2012 State Age Champs Final UpdateDate Added: 2011-12-31Sorry for the delay in writing the wrap-up of the State Age Championships - where has the past week gone? I hope everyone had a great Christmas and Santa brought you all lots of lovely gifts! A big congratulations goes to all our swimmers that competed at the State Age Championships, we finished in 7th place overall, with our girls finishing 5th and our boys at 10th. Once again, a great effort from a small club. Following is a wrap of the last 3 days of the meet: Day Four Finalists: Louise Mitchell, Silver Medal, 17/18yo girls 100 Fly James Nettlefold, Bronze Medal, 17/18yo boys 100 Fly, Bronze Medal, 17/18yo boys 200 IM Emma Niere, 7th, 16yo girls 200 Free Sarah Mitchell, 7th, 15yo girls 100 Back Chelsea Start, 8th, 15yo girls 100 Back Amy Van Dongen, 8th (Victorian) 13yo girls 200 Fly Georgia Buck, 8th, 12yo girls 200 IM Emily Findeisen, 7th (Victorian), 17/18yo girls 200 IM Cody Smith, 10th, 17/18yo boys 200 IM 12U girls Free Relay, 6th (Victorian team), consisting; Georgia Buck, Megan Chia, Maxine Ness and Zoe Ness Other notable swims: 12yo boys 50 Free, Adam Sharman put in a solid 1 sec pb seeing him swim sub-33 for the first time 17/18yo girls 100 Fly, Anna McEvoy shaved 2 secs from her pb helping her into the top 20, while Steph Campbell and Phoebe Lawless-Pyne each took 3 seconds off their pbs 14yo boys 50 Free, Declan Cox and Mac Caithness both cracked the 29 sec mark for the first time 15yo girls 100 Back, Breanne Phyland showed that she is on the comeback with a 2.6 sec pb and finishing in the top 20 15yo boys 100 Back, Mitch Coughlin snipped 1 sec from his pb 13yo boys 200 Fly, Ben Fynmore finished just outside the finals in 11th place 12yo girls 200 IM, Megan Chia finished in 12th place 16yo girls 200 Breast, Nicole Hurley cranked out a 3 sec pb and finished 11th 13yo girls 100 Free, Amy Van Dongen took 2 secs from her pb and finished in 11th place 12U boys Free Relay Team took 4 seconds off their entry time, team consisted of: Adam Sharman, Tom Post, Declan Jeffery and Mile Park Day Five Finallists: Adam Nettlefold, Silver Medal, 17/18yo boys 200 Back James Nettlefold, Bronze Medal, 17/18yo boys 200 Back Louise Mitchel, Bronze Medal, 17/18yo girls 200 Back Stephanie Campbell, 8th (Victorian), 17/18yo girls 200 Back Ben Fynmore, 8th, 13yo boys 400 Free - with a fantastic 6 sec pb Samantha Fynmore, 6th (Victorian), 14yo girls 100 Back Chelsea Start, 9th (Victorian), 15yo girls 200 Free Emma Niere, Silver Medal, 16yo girls 100 Fly, 6th (Victorian) 200 IM, 6th (Victorian) 16-18yo girls 800 Free Elizabeth Scott, 5th (Victorian) 13yo girls 100 Breast Anna McEvoy, 7th (Victorian) 16-18yo girls 800 free Other notable swims: 17/18yo girls 200 Back, Siobhan Phyland finished as 1st reserve 15yo girls 200 Free, Sarah Mitchell cut 2 secs from her pb and finished well ensconced in the top 20 11u boys 200 Free, Declan Jeffery sliced 2 seconds from his pb 13yo girls 50 Free, Amy Van Dongen finished 12th with a 1.4 sec pb and Zoe Robinson took 1 sec from her pb going sub 32 for the first time 13yo girls 100 Breast, Evelyn Lieng finished 11th with an great 3 sec pb 14U boys Medley relay A team took a fantastic 7 seconds off their entry time and finished in 14th place, team consisted: Declan Cox, Sam Williamson, Ben Fynmore and Robert Shokin 14U boys Medley relay B team took 5.5 seconds off their entry time, team consisted: Bentley Niquet-Olden, Kieran Start, Alex Clarke and Mac Caithness 14U girls Medley relay A team finished in 14th