Merrylands Pool Re-opens June 30

25 June 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
Merrylands Swimming Centre will be open earlier this season due to extended maintenance at Guildford and Wentworthville pools.

The season at Merrylands will start next Monday, June 30, over two months earlier than usual. The club's swimming squad will also return to training at the centre on Monday.

During the six week closure, the Competition and Training Pools have both been emptied, extensively cleaned and had broken and missing tiles replaced. The pool walls have also been re-grouted.

Activities at the centre include recreational laps, lessons and coaching for adults and children, and the swimming club.

Opening hours are Monday to Friday 6am to 6pm, Saturday 6am to 2pm and Sunday 7am to 2pm. Entry fees from July 1 are $4.20 for adults and $2.70 for children.

For more information click here or visit Holroyd City Council's website here.

See Also
  • Merrylands Swimming Centre
  • Holroyd City Council - Swimming Pools

  • Merrylands Swimming Squad
  • Parramatta Advertiser Article
  • Parramatta Sun Article

    • NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships

    24 June 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    The 2008 NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships will be held at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th June, 2008.

    Our club will be represented by 3 swimmers at the meet, competing in 8 individual events.

    Two of our swimmers will compete in new events this year. Amber Johnson will add the Open 50m Backstroke to her events while Anthony Ventra adds the 100m Freestyle.
    Rebecca Tuivawa will be our club's third swimmer at the meet, representing Merrylands for the first time.

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

    Anthony Ventra
    14yrs 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 9:34am)
    14yrs 100m Freestyle (Day 2 - Session 3 - 12:47pm)
    14/15yrs 200m Breaststroke (Day 2 - Session 4 - 2:49pm)
    Rebecca Tuivawa
    12yrs 100m Breaststroke (Day 1 - Session 2 - 3:44pm)
    12yrs 100m Backstroke (Day 2 - Session 4 - 4:15pm)
    12yrs 100m Butterfly (Day 2 - Session 4 - 5:12pm)
    Amber Johnson
    15yrs 100m Backstroke (Day 1 - Session 1 - 10:32am)
    Open 50m Backstroke (Day 2 - Session 4 - 2:22pm)

    Times should be used as a guide only.

    Congratulations to the 3 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
  • 2008 NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships - Program of Events
  • 2008 NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships - Qualifying Times
  • State, Metropolitan and Country Championship Procedures

  • Competitor Information

  • Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Parking Arrangements

    • McCredie Park 9yrs & Under Meet

    22 June 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    The McCredie Park Aquatics 9 Years & Under Development Carnival was held at Guildford Swimming Centre yesterday.

    Merrylands was represented by 5 swimmers consisting of Haley Baker, Charlotte Neill, Taysha Wilson, Jessica Grubba and Timothy Tunks. Ashley Grubba also competed in the Kick Board event.

    Everyone competed well with Timothy taking home medals and ribbons. He came 3rd in Freestyle, 4th in Butterfly, 5th Individual Medley. Our 9yrs and Under Freestyle Relay placed 7th.

    Hayley and Charlotte were very excited as this was their first official swim meet outside of our club.

    Congratulations to all our swimmers on their results. The full results are now available here.

    Thank you to Dylan Baker who coached, and Vicki Baker who managed our team at the meet.

    See Also
  • 2008 McCredie Park 9yrs & Under Development Carnival - Results
  • 2008 McCredie Park 9yrs & Under Development Carnival - Program of Events

    • Metropolitan Short Course Entries

    07 June 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Entries for the 2008 NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships close on Tuesday, 10th June, 2008.

    The entries are to be on Multi-Entry Cards.

    To compete at these championships you must have achieved the required qualifying time at an approved meet as detailed on the Qualifying Time Information page.

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

    For more information on NSW meets read the Championship Procedures information in the Swim Meets Section.

    No late entries will be accepted.

    See Also
  • 2008 NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships - Program of Events
  • 2008 NSW Metropolitan Short Course Championships - Qualifying Times
  • Qualifying Time Information

  • Meet Entry Procedures

  • State, Metropolitan and Country Championship Procedures

  • Competitor Information

  • Schedule of Constants

  • Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Parking Arrangements

    • 2007/2008 Presentation Evening

    18 May 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Anthony Ventra won the Champion of Champions Award for the first time at the club's Annual Presentation Evening last night.

    Anthony competed in all the club competitions throughout the season, breaking 3 championship records and also represented the club at the Cumberland, Metropolitan and State Age Championships.

