Shark Bites March 201 - Werribee Swimming Club

Welcome to SHARK BITES!
Well what a month March has been! Victorian Sprint Championships end of February,
Metro West Sprint Championships and All Junior qualifiers, school swimming carnivals
and Nationals getting closer.
This edition of Shark Bites will include:
Metro, Victoria sprints and school write ups.
Pete's quote of the month
Birthdays in March
And heaps more so please read on.
THANKS TO ALL OUR SPONSORS
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Metro West District Sprint & All Junior Meets
This year’s District Sprint & All Junior events were held at MSAC, results as follows:
Sprint Results:
Gold medallists
Silver medallists
Bronze medallists
Marco Soesanto (3)
Montana Rauner-Smith (3)
Jennifer Dobie (2)
Emmason McCurley (3)
Bianca Mathews (2)
THANKS TO ALL OUR SPONSORS!
Paris Fenech (2)
Bianca Mathews (2)
Caitlin Huell (2)
Emily Bilek (2)
Naomi Janmaat
Josh Furnival (2)
Josh Furnival (2)
Shanais Rauner-Smith
Zahra Abela
Bianca Mathews
Josh Gomes
Emily Bilek
Josh Furnival
Keiya Osumi
Emma Oorloff
Luke Stafford
Andrea Gomes
Monique Separovic-Michie
Harry Osumi
Top 10 finishes:
Jade Murrell (5), Alex Ikanovic (4), Shanais Rauner-Smith (4), Sophia Potter (4), Josh Gomes (4),
Luke Stafford (4), Jai Rauner-Smith (4), Erin Devlin (4), Keiya Osumi (3),
Baylee Fletcher (3), Jayden Caisley (3), Renae Meilak (3), Naomi Janmaat (3), Caitlin Huell (3),
Jennifer Dobie (3), Sam Franks (3), Jack Smith (3), Mia Bogdanowicz (2),
Andrea Gomes (2), Zahra Abela (2), Harry Osumi (2), Monique Separovic-Michie (2), Caitlin
McGraw (2), James Boardman (2), Emmason McCurley (2), Emily Bilek (2), Tyler Smit (1), Emma
Oorloff (1), Montana Rauner-Smith (1), Mirela Cazacanco (1), Paris Fenech (1), Hayan Azcoul
(1), Emma Chang-Kum (1), Daniel Buysen (1) & Lucca Mendez (1).
Other swimmers who competed: Zoe Parker, Charlotte McAnda, Tristan Harrison & Jack
Buysen.
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All Junior Qualifiers
All Junior Qualifiers:
Qualified in all four strokes: Jennifer Dobie, Bianca Mathews, Montana Rauner-Smith, Sophia
Potter, Caitlin Huell, Monique Separovic-Michie, Jade Murrell, Shanais Rauner-Smith, Josh
Gomes, Keiya Osumi, Jai Rauner-Smith, Jayden Caisley, Harry Osumi & Luke Stafford.
Qualified in three strokes: Zahra Abela, Mia Bogdanowicz, Paris Fenech, Noami Janmaat &
Emma Oorloff.
Qualified in two strokes:, Caitlin McGraw, Mirela Cazacanco, Emmason McCurley, Emma
Chang-Kum, Tyler Smit & Marco Soesanto.
Qualified in one stroke: Layla Murrell, Stella Soesanto, Daniel Buysen, Lavya Bassi & Hayan
Azcoul.
The All Junior semi-finals were on Saturday 28 March 2015 in the outdoor pool at MSAC (age at
28/3/15) – 8, 9 & 10 year olds start at 9.00am; 11, 12, 13 & 14 year olds start at 1.00pm. The
fastest 10 swimmers from the semi-finals on the Saturday qualify to compete in the finals on
the Sunday.
The All Junior flashes (for the top 10 finishers) & Metro West 7-10 Encouragement caps (still to
be given to swimmers who qualified) should be available at All Juniors
Well done to all swimmers who represented Wyndham City over the day with many PB’s.
Also, a big thank you to all who donated their time (mainly timekeeping) throughout the day.
We should also thank the SV and Metro West officials for their contribution, as well as our
coaches for their assistance with our swimmers.
The next Metro West meet: Sunday 21 June, Shortcourse Meet at MSAC.
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2015 Victorian Sprint Championships
36 Wyndham City Swimming Club members contested the Victorian Sprint
Championships at MSAC on the weekend of February 7th & 8th.