place, team consisted: Sam Fynmore, Elizabeth Scott, Amy Van Dongen and Zoe Robinson 14U girls Medley relay B team smashed an amazing 9 seconds off their entry time, team consisted: Courtney Plier, Evelyn Lieng, Jaime Phyland and Claire Niere Day Six Finallists: Anna McEvoy, 7th (Victorian), 17/18 200 girls Fly, 8th (Victorian), 17/18yo girls 100 Free James Nettlefold, Silver Medal, 17/18 200 boys Fly Sarah Mitchell, 4th, 15yo girls 200 IM, Silver Medal, 15yo girls 100 Fly Chelsea Start, 6th (Victorian), 15yo girls 200 IM Louise Mitchell, 6th (Victorian) 17/18yo girls 100 Free Cody Smith, 6th, 17/18yo boys 100 Free Adam Nettlefold, 9th, 17/18yo boys 100 Free Emma Niere, Bronze Medal, 16yo girls 200 Back 18U girls Medley relay team, 10th, team consisted: Steph Campbell, Emily Findeisen, Louise Mitchell and Anna McEvoy 18U boys Medley relay team, Bronze medal, team consisted: Adam Nettlefold, Cody Smith, James Nettlefold and Matthew Northage Other notable swims: 11U girls 100 Back, Maxine Ness took 1.5 sec off her pb finishing 5th place 10yo 17/18 200 girls Fly, Phoebe Lawless-Pyne smashed 8 seconds off her pb and finished 13th 13yo girls 100 Back, Amy Van Dongen continued her pb campaign and took 4 seconds from this one 13yo boys 100 Back, Sam Willimason rounded out his pb campaign with a 3 sec pb 17/18yo girls 100 Free, Siobhan Phyland cut 2 seconds from her pb and finished in the top 20 17/18yo boys 100 Free, James Nettlefold finished in 11th place and Matthew Northage took 1.2 from his pb and finished in the top 20 Phew... What a huge meet, so many finalists and great swims. (I apologise if I have missed anyone in my summary above - it's a huge task with so many swimmers to summarise!) On behalf of the team I would like to thank our wonderful coaching team - Jason, Daryl, Narelle, Nick, Peter, Craig and Rachel - It's great to have such a strong team of coaches at our club. I would also like to thank everyone for assisting with timekeeping throughout the meet, timekeeping is compulsory for clubs at SV meets and your help is always appreciated! As a final note, there will be exam questions on this and my last note at the next Presentation Night, so I hope you have all read it well!  2012 State Age Champs Day 3 UpdateDate Added: 2011-12-20Well we are past the half way point of the State Age Championships now and I thought it was high time I sent out an update of how our swimmers are doing. The weather has be great, the crowds have been huge and the swimming has been fantastic! As at the end of last night's session Firbank Aquastars is ranked 7th on the combined point score table - behind MLC in 6th place by a mere 28 points. Following is a summary of ours swimmers efforts over the last 3 days: Day One Finalists: Georgia Buck, Bronze Medal, 12yo girls 100 Backstroke Megan Chia, 4th, 12yo girls 100 Backstroke Emma Niere, Silver Medal, 16yo girls 200 Fly, 7th, 16yo girls 100 Free James Nettlefold, 4th, 17/18yo boys 50 Free Louise Mitchell, 5th, 17/18yo girls 50 Free Samantha Fynmore, Bronze Medal, 14yo girls 100 Fly, 6th (Victorian), 14yo girls 200 IM Ben Fynmore, 9th, 13yo boys 200 Free Chelsea Start, 6th (Victorian), 15yo girls 200 Back Elizabeth Scott, Bronze Medal, 13yo girls 200 Breast Cody Smith, 5th 17/18yo boys 400 Free Anna McEvoy, 5th (Victorian), 17/18 girls 400 Free 16U Girls Medley Relay Team, 9th (Victorian team), consisting: Chelsea Start, Elizabeth Scott, Emma Niere & Sarah Mitchell Other notable swims: 17/18yo boys 50 Free had Adam Nettlefold, Matthew Northage and Cody Smith just miss out on a final swim, finishing 11th, 12th and 13th respectively. A special mention of congratulations to Matthew on a much sought after National Time! Well Done Norma! 