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Thank you for your fantastic support!

Swimming NSW recently confirmed our status as a top 10 club in NSW. This massive achievement, calculated from the 2014/15 point score, has been acknowledged via a large banner now hanging in the Aquatic Centre Office. Massive congratulations to our swimmers and coaches for this awesome team result.

NSW Top 10

1. Carlile
2. Cherrybrook Carlile
3. Tuggeranong Vikings
4. Trinity Grammar
5. SOPAC Swim Club
6. Auburn
7. Abbotsleigh
8. Ravenswood
9. Campbelltown
10. Knox Pymble

Our very own Head Coach, Leanne Speechley, is a keynote speaker at the Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA) NSW conference this September.

Leanne joins a stella line up including Olympic Coach Matt Brown, Australian Age Coach of Year, Justin Rothwell, and NSWIS Biomechanist Job Van Duinhoven. She will be sharing her expertise in developing age group IM swimmers.

ASCTA is the peak body for swimming Coaches and Teachers in Australia. It is dedicated to developing world leading practises in the education, accreditation, professional development and on-going support for swimming Coaches and swimming and water safety Teachers.

Full details of this conference are available here.

Abbotsleigh Swim Club President, Chris Fydler, was in Gallipoli recently to join a commemorative swim in Anzac Cove. Chris, former Australian swim team captain and sprint king, swam the 1,915m event organised by the Turkish Olympic Committee (TOC) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli. Full story here.

After years of visiting SOPAC, Abbotsleigh parent Ben Ramsden finally made it to the podium. Distinctly average swimmer Ben explained, “I have been training hard for years, and never dreamt that one day I would make it to the podium at Sydney Olympic Park. My kids have both been there many times, but I thought that the opportunity was just going to pass me by”.

Ben didn’t seem a bit disappointed that his appearance at the podium was to present medals rather than receive one. “My daughter presented the gold medal to the women’s 100m freestyle World Champion at Sopac earlier this year. Now I have presented to the 10year old Metro Champions. Everyone needs to start somewhere.”

Copies reproduced courtesy of News Local.

I’d like to congratulate Brandon Lawrence on receiving his Silver Coaching Licence.

To receive this Brandon had to have 6 or more swimmers achieve Australian national Age Qualifying times, attend a 5 day course held at the Australia Swimming Coaches Conference and complete work books to prove he was capable and knowledgeable in the areas of; technique and skills in swimming, progression, season planning, race planning, talent ID systems, race footage analysis, nutrition and hydration for swimmers, core/dryland programming and injury prevention.

Brandon is now part of an elite group of coaches in Australia and we are very lucky to have him on our team.

Leanne Speechley

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The guards lined up the prisoners, then instructed them to crouch on small tables at one end of a small indoor lake. The chief officer made a strange one armed salute to a side kick who sounded a beep. Upon this signal the prisoners hurled themselves into the chemically polluted water and started to labour along a long black line by moving their arms and legs.

Those who had committed the worst crimes were forced to make 30 laps of the lake before some other guards pressed buttons allowing them to stop. The less evil ones were released after only 8. Wave after wave of punishment was unleashed on the prisoners – some even came back for more. None of the prisoners were allowed to eat but the guards had ample supplies delivered to them on plates.

Mooseglurg had seen enough. In a puff of invisible smoke he engaged his hyperspace drive and zipped home to Mars.