Of the 36 swimmers to represent our club 4 swimmers combined to swim 7
finals. Congratulations to our finalists, Montana Rauner-Smith, Emma Oorloff,
Emmason McCurley and Marco Soesanto.
Special congratulations to Emmason McCurley who won the silver Medal in
the girls 13y 50 Backstroke.
It was great to have such a large team represent our club at a State meet, I’m
hoping everyone is now working hard and looking to be a member of our 2015
State Short Course team!
Pete
New Club Records
2015 Victorian Age Long Course Championships
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50 Free
100 Back
200 Back
100 Fly
200 IM
100 Brst
200 Brst
New Record
0:29.04 Caitlin Huell
1:08.08 Emmason McCurley
2:26.57 Emmason McCurley
1:11.83 Naomi Janmaat
2:32.36 Emmason McCurley
1:10.57 Marco Soesanto
2:36.32 Marco Soesanto
Previous Record
0:29.11 Emmason McCurley
29/03/2014
1:08.86 Emmason McCurley
4/10/2014
2:29.85 Emmason McCurley
1/11/2014
1:11.93 Naomi Janmaat
5/10/2014
2:33.86 Emmason McCurley
1/11/2014
1:13.84 Marko Ivosev
9/04/2008
2:40.42 Karl Percher
21/01/2008
2015 Victorian Sprint Championships
New Record
F 14 50 Brst 0:38.03 Emma Oorloff
Previous Record
0:38.67 Renee Farrugia
9/02/2013
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Nationals coming up watch out for our
swimmers heading to NSW to compete….
Club Uniform must be worn
At all Medal Presentations.
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Pete's Corner
Pete's Quote of the
Month!!
SWIMMER FACTS
"Success doesn't always come
at a time when you want it too,
all you can do is prepare" Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Coughlin USA
Natalie Coughlin Hall (born August 23, 1982), née Natalie Anne Coughlin, is an American competition
swimmer and twelve-time Olympic medalist. Ten days before her 20th birthday in 2002, she became the
first woman ever to swim the 100-meter backstroke (long course) in less than one minute. At the 2008
Summer Olympics, she became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in
one Olympiad, and the first woman ever to win a 100-meter backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.
Coughlin's success has earned her the World Swimmer of the Year Award once and American Swimmer of
the Year Award three times. She has won a total of forty-nine medals in major international competition,
twenty-two gold, seventeen silver, and ten bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific
Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle
relay. Her total of twelve Olympic medals tie her with Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres for the most alltime by an American woman.
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ADVICE FROM A SWIMMER WHO HAS MADE THE BIG TIME
Words from Cameron McEvoy in a recent SV article:
Question: What are your best tips for beating the big boys?
Cameron has become so successful, even though he was a head shorter than his
competition. He said his mum, a psychologist, really helps him get his head around the
fact that he couldn’t control how tall he or anyone else was, or how fast anyone else was,
and that he could only control how hard he trained and how much effort he put
in. While he was focusing on every single aspect of his training and technique, he was
improving a little bit but not very much, so he dropped down the rankings slightly, but
kept at it and it eventually paid off and he started to improve heaps when he started to
grow.
Question: How do you deal with a bad swim?
Realise that it wasn’t the swim as a whole that was bad, and that you have to identify the
elements that were bad and work on them in training. Remember that the sun will always
rise tomorrow, you’ll still go to school, you’ll still see your friends, and life will pretty soon
go back to normal – a bad swim doesn’t change your life.
Cameron McEvoy
Born - 13/05/1994, Gold Coast QLD
Lives - Gold Coast QLD
Height - 182cms
Weight - 70kg
Trains - Palm Beach Currumbin
Coach - Richard Scarce
Main Event(s) - 100/200m freestyle
Career Highlights
*Breaking Ian Thorpe's 100 m freestyle 16 yr and 17 yr age records.
*Making the 2012 Olympic Team at 17-years of age.
*Winning the 100m freestyle at the Singapore world Cup in 2011.
*Setting personal best times in the 100 and 200 free to gain selection for two individual swims
at the Barcelona World Championships.
*Taking individual Australian titles in the 100 and 200m freestyle at the 2014 Australian Swimming
Championships,
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Jack Smith 1st
Steven Diakoumis 2nd
Philip Goutama 3rd
Naomi Janmaat 7th
Ariana Chase 26th
Lily Mettam 29th
Jaime Patterson 29th
Milla Place 29th
Mia Bogdanowicz 30th
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Western Metro Primary School Swimming
On Tuesday 24th March I went to the Western Metro Primary School Swimming in Geelong. I
was excited as it is my last year competing in Primary School swimming. I had 2 races, the
back and breast. I came 6th in breast and after a very close race in the back I was 2nd by 0.04
seconds. The best part was getting on the podium and getting a medal.
