Club Captains announcement

Congratulations to our club members who were nominated for these important roles.

Thank you to our members who submitted their votes for the Club Captains.

We will announce the Club Captains for 2024/2025 this morning at the Championship presentation, so please stay after club races to congratulate our new Club Captains.

Club Uniforms

We have a great range of club uniforms in stock available for sale, see the club’s online shop club shop.

If you have any questions about club uniforms please talk to the Property Officer, Margaret Edwards.

Club Sponsorships

If you are aware of any business which may be interested in providing financial or other support to our club during the season please let Graham know.

Relay Result

Congratulations to Grace Brancatisano & Talia Jambazian who won the 2x50m Random Relay last week. This is a hat-trick of wins for Talia in the relay events this year 😊

Championship race results

Last week two Club Championship events were held, the 100 metres Backstroke and 100 metres Butterfly. Congratulations to everyone who competed in these events. The results were:

100 metres Backstroke

Open Championship results:

 100 metres Butterfly

 Open Championship results:

Masters NSW Long Distance Championships

Alison Sakurovs is competing in the Masters NSW Long Distance Championships tomorrow at Granville Swimming Centre.

Alison is swimming the 1500 metre Freestyle & 400 metre Freestyle events. Good luck Alison, may the whale be with you

Seen a Problem? Get it Fixed

If you see something that needs fixing you can elevate this directly with Council by logging the issue here.

Lions Club Award

Seen someone that deserves recognition for their efforts in helping out? Nominate them for the Lions Club Award, our peak award to recognise our volunteers over the season.

Nominate a volunteer

P-Plate Award

Don’t forget to keep an eye out for someone making a silly mistake during the season. We like to recognise and reward all efforts during the season and the P-Plate award is the perfect way to do this for something funny that happens at club.

Nominate a silly mistake

Make a Donation

Our partnership with the Australian Sports Foundation allows supporters to make tax-deductible donations to the club.

Funds raised will go towards upgrading and maintaining our timing equipment and results systems, providing better facilities for you, our members.

Make a donation

Christmas Raffles, Events & BBQ

Make sure you have Saturday 21^st December in your calendar, as we will be holding our Christmas club event.

A flyer advertising the morning is attached, so keep the morning free to come and enjoy the celebrations.

Upcoming Meet Calendar

Check the website for the full list of upcoming meets, closing dates, programs and qualifying times.

Club Merrylands is a major sponsor and long-term supporter of our club. Please support them at these events if you are able to.

For more information about the club, membership and upcoming events visit https://www.clubmerrylands.com.au/

Club Captain voting

A reminder that voting for the 2024-2025 Club Captains closes at 9.30am this morning.

An email with a link to vote was sent to all financial first claim members this week. If you have not already voted using this link, please do so this morning.

Nominees for Club Captain are:

Cumberland Inter-Club Cup

Congratulations to our team of 36 swimmers who competed at the Cumberland Inter-Club Cup last Saturday afternoon.

It was a great afternoon of racing, with 40 new personal best times. We had 55 top-3 swims, including 19 first-place finishes

Unfortunately, it was a tough ask due to the weight of numbers, with 54 swimmers representing Parramatta City. Our team put up a valiant effort and we congratulate Parramatta City on retaining the cup this year. Thanks to McCredie Park who hosted the event this year.

A big thank you to our coaches who prepared our team for the meet and to our parents who worked as timekeepers during the meet and Margaret Edwards for Check Starting at the meet.

Club Uniforms

We have a great range of club uniforms in stock available for sale, see the club’s online shop club shop.

If you have any questions about club uniforms please talk to the Property Officer, Margaret Edwards.

Club Sponsorships

If you are aware of any business which may be interested in providing financial or other support to our club during the season please let Graham know.

Championship race results

Last week we held two Club Championship events, the 100 metres Freestyle and 100 metres Breaststroke. Congratulations to everyone who competed in these events. The results were:

100 metres Freestyle

Open Championship results:

100 metres Breaststroke

Open Championship results:

Congratulations to Leo Zhu who broke two club records last week in the Age & Open Mens Breaststroke Championship races.

Leo swam a time of 1:17.53, breaking the time of 1:21.35 set by Anthony Ventra in 2008 for the 15 Years Mens Age Championship and 1:18.95 set by Todd Jenkin in 2005 for the Open Mens Championship.

Seen a Problem? Get it Fixed

If you see something that needs fixing you can elevate this directly with Council by logging the issue here.

