MAKOS NEWS

August 2012
Welcome to Mountain Creek Mooloolaba Swimming Club, the home of the mighty makos!

HI EVERYONE!
Another great month for the Mighty Makos!

IN THIS ISSUE
2 Australian School
Swimming Championships

Our swimmers enjoyed success again both nationally and internationally.

6 New Swim Gear Order

Form 7 New Dais and Marshalling Board 7 Birthdays

3 Wide Bay Short Course

Championships

4 Junior Pan Pacific

Championships 5 QLD Short Course Championships 6 Club Uniforms

7 Upcoming Events 8 Sponsors

Chelsea and Chloe Gubecka travelled to Sydney and came back with a swag of medals. Kareena Lee had a taste of Hawaii when she competed at the Junior Pan Pacic Championships. Our State qualiers represented the Makos at the Queensland Short Course Championships at Chandler with great success. Both our junior and senior swimmers performed great at the Wide Bay Short course Championships at our very own Mountain Creek Aquatic Complex. Well done to all, we are now looking forward to he new club night season and we wish good luck to our swimmers competing at national, state and regional level meets next month!

Thank you to our members for contributing to this issue.

We hope you all enjoy this issue and we welcome your feedback!
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Australian School Swimming Championships

28 July-3 August 2012
Congratulations to Chelsea and Chloe Gubecka who competed at the Australian School Swimming Championships between 28 July and 3 August in Sydney. The girls put on excellent performances both in the individual races and in the relays. Regular updates were posted on our Facebook page. Check out the photos of the event in the Gallery.

Final wrap-up of the Championships: CHELSEA 5 Gold - 200 IM, 200 Free, 200 Fly, 400 Free, 400 IM 4 Silver - 50 Free, 10x50 Free Relay, 13-14 4x50 Free Relay, 8x50 Free Relay 2 Bronze - 100 Free, 4x100 Free Relay Australian Swimmer of the Meet Queensland Swimmer of the Meet CHLOE 2 Gold - 200 IM, 100 Fly 1 Silver - 100 Free 3 Bronze - 4x50 Free Relay, 4x50 Medley Relay, 50 Fly Congratulations again girls, awesome achievements!

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Wide Bay Short Course Championships

4-5 August
Mountain Creek Mooloolaba swim club helped host the 2012 Wide Bay SC Championships at the Mountain Creek Aquatic Centre between 4-5 August. Our club swimmers did very well; they swam some fantastic times and managed to do some awesome PBs. We are very proud of the kids and the work they do. Our parents also assisted with the ofciating, BBQ, set up of the meet, as well as pack up. Our BBQ did very well, with the bacon and egg burgers and the Mighty Mako burger being delicious and lling people up. In fact, they were so good we sold out! Thank you must go to Michael and Genevieve King for allowing us to use the complex, as well as to all the parents that helped over the 2 days of competition, and of course our coaches Barry Kime and Michael Gibson who were sensational over the 2 days. Medal tally: 27 gold 9 silver 9 bronze Our club came 3rd overall. Results are available on our website. We are now looking forward to our meet in February to be held at the same complex!

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JUNIOR PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

23-27 August
Congratulations to Kareena Lee who competed at the 2012 Junior Pan Pacific Championships between 23 and 27 August in the beautiful tropics of Hawaii. Kareena represented Australia (and Mt Creek Makos) and did us all very proud. She competed in the following events with great results: Women 800m Free - 7th Women 400m Free - 5th (in B final) Women 1500m Free - 5th (a massive near 20 sec PB!) Women 10k Open Water - 5th (first time swimming the 10k race!)

In the team rankings Australia finished second behind the US. What a fantastic performance, racing against some of the best up and coming swimmers in the world!

Keep an eye on Kareena as a star of the future. Her next venture is the Australian Short Course Championships in Perth in September.

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Queensland Short Course Championships

2526 August

Congratulations to the following swimmers who represented our club so well at the Queensland Short Course Championships at Chandler: Chelsea Babec, Jack Burnham, Chelsea Gubecka, Chloe Gubecka, Jordan Gubecka, Samantha Lee, Emily Readshaw, Olivia Shipton and Jayden Soanes. Our swimmers performed fantastic, showing off the huge improvements they have made in their swimming and achieving some great personal best times. Medallists of the meet were: Chelsea B: (Gold - Women 17-18yrs 50m breaststroke, Bronze - Women 17-18yrs 100m breaststroke, Bronze - Women 17-18yrs 200m breaststroke) Jack: (Silver - Men 17-18yrs 1500m freestyle) Chelsea G: (Gold - Girls 13yrs 100m IM, Gold - Girls 13yrs 800m freestyle, Gold - Girls 13yrs 100m butterTly, Gold - Girls 13yrs - 200m butterTly, Gold - Girls 13yrs 400m IM, Silver - Girls 13yrs 100m freestyle, Silver - Girls 13yrs 200m IM, Bronze - Girls 13yrs 50m backstroke) Chloe: (Gold - Girls 10yrs 100m IM, Silver - Girls 10yrs 50m butterTly)

Chelsea Gubecka was also selected as the Swimmer of the Meet; she broke four Queensland records and four Queensland All-comers records! Well done to everyone, what a great performance, the club is very proud of your achievements! Special mention should go to our coach Barry Kime who did a fantastic job again to prepare the Makos swimmers. Check out the results and photos on our website!

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Club Uniforms
Wearing the club uniform gives all swimmers a sense of pride and team unity. It is requested that all swimmers wear club togs at swim meets as well as the club cap. We do, however, understand that in certain swim meets special race suits may be preferred but we do ask that you wear the club togs during warmup to promote team spirit. Our club has a great range of club gear which can be purchased from our Uniform Co-ordinator Maree Harrison. Parents, there are also club shirts available for you! Maree can be contacted via email at
mountaincreekmooloolaba@widebayswimming.org.au

NEW SWIM GEAR ORDER FORM

We have a new swim gear order form available. If you have any questions about the swim gear see Megan Ayres at the pool or call her on 0412 691 484 or email ayres1@bigpond.net.au Payment is to be made at the time of ordering, we accept cash, bank deposit into the clubs account or cheque. Please leave it at the swimming pool counter ask the staff to put it in the club money box. Further information are available at the pool shop or can be downloaded from our website under 'Forms', then scroll down to 'Swim Gear Order Form'.

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New Dais and Marshalling Board

Mountain Creek Mooloolaba Swimming Club would like to thank Paul and Mel Bellero and Bellero Constructions for making us a fantastic dais, a medal stand and a marshalling board. These items have been used at the Wide Bay Short Course Championships. It is great to have members supporting our club!

Happy Birthday!
SEPTEMBER 2012
EVENT
CT Cyclones Swim Meet Wide Bay Quarterly Forum Australian Short Course Championships Ofceworks BBQ Noosa Open Swim Meet

Happy birthday to: Joshua Bellero Sophie Bellero Olivia Shipton Sarah Wallace

UPCOMING EVENTS
DATE
8 Sept 2012 9 Sept 2012 12-16 Sept 2012 16 Sept 2012 21-22 Sept 2012

VENUE
Cotton Tree Aquatic Centre Gympie Perth Maroochydore Noosa

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