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 30/10/08  surrey park achieves gold award in 2008 goclub pb awards scheme 

Surrey Park Swimming Club is now a GOLD Award recipient of the 2008 GoClub PB Awards scheme  

Australian Unity GO Club PB is a national swimming club standard established to recognise and reward swimming clubs by measuring their performance across five key areas: 

• Membership: measuring the clubs ability to attract new members and maintain or increase its existing membership base.
• Administration: measuring the clubs ability to operate efficiently, safely and remain financially viable.
• Activities: measuring the clubs participation levels from club nights through to national championships, and also the number of social activities on offer for its members.
• Coaching and Officiating: Measuring the number of technical officials available, the coach to swimmer ratio, and the level of participation in regional and state development activities.
• Marketing and Promotion: measuring the clubs commitment to communication with its membership and the ability to attract sponsorship dollars, through promotion utilising local media, web page and activities for non member organisations.

  Results from the 2008 Australian Unity GO CLUB PB workbooks reveal swimming clubs around the nation are improving their performance and management structures providing a better environment for all members, athletes, coaches, officials, administrators and parents. Thanks to our president, staff and club committee who have worked hard to help Surrey Park achieve the GO CLUB PB GOLD LEVEL.

 23/10/08  2008 WHITEHORSE SPORTS AWARDS: SURREY PARK WINS COACH OF THE YEAR & TEAM OF THE YEAR! 

The winners of the 2008 City of Whitehorse Sports Awards were announced last night at a ceremony held in the Warath Room  at the Nunawading Council Offices. Guest speakers and presenters included Leigh Nugent and retired St Kilda footballer Nathan Burke.

Surrey Park was presented with two awards during the evening. The first was for "2008 Team of the Year" which was awarded to our Open Water Team for their outstanding achievements over the last 12 months including winning the CB Rickards trophy at Open Water Nationals in April this year. 

We were also  thrilled to see our Head Coach Dave Kelsheimer presented with the trophy for "2008 Coach of the Year"

Congratulations especially to our Open Water Team, Coach Dave , all of our swimmers, coaches and committee members whose combined efforts have made these awards possible. Thanks also to the City of Whitehorse.

 20/10/08  7-10 trials

Well done to all of the Surrey Park junior swimmers who competed at the 7-10 trials at Ringwood yesterday afternoon.  A special mention to the sixteen swimmers who have  progressed to the finals to be held at MSAC on November 16th. We wish you all well.  Thankyou to Jarrod and Aleisha and your team of helpers from the Stingray squad!

More photos: click here   (takes a little while to load file)

 19/10/08  HAZELWOOD 10K

After a very warm day yesterday, we were reminded of the unpredictable nature of Open Water swimming once again as swimmers and spectators arrived rugged up in response to the 17C and chilly outdoor conditions. Thankfully the water temperature was still warm and many of our National swimmers plus Kien-Anh (complete with support crew) swam the 10k course. Many swimmers were entered in the Open category this year to begin the step up to higher level competition and racing. The conditions were tough but the results were excellent in both the Open category Age categories. Thankyou to our coaches for all of their work over the weekend, the families who travelled down and cheered on our swimmers and especially those who were not competing but stayed down on Sunday and who were a great support to the 10k swimmers.

Most of all -congratulations to our competitors- you did a fantastic job!  Photos : click here   (be patient while file loads)

 18/10/08  SENSATIONAL......SURREY PARK.

 Sensational Surrey Park! Today was Day 1  of the Victorian Open Water Championships at Hazelwood Pondage which saw the 1k, 3k, & 5k events contested in near perfect conditions. Surrey Park was out in full force with our largest Open Water team ever entered. The day was highighted by the enthusiasm of our rookies both young and no tso young who swam their first Open Water event. There were also some outstanding results and state medallists in both the Age and Open categories. Best of all, every single swimmers finished the course! Stay tuned for a further update tomorrow-it's the 10k!

PHOTOS -click here 

 14/10/08  three more days until hazelwood........

The Victorian Open Water Championships are on again this weekend at Hazelwood and Surrey Park is raring to go with 42 entries this year in the 1,3, 5 & 10 k events- our highest number of entries ever! More detailed information will be distributed to families in the next couple of days via email and again in Shoutout. Make sure you read through it carefully before Saturday.

If you have any further questions please ask your coach

 Best of luck to all of our competitors!

Most of all...HAVE FUN!

 14/10/08  NEW MEET SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

The Surrey Park Meet Schedule for the rest of the Long Course Season has now been updated. It can be found under the Competitions Section of this website

 24/09/08  CLUB RECORDS ARE TUMBLING.......

The following new club records are now official. 

Well done to  Hamish, Eugene, Mun Hon and Phoebe !

 23/09/08  NEW STATE RECORD FOR MUN HON LEE AT AUSTRALIAN S.C CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations Mun Hon!

Surrey Park are proud to congratulate our club Vice Captain Mun Hon Lee on his new Victorian Record this morning at the Telstra Open Short Course Championships at MSAC. Mun Hon swam another PB in the 200 fly setting a new Victorian record for the Men15 yrs age group. He is also the new Surrey Park Club record holder for both the Boys 15 years and Open category and finishing 19th place overall is a fantastic achievement.

Congratulations Mun Hon to you and your coaches from everyone at Surrey Park on a job very well done! Keep up the great work.

 13/09/08  TRAINING CHANGES FOR SCHOOL HOLIDAYS SEPTEMBER 22-OCTOBER 6 2008

There are training changes beginning September 22nd which will continue for the duration of the school holidays. 

To view these changes please - click here

 09/09/08  Meet our state medalists from the victorian short course championships

 Congratulations to our eight State medalists who between them  won 20 medals over the weekend: Tash Guenther, Cara Davidson, Ruby McDougall, Hamish McDougall, Seb Cumins, Eugene Tee, Mun Hon Lee and Cameron Crabb.

 07/09/08  THREE NEW OPEN NATIONAL SHORT COURSE QUALIFIERS

Our results over the weekend at the Victorian Short Course Championships were sensational with 94% of our swimmers achieving one or more lifetime best swims during this meet . Congratulations to our 2008 State Short Course Team and thankyou to our coaching staff who were not only at MSAC all weekend but prepared our swimmers so well. Thanks to the Surrey Park parents who put up their hand and helped with time keeping as well .

Special congratulations to our three new Open National qualifiers for the Australian Short Course Championships which will be held in Melbourne next month :

Cara Davidson-200 back                       Eugene Tee- 200 IM and                             Mun Hon Lee - 200 fly.

Mun Hon is also the new Victorian Record Holder for the Boys 15 yrs 200 fly after a sensational swim this afternoon.

Congratulations Cara, Eugene & Mun Hon and stay tuned for a full States wrap-up soon! 

 07/09/08  DAVID SMETANINE WINS GOLD IN BEIJING IN MENS S4 100 FREE

 02/09/08  victorian state age short course championships this weekend

Congratulations to our 2008 State Short Course Team who haveare preparing for the Victorian State Age Short Course Championships MSAC this weekend.

Special mention to our first time qualifiers: Millie Simpson, Phoebe Dammer-Smith, Alex Good, Sarah Martin, May Warrick, Stephanie Burrill, Max Mussara and Josh Gordon. Congratulations to you all especially.

Click here to see photos of our team.