Day 6 Finals

What a great end to the best results Surrey Park has achieved at Adelaide States.

Here are a list of medalists for the last night of racing:
Womens 200 Free - Lucy 1st, Beth 3rd
Womens 100 Breast - Ruby 3rd
Mens 200 Fly - Hamish 1st, Cam 1st, Sam 3rd
Mens 100 Free - Carlos 2nd, Cam 2nd
Mens 11U Boys Medley Relay - Pat, Carlos, Leo, Connor 3rd
Womens 15U Free Relay - Lucy, Phoebe, Alex, Jo 3rd
Boys 15U Medley Relay - Sam, Cam, Hamish, Seb 1st
Womens 18U Free Relay - Ruby, Tash, Alisha, Beth 3rd
Womens 15U Medley Relay - Lucy, Phoebe, Alex, Jo 3rd
Mens 15U Free Relay - Sam , Cam, Seb, Charlie 1st

Congratulations to Sam Warrick for achieving his National Qualifying time in 200Fly.
Congratulations to Phoebe for achieving an Open National Qualifying time for 100 Back.

The swimmer for today goes to Sam Warrick for his performance in tonights finals.  Well Done Sam!! :)

The Team Manager Award for the week goes to Rachel Thorpe.  Rach is our most organised, caring and supportive swimmer.

Swimmer of the Meet was awarded to Carlos Berbia.  Carlos made finals in 10 out of 12 events and came home with 9 medals and big PBs.  He also received a medal in the Medley Relay tonight bringing home his team against really strong 13U boys. Well done Carlos!!! :)

Carlos has shown maturity beyound his years. To achieve personal best times in every race on only his second trip away shows great focus towards his swimming for a young man. Carlos was seen after every race working on his recovery, eating the right food, keeping up his fluids and making sure he got enough rest between heats and finals. Carlos received swimmer of the meet for swimming amazing times but his amazing times came from the way he conducted himself out of the water. Congratulations on a great meet Carlos!!!

Day 6 Heats

Here are the finalists for tonights last final session:

Girls 200 Free - Phoebe, Alex, Lucy, Beth, Alisha, Ruby
Girls 100 Breast - Ruby, Tash, ALisha
Men 200 Fly - Carlos, Hamish, Sam, Cam
Men 100 Free - Carlos, Leo, Cam, Sam
All 4x50m Free and Medley Relays will also be swum tonight.

Congratulaions to Cam who achieved his 100 Fly Open National Cut in last nights final!! :)

Connor received the Coaches award for his outstanding achievements throughout the week.  Connor is always punctual and he is one of our most responsible athletes. Not bad for a 10yr old boy!! :)

Day 5 Finals

Surrey Park continued to hold 3rd place after a Fantastic Finals session!!

Our amazing team certainly won the cheering tonight...lots of very loud "We love you coz you're a Victorian" was happening from our area...we managed to drown everyone else out!!

Here is a list of the medalists:
Male 200 Breast - Pat 1st.  Well done Pat first State Medal!!!
Female 200 Back - Phoebe 2nd, Lucy 2nd
Male 100 Fly - Carlos 2nd, Cam 1st
Female 200 Breast - Beth 3rd, Ruby 3rd
Male 200 Free - Carlos 2nd, Sam 3rd
Women 100 Fly - Alex 2nd, Lucy 1st
Male 100 Back - Carlos 1st, Leo 1st, Seb 1st

Well done Sam on acheiving his 200 free National Time!!

Congratulations to Minna and Max Warrick for racing in their first State Final!!

A massive thankyou to our chief medal recorders, Amelia & Bec, as you can tell...they have been kept very busy!!

Not as many photos tonight sorry.... Di's camera has had a melt down!! Thanks to Beth for letting us use her camera...will get new batteries for hers tomorrow so that we can get loads of last day pics.

We are all heading to bed now for a big night sleep before our last day of racing.

Good night talk to you all tomorrow!

Day 5 Heats

Alex won our coaches sportsmanship award for yesterday... she managed to listen to Mikes instructions and not breathe from flags till after her turn in 100 free....good job Alex!!

Finalists for tonight are:
Boys 200 Breastroke - Pat, Max W, Kien-anh
Girls 200 Back - Phoebe, Lucy
Boys 100 Fly - Carlos, Connor, Leo, Cam, Charlie
Girls 200 Breast - Bethany, Ruby, Tash, Alisha
Boys 200 Free - Carlos, Connor, Sam Warrick, Charlie, Kien-Anh
Girls 100 Fly - Minna, Alex, Phoebe, Lucy, Beth, Tash
Boys 100 Back - Connor, Carlos, Leo, Seb, Sam Warrick, Kien-Anh

Well done to Emma and Minna who achieved 100 Fly State Long Course Qualifying Times!:)

Day 4 Finals

Wow...another fantastic night at the pool...loads of medals, PBs and club spirit!!
Medalists tonight are:
Lucy: 1st in 100 Free, 1st in 200IM & 2nd in 100 Back
Carlos: 2nd in 200IM & 3rd in 12u 200 Back
Connor: 3rd in 200IM
Sam Warrick: 3rd in 200IM, 1st in 200 Back
Tash: 1st in 200 Fly
Alex: 3rd in 100 Back & 1st in 200IM (which is a national qualifying time..well done Alex!
Beth: 2nd in 200IM
Ruby: 3rd in 200IM
Seb: 1st in 200 Back
Phoebe: 1st in 100 Back
Leo: 1st in 200 Back...which was a SA Record...Awesome job Leo!!

