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    • New website for Swim Wellington
      • Swimming Wellington’s new website will be live from the 31 March 2015.  Please note the change in URL address to; Swimming Wellington’s new website URL: www.wellington.swimming.org.nz from 31 March 2015 Make sure spread the word.   The old website will be re-directed to the new URL with arrangements just being finalised.

    • Australian Age Group Team announcement
      • On behalf of Swimming New Zealand we would like to announce the Team that will be attending 2015 Australian Age Group Championships held in Sydney. Please click here to find who has been selected.  In particular congratulations to Chelsey Edwards – SwimZone, Elena Forlong &  Shannon Schimanski both from Wanganui

    • Swimming Wellington All Stars TiD Programme
      • Recently Swimming Wellington have been working on a new initiative for competitive swimmers, registered with Swimming Wellington, and would like to share with our clubs, those selected and to provide further  understanding of the programme, and the selection process for swimmers, for those wishing to work towards selection into the programme in 2016. This email provides a brief overview of the All Stars Development programme and what it entails, for the athletes and coaches that have been selected. We have attached a brief overview of the athlete development pathway within swimming and where this programme sits within the SNZ framework. We hope that this gives a transparent outlook on the selection process. Swimming Wellington’s All Stars Development programme has been selected to be a part of the Wellington City Council Talent ID Programme which is administered by the  Sport Wellington Performance Hub. This partnership allows athletes selected onto the programme to have access to High Performance Sport New Zealand resources. When selecting the swimmers several elements were taken into consideration; age, performance at national events in 2014, and FINA points. The All Stars Development programme is set to work towards developing athletes at a performance level in order to promote a smoother transition into the Power of Black and High Performance environment. The aim is to work with identified athletes on developing core foundation level skills required to train, compete, balancing study with training, family life and peer contact. The project is planned around developing the athlete’s ability out and in the water. This process creates a well-rounded athlete maximising their ability and works towards minimising their weaknesses to reduce impact on performance in the water. This approach allows foundation level skills to be put into place to support the athlete. This will help to give the swimmers the tools required for to maximise their opportunity to successfully continue along the performance pathway. Swimming Wellington’s role in this programme will be the co-ordination and the administration of the programme with the athletes and Coaches.  This role will provide the administration and management of the athletes for services within the programme and aims at supporting the coach to achieve and develop each swimmer within the programme, continuing along the athlete development pathway. WCC TiD programme content This element of the programme is to be delivered by Helen Regan, High Performance Sport New Zealand and the topics will look at skills for swimmers out of the water and provides a holistic approach as swimmers look at developing to enter the performance environment. Helen will also work closely with swimmers and coaches, one-on-one, to ensure swimmer‘s specific goals and skills are focused on their personal development pathway. Funding has been allocated towards a number of sports across the Wellington Region so athletes in the programme will be given the opportunity to interact with other performance level athletes excelling in their sports. Swimming Wellington also aims to take the group of athletes over to the Queensland State Championships in December 2015 where the athletes will be able to put their developed skills, into practice as they are placed in a high pressure unfamiliar environment against unknown competition.  Swimming Wellington has currently got a potential sponsor interested in assisting in funding this part of the programme, however we will keep Club’s informed of progress. All athletes that are selected have performed to the selection criteria standard over the past 12 months.  These 11 athletes have been notified of their selection and confirmed their involvement in the programme and Swimming Wellington would like to congratulate the following swimmers on their selection; Kyle Barnes- Capital Maggie Burns – Capital Scarlett Tacon- Capital Hamish Trlin- Capital Joe Hammond- Capital Josie Kozyniak-  Capital Devlin Forsythe- Karori Alex Pampalone- Karori Bronagh Ryan – Porirua City Aquatics Rebecca Moynihan- Raumati Ruby Health – SwimZone

    • Junior Development Camps
      • SNZ have today release the names of those swimmers selected for the camps throughout New Zealand.  Congratulations to all those who have been selected from Wellington clubs. For a full list of swimmers included in the Central Lower North Island  click here  Central & Lower North Juniors Wgtn swimmers included are Sophie Irving, Ben Sterling – Capital, Charlotte More, Leyton Tapa – SwimZone Racing, Sean Register – Karori Pirates, Siena Cockburn – Masterton, Max Drummond – Porirua City Aquatics, Danika Viskovic, Jenna Rolston-Larking, Joel Crampton and Katie Helm from Tawa Swim Club    

