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Swimming NewsSteph Rice Visits FASPosted Date: 2010-09-03Stephanie Rice made a surprise visit to Firbank Aquastars this week - it certainly pays to turn up to all your training sessions, you never know who will be there!!
Week 1 term 3 Aggregate night resultsPosted Date: 2010-07-30Tonight saw 35 swimmers jump into the pool for the first week of the term three Aggregate nights, it was great to see some new faces joining in the fun. We had a slightly different format to the night, starting off with a couple of relay and team events, overall it was a great night full of PBs. Attached are the results reports for the term so far. Results By Event and Point Score - note that only registered members of the Firbank Aquastars are able to gain point at these event. Points accumulate over the term with the top three place getters winning anaward at the final night - the more pbs you obtain the more points you gain, remember to come along to each session and swim as many events as possible to gain those points! Remaining Aggregate nights for term three are; Friday August 13th Friday August 20th & Friday September 3rd Remember to get to the pool at 6:30 for registration and warmup - racing starts at 7:00pm. All swimmers from 6 years up are welcome - if you can swim 25m, you can swim at aggregate nights! Entry is free for FAS members and costs $4 to non-members. FAS Meet updatePosted Date: 2010-07-30I have finally managed to come up for air - it's been a huge few weeks, but what an amazing meet we ran last Saturday! The day went off without a hitch (well no major ones anyway!). It was fantastic to see the pool deck filled with FAS volunteers timekeeping in their FAS shirts. I would like to thank everyone that supported the meet and helped out on the day, we really couldn't have done it without you all! From catering to marshalling, selling programs to time keeping and let's not forget those working away down in the AOE room ensuring the results were correct and posted for all to view. The preliminary figures show that the meet raised around $6000 for the club - a figure that I am absolutely thrilled with. We are now in discussion on how to best use this money for the benefit of the club - we will keep you posted on this on. If you haven't already done so, check out the photos in the post below. FAS Meet 24/7/10 - PhotosPosted Date: 2010-07-28Check out some of the photos from the FAS/asctaVic meet on Saturday.... Click the link below FAS / asctaVic SC Qualifying Meet 24/7/10 ResultsPosted Date: 2010-07-25Thank-you to all the FAS volunteers who helped to make our first meet at MSAC a fantastic sucess - you all looked great on pool deck in matching FAS tops. The day ran without a hitch and to cap it off both sessions managed to finish early. I would also like to thank the O'Doherty's Swim Club for volunteering timekeepers for both sessions - your help was much appreciated. Congratulations to all swimmers on the day - there were some great pbs and times! FAS/asctaVic SC Qualifying meet 24/7/10 - ProgramPosted Date: 2010-07-23Please click the link below for a copy of the FAS/asctaVic meet program Day 3 & 4 Aust SC ChampsPosted Date: 2010-07-17Congratulations to Louise Mitchell for her 12th place in the 50 Fly semifinals on Thursday night, it was a great swim with Louise equalling her pb from the prelims earlier in the day. Friday morning saw Nick Findeisen swimming yet another great PB in the 50 Back, which he followed up with an 18th place (and a 1.6 second pb) in the 200 IM This morning Louise swam in the 50 Back and 50 Free, Emma Niere and Sarah Mitchell swam in the 100 Fly and Nick hit the water in the 100 IM and 50 Breast, Our swimmers all swam PBs again today, with Nick making it to his third semifinal for the championships qualifying in 12th position in the 100 IM - Nick, you're on fire! Well done to all our swimmers today. Congratulations also go to Rachel Goh for her fantastic Bronze medal on Thursday evening in the 100 Back and 6th place last night in the 200 Back - not bad for a girl that recently had her appendix out! Rachel has also qualified first into tonight's 50 Back semifinals. Don't forget to tune into oneHD tonight at 6pm to see Nick and Rachel ripping up the Chandler Pool. Trans Tasman 2010Posted Date: 2010-07-17On Sunday July 4th 2010 Emma Niere headed over to New Zealand with the Australia Gold team to compete in the Trans Tasman Championships. The Trans Tasman