Auckland Short Course Champs

This meet is on the 9th May which is only a couple of weeks away and entries close on 2nd May which is even closer. This is a really great meet and is always fun. Be at Cameron Pool in Mt Roskill be 1.30 pm for warm up. It's usually all over by about 5 pm so it doesn't take up your whole day either.

You do need to get your entry in smartly though. By that I mean quickly - you do not need to wear a suit and tie when you submit your entry.

If you haven't picked up your entry form off the side of the pool yet you can download one from the NZ Masters web site or follow this link:
Auckland Champs Entry Form
This just takes you to the page where you can download and entry form. If you scroll down a bit you will see a little Adobe icon on the left menu. Click on that to get the form.

Swimmer of the Month, State Ocean Swim Series

Swimmer of the Month

Firstly, apologies that it has taken a while to announce this but I was having my ankle surgery the day of the last race night and it has taken me a while to catch up with who one this though it was a pretty good guess who was up for it.

Unless you had your head buried under a rock we hosted the Nationals at the end of March. Our very own Andy Simpson was in the finest of form and not only did he break the age group record for the men's 50 m Freestyle during the event but then he turned around not all that many minutes later and broke it all over again during the first leg of a relay.

So amazing work Andy, setting a new New Zealand record for the same event twice in one day! Not many people can boast that. Andy is our Swimmer of the Month.


State Ocean Swim Series Finished for the Season

Open water swimmers will be lamenting the end of what has been a terrific season with some of the warmest water we have had for years. Some of our swimmers were even tempted to try ditching their wetsuits for swimming in their togs. The warmer waters made for greater abundance of pesky jellyfish though.

There was a great turnout of club members for the series finale, King of the Bays, though the weather was not particularly inviting for spectators. All eyes were on the series points however. Avy and Deryn both picked up Series 2nd placings but the day belonged to Liz. Liz went in to the last race already with the series win safe and secure. She wasn't about to rest though and swam to show the rest of her age group who is boss.

Well done Liz on your Series win!

Thanks to photographer Dave for a couple of photographs. Unfortunately, Avy couldn't be there to pick up her medal but it has been collected on her behalf.

Liz collecting the coveted gold medal

Where is everyone?

Club Night Results Posted

Club night for April was deferred for a week but that didn't make it any less exciting. 10 Records were BUSTED, 3 by the boys and 6 by the girls and even a relay record was broken. The relay was the first relay record broken in 6 months - that alone is deserving of a mellowpuff!

Go check out the pages, there were some pretty phenomenal times swum.

Race Night Wednesday 8th April

You may have noticed we didn't have race night last Wednesday as per the usual schedule. If you are needing your fix of racing coz you just can't get enough then get yourself psyched up, or do whatever you do for race night, have a cup of tea and pat the dog on the way out the door if that helps and be at the pool at 7pm ready to go.