Dive in for the Winter Season

28 March 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
Our 3rd winter seson begins on Saturday, 1st April, 2006.

As usual the winter season includes some events not swum during the summer including the Mystery Medley and the Graded Races 800m & 1500m Freestyle. This year's program also includes Medley Relays.

If you do another sport during winter, don't worry, most weeks we are finished by 8am.

The season will run until the pool closes on May 14th.

Cumberland Sprint Meet Results

27 March 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
The Cumberland Sprint Meet was held at Merrylands Swimming Centre on Saturday afternoon.

In brilliant sunshine (and the occasional shower) Merrylands' team of 12 swimmers took home 17 medals from the 32 events contested.

The following club members won medals:
Rachael Guthrie
Matthew Jenkin
Todd Jenkin
Brittany Johnson
Peter Johnston
David Wang
Thomas Wang

As the host club, thank you to all our members who helped run the meet - whether it was running cards, collecting entry fees, officiating or helping setup and pack up - you all did a great job.

The full results are now available.

Medal Tally

Gold 7
Silver 6
Bronze 4

See Also
  • Cumberland Sprint Meet - Results
  • Swimming Cumberland Inc.

    • Cumberland Sprint Meet

    19 March 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Merrylands Swimming Centre will host the Cumberland Sprint Meet this Saturday.

    The Sprint Meet is all 50m events and also a selection meet for the Cumberland Development Squads. This meet is only open to Cumberland swimmers and is a Post Entry meet which means you enter on the day.

    Our club is also hosting this meet so we need a small number of volunteers to help on the day. If you are able to help out please speak to a member of the club committee.

    See the meet program here for more details.

    See Also
  • Cumberland Sprint Meet - Program of Events
  • Swimming Cumberland Inc.

    • Metropolitan Results

    05 March 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Two Merrylands swimmers swam personal best times at this weekend's NSW Metropolitan Championships.

    Brittany Johnson put some disappointing swims on Saturday behind her to come back on Sunday and break her 100m Freestyle time by almost 1.3 seconds, finishing in 1:05.33.
    Peter Johnston also broke his P.B. taking almost 2 seconds off his time in the 100m Breaststroke to touch in 1:19.97.

    Our other swimmers were also very close to their entry times. The full results are now available.

    See Also
  • 2006 NSW Metropolitan Championships - Results
  • NSW Metropolitan Championships

    • NSW Metropolitan Championships

    27 February 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    The 2006 NSW Metropolitan Championships will be held at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th March, 2006.

    Our club will be represented by 5 swimmers at the meet, competing in 9 individual events with this year's team featuring a mixture of new and experienced swimmers.
    Anthony Ventra will compete at his first Metropolitan Championships after qualifying at the Cumberland Championships earlier this month. David Wang returns to our Metropolitan team having missed last year's short course season due to injury and Peter Johnston also returns to the long course team having last competed at the long course championships in 2003.
    Todd Jenkin, competing in his third long course championships will contest 3 events at the meet while Brittany Johnson, competing in only her second long course championships will be our only female representative.

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

    Anthony Ventra
    12yrs 100m Breaststroke (Day 2 - Session 4 - 1:33pm)
    David Wang
    12yrs 100m Breaststroke (Day 2 - Session 4 - 1:33pm)
    Todd Jenkin
    17yrs & Over 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 11:44am)
    Open 100m Breaststroke (Day 2 - Session 3 - 10:38am)
    Open 50m Breaststroke (Day 2 - Session 4 - 1:00pm)
    Peter Johnston
    17yrs & Over 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 11:44am)
    Brittany Johnson
    16yrs 100m Butterfly (Day 1 - Session 1 - 11:41pm)
    16yrs 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 2 - 3:29pm)
    16yrs 100m Freestyle (Day 2 - Session 3 - 11:30am)

    Times should be used as a guide only.

