MAKOS NEWS

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

HI EVERYONE!
Long course season is back!

IN THIS ISSUE
2 Cotton Tree Swim Meet 3 Australian SC
Championships 3 Thredbo Altitude Camp

5 Club Pack Presentation 5 BBQ Fundraiser 5 QLD State Team SC

Championships Selection

4 Noosa Open Swim Meet 5 Swimming QLD

Registration Reminder

6 GO Club PB Award 6 Upcoming Events 7 Sponsors

Jayden Soanes Chelsea Gubecka

As always, we have been very busy in September. The long course season within the Wide Bay region started with the Cotton Tree and Noosa Swim Meets. Two of our senior swimmer Kareena Lee and Chelsea Babec headed to WA with coach Barry to compete at the Australian Short Course Championships and achieved some great results. We also had a club pack presentation and a fundraiser event. Finally, some more great news: our club obtained a silver status in the Go Club PB Program, a national swimming club standard. This is our best results so far within this program. Well done to all!

We hope you all enjoy this issue and we welcome your feedback!
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Cotton Tree Swim Meet

8 September 2012
Six Makos attended the rst long course meet of the season at Cotton Tree. Coach Michael Gibson joined them for the warm up before heading off to work. Everyone had a great day and swam some great times. In fact, the Makos swimmers improved incredibly EVERY swim resulted in a PB when compared to the swimmers Long Course seed times!

Jayden Soanes picked up a swag of medals, including a gold medal and Pool Record in the 11 yrs 100m breaststroke. He also took home 3 silver medals in the 100m buttery, 100m backstroke and 100m freestyle, and a bronze in the 200m IM and narrowly missed taking home the 11yrs Age Champion title. Cameron Bertolla took almost 7 seconds off his 50m buttery time and more than 8 seconds off his 50m freestyle and 50m breaststroke times. Alice Hermanns also swam PBs in all four strokes of her 50m events, including an 8 second improvement in her 50m backstroke and 6 seconds in her 50m breaststroke.

Cerissa Boddington achieved some great rst times in her 100m events. Michaela Bird took a massive 18 second off her 100m buttery and nearly 15 seconds off her 200m IM. She also made a 4 second PB in her 100m freestyle. Phoebe Shapland took more than 6 seconds off her 100m freestyle time and 4 seconds off her 100m backstroke. Congratulations to all the Makos swimmers, you did a fantastic job! A big thank you should go to Kylie for the update and the great photos.

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Australian Short Course Championships

12-16 September
Our senior swimmers Kareena Lee and Chelsea Babec headed to Western Australia to compete at the 2012 Energy Australia Short Course Swimming Championships. The championships was held at the Challenge Stadium in Perth between12 and 16 September. It provided an excellent opportunity for the Makos girls to go head-to-head with Australias best swimmers. Kareena competed in the Women's Open 800m, 400m and 1500m freestyle and in the Women's Open 200m buttery. Chelsea swam the Women's Open 50m 100m and 200m breaststroke events. Both of the girls put on some excellent swims. On Day 1 Chelsea swam fast and was rst reserve for the womens 50m breaststroke semis.

On Day 2 Kareena swam very strongly in the womens 800 m freestyle, claiming the bronze medal in a time of 8:33.11, taking more than seven seconds off her personal best time! Kareena also got second place in the womens 1500m freestyle nal, in a time of 16:24.60 almost four second faster than her seed time! Fantastic results, girls, congratulations again! Big thank you should also go to coach Barry Kime for preparing the swimmers for the championships.

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NOOSA OPEN SWIM MEET

21-22 September
We had 18 Makos swimmers attending the meet that started off Friday night with the distance events.The club had a very successful swim meet, with all our swimmersachieving personal best times. Makos brought home 13 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze medals in various events, as well as age champion titles and dash for cash prizes.

Congratulations again to all the participating swimmers and thank you to the parents who helped out with the officiating and the setup and packing up. A special thank you should go to our coach Barry Kime for preparing the swimmers for the event.

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2012 QLD Team State Team Short Course Championships

C o n grat u l at i o n s t o C h e l s e a Gubecka who has been selected as a member of the QLD Team to compete at the State Team Short Course Championships at the AIS from 6 - 8 October. The QLD Team List is available on the Swimming Queensland website. Good luck Chelsea!

Swimming Queensland Registration Reminder

Please remember that you must be registered for the 2012-2013 season to compete in any meets from now on. This year we are encouraging new and existing members of the club to register using Swimming Queenslands online system. Instructions for joining or renewing your membership are posted on our website under Forms/SWIMMING QUEENSLAND INFO & FORMS. If you have any questions about the registration process please email our Club Registrar Megan Ayres at ayres1@bigpond.net.au. Remember you must be registered before your nominations will be accepted!

Makos Club Pack Presentation

Ofceworks Fundraiser BBQ

Thank you to the families who helped out with the shifts and donated food items for the BBQ at Ofceworks last weekend, your help is much appreciated. Funds raised go towards club activities that benet all members of the club.

Many thanks to Megan Ayres and Aspec Pty Ltd for presenting our swimmers, who registered with Swimming Queensland, with a Makos club pack. The personalised club pack included vouchers, swim caps, club handbooks, order forms and Aspec goodies. A big thank you goes to our other sponsors Swells, KFC, Laser Zone, and of course, to our hard working committee for their ongoing support.

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2012 GO Club PB Award

We are very pleased to inform you that Mountain Creek Mooloolaba Swimming Club obtained a silver status in the GO Club BP Program. The GO Club PB Program is the national swimming club standard that recognises and rewards swimming clubs by measuring their performance across ve key areas (memberships, administration, activities, coaching and officiating, marketing and promotion). Depending on the level achieved, the benets of participating in the GO Club PB include recognition, evaluation of strength and weaknesses, rewards pack, eligibility for cash and equipment grants, access to an appearancefrom a member of theAustralian Swim Team and/or a mentor coach, etc. More details about the GO Club PB are available on the Swimming Queensland website. This is our best result so far within the program. Thank you to all of our contributing members, swimmers, coaches, parents, officials and volunteers, without your input the club wouldnt have achieved this recognition and reward.

UPCOMING EVENTS
OCTOBER 2012
EVENT
State Teams SC Championships Kawana Waters LC Challenge Club Night 1 Qld LC Qualifying Meet#1 Club Night 2 Club Night 3 Qld Open Water Championships Club Night 4

DATE
6-8 Oct 2012 6 Oct 2012 9 Oct 2012 13-14 Oct 2012 16 Oct 2012 23 Oct 2012 27 Oct 2012 30 Oct 2012

VENUE
AIS, Canberra Kawana Aquatic Centre Mountain Creek Pool Chandler Mountain Creek Pool Mountain Creek Pool Lake Kawana Mountain Creek Pool

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