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Squad News
April 2021
Welcome to Squad News – April 2021
Kia ora whanau We welcome to the Board Jack Weston. Jack has
been a competitive swimmer for many years and
Welcome to our April newsletter as we get ready
is a real asset. Jack will take on the role of funding
for the darker evenings and cooler weather.
support. Next month we will outline in the
Finally we are in the new pool and our swimmers newsletter what each of our Board members do
and coaching staff are loving it. Having an outdoor within the board.
50 metre pool makes us the envy of many cities. It
Thanks to all you wonderful parents who keep
is unusual and an incredible asset. We appreciate
this club going - those of you who volunteer, buy
that the breaking down to two 25 metre pools in
raffles, and go away with teams. You are
the evening is not for everyone but at least we
immensely generous, and we are very grateful.
are outside and can appreciate the environment
around us and the fresh air.
We have had plenty of activity going on with our Nga mihi
club members - waterpolo, open water
swimming, pool swimming, and multi-sport
events. Our Facebook page has some incredible Monica Quirke, Chair
results on it. We are a very rounded club making
swimming transferrable into many other codes.
We had a great turnout for our Chocolate Fish
night. The weather played it’s part and it was a
really great night, lots of fun and laughter. We are
hoping to do these regularly to keep everyone
connected and engaged.
We have a number of athletes heading away to
national events. We have a National Age Group
team going to Wellington and we have others off
to Dunedin and Div II. You are training hard under
the guidance of Aidan and we wish you all the
very best. We are looking forward to seeing our
orange hats on the national stage and we will be
watching you on the livestreaming!
Junior Academy News – Tara been such an awesome month of swimming and
smiling faces on pool deck. So firstly, welcome to
Heading to the end of another sucessful term and Kylah, Shari and Helena who have recently been
its been great to have our space back since the swimming with the Junior Olympian squad – you
outdoor pool has reopened. girls have been doing an outstanding job thus far.
Session times have retured to normal which has We had the Legend of the Lake Swim on Saturday
made it easier for the east side of town to make it 13th of Feb – well done to Zariah, Charlotte and
on time for their sessions. James who went out to the lake and swam the
SBOP Fast and Speedy Meet banana boat kids series in the 100 and 200m and
This event was held on Sunday 21st March in the congratulations to Zariah for being the overall
newly renovated outdoor 50m pool. winner of the 200m event! Fantastic job � It
Swim Rotorua had a great turnout with 39 was such a delight to see Swim Rotorua out at the
swimmers entered and 9 of them from the Junior lake so well done to those in the club who took
Academy. A special mention to our first-time part. The following day we had the SBOP Fast and
racer, Claire Randell, who secured an amazing Speedy swim meet. Congratulations to Noah S,
3.64 seconds off her 50m Breaststroke time… Zariah, Makayla, Cornel, Alex and Charlotte –
“Well done Claire”. getting back into racing is an exciting step and it
was great to see many pbs, solid racing and skill-
CBOP Interschool focused swimmers.
This is taking place on Wednesday 14th April. This
is a huge event and I would expect all the Junior Our Chocolate Fish Club Night held on Thursday
Academy to be competing for their schools. 25th was a fun and exciting way to get a taster for
Parents: we are asking for volunteers to help run racing. It was good to see so many Junior
this event. Please, if you are taking the day of Olympians giving different events a go and getting
work to watch your child race, we can give you a new times for swim meets coming up during the
better seat by helping timekeep!!!! Can you year. Well done to those who took part and
please let us know asap if you can help. earned their chocolate fish. If you would like to
give racing a go, please see me pool deck as we
Coming up have a Liz Van Welie swim meet coming up on the
30th March plus 6th and 10th April – Skills clinics 11th of April. I have handed swimmers flyers pool
(free to attend) deck with the recommended events! This will be a
11th April (Sunday) Liz van Welie Autumn Swim fun day out with Swim Rotorua and is for all ages.
