Cumberland Championship Entries

10 January 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
Entries for the 2007-2008 Cumberland District Open & Age Championships are due in with our Race Secretary by Saturday, 12th January, 2008. The entries are to be on Multi-Entry Cards, which will be available on Saturday.

To compete at these championships you must have achieved the required qualifying time. The Entry Times should also be related to the course in which the meet is to be conducted with the appropriate constant added to the time.

Your Multi-Entry cards must be completely filled out including date and place that times were achieved. Entries must also include your registration number.

See Also
  • 2007-2008 Cumberland Open & Age Championships - Program of Events & Qualifying Times

  • Meet Entry Procedures

  • State, Metropolitan and Country Championship Procedures

  • Competitor Information

  • Schedule of Constants

  • Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Parking Arrangements

    • On the Blocks to Beijing

    03 January 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Sports fans will be treated to the perfect appetizer to this year's Olympic Games when the country's best swimmers go head to head as they vie for selection on the Australian swim team to compete in Beijing in 2008.

    The 2008 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships will be held in Sydney from Saturday, 22nd March until Saturday, 29 March, 2008.

    All of Australia's big names will be on pool deck battling it out to gain selection on the most hotly contested team of them all. See Hackett, Jones, Lenton, Henry, Monk, Schipper, Welsh and many more!

    Club Members will be able to purchase discounted finals tickets to the World Cup for $22 per adult and $15 per concession/child or $65 per family (2 Adults, 2 Children). As usual, this offer is only available through the club.

    This year you can purchase your tickets directly from Ticketek here (you must use this link to get the discounted prices) or by calling Ticketek on 132 849. The password for phone and box office sales is ‘Dolphin’. This must be quoted to receive the discounted prices.

    Swimming NSW is also giving you the chance to win a trip for two people to see Australia's top swimmers battle it out at the Championships. The prize includes accommodation at the Novotel Sydney Olympic Park for 2 nights, finals tickets for two people to the Championships on two nights, two tickets to the Sydney Royal Easter Show, a Samsung NextG mobile phone handset and a Speedo gift pack. Click here for more details on how to enter.



    See Also
  • 2008 Australian Swimming Championships - Program of Events

  • Ticketek - Club Ticket Offer - Finals Tickets

  • Ticketek - Club Ticket Offer - Heats Tickets

  • Swimming NSW Competition Details

  • Swimming NSW Competition - Terms & Conditions

    • January School Holiday Training Times

    20 December 2007 Peter-Johnston Squad Training News
    Our last training session for 2007 is on Thursday, 20th December. Training then recommences on Wednesday, 2nd January.

    Training sessions during the School Holidays will be held in the mornings or late afternoon to avoid the heat in the afternoons. If you are going away during the holidays please let us know when you will be away.

    Session times are listed on the Training Schedule page here.

    The normal training times will resume on Monday, 28th January, 2008.

    See Also
  • Training Schedule

    • Metropolitan Results

    19 December 2007 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Merrylands' team of 4 swimmers swam well at the 2007/08 NSW Metropolitan Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on the weekend, with PBs in 3 out of 6 events, 3 top 20 finishes and 2 State qualifying times.

    On Saturday morning Anthony Ventra and David Wang competed in the 14yrs 100m Breaststroke, finishing in 13th and 16th places respectively, in times just outside their PBs.
    Next up Peter Johnston improved his ranking in both his events. Swimming in the 100m Breaststroke, Peter finished in a time just outside his PB. Later in the session, he took 0.05 off his PB in the 50m Breaststroke.

    Also swimming on Saturday morning, Amber Johnson took 2.25 seconds off her 100m Backstroke to finish just outside the top 10 in 11th place.
    Amber backed-up on Sunday morning to swim the 200m Backstroke, breaking her PB by 2.96 seconds and improving her ranking by 10 places.
    Both of Amber's swims qualified her for the State Championships in January.

    Swimming for McCredie Park, second claim member Rebecca Tuivawa also swam 2 new personal best times.

    Congratulations to all 5 swimmers on their results.

    The full results are now available here.

    See Also
  • 2007/08 NSW Metropolitan Championships - Results

  • 2007/08 NSW Metropolitan Championships Team

    • 2007/08 NSW Metropolitan Championships Team

    NSW Metropolitan Championships

    11 December 2007 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    The 2007 NSW Metropolitan Championships will be held at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th December, 2007.

    The club will be represented by 4 swimmers at the meet, competing in 6 individual events.