Day 4 Heats & Cams 16th Birthday!!

Camerons 16th Birthday....yay!!
This morning we headed to breakfast armed with balloons, cake and singing Happy Birthday to Cam....we then presented the sportsmanship award for yesterday to Carlos.. Well Done "Champ".
Loads of PBs this morning & Finalists for tonight are as follows:
Girls 100 Free: Alex, Lucy, Beth & Alisha
Boys 200 IM: Connor, Carlos, Leo, Sam
Girls 200 Fly: Tash
Boys 100 Breast: Connor & Pat
Girls 200IM: Alex, Lucy, Beth, Alisha, Tash, Ruby
Boys 200 Back: Carlos, Leo, Seb, Sam, Kien-Anh, Charlie
Girls 100 Back: Phoebe, Alex, Lucy, Beth

Good Luck Everyone!!

Day 3 Finals

After a lonnnnnnngggg, hot evening at the Adelaide Aquatic Centre, we have just come home with loads of medals and lots of State Sprint Cuts!
Beth - 3rd 400fr,
Lucy - 2nd 50fr, 1st 50 back, 3rd 50fly
Carlos - 2nd 50fr, 2nd 50 back, 3rd 50fly
Cam - 2nd 50fr, 1st 50 fly, 1st 200fly
Chuckie - 3rd 50fly
Seb - 1st 50bk
Connor - 1st 50fly (with a remarkable reaction time of 0.35)
Leo - 1st 50bk
Alex - eq 1st 50fly, 3rd 50bk,
Phoebe - 1st 50bk
Ruby - 3rd 50fly
Kien-anh was awfully close to 3rd in the 50br as well (we reckon he touched the other guy out)

In the point score we improved on our 4th placing from last night to be sitting 3rd tonight.

Special thanks to Bec "the awesome one" Elson and Sasssssskia "the nugget" Dammersmith for their awesome recording skills, Max "Stick cricket king" Thorn for his blogging, and Di "wonderwoman" Good for all her hard work!

State Sprint cuts acheived by Carlos, Pat, Jeremy, Sam Cullin, Cam, Seb, Phoebe, Amelia, Bec, Tom, Alex, Tash, Mina, Jo, Hamish, Ruby, Kien-Anh, Beth, Emma, Lucy, Charlie, Max Thorn, Sam Warrick, Leo and Connor.  What an AMAZING achievement by all swimmers today!!:)

Cams Theory - Bananas make you attractive to Mosquitos????  Apparently Cam has evidence that this could be true as he ate a banana last night and got bitten by a mosquito!!??!!

FIFA UPDATE - Pat Brenchly scored against Juzzy!!

Day 3..."crazy busy day"

Quotes from the kids:
Emma: "This has been a great experience here!!"
Rachael: "The trip has been good so far."
Minna: "The trip is great and fun."
Max W: "The bus rides have been really awesome."
Jim: "Our room is awesome and we have an Xbox." (although Juzzy is still undefeated he claims)
Jeremy: "Everyone is so friendly and its been really fun."
Max T: "I am the undisputed stick cricket champion"
Alex on being dq'd: "It's physically impossible to do three kicks in a fly stroke....I tried it in warm-down!!".....she was dq'd for doing FREE kicks, not THREE kicks....duuhhh  :)

Finalists for tonight (we think):
400 free - beth and tess, sam
200 fly - Tash, cam
50 fly - Connor, Carlos, Leo, Cam, Charlie, Kien-Anh, alex, phoebe, lucy, beth, tash,
50 breast - Lucy, Ruby, connor, pat, kien ahn
50 free - carlos, leo, cam, sam, lucy, bethany (plus many reserves)
50 back - alex and phoebe, lucy, beth, ruby, carlos, leo, seb, sam, kien-anh

Its been a long heats session so far and a longer finals session to come. The majority of the young kids had their first races today with the four 50's being the main focus. It was a big relief for many of them to finally get their Adelaide campaign underway. They even managed to out perform their older buddies when it came to self marshalling!
There were some good results to come out of the 400's as well. Sam and Beth won age group medals, and they, with Tess, qualified for the open final tonight.