17/18yo girls 50 Free FAS had 5 girls swimming in this event, with Emily Findeisen finishing 13th and Steph Campbell cracking 30 sec with a tidy .35pb 13yo girls 200 Free, Amy Van Dongen finished in 12th place with a very nice 3 second pb 17/18yo girls 100 Breast, Em Findeisen just missed out on a finals birth, finishing 11th 15yo girls 200 Back, Sarah Mitchell came in 14th with a 2 second pb 13yo boys 200 Breast, Sam Williamson was on fire, bringing home a 5 second pb and storming into 12th place 13yo girls 200 Breast, Evelyn Lieng cracked a very neat 1 sec (exactly) pb, finishing in the top 20 Day Two Finalists: Emma Niere, 6th (Victorian), 16yo girls 400 Free Sammy Fynmore, 6th (Victorian), 14yo girls 200 Back Amy Van Dongen, 6th, 13yo girls 100 Fly, 8th (Victorian), 13yo grls 200 IM Louise Mitchell, 4th (Victorian), 17/18 girls 100 Back Siobhan Phyland, 8th (Victorian), 17/18 girls 100 Back Adam Nettlefold, Silver Medal, 17/18 boys 100 Back James Nettlefold, Bronze Medal, 17/18 boys 100 Back, 4th 17/18yo boys 400 IM Sarah Mitchell,Bronze Medal, 15y girls 200 Fly Ben Fynmore, 7th (Victorian), 13yo boys 100 Fly Emily Findeisen, 8th (Victorian) 17/18yo girls 400 IM 18U boys Free Relay, 5th, consisting of: Cody Smith, Adam Nettlefold, Matthew Northage & James Nettlefold 18U girlss Free Relay, 8th, consisting of: Anna McEvoy, Emily Findeisen, Siobhan Phyland & Louise Mitchell Other notable swims: 12yo girls 100 Breast, Megan Chia finished in 12th place 15yo girls 100 Free, Breanne Phyland is back in town with a 2 second pb 13yo boys 200 IM, there must have been something in the water with Ben Fynmore shaking out a 3.5 sec pb, finishing 13th and Sam Williamson slashing out a 6.5 sec pb to see him nicely into 15th 16yo girls 50 Free, Emma Niere finished 11th with a .49 pb and Nicole Hurley slammed 1.29 from her pb 15yo girls 200 Fly, Chelsea Start nipped 2 secs from her pb finishing 15th 14u boys Free relay team A & B for some great leg times from all boys, teams consisted of: A, Robert Shokin (in a pb time of 26.74 breaking 27 for the first time), Sam Williamson, Ben Fynmore & Mac Caithness and B, Declan Cox in a time of 28.48, Oscar Loughnan, Alex Clarke (also a low 28 time) and Kieran Start Day Three Finalists: Samantha Fynmore, Bronze medal, 14yo girls 200 Fly Ben Fynmore, Silver Medal, 13u boys 800 Free Megan Chia, 4th, 12yo girls 200 Breast, 8th (Victorian), 12yo girls 200 Back Anna McEvoy, 8th (Victorian) 17/18yo girls 200 Free Cody Smith, 5th, 17/18yo boys 200 Free James Nettlefold, 8th, 17/18yo boys 200 Free Emma Niere, Silver Medal, 16yo girls 100 Back, 4th (Victorian) 400 IM Georgia Buck, 5th (Victorian), 12yo girls 200 Back Emily Findeisen 6th (Victorian), 17/18yo 200 Breast 12U Medley Relay Team, 7th, consisting of: Georgia Buck, Megan Chia, Zoe Ness & Maxine Ness 16U Free Relay Team, 5th, consisting of: Sarah Mitchell, Emma Niere, Chelsea Start & Breanne Phyland Other notable swims: 12yo girls 200 Breast, Georgia Buck finished in 14th place 11u boys 50 Free, Declan Jeffery broke the 34 sec mark with a .3 pb 17/18yo girls 200 Free, Anna McEvoy finished 12th, Emily Findeisen finished 14th 15yo girls 400 Free, Chelsea Start finished 17th with a 2 sec pb 14yo boys 100 Free, Robert Shokin cracked 1.01 for the first time with a .6 pb 13yo boys 200 Back, Sam Williamson continued his pb streek by wiping 2 