    Our team will be competing in the following events over the two day meet:

    Anthony Ventra
    14yrs 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 9:38am)
    David Wang
    14yrs 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 9:38am)
    Amber Johnson
    14yrs 100m Backstroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 10:30am)
    14/15yrs 200m Backstroke (Day 2 - Session 3 - 11:24am)
    Peter Johnston
    16yrs & Over 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 10:07am)
    Open 50m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 11:15am)

    Times should be used as a guide only.

    Rebecca Tuivawa, a Second Claim Member of our club, will also be competing at the Championships, for McCredie Park Aquatics. Rebecca will be swimming in the 12yrs 100m Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events.

    Congratulations to the 5 swimmers for qualifying and good luck at the meet.

    You can follow the team's progress over the weekend at http://www.nswswimming.com.au/.

    See Also
  • 2007 NSW Metropolitan Championships - Program of Events
  • 2007 NSW Metropolitan Championships - Qualifying Times
  • State, Metropolitan and Country Championship Procedures

  • Competitor Information

  • Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Parking Arrangements

    • FINA Swimming World Cup

    11 October 2007 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    On the back of the extremely successful Duel in the Pool, Sydney’s next big international swim meet is about to descend on Australia and all roads lead to the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.

    The 2007 FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup, presented by Telstra is coming to Sydney on 2 and 3 November 2007.

    All of Australia’s big names are expected to be on pool deck to battle it out with some of the biggest names in international swimming as they compete for international ascendancy leading into Beijing next year. See Hackett, Jones, Lenton, Monk, Mills and many more!

    Club Members will be able to purchase discounted finals tickets to the World Cup for $22 per adult and $15 per concession/child or $65 per family (2 Adults, 2 Children). As usual, this offer is only available through the club.

    This year you can purchase your tickets directly from Ticketek here (you must use this link to get the discounted prices) or by calling Ticketek on 132 849. The password for phone and box office sales is ‘Dolphin’. This must be quoted to receive the discounted prices.



    See Also
  • 2007 FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup - Program of Events

  • Ticketek - Club Ticket Offer

    • Telstra Swimmer of the Year Competition

    10 October 2007 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    You could win the ultimate entertainment package or equipment for our club just by voting for your favourite swimmer in the Telstra People's Choice Award.

    The major prize includes a Sony LCD TV, Notebook computer, Sony Walkman, PlayStation 3, $500 voucher for BigPond Movies, $500 voucher for BigPond Music, plus, if you're a Telstra customer you'll win $1,000 cash!

    Plus there are bonus prizes including Telstra Next G handsets and BigPond Music and Movies vouchers.

    But that's not all. This year the swimming club named in the greatest number of entries will receive $2,500 worth of equipment, and a visit from one of the 2007 People's Choice nominees.

    To enter, pick your favourite swimmer from the Top eight Australian FINA world ranked swimmers for 2007 (Kate Brookes-Peterson; Matthew Cowdrey; Leisel Jones; Lisbeth Lenton; Brenton Rickard Jessicah Schipper; Craig Stevens; Eamon Sullivan) and either:
    • visit http://www.beinvolved.telstra.com/ and follow the competition entry prompts


      • OR

    • SMS the name of the swimmer of your choice followed by your full name and our club name to:
      1999 POOL
    Don't forget to put our club name on your entry and you can enter as many times as you like.

    Entries close 11:59pm November 3rd, 2007.

    Visit http://www.beinvolved.telstra.com/ for further details and competition terms and conditions.

    See Also
  • Telstra Swimmer of the Year Competition

  • Swimming Australia

    • NSW Short Course Development Meet

    30 September 2007 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Anthony Ventra and Amber Johnson both took home top three ribbons from the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre today as they represented Cumberland at the NSW Short Course Development Meet.

    Amber finished with two individual ribbons after finishing third in both the 50m Freestyle and 50m Backstroke. In the Freestyle, Amber took just under half a second off her P.B. to win her heat in 30.35 and finish third overall. While in the Backstroke, Amber maintained her ranking going into the event to again finish third in 34.48, just 0.07 seconds outside her personal best time.
    Amber's other two individual swims resulted in two new PBs as she took over 3 seconds off her 50m Breaststroke time and almost 3/4 of a second off her 50m Butterfly.

    Meanwhile, Anthony finished second in the 50m Breaststroke and also swam new personal best times in the 100m Individual Medley, 50m Freestyle and 50m Backstroke. Anthony's 100m IM was a new personal best by over 3 seconds while in the 50m Freestyle he swam under 28 seconds for the first time and took over 1 second off his 50m Backstroke PB.

