The Corowa Sharks Swimming Club is excited to have started its first ever official winter training at the new Corowa Aquatic Centre.
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The Sharks have now been training at the facility for four weeks. Training will initially be held over two afternoons, Monday and Wednesday, in the indoor pool for the winter months, and in the summer months will extend to Monday to Thursday afternoons in the outdoor pool and club night Fridays and inter-club competition on some weekends, mostly in summer.
With 62 swimmers having expressed interest for the winter squads, places are almost full and the club currently has a waiting list, mostly for ‘Bridging’ level.
Anyone wishing to add their name to the waiting list is welcome to contact the club with their details.
At present we have two places free in our Senior squad on a Wednesday, and about three Intermediate spots on a Monday.
In summer there will be more space in the 50m pool for squads and swim club is looking forward to expanding numbers and even accommodating a range of adult swimmers
Swimmers must be able to swim at least 25m without stopping in a recognisable stroke, usually this is freestyle, but backstroke may be assessed as well. Coaches Robyn and Sharon can assess any swimmer to see if they are at swim club level.
Bridging squad is designed to bridge the gap between swimming lessons and swimming club. Intermediate squad swimmers should be able to swim 50m in at least two strokes and Senior squad swimmers are proficient over 50m in all four strokes.
Although as a sports club we have a competitive focus, there is more to swim club than just competition.
Swim club is a family environment and allows for all family members to compete together on the same team and at the same events.
It is also a place where swimmers can make lifelong friendships and/or simply improve their fitness.
It could also be a potentially life-saving skill in a way that most sports disciplines are not.
During the ‘learn to swim’ phase, swimmers learn the basic water survival skills and Swim Club builds on those skills by developing stamina and distance in the water, adding in racing techniques and protocols.
A backyard pool might be fun, but it won’t necessarily assist you to swim for any length of time or distance.
The 2020/21 summer season wrapped up with four swimmers heading to Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre to represent the Club at the ‘All Juniors - country’ sprint competition semis and finals (all 50m events).
Katelin Baker, Oliver Just, Harrison Just and Nick Tukuniu, all from our Howlong squads qualified and swam at the semis on the Saturday.
Nick did very well to swim at this level, only having been training with the Club a short time. He chalked up a two and a half second personal best (PB) in his one event the 11-year-old boy’s freestyle. To the uninitiated any PB over 2 seconds at this level is pretty good.
Harrison swam consistently, just missing out on PB’s in the butterfly year old boy’s butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle. This is a tough age to contend as most boys are in their growth stage and often performing at peak in large numbers.
Ditto for Katelin Baker in the girl’s ten-year-old events. Katelin had a full card of four events that had huge entry numbers. Katelin fell just outside the top ten in her events but racked up four PB’s.
Oliver qualified for three events, freestyle, backstroke, and butterfly, for ten-year-old boys. Chalking up two PB’s and one 5th place overall this is also a fabulous result.
Well done to these competitors and all our swimmers who achieved high results at school swimming – and there were quite a few.
Note to squad members that all registrations and first instalments of squad fees are now due, and second instalments due by 30th June.
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