seconds off his previous time 11u girls 200IM, Maxine Ness smashed 4 seconds off her pb 15yo girls 50 Free, Sarah Mitchell finished 12th and Breanne Phyland finished 14th 12yo boys free relay team took 5 seconds off their entry time, team consisted of: Declan Jeffery, Harrison Preston, Miles Park & Adam Sharman Congratulations to all our swimmers so far, keep up the good work, it's a long week for many of the swimmers and the coaches - not to mention the support crew in the stands and at home. I hope I haven't left out any significant swims, please let me know if I have and I will update it in my next email. Looking forward to the next few days and nights of racing! (But, bring on Friday for a sleep in and a day not in at MSAC!) (I have only given the summary for the first three days in this email, and will complete the summary at the end of the week.) 2011 7 to 10 FinalsDate Added: 2011-11-13Judging by the results from today's 7 to 10 yo Metropolitan Finals, Firbank Aquastars junior swimmers did us proud. All of our swimmers swam great times; James Klein was just on his pb in the 50 backstroke. In the same event Harrison Preston took a lazy 4 secs off his pb finishing 10th. Harrison had already swam a 2.5 second pb in the 50 Fly and in his last event for the day (50 breast) swam a 2 second pb. Sarah Cooper was just off her pb in the 50 fly, but made up for that by swimming a 3.5 second pb in the 50 free, however Sarah's best time for the meet came from her relay leg in the 8yo girls 4x50 free where she clocked a time of 41 seconds - 6.5 seconds faster than her entry time. Sarah's relay team just missed out on a medal, finishing 4th. Our first competitor for the day was Maxine Ness, who, in her first event (50 fly) managed to strip 3 seconds off her pb to finish 4th. Her second event was the 50 back and, with a 4 second pb, Maxine finished with a Bronze medal. Next was the 10yo girl's free relay where she took her team straight into the lead with a lead-leg time of 32.5 secs, and gave Maxine her second medal of the meet - Gold! The next event on Maxine's busy schedule was the 50 breast where she slashed 4.5 seconds off her pb and finishing with a Silver medal. On to the 50 free, another pb (31.7 - 3.5 secs off her entry time) and another Silver medal. Last of all was the 10yo girls medley relay, where Maxine swam the fly leg and helped her team to a Bronze medal. Well done Maxine - 5 medals from 6 races! Congratulations to all our swimmers that competed at the 7 to 10 elims and finals - it's great to see some young enthusiastic swimmers coming along! 7-10 Eliminations 2011Date Added: 2011-10-18Sunday morning five of our junior swimmers headed out to the Haileybury pool to swim in the Metro South District Eliminations. The top ten swimmers in each race at this meet will swimm again on November 13 in the Metropolitan 7-10 Competition. For two of the swimmers this was their first experience at a real meet. Our swimmers that are moving on to the finals are:
A special mention should also go to Charli Bowers who swam in the 8yo age group due to the 'age-up' date of this meet, even though she was still only 7! A fantastic effort saw her coming home just outside the top ten in two of her races. Well done Charli. Congratulations to all our finalists and good luck on the 13th of November. If you are a finalist but are unable to swim at the finals, can you please let me know by Oct 28th, I can then inform the Metro South officials and they will be able to put someone else in the event in your place.
