Looking for a fun, friendly and fast paced activity this summer?
Come and take part in the 2021 Speedo Sprint Series.
The Speedo Sprint Series caters for girls and boys aged between 8-13 years in 50m Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly events and is a great way to have fun and learn new skills in a friendly environment.
Due to it's timing, the meet, along with the Merrylands SwimFest, also provides good practice for School Swimming Carnivals. All club members aged from 8 to 13 are encouraged to enter.
This year's meet will be held on Saturday, 6th February, 2021 at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.
If you have not attended a meet before and would like some more information or help on entering, just ask one of the Club Committee Members.
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There will be no training sessions on Monday, 25th and Tuesday 26th January due to the Australia Day holiday.
Enjoy your long weekend. 🦘
Merrylands will be represented by 3 swimmers at the NSW Senior State Age Championships, which start at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre today.
Our team will contest 7 events at the 6 day meet, which concludes on Thursday.
Our team consists of:
| Alison Johnston |
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50m Freestyle |
Day 2 (9:06am) |
| Vanessa Ozols |
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50m Freestyle (MC) |
Day 2 (11:27am) |
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200m Individual Medley (MC) |
Day 2 (1:26pm) |
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100m Breaststroke (MC) |
Day 3 (11:11am) |
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100m Freestyle (MC) |
Day 3 (1:35pm) |
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100m Backstroke (MC) |
Day 4 (10:53am) |
| Summer Shrestha |
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50m Freestyle |
Day 5 (9:17am) |
Congratulations to our swimmers on qualifying for the meet and we wish them the best of luck.
You can follow the team's progress over the weekend on the Swimming NSW Live Results or Live Stream.
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Congratulations to Matthew Vicic who set a new 200m Freestyle record today.
Matt swam a new record of 2:28.77 in the 13yrs 200m Freestyle Championship, breaking the previous record of another current member, Steven Nguyen. Steven set the record in 2003, with a time of 2:31.69.
Congratulations to Matt on his swim (and commiserations to Steve).
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Peter Johnston has been presented with a Lifetime Service Award at the Australian Not-For-Profit Technology Awards.
Peter received the award for his technology-related service to Merrylands Amateur Swimming Club. Peter has been providing his services since the mid 1990s and continuously adapts and finds ways to enhance accessibility to members of the club and wider community.
There are so many examples of Peter's contributions and just some of the things he does include developing the club's website in 1999, developing a new membership system and results database, producing the club's 40th Anniversary DVD, implementing electronic timing and online entries, obtaining sponsorship for IT products, implementing an online store, acting as Metro South West webmaster, creating databases for managing qualifications and enrolments, Dive-In Movie pre-show advertisements and videos, implementing Teams for remotely coaching swimmers at international events, live streaming of training sessions, automation of results and organising virtual committee meetings.
Peter volunteers so much of his time behind the scenes to provide these services to our club.
Thank you for all you do Peter!
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Our last training session for 2020 will be held on Thursday, 17th December, while our last week of club races will be held on Saturday, 19th December.
Club Races start at 7am as usual, and will include Novelty Events after the regular races.
Both Club Races and Training will resume on Saturday, 2nd January, 2021.
Our Christmas Party will be held on Saturday, 19th December in conjunction with the Club Races from 7am. All squad members are encouraged to attend for the club races and novelty events. We would love to see you there. Enter online here.
Are going to be away at all in December or January?
If you will be away, then please complete the form below to indicate your last day of training and your first day back.
Training Break Form
The Committee and Coaching Staff hope you have enjoyed the first few months of the Summer Season, have a Merry Christmas and keep training hard as school carnivals and the Merrylands SwimFest approaches.
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Our team of 5 swimmers had a scorcher at the NSW Metropolitan Championships held at SOPAC this weekend.
While it was hot outside our swimmers were burning up the pool with great swims and results. Our swimmers achieved 6 new personal best times.
It was Joab Hada's first time competing at this meet and he had a terrific swim in the 50m Freestyle. Joab was only 0.1 shy of the personal best time he achieved 3 weeks earlier.
Matthew Vicic dropped time in both his events. Matt dipped under 32 seconds for the first time in the 50m Butterfly and also achieved a personal best in his 50m Freestyle.
Summer Shrestha had 4 events at these Championships and saved the best for Day 2. Summer achieved a personal best in the 100m Freestyle. In her last event of the meet Summer dropped time in her 50m Freestyle to achieve a Senior State Age qualifying time.
Unish Shrestha and Joseph Assi finished off our campaign with fantastic results in the 50m Breaststroke. It was the first time for both of them at this meet and both of them dropped over a second in this event.
Congratulations to all our swimmers on their results.
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Five members will represent the club at the NSW Junior Metropolitan Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre this weekend.
Our team consists of:
Summer Shrestha
Matthew Vicic
Joab Hada
Unish Shrestha
Joseph Assi
For Joseph, Joab and Unish, this is the first time they have qualified for these championships
Congratulations all our team members on qualifying and we wish them the best of luck.
Swimming NSW are live streaming the championships and they can be viewed below.
Matthew Vicic set a new record in the 100m Butterfly Championship yesterday.
Matt took over 2 seconds off the previous record of 1:19.90 in the 13ys 100m Butterfly, finishing in 1:17.62. The record had been held by Brett Taylor since 1981.
Congratulations to Matt on his swim.
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Thank you to the members who nominated for Club Captains. We are pleased to announce the Club Captains for 2020/2021 are:
Male Captain - Michael Vicic
Female Captain - Breeanah Khoury
This is Michael's first experience as Club Captain, whilst Breeanah was a Club Captain for the first time last season. Please join us is congratulating both Michael & Breeanah and we look forward to your support of them in their roles over the rest of the season.
The responsibilities of Club Captains are varied and include representation amongst the younger members of the club. We were fortunate to have a number of nominations this year for these positions.