    • MetroLeague 2015
      • The 2015 MetroLeague begins on 15 March at Huia Pool, with two sessions schedule at the one facility.    For lane allocations and participating teams please click here Metroleague Lane and Duty Allocation 10 Teams are taking part in this years competition which will be held on 15 March (Huia Pool 12pm)  17 May (Coastlands Aquatic Centre – 9.30am) and the Final on 31 May (Coastlands Aquatic Centre 10.30am), Capital Swim, Karori Pirates, Porirua City Aquatics and Tawa all entering 2 teams into the competition,  with Raumati Swimming and SwimZone Racing are both entering 1 team. Click  here  Swimming Wellington Junior League 2015 Final for the Information Handbook

    • Regional Team Manager Applications
      • Regional Team Manager Applications are now open for the following meets:  Division II 18th March- 21st March. Applications close Sunday 1st March at 5pm. DIV II Team Manager Application 2015 NZ Opens 14th April-17th April. Applications close Monday 23rd March at 5pm. NZ Opens Team Manager Application 2015 NAG’s 5th May- 9th May. Applications close Monday 20th April at 5pm. NAGs Team Manager Application 2015 Please complete the appropriate application form in full. All applications can be sent to Operations@swimwn.co.nz

    • SNZ Coaches & Parents Meeting
      • Swimming New Zealand would like to extend an invitation for all parents and coaches to attend a presentation by Donna Bouzaid at the NZ Junior Championships regarding future planning for the national events programme. The forum will be held in Meeting Room 1 at the Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre on Saturday 21 February from 11.30am following the conclusion of the morning session.     The 2015 NZ Junior Championships are on from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 February. Photos from the event will be able to be viewed and purchased from here and live results from the event can be found here

    • Meet Pre-approval Information
      • Meet Pre-approval - attached is the template for all Clubs to complete and return for the 2016 Calendar year.    Signature meets will be noted in the Calendar along with Club events which are open to all clubs.    All Clubs meets will be also need to be approved to ensure that Official’s requirements are met and no clash with any other scheduled calendar meet occurs.  Meet flier should also be attached for checking.  Please ensure that the application form is returned to Henrietta Operations@swimwn.co.nz by Monday 30March 2015.   The form will also be available from the website. Meet Flier – please ensure that Club swimmers events are scheduled 50m events separately from Competitive swimmer event.   Club swimmers who swim with Competitive effectively prevent those times from being used for Regional and National qualification. Please note that you may swim mixed events for your competitive and Club swimmers but Club and Competitive must swim separately, for example  50m  Free                   Club                     Mixed Open age/ or in age 50m Free                     Competitive        Mixed open age / or in age 4.  Prior to the meet ensure that the Meet Manager backup is sent to Laura Events@swimwn.co.nz for checking.  Remember also that  Officials Sign off forms – showing the  key officials is important to submit with the meet back up. One form is required for each session swum.   Please ensure sufficient notice is given to Officials to ensure your meet can be an approved meet. 5.   Once entries have closed it is important for all clubs to send a meet backup for Swim Wellington to check swimmers are a) financial and b) competitive where they have entered 100m events.   Please send a backup of the meet once entries have closed to Laura Events@swimwn.co.nz  or in Laura’s absences Henrietta Operations@swimwn.co.nz 6.  Once your event is complete please ensure you return the following to Henrietta Operations@swimwn.co.nz   *  PDF of Results *   TM Meet Results file * MM Backup file *  Signed off Officials Forms for approval.  Once the Officials Form/s  has been approved Swimming Wellington will send a copy of the PDF and  TM Results will be sent to Take your Marks and meet back up to Swimming NZ. Meet Application Forms and Meet Approval documents are available from SW | Info –>  SW| Forms for completion.

