzz out of helping out too!! All help is gratefully accepted and appreciated!! McCredie Park Aquatics JUNE DEVELOPMENT SWIM MEET SUNDAY 23RD JUNE Our annual Development Meet is the Club s No. 1 Fundraising event and we need A LOT of helpers to run a successful meet!! There are plenty of jobs for everyone, including timekeeping, runners, BBQ (cooking and sales) and feeding the helpers!! So, if you are able to offer your support and/or have any friends, cousins, aunties, uncles or grandparents that may like to help out...bring them along and lets help to make this Meet the best one ever!! THE MORE THE MERRIER!!! PLEASE REMEMBER - all money raised by these events goes towards trophies/awards and social events throughout the year!!!
Remember If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it. 2013 WINTER SPEEDO SPRINT SERIES SATURDAY 5TH MAY What a brilliant day of swimming was had by our Team of youngsters (8-13 years) at the recent Speedo Sprint Winter Series! There were a lot of individual achievements including PB s and Top 10 Area Placings & all of our kids did an amazing job! OUR TOP 10 AREA PLACE GETTERS WERE Marco, Connor, Logan, Olivia, Kayla, Maddison J, Elise, Travis, Amy & Ashliegh. All of our swimmers are to be highly commended on such awesome swimming!! A special thank you to one of our senior swimmers, Ryan, for warming up & giving our youngsters encouragement throughout the day!! 2013 WINTER SPEEDO SPRINT SERIES FULL STATE RESULTS JUST IN.. McCredie Park Aquatics placed 32nd out of a total of 94 Clubs scoring 500 points!! THAT S INCREDIBLE! WELL DONE TEAM! Also, a HUGE congratulations to 2 of our swimmers whom both achieved TOP 10 PLACINGS overall in the STATE!!! These swimmers were:- Travis Overall 1st in Butterfly, 2nd in Freestyle and 9th in Breaststroke Kayla Overall 1st in Breaststroke, 6th in Freestyle and 8th in Butterfly
Remember If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it. 2013 SMSW SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS SATURDAY 25TH MAY & SUNDAY 26TH MAY The weekend of 25th & 26th May, once again, proved extremely successful for our Team. An abundant of PB s were made and plenty of Top 10 placings & medals won! Our Top 10 achievers were: Charlotte, Jean Pierre, Kayla, Dale, Emily, Alyce and Ryan. Our Medal Winners were: Kayla = 1 x Gold, Jean Pierre = 1x Gold 1 x Silver & 1 x Bronze and Dale = 2 x Silver & 1 x Bronze. Well done to all of our wonderful swimmers for outstanding results and, once again, bringing pride to our Club. You are all absolute legends!! TO OUR TEAM COMPETING AT THE UPCOMING SYDNEY METROPOLITAN CHAMPIONSHIPS!! ENJOY, SWIM FAST & GO TEAM MCCREDIE!!!
MCCREDIE PARK S RECIPE OF THE MONTH FROM THE JABBOUR FAMILY Our favourite BANANA BREAD WHAT YOU WILL NEED: 1 & 1/4 cups self raising flour 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 tablespoon low fat margarine 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg beaten lightly 1/4 cup low fat milk 1/2 cup mashed banana WHAT TO DO: Grease and line loaf pan. Combine all ingredients Do not over mix batter should be lumpy! Spoon into pan Bake in hot oven for about 20 min or until cooked when tested with skewer. YUMMY...ENJOY!! TECHNICAL TIP OF THE MONTH Backstroke Perfect your backstroke with these tips. Head position is critical in this stroke, be sure to keep your ears slightly below the surface of the water. After raising your hand and arm out of the water make sure that your hand re-enters pinky first in order to push through the water effectively M A D D I S O N HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SWIMMING? Since I was one year old WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE STROKE / EVENT? Breaststroke WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE SWIMMER? Leisel Jones WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE THAT YOU HAVE EVER BEEN? Queensland WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FOOD? BBQ Ribs IF YOU WERE GRANTED 3 WISHES. 1. To have an endless supply of money 2. To always have great friends 3. To have good marks for High School WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE THING TO DO ON THE WEEKEND? Talk to my friends and watch movies DO YOU HAVE AN ULTIMATE GOAL IN SWIMMING? IF SO, WHAT? To become and Olympian! WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE TELEVISION SHOW? The Block DESCRIBE OUR CLUB IN ONE WORD AWESOME!!!