    Both the Michael Rossek and Ronald Exley Trophies were also presented to first time winners with Timothy Tunks and Chantel Teakle-Jones the highest placed Junior Boy and Junior Girl in the Graded Point Score.

    Jessica Grubba was presented with The Jack Smart Encouragement Award after steadily improving over the season and the Relay Competition title was successfully defended by "The Swimmers" (Dylan Baker, Anthony Ventra, David Wang, Nathan Legge, Mitchell Burt and Amber Johnson) after easily winning their third title.

    Peter Johnston won the Senior Handicap for a record breaking seventh year. In our Winter Season Peter Johnston and Belinda Sloane won the male and female Graded point score competitions - both their second competition wins. Mandy Smart was presented with the P-Plate Award for "Outstanding Timekeeping".

    Four awards were presented to members of Merrylands Swimming Squad for their efforts at Swimming Training throughout the season. All four swimmers were deserved recipients of the Coach's Awards with Jessica Grubba, Paige Scurrah, Timothy Tunks and Anthony Ventra all taking home a club beanie.

    The night was very enjoyable and those people that stayed after the presentation had a good time.

    Thank you to all the people who helped organise the presentation and who helped throughout the season.

    You can find the season results in the Club Races section and the full list of other awards presented on the night in the Presentation section.

    See Also
  • Presentation Evening

  • Graded point score Results

  • Championship Results

  • Senior Handicap Results

  • Relay Competition Results
  • Champion of Champions Results
  • Feature: The History of The Graded Pointscore
  • Feature: The History of The Senior Handicap
  • Feature: The History of The Champion of Champions
  • Awards - John “Jack” Smart Encouragement Award

    • Swimming Metro South West

    08 May 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Tonight marked the end of an era for swimming in NSW as the Cumberland District ceased to exist and the Swimming Metro South West Area emerged in it's place.

    Along with the new name, a new logo and colours were selected following an Area wide competition.

    The winning logo (no 14a), submitted by McCredie Park, includes a shark, providing a sense of history and link to the old Cumberland District. The colours selected are Aqua, Lime Green and Silver/Grey.

    Both of the other two finalists in the competition were submitted by our club's members.

    The following Clubs are the Founding Members of the new Metro South West Area:
    Atlantis Macarthur Indoor Nepean Wenden
    Blacktown City Macquarie Fields Penrith Wentworthville RSL
    Bankstown Sports McCredie Park Penrith RSL
    Camden Merrylands Prairiewood
    Campbelltown Mount Annan Revesby Workers
    Holsworthy Mounties Ripples St Mary's
    Inswim Myswim Swimfit Macarthur
    Liverpool Narellan All Stars Toongabbie

    The Wizards Swim Team are also hoping to be granted affiliation with the area.

    The first swimming meet held by the new South West Area will be the Winter Short Course Meet at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on May 25th. Congratulations to our members whose logos were finalists in the competition.


    Logo Competition Finalists

    Following voting by our members, the 3 logos submitted to the Cumberland AGM as our club's top 3 in order of preference were 1a, 2c and 16. The final top 3 logos following all the area club's selections prior to the meeting were, in order of preference 14a (27pts), 16 (24pts) and 1a (17pts). Following voting at the AGM, the placings remained the same.

    2nd Placed Logo
    (no 16)
    by Peter Johnston     		3rd Placed Logo
    (no 1a)
    by David Wang

    See Also
  • Swimming Cumberland

  • The End of Cumberland

  • Swimming Metro South West Logo Competition

    • Swimwest Open Short Course Meet

    21 April 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    After a long day, 36 new personal best times were swum by Merrylands swimmers from 54 events at yesterday's Swimwest Open Short Course Meet at Sydney Olympic Park.

    At the 10½hr meet, 9 out of 10 of the club's swimmers broke at least one of their times, with 4 swimmers achieving PBs in all of their events and 3 swimmers taking home medals.

    Anthony Ventra finished the meet with 3 medals, finishing 1st in the 14yrs 50m Freestyle & 50m Breaststroke and 3rd in the 50m Backstroke. David Wang also finished 3rd in the 50m Backstroke, in the 15yrs age group, while Amber Johnson finished 2nd in the 15yrs 50m Backstroke.