    • Zonal Wrap up
      • The Harlequins, from Northland, Auckland and Counties-Manukau, took the honours in the second New Zealand Zonal Championships at the West Wave Aquatic Centre in Auckland tonight. The Zonal Championships put 160 of New Zealand’s leading and up and coming swimmers against each other in an American-styled collegiate competition. All regions in New Zealand were divided into four zones to compete in relay formats in two non-stop two hour sessions. Each zone team comprised 40 swimmers split into junior and senior teams. Olympic swimmer Steven Kent helped lead the way for a high spirited Harlequins team tonight, with his winning swim in the 200m freestyle counting for some valuable extra points as each zone nominates a ‘joker’ that can earn double points for their swim. “It was a pretty good event, a mix of everything and people like me doing a mix of events they don’t normally do so it was a lot of fun and to chuck in that Legends Relay there in the middle was pretty awesome,” Kent said. “Two years ago we came last. We didn’t have enough members even last time, so this time to come out and it feels like we dominated a lot of events so it’s pretty awesome to do it for the region. “For me winning the 200m freestyle was pretty cool because I had the joker on me so I had to step up for the team and win that for the team and I guess also for me the Legends Relay was pretty special.” The night concluded with swimmers taking part in a 1,000m freestyle relay for all swimmers in the senior and junior divisions. In the junior relay the South Island Makos managed to hold off the Harlequins who worked their way up from last to second with the help of an impressive leg from Gabrielle Fa’amausili while in the senior relay the Harlequins managed to storm home ahead of the Makos. The Harlequins, which is made up of swimmers from the Northland, Auckland and Counties-Manukau regions, finished well ahead in the points for the night on 1,978 followed by the Makos (1,750.5), Aquaknights (1678) and the All Stars (1646.5). Multiple winners in the senior competition included Emma Robinson in the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle, Nathan Capp in the 400m and 1500m freestyle, Laura Quilter in the 50m and 100m freestyle, Bradlee Ashby in the 200m and 400m individual medley, George Schroder in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and Helena Gasson in the 100m butterfly, 200m and 400m individual medley. In the juniors picking up two wins each was Bobbi Gichard, Gabrielle Fa’amausili, Satori Dobbie, Tame Govaerts, Yeonsu Lee, Lewis Clareburt and Sam McKenzie while Mya Rasmussen claimed three victories and two New Zealand age group records. Each team is made up of 10 male and 10 female swimmers in the under 16 competition and the same sized teams in the 16 and over competition. The Zonal Championships, also included a charity relay that featured many Olympic and Commonwealth Games swim stars from the past as well as Olympic rowing stars Joseph Sullivan and Juliette Drysdale. The team for Surf Life Saving New Zealand took out the 4x50m freestyle relay, but the star of the night proved to be 97-year-old Kath Johnstone who swam in a team alongside Olympic swimmer Steven Kent.  The teams raised more than $28,000 for their various charities. Final scores: Harlequins 1978, 1; Makos 1750.5, 2; Aquaknights 1678, 3; All Stars 1646.5, 4.

    • New SW regional officials
      • Congratulations to the following officials who achieved regional qualifications at the 2015 SW Long Course Championships: Regional Referee Lynette Sadleir (SZR) Regional  Judge of Stroke Helen Berry (SZR) Regional Inspectors of Turns Cecilia Wong (TWA) Helen Hansen (CAP) Seuga Frost (KAP) Rebecca Easterbrook (PCA) Clare Helm (TWA) Neil Forlong (WAN) Paul van Zyl (SZR)  

    • Ian McPhee 1940-2014
      • Ian McPhee, Life Member of Swimming New Zealand, Life Member of Swimming Wairarapa and Swimming Wellington following the amalgamation of Wairarapa and Wellington. Swimming New Zealand Life Member Ian McPhee passed away on 14 November 2014, whilst holidaying with family in Northland. He will be remembered for his immense contributions to the sport of swimming from club to national levels. Ian was involved with swimming in New Zealand for over 65 years. He started swimming as a young boy and throughout the years he was a member of various committees, managed many teams and officiated in a number of roles as a nationally qualified timekeeper, judge, starter and referee. He filled many committee positions for the Carterton Swimming Club including a coach, a handicapper and a delegate. He was also a key member of Swimming Wairarapa over the years as it changed from a Centre to a Regional Association. His many roles for Swimming Wairarapa included the Secretary for a few years between 1978 and 1981, an examiner, a selector and an education officer as well as the Vice-President and President. He also represented the region at New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association (now Swimming New Zealand) meetings. Additionally, he found time to coach the Wairarapa team for two years in 1981 and 1982. A significant part of his contribution to Swimming Wairarapa was the building of an indoor swimming pool in Carterton which was completed in 1987. In 1979, Swimming Wairarapa honoured Ian for his many years of service to swimming in their region with Life Membership. Ian also had a long association with the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. He served as Vice-President and President as well as holding various other committee positions. He was an active delegate at meetings contributing to debates with the best interests of swimmers in mind. For over 15 years, Ian was a member of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association Awards Committee which he chaired for nine years. He managed various New Zealand swimming teams including the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Australia and at the Inaugural Australia Games in 1985 he was Chef de Mission. Ian’s lifelong involvement in swimming was recognised in 2010 when he was awarded Swimming New Zealand Life Membership.