    Amber and Anthony also combined to make up half of the Cumberland 14yrs & Over Team in the 4x50m Freestyle Relay, finishing in a very close second place.

    Congratulations to both Amber and Anthony on their performances.
    The full results with splits are now available.

    Medal Tally

    Gold 0
    Silver 2
    Bronze 2

    See Also
  • 2007 Cumberland Development Squads Announced

  • 2007 NSW Short Course Development Meet - Results

    • 2006/2007 Season Review

    30 September 2007 Peter-Johnston Features
    2006/2007 saw some of the closest finishes in club competitions for years along with some excellent representative results as the club marked the completion of another successful season.

    The 2006/2007 season again began with some brilliant October weather. Despite the good weather, numbers were down slightly at both the weekly Saturday morning races and weekday training sessions.

    The club's Learn to Swim program however continued to increase in popularity and numbers, with 74 children enrolled while Brittany Johnson completed her Austswim Qualifications to increase our Instructor ranks.

    In the club competitions, some members were able to successfully defend their titles while some events saw the emergence of new champions. "The Swimmers" backed up their 2005/2006 win in the Relay Competition to take out the title for the second time. In the Senior Handicap, Peter Johnston topped the pointscore for the 6th time to equal Glenda Wood's record number of titles.

    In one of the closest finishes in years, Brittany Johnson won the Champion of Champions Award for the fourth year in a row, just 15 points ahead of Peter Johnston. Brittany won both her Age and Open Championships, placed second in the Female Graded Pointscore and set 9 club records. Brittany also represented the club at the Metropolitan Championships.
    Meanwhile, Taysha Wilson was presented with the Jack Smart Encouragement Award after steadily improving over the season.

    In the Graded Pointscore, Peter Johnston finished with the highest number of points overall. Mitchell Burt, was awarded the Michael Rossek Trophy for the highest placed Junior Boy in the Graded Races Pointscore while Amber Johnson received the Ronald Exley Trophy for the highest placed Junior Girl. Amber's victory in the Graded Pointscore further extended her record number of wins in the competition to have now won the competition on 5 separate occasions.

    2006/2007 saw some changes to our representative teams while the number of swimmers representing the club remained about the same. During the season we had swimmers competing at all levels up to and including State Age Championships with our teams consisting of a mixture of new and experienced swimmers. Some swimmers returned to teams after not qualifying in previous years, some were rookies, qualifying for their first representative team while others added new events to their roster or qualified for new teams.
    Anthony Ventra qualified for the State Championships for the first time while Amber Johnson qualified for the Metropolitan Short Course Championships for the first time since 2004.
    At the Cumberland Short Course Championships, the club had finalists in over 70% of the events we contested with Timothy Tunks qualifying for his first District Championships and Anthony Ventra taking home a medal in the 50m Breaststroke, making this year's meet one of the club's best team performances at the championships since they began in 2002.
    Four of our swimmer's performances at District meets over the summer were recognised with selection in the 2007 Cumberland District Development Squads with Anthony and Amber scoring top 3 finishes at the NSW Development Meet.

    In the Club Championships, the Open Mens Championship was the most hotly contested with 13 swimmers competing. The 12yrs Boys Age Championship was also well contested with 6 swimmers competing. 13 Championship records were broken over the season.

    Brittany Johnson
    16yrs Girls 50m Freestyle (Sue Corkin, 1982/1983)
    16yrs Girls 100m Freestyle (Angela McQueen, 2001/2002)
    16yrs Girls 200m Freestyle (Angela McQueen, 2001/2002)
    16yrs Girls 400m Freestyle (Sue Corkin, 1982/1983)
    16yrs Girls 50m Backstroke (Merran Lee, 1974/1975)
    16yrs Girls 50m Breaststroke (Meaghan Legge, 2001/2002)
    16yrs Girls 100m Breaststroke (Carolyn Exley, 1973/1974)
    16yrs Girls 50m Butterfly (Sue Corkin, 1982/1983)
    16yrs Girls 100m Butterfly (Sue Corkin, 1982/1983)
    Mitchell Emery
    16yrs Boys 400m Freestyle (Todd Jenkin, 2004/2005)
    Open Mens 1500m Freestyle (Mitchell Emery, 2005/2006)
    Anthony Ventra
    13yrs Boys 50m Breaststroke (Todd Jenkin, 2001/2002)
    Ian Wilson
    Veterans Mens 50m Backstroke (Stephen McFarlane, 2000/2001)


    2006/2007 also saw the running of our annual swimming meet, the Merrylands SwimFest, at Merrylands for the fifth time. The weather was outstanding with the meet held in excellent conditions and running very smoothly. The meet again featured the use of AOE & SAT timing equipment and this year had a record number of entries. 39 of our swimmers competed at the meet, winning 31 medals and also narrowly winning the club pointscore, just 12 points ahead of Wentworthville.