Championships is swam at three different pools, so the schedule can be quite gruelling - that certainly didn't slow Emma down though, she had a great meet swimming some fantastic PBs (.7 seconds in 50 Fly, 1.2 seconds in 100 Fly and 2.5 seconds in 200 Fly). Well done! .... Oh, and did I mention that she netted 4 Bronze medals, and 2 Silver medals. Emma arrived home Sunday the 11th, just to get on a plane 3 days later to head up to Queensland for the Aust SC Championships (do you remember what your family looks like Emma?). Congratulations on a fine effort in New Zealand Emma Day 1 - Aust SC Champs 2010Posted Date: 2010-07-15The Australian Short Course Championships have begun with a bang for Firbank Aquastars. Congratulations on a great start! Nick Findeisen finished 14th in the 100 back prelims with a pb time of 55.10 and 16th in the 100 breast in another pb 1:02.89, putting him through to semifinals tonight for both events Emma Niere finished 20th in the 200 fly prelims in a cracking time of 2:14.49 - missing out on a semifinal by .64 Great swimming guys! Congratulations also go to FAS coach Rachel Goh who place 1st in the 100 back prelims in a time of 58.65 Aust SC Champs 2010 - Day TwoPosted Date: 2010-07-15After some great viewing on one HD last night - two great swims from Nick and Rachel qualifying 3rd into the 100 back final - the action in the Chandler pool continued today; Nick swam a great PB in the 400 IM finishing 17th and yet another PB in the 50 Free. We had 4 of our girls in the 50 Fly - Alison Link, Sarah Mitchell, Emma Niere and Louise Mitchell - all had terrific swims with Louise qualifying 8th in tonight's semifinals - GO LOU! 2010 State Open & MC SC ChampsPosted Date: 2010-07-13Over the weekend of June 19 & 20th the National squad swimmers competed at the State Open Short Course Championships. We had some fantastic results! Firbank Aquastars finished 5th, a fantastic start to the season for the team. On an individual basis: Louise Mitchell is the Victorian OPEN Champion in the 50m butterfly! She also placed 3rd in the 50m Freestyle Nick Findeisen finished 3rd overall in the mens point score. He placed 2nd in the 50 and 100m Breaststrokes and 3rd in the 400m IM. He was also 4th in heaps of others! Stephanie Poynton 2nd in the 50m Multi class Breaststroke. Steph was also highly placed in many other events. Other top ten placings: Emma Niere, James Nettlefold, All of the relays! Our swimmers swam a very impressive number of PB’s on the day. 2010 Victorian Open/SWD ChampionshipsPosted Date: 2010-03-21This event was ran from January 15th to 17th and FAS had 13 swimmers competing in 52 individual events and 4 relays - some of these swimmers had only just completed the Victorian Age Championships the week before. We had 15 top 10 results in individual events while two of our relays just missed a finals birth coming in 11th. Our individual finalists were;
The combined club point score for the Vic Championships to this point saw FAS sitting comfortably as 10th placed Victorian Club. Good job guys! 2010 Victorian Sprint ChampionshipsPosted Date: 2010-03-21The Sprints was ran over the weekend of February 13th and 14th. FAS had 27 swimmers in 76 individual events and 3 relays. We had approximately a 56% PB rate at the meet, though the vast majority of the non-pb swims missed by less than 1/2 a second and many of those were within 0.2. Our finalists at the event were;
All three of our relay teams finished in the top 10 - our boys 5x50 freestyle relay came 9th, the girls B 5x50 freestyle team came 6th and the girls A 5x50 relay team snatched the Gold medal - great work!! Breanne Phyland nabbed her first National Qualifying Time and is now joining the team heading up to Sydney at Easter for the National Age Championships. Firbank Aquastars finished this event as 5th placed Victorian team and by adding this result to the rest of the Victorian Championships, FAS finished the Championships series as 8th placed Victorian club - Well Done FAS! 2010 All JuniorsPosted Date: 2010-03-21The All Juniors meet is actually run in three phases over two weekends. The first part of this event took place on the 21st February and is known as the Metro District South All Junior Eliminations. All Swimmers aged 14years and under are invited to swim off at this meet with the top ten place getters qualifying to swim at the Metropolitan All Junior Semi-finals against the top ten swimmers from the three other metro districts. The MDS All Junior Eliminations saw 27 FAS swimmers fighting it out in 93 events. The organisers of the event had some unfortunate technical problems in the morning that saw the event running 1 hour behind schedule, and as such the change over in the middle of the day from the youngsters to the older juniors was rather hectic, but we didn't let that dampen our spirits. The kids had a great meet with 10 of our juniors making it through to 18 events in the All Junior Semi- finals, they were;