    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
  • 2006 NSW Metropolitan Championships - Program of Events
  • 2006 NSW Metropolitan Championships - Qualifying Times
  • State, Metropolitan and Country Championship Procedures

  • Competitor Information

  • Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Parking Arrangements

    • Merrylands SwimFest Results

    26 February 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    The Results of the Merrylands SwimFest are now available.

    Thank you to everyone who attended the meet. We hope you had an enjoyable day achieved some good results.

    Thank you to all the members of our club who worked at the meet, we couldn't have run it without you.

    Thank you also to Jan Fathers, Denis Browning and Leo Repeti from Cumberland and Pat Troy from Swimming NSW for their work at the meet.

    The results of the meet are now available in the SwimFest section of our website, don't forget to give us your feedback and we hope to see you all again next year.




    It's our Club... That's the difference!
    Merrylands Bowling & Sports Club


    See Also
  • Merrylands SwimFest

    • Speedo Sprint Series Heat Results

    20 February 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    David Wang finished third in the 12yrs 50m Breaststroke at the Speedo Sprint Series Heats yesterday, narrowly missing out on qualifying for the Finals Series.

    David took almost 2 seconds off his 50m Breaststroke time to finish in 39.98, just 3/10ths behind 2nd place. The top 3 swimmers were separated by less than a second. He narrowly missed out on qualifying for the finals in the 50m Freestyle as well finishing third again. David also finished fourth in the 50m Backstroke.

    All of our other swimmers broke at least one P.B. with our swimmers breaking their times in 34 out of 45 events.

    The following 8 swimmers finished in the top 10 in at least one of their events:

    Mitchell Burt
    Amber Johnson
    Sarah Pearn
    Andrew Stanford
    Greg Stanford
    Jayden Stephens
    Anthony Ventra
    David Wang

    Congratulations to all our swimmers on their results.

    See Also
  • 2006 Cumberland District Speedo Sprint Series Heats - Results

    • Speedo Sprint Series Heats

    17 February 2006 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    The Cumberland District Speedo Sprint Series Heats will be held this Sunday at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. Warm-Up is at 12:00pm for an 1:00pm start.

    Merrylands will be sending a team of 13 swimmers to the meet to compete in 45 individual events. Our team consists of:
    Dylan Baker
    Jasmina Barakat
    Mitchell Burt
    Amber Johnson
    Sarah Pearn
    Andrew Stanford
    Greg Stanford
    Matthew Stanford
    Jayden Stephens
    Kristi Stephens
    Lachlan Stewart
    Anthony Ventra
    David Wang

    David Wang and Anthony Ventra should both go close to making the finals of the series in the 50m Breaststroke, having both finished in the top 10 in the 100m Breaststroke at the Cumberland Championships last weekend.

    The top 2 swimmers from each event at the district heats will progress to the series finals at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on Sunday, 12th March, 2006.

    Good luck to all of our swimmers competing at the meet especially the 5 swimmers who are attending their first Speedo Sprint Series. All swimmers are asked to wear a club cap when they compete.
    Those swimmers attending the meet for the first time should read the Competitor Information and State, Metropolitan and Country Championship Procedures.

    And don't forget you money for your Speedo Sprint Series T-Shirt!

    See Also
  • 2006 Cumberland District Speedo Sprint Series Heats - Program of Events

  • 2006 Speedo Sprint Series Finals & Grand Finals - Program of Events

  • Competitor Information

  • State, Metropolitan and Country Championship Procedures

  • Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Parking Arrangements

    • Merrylands SwimFest

    15 February 2006 Peter-Johnston Media Articles
    SWIMMERS are invited to grab the goggles and togs and enter the Merrylands SwimFest meet at Merrylands Swimming Centre on February 26.

    The annual meet is organised by Merrylands Amateur Swimming Club and is open to all Swimming NSW registered swimmers. Non-Swimming NSW members can also compete by becoming members of the club.

    Up to 200 swimmers are expected to attend from Holroyd and surrounding areas.