Finals update Day 2

We had an exciting night at the pool, with the official opening of the Championships, which included a 'March On' .... a big thankyou to Beth, Cam, Rachel & Connor for representing our club so well.

Some of the highlights from tonight included, loads of PB's, Lucy swimming a fabulous 200 Free, which saw her take the Bronze medal & also, a much prized, national time! Beth claimed the silver medal in the Womens 800 Free and also scored herself another National time. Tess came third in the same event, bringing home a bronze medal. Beth was too busy racing her 200 Breast, so Tash very kindly, stepped onto the dias to collect the silver medal for her. A huge effort from Max Thorn, who swam the 1500, then backed it up with the 200 Free...awesome effort!!

Todays Sportsmanship Award went to Beth for her fabulous swims tonight and also for the way she handles herself, both in and out of the pool...she is a fabulous role model for our younger swimmers... Thank you Beth xoxo

We have a massive day tomorrow...heats don't finish till 1.30pm and warm up for finals starts at 3.30pm.... so please, don't stress if you don't hear from us....we will be concentrating on staying as rested, hydrated & prepared as possible :)

Results from Day 2 heats

Mens 400IM: 16yrs Kien-Anh Bronze medal
Womens 400IM:13yrs Alex Gold, Phoebe Silver.
Womens 400IM: 17/18yrs Silver Medal

Finals tonight:
Mens 400IM: Hamish & Kien-Anh
Womens 200Free: Lucy
Womens 100Back: Phoebe
Mens 100 Fly: Cam
Mens 1500: Max Thorn
Womens 800: Beth, Alisha & Tess
Womens 200 Breast: Beth
Mens 200 Free: Max Thorn
Womens 400IM: Ruby & Alex

Highlight this morning: Phoebe got her 400IM National Time...yay!!

Finals day 1

Quick update on tonights results:

Fabulous swims from both Seb and Sam in the 200 Back. Seb collected a silver medal and Sam a bronze.
Alex managed to 'suck it up' and swim her final with the 'big girls'...she almost cracked a smile :)
Cam swam a great 100 Free which earn't him the coaches 'Sportsmanship Award of the Day'...Well done Cam!
It has been a very hot day here today...keeping our fluids up & all tucked into bed for the night.
Sweet Dreams to everyone at home xoxo

Amys photos from day 1

 Hey Cazz & Nat.... Tom & Sam can make beds!!

Check out Minna's serve of pasta...it's nearly bigger than her!!

Day 1 report

We are off to a good start:
Womens 800 free: Phoebe 2nd & Beth 1st in their age groups.
Mens 200 Back: Seb & Sam both in final tonight
Womens 200 Back: Alex in final tonight
Mens 100 Free: Cam in final tonight
"Good luck guys!"

Day 1 @ pool

Hi it's Tom here,
We had to get out early of our awesome rooms (6:10) and head over to the school for breakfeast. there was plenty to choose from like cereal, toast, pancakes and fruit. Today its only open event's so most of the guys are just watching the events after we had a little flush out swim. Pat says.... Justin is smashing his room in FIFA on the X-box (which is his pride and joy). It is pretty hot over here today so we are drinking as much as we can. at the moment we are watching the girls open 800 metres. we are all having fun.             
 Hi it's Bec, Saskia & Amelia here...  we are sharing a house with Coach Amy and we are watching the swimmers race the 800 free. We have been watching movies, drinking lots of water and listening to lots of music. Last night Minna ate the biggest bowl of plain pasta, she didnt even finish it!! bye from the pool!   

Surrey Park Team @ Melbourne Airport

We have all arrived safely in Adelaide...
currently watching a dvd on swim techniques and about to have Spag Bol for dinner.
Off to bed early tonight as we are off to pool at 7am in the morning.
Love to everyone at home xoxo

Team meeting

A big thank-you to everyone for coming along to tonights meeting....particularly those of you who did not have training!!

Mission accomplished.....

'Code of Conduct' signed: check

Medical & Permission forms signed: check

Swimmers ready to go to Adelaide: check

Please keep your eye out for the final update which will be emailed this w/end.

8 more sleeps till we leave....bring it on!!

Our team leaders for Adelaide: Kien-Anh, Cam, Sam, Ruby, Beth & Tess.

Swimmers, please make sure you show these guys your utmost respect...they are a dedicated team, who will help you with anything you need to know.... chances are... they probably asked the same question themselves, not too long ago!

Important date for the diary, Tuesday 11th January:
There will be a compulsory team meeting for all people going to Adelaide which will be held at Balwyn pool at 6.15pm.
At this meeting, we will be going thru the 'swimmers code of conduct', completing medical forms and also answering any questions you might have.

ADELAIDE TRIP 2011

Welcome to Surrey Park Swim Club's Adelaide 2011 blog.
More details will be posted soon....stay tuned!