*updated with entry list, program and timeline *
Hi Sharks and families,
We have our May club night coming up on Friday the 20th. Warm-up will be from 4.30pm and racing will commence at 5pm sharp.
This meet will be run short course and times will be official (as long as we get enough volunteers and timekeepers). The short course format means that the we will have a 100IM, although coaches have also requested a 200m IM for this meet. Swimmers may choose either the 100IM or 200IM, not both as they will be swum consecutively. Our 200m event will be the 200m Free. We are also adding a special 1500m event to the end of the night. Our own David Bale will be attempting a national multi-class record. We are planning to hold a non multi-class heat for any other swimmers who want to do a 1500m on a Friday night (it will be swum with the MC event).
There is a maximum of 4 events per swimmer and you cannot enter a 25 and 50m event in the same stroke. For those with times under 30 seconds (35 seconds for breaststroke) for 25m please give the 50m event a go. Entries may not be accepted for 25m events if you are significantly under 30 seconds or have achieved a time under this mark more than once. As usual there will be 25/50/100 m events in all strokes.
The order of events is as follows:
- 1 Mixed 100 Breaststroke
- 2 Mixed 25 Butterfly
- 3 Mixed 50 Butterfly
- 4 Mixed 100 Freestyle
- 5 Mixed 25 Backstroke
- 6 Mixed 50 Backstroke
- 7 Mixed 100 IM
- 8 Mixed 200 IM
- 9 Mixed 25 Freestyle
- 10 Mixed 50 Freestyle
- 11 Mixed 100 Backstroke
- 12 Mixed 25 Breaststroke
- 13 Mixed 50 Breaststroke
- 14 Mixed 100 Butterfly
- 15 Mixed 200 Freestyle
- 16 Mixed 1500 Freestyle
For all our new swimmers, and those getting into racing, come along and give it a go! Club meets are a fun and supportive environment to try new events and distances and practice your racing.
Entries are via Swim Central: https://swimcentral.swimming.org.au/bounce?returnUrl=%2Fevents%2F79391c87-9240-4a80-8d67-ac31957d78a6%2Fdetail
Unregistered siblings are also welcome, please email our club night coordinator, Karinda, at: wvsc.clubnight@wodenswimclub.org.au with your swimmer’s name, DOB and the events they would like to enter.
All Masters swimmers are also welcome. If you aren’t on Swim Central please also email the above details to Karinda and we will put an entry in for you.
Entries close next Wednesday 18 May at 8pm. No late entries please! If you have any issues with entering via Swim Central please email Karinda asap and we will sort it out.
As always, we cannot run club meets without volunteers! A duty roster will be available via Team App or you can contact Karinda to let us know what you’d like to help out with. Most roles require no experience or training and if you’d like to try a new role, let us know in advance and we can organise some training and/or mentoring during the meet.
This post will be updated with the entry list for checking (Wednesday the 18th after entries close) and the seeded program and timeline (Thursday 19th). Please check back here for those documents if you haven’t received them via email from the race secretary. We are having issues with our email servers sending out bulk emails so documents will be added to this post when available for your convenience.
We are looking forward to seeing many of you on Friday the 2oth!
