Logan Vikings swimming club

Newsletter - September 2013

Upcoming Events
Friday 13th Sep. Club Night Friday 27th Sep. Raffle #1 Drawn Saturday 5th Oct. BSA Open Water. Kawana Friday 11th Oct. Club Night Friday 18th to Sunday 19th Oct. Team Meet Heritage City Maryborough

Club News
The new swimming season is well and truly upon us and with summer just around the corner it is time to both reflect on a busy winter and look forward to things to come. This is also an opportunity to remind parents, supporters and swimmers of our collective responsibilities. Since Nationals finished in April many things have occurred

A new committee has been appointed and is up and running. We have a new coach and he is really having a great impact on the swimmers. We have a number of new families on board and the enthusiasm they and their swimmers bring is great. We have variety in the program with the introduction of Pilates on a Friday (some of the boys are finding muscles and tendons they didnt even know existed)! Thanks Tania. We conducted an extremely successful short course meet which was not only a great fund raiser, but a terrific advertisement for our club. Our swimmers competed in both the Brisbane and Queensland short course meets was well as the John Paul College meet earlier in the year. They did us all proud!! We have 4 swimmers currently away with Drew at the National Schools swimming carnival in Adelaide. We have a new underwater camera to help with technique and are working with Drew on other equipment he would like to have.

In this edition:Page 1 Club News Page 2 Coming up Our Responsibilities Page 3 Swimmer Spotlight

Coach Meetings If you wish to have a meeting with Drew to discuss how your swimmers is progressing or to discuss the squad structure please e-mail us and we can make a time.

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Newsletter - September 2013
Coming up we have Our first 2013 Club night on Friday night Our first trip away as a club to Maryborough to compete in the Heritage City swim meet. We have 35 swimmers competing and a total of 83 people going. It will really feel like a Viking invasion. 2013 Brisbane Open Water Meet Saturday 5th October - Nominations to Helen no later than Friday 20th September 2013 Queensland Open Water Championships 26th October - Nominations to Helen no later than Friday 11th October 2013 Senior Metropolitan Championships 8th 10th November - Details not up on line yet 2013 Queensland Long Course Championships Saturday 14th 20th DecemberNominations to Helen no later than 21st November From a club perspective we are bidding for the date for our long course meet and continually looking at ways we can improve the club for the most important people in it, our swimmers. Fingers crossed, Andrew Murphy has been using his well hidden charm and has a successful business ready to provide some significant financial support this year. Thanks Andrew. Our responsibilities With all this happening, it is timely for us as a committee to not only remember ourselves but also remind all parent supporters and swimmers of our commitment to providing a safe and supportive environment for our swimmers to both achieve their goals and have fun. The Club handbook is available at the club website and contains a myriad of information including our code of conduct for all concerned with the club. We take this as our most serious obligation and both the club and each family when you signed up, agreed to be also bound by the SAL ( Swimming Australia Limited) Child and Member welfare policy, which deals with many issues including Harassment Bullying Use of Social media Many other things. A link to these policies can be found on both the Swimming Australia and Swimming Queensland Web sites. The club handbook has the details of how to raise a concern should you have one as well as the contact details of all committee members. As a parent, you can be a member of Swimming Queensland by registering as a parent. This does not cost anything, but gets you access to information, and boosts our club numbers. As a club we also have some individual responsibilities such as not having parents on pool deck during training. This distracts the coach and the swimmers and has been a long held policy of the club. From time to time you might see a committee member doing something on pool deck but this will always be around club requirements. Our most precious assets are our swimmers (sometimes we know it is hard to remember this)! Lets all work together to ensure they both learn the value of hard work and responsibility to each other whilst at the same time have a great social environment in which to grow.

Thank-you again for making this a successful start to our new era as a club. As a committee we are always keen to hear your views and any ideas.

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Newsletter - September 2013

Swimmer Spotlight
LOGAN VIKINGS QLD SHORT COURSE TEAM Firstly congratulations to our QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONS Luke Harris GOLD 1500 free Charly Kuhnemann GOLD 50 back, 400free, 200 free, 400 IM, 100 fly and SILVER in the 50breast Lexie Kuhnemann GOLD 50back and SILVER in the 50 breast Ryan Murphy GOLD in 400 IM Secondly there were many personal achievements at the meet. Jackson Aiono-Fatu 8 second PB in his 200 back edging him closer to National times. Carson Burgess Took 4 seconds of his 50 back. Ethan Burton After all the PBs he has done of late still managed another one!! 3 seconds off 100 back. Tori Carta Took a massive 15 off her 400 IM, 9 seconds off her 800 free and 3 off her 200fly. Julia Christensen PBd in her 200 breast and placed top 10 in 200 breast, 50 breast and 100 breast. Chris Cover Nervous about getting back into the pool after surgery but managed 12 seconds off his 200 breast placing in the top 10 and 4 seconds off his 100 breast. Emily Finch Unwell on the day, still raced well placing 8th in her 50 breast. Daniel Harris Took over 3 seconds off his 200 IM. Luke Harris GOLD in the 1500 free and PBd in his 200 and 100 breast. Renee Holdstock placed top 10 in both the 800 and 400 free. Ella Hurst PBd in all her events taking 4 seconds off her 100 breast and placed top 10 in her 100 back & breast. Tyler Hurst Took over 3 seconds off his 400 fee and 200IM. Charly Kuhnemann Took home a whooping 5 GOLD and 1 SILVER!!! Lexie Kuhnemann PBd in all her events taking home 1 GOLD and 1 SILVER as well as a top 10 finish in her 50free. Connor McGuirk Placed in the top 10 for his 200 and 100 breast taking a huge 8 seconds off his 200 breast. Ryan Murphy Gold in his 400IM as well as taking over 2 seconds off his 200 back. Jayden Nicoll PBd in his 400IM, and did the PB of the meet taking a massive 23 seconds off his 200Fly. Mitchell Power A 2 second PB in his 50 breast and 6 second PB in his 100 breast placing top 10. Tayla Raines Placed top 10 in both her 200 breast races and her 100 breast. Henry Roh Took almost 10 seconds off his 400free and 3 seconds off his 200 free placing him 5th. Damien Tronc Placing top 10 in his 200 fly and 400IM but also taking 13 seconds off his 400IM 11 seconds off his 200 breast. Alix Whitney PBd in 5 of her 6 events taking over 2 seconds off her 50 back and placed top 10 in her 100 free and 100 back.

Congratulations to all swimmers, you should all be very proud of your results!!

Helen Tronc 12th Jayden Nicoll 16th Renee Holdstock 22nd Carsen Burgess 26th