    Belinda Sloane, Chantel Teakle-Jones, Anthony and David all swam new personal best times in all of their events.
    The following swimmers all swam at least one PB with some taking huge amounts off their times:
    Ryan Bartolo
    Ethan Burton
    Tanya Cleland
    Amber Johnson
    Logan Woodcock

    Congratulations to all our swimmers on their results at the meet. The full results with splits are available here.

    Medal Tally

    Gold 2
    Silver 1
    Bronze 2

    See Also
  • 2008 Swimwest Short Course Qualifying Meet - Results

    • Wentworthville Invitational Results

    18 April 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    Merrylands' swimmers won 26 medals at the Wentworthville Invitational Carnival on Sunday, 6th April. The meet was held in some gloomy conditions and occasional rain at Wentworthville Swimming Centre.

    Rebecca Tuivawa won 5 medals, finishing 1st in the 12yrs 50m Butterfly, 2nd in the 50m Freestyle, 50m Breaststroke & 200m Individual Medley and 3rd in the 50m Backstroke.

    Erin Cooper also took home 5 medals, all silver, after finishing second in all four of her individual 50m events. Erin then teamed up with David Wang, Jacqueline Gardner and Peter Johnston to take second place in the 15yrs & Over 4x50m Freestyle Relay.

    David and Peter also won individual medals at the meet. David took home 4 individual medals with gold in the 15yrs 50m Freestyle & Breaststroke, and silver in the 50m Butterfly & Backstroke. Peter won gold in the 16yrs & Over 50m Breaststroke and silver in the 50m Freestyle.

    Mitchell Burt won 6 medals at the meet, with gold in the 14yrs 50m Freestyle & 50m Butterfly, silver in the 50m & Open 100m Backstroke & 50m Breaststroke and bronze in the Open 100m Freestyle.

    Ryan Bartolo took home bronze in the 11yrs 50m Butterfly while the club won medals in the 9yrs Boys events as well, with Ethan Burton 2nd in the 50m Backstroke and Timothy Tunks 3rd in the 50m Freestyle. Ethan and Tim also won a medal in the 10yrs & Under 4x50m Freestyle Relay with Logan Woodcock and Angela Gardner, finishing in 3rd place.

    Likewise, our other swimmers at the meet swam well, with a number of new personal best times swum.
    The following swimmers all swam at least one new PB:
    Ryan Bartolo
    Ethan Burton
    Tanya Cleland
    Erin Cooper
    Angela Gardner
    Jacqueline Gardner
    Paige Scurrah
    Belinda Sloane
    Lachlan Stewart
    Chantel Teakle-Jones
    Rebecca Tuivawa
    Timothy Tunks
    David Wang

    Congratulations to all our swimmers on their results. The club's results are available here.

    Thank you to Teresa Johnson, Janet & Darren Sloane and Ian Wilson for their assistance in organising shelter for the day. Thank you to Janet who also acted as our Team Manager for the meet.

    Medal Tally

    Gold 6
    Silver 15
    Bronze 5

    See Also
  • Wentworthville Invitational Meet - Results

    • Swimming Metro South West Logo Competition

    17 April 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    The new Swimming Metro South West Area is running a competition to select a logo for the new Area.

    Submissions have now closed and the procecss of selecting the logo has begun. The area has received a number of submissions for the new logo from members and clubs throughout the area.

    Swimming Metro South West Member Clubs will be required to vote for one of these logos at the May Area meeting. So to help our club committee to decide which logo to vote for, all First Claim Financial Members of Merrylands A.S.C. are invited to give their opinion to our club’s committee by selecting their top 3 logos from the list of submissions.

    Preferences should be provided, along with your name, on the appropriate form (available at club races and training) and placed in the club box or sent via email to before 6pm on Monday, 28th April, 2008.

    Preferences should be provided as follows:
       3 points for the first preference
       2 points for the second preference
       1 point for the third preference

    The club will then use this feedback in deciding on which logo to vote for.

    The logo submissions can be downloaded here.

    See Also
  • The End of Cumberland

  • Swimming Metro South West Logo Submissions

    • How do you rank?

    13 April 2008 Peter-Johnston Latest News
    How did your performances at club during the summer season compare to those of other swimmers? Are you in the Top 10? Did you swim consistently through out the season or did you gradually improve?

    The 2007/2008 Season Rankings will give you the answers.

    Rankings are available for all events in 2 age categories; Open and 12 & Under.

    See the Club Races Results for the Top 10 and Full Lists.

    See Also
  • 2007/2008 Season Rankings - Open Top 10

  • Club Races Results