    Our Winter Competition was held for the fourth time and despite low numbers those attending had a good time. Anthony Ventra won the male competition and Belinda Sloane the female competition.

    Finally, towards the end of the season it was announced that Swimming NSW would be changing the District Boundaries of the Metropolitan Districts, merging the existing 8 districts into 4 new areas. As a result, the Cumberland District will cease to exist as of 31st March 2008.

    See Also
  • 2006/2007 Rankings

  • 2006/2007 Presentation Evening

  • NSW Metropolitan Championships - Team

  • NSW Metropolitan Championships - Results

  • Cumberland Open & Age Championships - Team

  • Cumberland Open & Age Championships - Results

  • NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships - Team

  • NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships - Results

  • NSW State Age Short Course Championships - Team

  • NSW State Age Short Course Championships - Results

  • Cumberland Open & Age Short Course Championships - Team

  • Cumberland Open & Age Short Course Championships - Results

  • NSW Short Course Development Meet - Results

  • Cumberland Development Squads

    • Cumberland Short Course Results

    19 September 2007 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Anthony Ventra won Merrylands' sole medal at the Cumberland District Open & Age Short Course Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on the weekend.

    Swimming in the 50m Breaststroke, our club's final event of the weekend, Anthony took home the Bronze Medal in a new personal best time. Anthony's medal followed some other outstanding swims by our other team members earlier in the weekend.

    In addition to Anthony's medal, our team of 5 swimmers finished with 16 finalists ribbons and 14 personal best times from 23 events at the two day meet.

    Anthony also finished with finalist ribbons in 4 other events and swam 3 new personal best times along the way.

    Amber Johnson swam new personal best times in four of her six events and finished in the top 10 in 3 events. Amber's best result came in the 50m Backstroke where she finished 6th in a new personal best time of 34.41.

    Peter Johnston's best result was in the 50m Breaststroke where he finished 7th in a new personal best of 34.05. In total, Peter swam new PBs in 3 out of his 5 events with finalist ribbons in 4 events.

    David Wang was our fourth finalist at the meet and finished in the top 10 in all 5 of his events. David also swam 3 new personal best times with his best result coming in the 200m Individual Medley where he finished 4th after breaking his PB by over 13 seconds.

    Timothy Tunks was our fifth swimmer at the meet and he was swimming in his first District Championships. Tim swam well, dispite not breaking his PB.

    Finalist Summary:

    Anthony Ventra
    14yrs 50m Freestyle (9th)
    14yrs 100m Freestyle (10th)
    14yrs 50m Breaststroke (3rd)
    14yrs 100m Breaststroke (4th)
    14yrs 200m Individual Medley (7th)
    David Wang
    14yrs 50m Freestyle (10th)
    14yrs 100m Freestyle (8th)
    14yrs 50m Breaststroke (6th)
    14yrs 100m Breaststroke (6th)
    14yrs 200m Individual Medley (4th)
    Amber Johnson
    14yrs 50m Backstroke (6th)
    14yrs 100m Backstroke (7th)
    Open 100m Backstroke (10th)
    Peter Johnston
    17yrs & Over 50m Breaststroke (7th)
    Open 100m Breaststroke (8th)
    Open 200m Breaststroke (10th)
    17yrs & Over 50m Backstroke (9th)

    The swimmers who swam PBs were:

    Anthony Ventra
    50m Freestyle
    100m Freestyle
    50m Breaststroke
    200m Individual Medley
    David Wang
    50m Freestyle
    100m Freestyle
    200m Individual Medley
    Amber Johnson
    50m Freestyle
    50m Backstroke
    100m Backstroke
    200m Individual Medley
    Peter Johnston
    50m Breaststroke
    200m Breaststroke
    50m Butterfly

    Congratulations to all 5 swimmers on their performances. Overall our club finished in 19th position on 223 points.
    The full results with splits are now available.

    Medal Tally

    Gold 0
    Silver 0
    Bronze 1

    See Also
  • Cumberland Open & Age Short Course Championships

  • 2007 Cumberland District Open & Age Short Course Championships - Results