Meet
Quick reminder about our Easter Raffle – ticket
14th April – CBOP Interschool Swimming Sports
books and money need to be in by Wednesday
End of Term the 7th as the raffle will be drawn on Friday the 9th
Friday 16th April of April.
Metro
Tara Watt It has been exciting being in the new 50m outdoor
swimrotoruajunioracademy@gmail.com pool for the month of March and I have really
Phone: 022 332 6922 enjoyed seeing the enthusiasm for swimming and
enjoyment in the new pool. With the change in
timetable, please see me pool deck if you need to
swap sessions or are wanting to pick up an extra
Tiana’s News day.
Junior Olympians Well done to those swimmers – Recco, Liam,
What a busy month it has been for the Junior Maddie, Ash and Hugo who came down for Club
Olympian Squad! As we are all aware, we are Night and gave racing a go. It was awesome to see
finally outside and pushing on in the new 50m metro swimmers pool deck having fun and
outdoor pool which has been fantastic. It has putting their skills into fast racing. Please keep an
eye out for future club nights and please see me • 1km event: Kaia Joyce 2nd , Ava Tremain 5th, and
pool deck if you think you would like to give Lina Stahlhut 9th
racing a go as we have a Liz Van Welie swim meet • 500m: Hannah Kiernan 2nd, Ashleigh Randell 3rd,
coming up on the 11th of April. It would be great Sam Trass 5th
to see some metro swimmers step out of their • 100m: Noah Lomas 1st
comfort zone and do some racing � Special • 200m: Zariah Lomas 1st, Charlotte Tremain 4th
congratulations to Ashleigh who did the Banana
Well done to all the swimmers that also did the
Boat Legend of the Lake and placed 3rd in her age
Amphibian event, including our very own coach
group for the 500m swim in the Secondary School
Tiana.
category. It was exciting to see you swim Ash,
keep up the good work!!
Quick reminder about our Easter Raffle – ticket
books and money need to be in by Wednesday
the 7th as the raffle will be drawn on Friday the 9th
of April. There are some awesome prizes up for
grabs so keep selling and lots of Easter treats on
offer!
Tiana
swimrotoruadevelopmentcoach@gmail.com
Head Coaches Report SBOP Fast and Speedy meet
It has been so great this month to be back outside On the 21st, we had our first meet held in our new
in our great new 50 metre pool. All the swimmers 50m pool. We had 40 club members racing at this
(and coaches) have really enjoyed getting back to meet, with some great Personal Bests and new
the outside environment. We have also had national qualifying times. It was great to see such
plenty of other clubs visit, including Olympian Zac a strong Swim Rotorua presence.
Reid who trained here for a week. Chocolate Fish Night
We are very fortunate to have a great facility This was the first time we have been able to hold
which enables us to have 5 long course (50m) a club night in a long time, due to Covid and the
sessions available a week. The access to the 50m 50m pool being closed. We will run events like
will change during different times of the year, but this every school term. It was a great night with
we will maintain a minimum of 5 sessions a week. fantastic weather. We had 72 members at our
Having the balance of both 50m and 25m will be a chocolate fish night, enjoying racing and eating
real asset to the club. Consider that swimmers chocolate fish and sausages.
with most clubs have no or very limited access to
a 50m pool. Upcoming Events
5th-10th April – Swimming New Zealand
We have had a few events over this month:
Championship
Legend of the Lake Sunday 11th April - Liz van Welie Aquatics Autumn
We had a strong group of swimmers attend the Swim Meet
Legend of the Lake which was held at the Blue
19th-23rd April – Swimming NZ Age Groups
Lake on 20th March. Results by age groups were:
Watch out for the Rising Star meet in May.
• 3.5km: Kaia Joyce 3rd, Ava Tremain 5th (1st in her
age group for non-wetsuit) and Sam Trass 18th Good luck to all swimmers attending the
upcoming national events.
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To all club parents
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