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VICTORIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Nunawading Swimming Club has been named the Champion Open Club following the 2012 Victorian Open Swimming Championships held at Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre last week. Following a strong performance over the 3 day meet, the title of Champion Open Club came down to the last two events which were both relays.

At the Championships, the Club’s swimmers won 29 medals including 8 gold, 13 silver and 8 bronze in an outstanding display of speed swimming.  While the Club won the Open point score by 24 points, it also finished in second place on the overall club point score, combining the Victorian Age and Open Championship results, behind the Melbourne Vicentre club.

Leading the charge for Nunawading was World Championship bronze medallist Sarah Katsoulis winning gold in the Women’s 100m & 200m Breaststroke events and 2008 Olympian Ashley Delaney who won gold in the 50m and 200m backstroke. In the Multi-Class events, Prue Watt won gold in the Women’s 50m Breaststroke.

Swimming for Great Britain, Ellen Gandy, who has trained at Nunawading for the past 3 years, also won gold in the Women’s 50m and 100m Butterfly events.

Other individual medallists during the meet were Belinda Parslow, Tay Zimmer, Kate Haywood, Jeremy Tidy and Matt Haanappel.

Nunawading also won 3 gold medals in the relays.  In the Mens 4 x 100m Medley relay, the team of Ashley Delaney, Nicholas D’arcy-Evans, Jeremy Saunders and Shane Asbury won gold and Michael Klim, Ashley Delaney, Travis Mahoney and Shane Asbury also won the Mens 4 x 100m Freestyle relay. 

The other gold medal was won by Belinda Parslow, Belinda Bennett, Karly Mansfield and Samantha Bennett in the Women’s 4 x 200m Freestyle relay.

Nunawading’s High Performance Coach Rohan Taylor said “The Championships provided our open swimmers with the opportunity to race against some of the best swimmers in the country.  With the Olympic Trials coming up in Adelaide in March, it was really important for Nunawading swimmers to race hard as part of their overall preparation.”

One of the highlights at the meet was the return to competition swimming of Michael Klim and Ian Thorpe.  Klim, swimming for Nunawading, made the final of the 100m Freestyle event and led the Mens 4 x 100m Freestyle relay to victory.

VICTORIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS – INVITATION TO NUNA FAMILIES

Nunawading swimmers and their parents are encouraged to get along to MSAC this weekend to support Nunawading’s Open swimmers as they take on some of the best in the world at the 2012 Victorian Open Swimming Championships.

Swimmers are encouraged to arrive early to watch the final sessions and to wear their new Nunawading Polo shirt.  Even if you can make just one session, it will be a great experience!

Finals begin at 6:00pm sharp each night, Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

Nuna Swimmers Successful at Victorian Swimming Championships


Nunawading Swimming Club has enjoyed a week of success at the 2012 Victorian Age Swimming Championships held last week at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre.

At the Championships, the Club’s swimmers won 67 medals including 25 gold, 22 silver and 20 bronze in an outstanding display of speed swimming. The Club finished in second place on the club point score behind the Melbourne Vicentre club. Leading the charge for Nunawading was Nicholas Groenewald who won 6 individual gold medals, 3 silver medals and 1 bronze medal. Nicholas won gold medals in the 100m and 200m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 100m butterfly and the 200m and 400m individual medley.

At the conclusion of the Championships, Nicholas was named as the Male 14 year old Swimmer of the Meet by Swimming Victoria.

A further four swimmers won 2 gold medals each.  Alanis Olesch-Byrne won gold in the 15 year girls 100m butterfly and 200m backstroke events, Jack Currie won gold in the 15 year boys 50m and 100m freestyle events, Mikayla Smith won gold in the 13 year girls 100m and 200m breaststroke. Liam Fisk won gold in the 15 year boys 200m Individual medley and the 100m breaststroke, where he finished equalled first for the gold medal with team mate Elijah Martin in a very exciting race.

Elliot Rogerson won gold in the boys 12 years 200m freestyle, Kimberley McDonald won her first state title winning gold in the girls 17-18 years 200m breaststroke, Libby Forbes won gold in the girls 17-18 years 100m breaststroke and Stephanie Moore won gold in the girls 15 years 100m breaststroke.

The relay events at the Championships are very exciting and Nunawading swimmers performed remarkably well to win 6 gold medals in the relays against many other strong clubs from across metropolitan and country Victoria. 

The Clubs open swimmers are currently preparing for the 2012 Victorian Open Championships to be held at MSAC from the 13 to 15 January 2012.  With the Olympic Swimming Trials to be held in March 2012, Nunawading swimmers including Olympians Ashley Delaney and Michael Klim will compete against many of the best swimmers from around the country as they all prepare for the Trials.

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SWIMMING FOR PARENTS 2nd EDITION - BOOK RELEASE

Congratulations to Club CEO Gary Barclay on the release of the 2nd Edition of his book ‘Swimming for Parents’. For those who have not read the book it is a great resource for parents of swimmers aged 7 to 15 years. 

The book looks closely at the benefits of swimming, relationships between swimmers, coaches and parents, nutrition, dryland training and many other areas. If you would like more information go to www.SwimmingForParents.com. The new edition has an exciting new look and is available online or at the reception desk at Nunawading and Syndal.