The Metro All Junior Semi-finals were held yesterday at the MSAC outdoor pool, and Melbourne turned on a beautiful day to be sitting out watching our juniors competing. The following swimmers made it through to the Metro All Junior Finals;
The Finals of the Metro All Juniors was held today at MSAC, whilst the weather was a bit cooler our kids were there to give it their all. The results for the day were;
Congratulations to our finalists and to all our competitors over all of the All Junior Event. 2010 Australian Age Multi-Class ChampionshipsPosted Date: 2010-03-21On February 26th Stephanie Poynton headed up to Canberra to attend the Australian Age Multi-Class Championships. The event was swam over tree days at the Australian Institute of Sport (I'm told it's a great spot to have a visit to when next in Canberra) and Steph had a great meet, bringing home a total of 6 medals from 8 events! Well done Steph! The medals were; 4 Gold and 2 Silver and the non-medal placings were both 4th place. What a great effort - Congratulations! 2010 Telstra Australian ChampionshipsPosted Date: 2010-03-21For anyone that has missed the news over that past week, the Telstra Aust Championships (Commonwealth Games Trials) have been being held at SOPAC (Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre). FAS has had 7 swimmers in 22 events with PBs all round. Our swimmers at the event were;
The hi-lights for me (viewing on 1HD) was seeing Louise Mitchell in the 50 fly semi-final - missing a spot in the final by 0.01sec! (A nail biting swim) And watching Rachel Goh - one of our esteemed coaches - swimming in the semi-finals and finals for the 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke, finishing 10th, 5th and 7th respectively. I look forward to hearing all the stories from our athletes when they return to training - I believe they had a great time swimming with and seeing some of Australia's super-star swimmers. The next major event on the Swimming Calendar for the Long Course season is the 2010 Australian Age Championships. Good luck to Cody Smith, Alison Link, Emily Findeisen, Sammy Fynmore, Emma Niere, Sarah Mitchell, Louise Mitchell, Breanne Phyland, Siobhan Phyland and Chelsea Start, swim hard and have fun! 2010 State Age ChampionshipsPosted Date: 2010-03-04The 2010 State Age Championships were a roaring success for the Firbank Aquastars. FAS had 20 swimmers entered into 82 individual events and 12 relay entries. What a fabulous 5 days we had. From fantastic swims to an amazing cheer squad, it was an event to remember. In summary our terrific swimmers had;
Firbank Aquastars finished the meet as 9th placed Victorian Team - a truly fantastic result. Congratulations to Cody Smith, Louise Mitchell, Sarah Mitchell, Alison Link, Chelsea Start, Emma Niere, Siobhan Phyland and Emily Findeisen who are all joining Sammy Fynmore and heading up to Sydney in April for the Australian Age Championships - Good Luck All!! |
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FAS is a highly successful competitive swimming club that was incorporated in 1997. Since then the club has enjoyed continued success at State and National levels. FAS trains at the outstanding Pool and Gym facilities of Firbank Grammar School in Brighton, Victoria.
Membership to Firbank Aquastars is open to both male and female swimmers wishing to compete at all levels of competition – from Encouragement Meets to National and International levels. Please check out Membership pages for more details.
FAS hold 4 to 5 aggregate nights per school term. These are a great fun night for the kids, with plenty of race practice. Swimmers from age 7 upwards are invited and encouraged to come along – you don’t have to be a member of the club to come to aggregate nights.
Each term FAS holds a Social night for both the parents and the swimmers to get together, we also have family weekends away, fun fundraisers, an annual presentation evening and of course plenty of swim meets to attend throughout the year.