Victorian Open Water Championships at HazelwoodDate Added: 2011-10-18Unlike last year the weather was perfect and the water was warm (26C). The meet was a lot better organised this year too with the 5km swimmers in the water first off in the morning with the 1km & 3km swims in the afternoon. Seven of our swimmers headed off in the Firbank 'Troupe Carrier' at 6:45am Saturday morning, with Jason at the wheel and Anna Mac navigating, they arrived at the Hazelwood Pond 2 hours later champing at the bit to get in the water. (Ok, maybe a bit of journalistic licence there.) Anna and Phoebe were the first Firbank Aquastars to take the plunge, heading off for the 5km swim, and the girls did fabulously. Josh was our only 3km swimmer and he managed to wipe 2 minutes from his last year's time. Zoe, Kieran, Mitch and Chelsea rounded out our 2011 team swimming in the 1km swim. In summary, the results were:
Victorian Open SC ChampionshipsDate Added: 2011-09-21Last weekend (Sept 10 & 11) saw 20 Firbank Aquastars Swimmers competing in 70 individual and 8 relay events at the Victorian Open Short Course Swimming Championships. Highlights of the meet included:
FAS finished the meet in 8th place overall. Congratulations on a great weekend of swimming!! Congratulations also go to FAS coach Rachel Goh, who finished Gold in the 50 & 100 Women's Backstroke and Silver in 100 Women's Freestyle. Thank-you to our coaches that attended the meet over the weekend - Jason Cooper and Daryl Howe, as always you assistance is greatly appreciated by all the swimmers! Thank-you also to those families that volunteered their time to time-keep at this meet - The Phylands, Northages, Foleys, Cox's, Findeisens and Smiths. Victorian Age SC Championships 2011Date Added: 2011-08-29What a huge weekend of racing! Swimming Victoria said that they had a record number of entrants to this meet - and the jam-packed stands on the first night were a testament to this! According to the session report there were around 860 athletes swimming in Friday night (while their families and coaches sweltered in the stands - it would be great if MSAC worked out how to use the air-conditioning system!), it was standing room only! The first medal for Firbank Aquastars went to Megan Chia who won bronze in the 200 Back and from such an awesome start FAS went from strength to strength with a huge number of PBs achieved at the meet and an amazing number of finalists and medals! Congratulations to all our swimmers that attended the meet, in particular our medallists and finalists:
Firbank Aquastars finished the meet in 9th place - a nice improvement from 10th place at the same meet last year. Click here for a copy of the FAS results from the meet - please let me know if you have a split time (first 50 or 100 from your race time) that is a pb so that I can extract them for our results file. Thank-you to our team of great coaches that helped our swimmers attain their great results this weekend - in particular Jason Cooper and Nick Findeisen who attended every session over the weekend. (I apologise for any mistakes in the above summary - hopefully I have managed to pick up all the many finalist's names - there were a lot to go through!!)
FAS SC Meet July 24 2011 - ResultsDate Added: 2011-07-24*****HOT OFF THE PRESS***** Congractulations to all the swimmers that raced at today's meet - there were some great PBs from many of the competitors. I hope that those aiming at getting a State time or two were successful! Please see the links below for the results files: Thank-you to everone that helped today, we certainly couldn't run a meet without the help of our volunteers! FAS SC Meet July 24 2011Date Added: 2011-07-19The programs are off at the printers and everything is coming together for the Firbank Aquastars Short Course meet this coming Sunday. The meet is scheduled to start at 9am (warm-up from 8am) and should conclude around 3:30pm. There will be a 30 minute break between session 1 and 2 around 12:30 to 1pm. Of course anything can happen on the day and the timeline is only a guide! Please ensure that you arrive to allow plenty of time to warmup for your first event (1 to 1.5hrs). Please follow the links below for the meet time line and registered entries. Thank-you to everyone that has offered their time to help on the day - of course there is always room for more! We won't turn you away! Good luck to everyone racing on the day 2011 ascta(v)/Firbank Aquastars SC Hit OutDate Added: 2011-05-09The 2011 ascta(V)/Firbank Aquastars SC Hit Out will be held at MSAC on Saturday June 11. Entries close on Friday June 3. Submit Team Manger Entries to: peterniere@optusnet.com.au For online entries go to the following webpage:
Steph Rice Visits FASDate Added: 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!!
FAS Meet 24/7/10 - PhotosDate Added: 2010-07-28Check out some of the photos from the FAS/asctaVic meet on Saturday.... Click the link below |
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