Thank you to those who have logged issues using this link, as we have already seen some repairs undertaken to issues that were recently reported

Lions Club Award

Seen someone that deserves recognition for their efforts in helping out? Nominate them for the Lions Club Award, our peak award to recognise our volunteers over the season.

Thankyou to the following people who were nominated during October:

Nominate a volunteer

P-Plate Award

Don’t forget to keep an eye out for someone making a silly mistake during the season. We like to recognise and reward all efforts during the season and the P-Plate award is the perfect way to do this for something funny that happens at club.

Nominate a silly mistake

Make a Donation

We have partnered with the Australian Sports Foundation to allow supporters to make tax-deductible donations to the club.

Funds raised will go towards upgrading and maintaining our timing equipment and results systems, providing better facilities for you, our members.

Make a donation

Christmas Raffles, Events & BBQ

Our Social Committee has been hard at work with the elves planning our Christmas club event (Saturday 21^st December).

A flyer advertising the morning is attached, so keep the morning free to come and enjoy the celebrations.

Upcoming Meet Calendar

Check the website for the full list of upcoming meets, closing dates, programs and qualifying times.

Merrylands' team of 36 swimmers raced hard for club pride at the Inter-Club Cup at Wentworthville Memorial Swimming Centre yesterday.  We had swimmers aged from 6 to 72 and everyone united to earn points for the club.

Our team put in a valiant effort and came away with 40 new personal best times. We had 55 top-3 swims, including 19 first-place finishes!

Congratulations to Parramatta City Swim Club's 54 swimmers who retained the cup this year and thank you to McCredie Park Aquatics Club for hosting.

Thank you to our parents for assisting with timekeeping and our technical officials for supporting the meet.

Merrylands will be represented by a team of 37 swimmers this afternoon as we take on Parramatta City and McCredie Park for the 2024 Cumberland Inter-Club Cup.

This year is the 10th running of the cup, and it will be the first time McCredie Park will host it at Wenworthville Swimming Centre.

We wish all our swimmers the best of luck for the meet. Many are swimming in their first swim meet outside of club races. Have a great time, and may the whale be with you!

See Also

• Meet Program and Relay Teams

Club Captain nominations

I am pleased to advise that a total of 6 nominations were received for the positions of Club Captain (there were 4 x Male and 2 x Female nominations). 1 nomination for Male Club Captain was declined and at the time of writing Whales Tales acceptance for 1 nomination for Female Club Captain (*) was still to be confirmed.

The nominations and members seeking your vote for Club Captain are:

Voting for the positions of Club Captains will occur this coming week (week 6 of the season) and a link to the online voting system will be provided so all financial first claim members have the opportunity to submit their vote.

I would also like to take the opportunity to thank our outgoing Club Captains, Matthew Vicic & Ameena Abdelraheem, for their commitment to these roles over the past season.

Whales Challenge # 1 results

A great morning of racing between the White & Maroon teams for the first of the season’s Whales Challenges, which was also highlighted by the IM Skins. This turned out to be a tough stamina test as the swimmers worked their way through 4 x 50m IM sprint races over a 10-minute period.

Congratulations to Leo Zhu & Matthew Vicic who swam their way to the final, with Leo taking the win this time (who chose Breaststroke as the final sprint?). Both swimmers represented the strong White team and saw their team victorious over the morning, accumulating a total of 1,583 points to the Maroon team’s total of 1,171.

But don’t despair as I am sure the Maroon team can come back strongly in the 2^nd of the Whales Challenges to even the series (to be held on Saturday 21^st December).

Cumberland Inter-Club Cup - today

The Cumberland Inter-Club Cup between Merrylands, Parramatta City and McCredie Park is being held this afternoon at Wentworthville Swimming Centre. We have a great team of 37 swimmers, spanning the entire age spectrum, swimming a mix of individual and relay events.

This is the prize for the club winning the point score, so let’s show them our club is the best in the Cumberland area 😊

We ask that all swimmers be at the pool ready to warm up at 2.45pm and races commence at 3.30pm.

May the whale be with you all

We have been assigned 2 lanes for timekeeping during the meet. Denise Assi is organising a roster and we ask that all parents who are not swimming at the meet assist in this and any other roles we may asked to perform over the afternoon.

There will also be a BBQ at the conclusion of the meet. All competing swimmers receive a free sausage sandwich. Additional sausage sandwiches can be purchased by all attendees.

Club Uniforms

We have a great range of club uniforms in stock available for sale, see the club’s online shop club shop.

We are taking special orders for a long sleeve shirt option. These cost $33 and orders can be placed with Margaret Edwards over the next week. An order will then be placed for the supply of these.