We represented our schools but like usual, all the Sharks found each other and sat together to
cheer each other on.
Well done to all that qualified to swim at this meet – Jen Dobie, Chloe Maczka, Layla Murrell,
Bianca Mathews, Megan Irvine, Mirela Cazacenco, Josh Gomes, Keiya Osumi, Tiaan Kulkens
Bedian, Sophie Parton, Jenny Cui, Luzaan Du Preez and myself.
A special mention to Bianca for winning the 12/13 yr old freestyle and Josh for winning the 10
yr old breaststroke and Chloe for winning gold in the 10yr old breaststroke. They all qualified
for state finals. Good luck to Josh and Chloe for the finals. Bianca had to withdraw as she has
recently had an operation on her elbow. We all wish her a speedy recovery.
Also a special mention to the following swimmers who also medalled – Keiya Osumi silver in
11 yr old breaststroke, , Mirela Cazacanco silver in the 12/13 backstroke, Heathdale 11yr old
freestyle relay team Jenny Cui & Luzaan DuPreez, Jai Rauner-Smith silver in 11 yr old
backstroke, Bianca Mathews bronze in 12/13 yr old butterfly
Well done to all you participated.
Jai Rauner-Smith
Keiya Osumi (left) Jai Rauner-Smith
(right) at Primary school Regionals.
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Western Metro Secondary School Regional Swimming
Thursday the 27th of March. The day of Regional’s. The air was crisp and the wind had a
bite when Emma Chang-Kum, Tristan Harrison, Tyler Smit and I arrived at Kardinia Park,
Geelong. We were swimmers from Werribee Secondary College, but more importantly,
swimmers from Wyndham City Sharks.
We were greeted with other familiar Wyndham faces. Ariana Chase (from Point Cook
Senior), Erin Devlin (Williamstown High School), Emma Oorloff (Hoppers Crossing
Secondary College), Caitlin Huell (Maribyrnong Sports Academy) and Sophia Potter.
There was some heavy competition from other clubs such as Melton, Laverton and
Geelong, but we managed to pull through, snagging some silvers and bronze, and yes,
some gold.
All in all, Regional’s was a success, for both the schools and the club.
A huge congratulations to our swimmers who have progressed to State Level.
Erin Devlin
Emma Chang-Kum
Emma Oorloff
Caitlin Huell
Sophia Potter
Naomi Janmaat
We wish you all good luck and great fun.
Written by Naomi Janmaat.
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WARRNAMBOOL CLUB TRIP – June 6th - 8th
Our first targeted Short Course Meet for the upcoming season will be the Warrnambool S/C meet to
be held over the Queens Birthday weekend, 6-7th of June, our proposed club trip.
Please Note as for most competitions, entries will be limited and closed early as the event fills
so get your entries in early!
The meet flyer is attached, entries can be done online here:-
http://vic.swimming.org..au/calendar.html
As this is a club trip we would like everyone to stay together and as such would
like everyone to stay at the Warrnambool Discovery Holiday Park, bookings can be made
by following this link :-
http://www.discoveryholidayparks.com.au/vic/great_ocean_road/warrnambool
We are in the process of organising a team dinner for the Sunday evening, (7th June),
further details regards this and possible team breakfasts to follow.
I look forward to seeing you all in Warrnambool for a successful start to our
short course season.
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For all your race suits visit the Aqua Shop, Park Street, South Melbourne.
Specialised fittings for all race and swim wear.
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URGENTLY REQUIRED !
THE CLUB REQUIRES AN "I.T. GURU"……………..
INTERESTED IN UPDATING OUR WEB PAGE AND COMPLETING
OUR NEWSLETTER EACH MONTH.
IF SO PLEASE CONTACT VINCE, SHARON OR SHELLEY TO
EXPRESS INTEREST.
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Caitlin Huell at Secondary School
Regionals
Tristan Harrison at Secondary School
Regionals
Josh Gomes, Keiya Osumi, & Mirela Cazacenco at Primary school regionals.
Tiaan Kulkens
Bedian, Keiya
Osumi, Josh
Gomes, Bianca
Matthews, Luzaan
Du Preez, Jenny
Cui, and Mirela
Cazacenco at
Primary School
Regionals.
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