    • Swim Wellington Awards
      • Congratulations to the following recipients of Swimming Wellington Awards; 2014 Award Recipient list   Club Contributors of the Year  –  Jillian Kennemore  Capital (Club Officials)  Cees Lensink , SwimZone (Technical Support) Club Volunteer Coach – Peter Gibb (PCA) and Milton Bevan (KRI) Junior National Coach of the Year – Jason McPhee National Age Group Coach of the Year  – Craig Albery Opens Coach of Year  – Craig Albery Capital Swim Team and Gary Hurring Capital HPC Coach of Year – Craig Albery Capital Swim Team and Gary Hurring Capital HPC Swimming Awards are sponsored by Swim T3 Selectors Trophy  (highest number of individual records broken 40 Wellington Records (Open and Age)  & 9 NZ Records )  – Ben Walsh Swimmer with a Disability – Mary Fisher Best Individual Performance – (871 FINA Points – 800 Free 08.04.14 Opens) Emma Robinson Age Group Swimmer of the Year – Ben Walsh Swimmer of the Year -Mary  Fisher

    • PCA Coach & Swimmer take out top Honours
      • PCA was to the fore at the Porirua Community Trust’s Sports Awards were held last night (13th Nov). Nevill Sutton was named Coach of the Year, for the second year running and Ben Walsh, Young Male Athlete of the Year. Congratulations to you both. These awards are truly deserved. Peter Jones (father of four PCA swimmers) was recognised for his contribution to Titahi Bay Surf Club Junior Development Programme.

    • College Sport Wellington Awards
      • The College Sport Wellington Awards where held last night at the Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua. Congratulations go to; 2014 Swimmers of the Year  – Ben Walsh Tawa College and Josie Kozyniak St Catherine’s College for full list of results 2014 Media Release

    • Sir Tennant Edward (Tay) Wilson, KNZM, OBE
      • No doubt some will have seen the death notice of Tay Wilson in this morning’s paper.  Tay was a Life member of Maranui Swimming Club, co-founder or TSW, and was awarded a Service Award in  1977 by Swimming Wellington. Career Company director and chartered accountant Sports practised Rowing, badminton, golf, surf lifesaving, swimming, field hockey Sports career Competitive rowing (1943-1961); double sculls national junior champion (1959); field hockey senior provincial representative (1942) Sports administration Former Chairman and Life Member of the New Zealand Rowing Association and the Wellington Amateur Rowing Association; treasurer, member, judge, selector and official of numerous sports associations (rowing, swimming, hockey, golf, badminton); Chef de Mission at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980; deputy Chef de Mission at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984; Secretary General of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (1985-1990); member of the ANOC Executive (1989-1993; 1996-2000); member of the ANOC Finance Commission (1985-1989); member of the Commonwealth Games Federation Finance Commission (1986-1994); Chairman of the Finance Commission of the ONOC (1985-1993); Secretary General of ONOC (1989-1993); Life Member of the Special Olympics of New Zealand Foundation; President of New Zealand Pierre de Coubertin Committee (1991-); President of the Pierre de Coubertin Institute (1993-); Patron of Volleyball New Zealand Inc. Member of other associations Rotary (Paul Harris Fellow) and Masonry (PGD, 31*) IOC History Member of the IOC from 1988 to 2006; Honorary Member since 2006; member of the following Commissions: New Sources of Financing (1989-1993), Finance (1994-2006) Our thoughts are with Tay’s family at this time.   A Memorial Service to be held at 2 pm on Thursday 30th October, at the Salvation Army Hutt City cnr Cornwall and Kings Crescent, Lower Hutt.

    • Swim Wellington Awards 2014
      • Swimming Wellington is seeking nominations for the Club Volunteer of the Year and Club Volunteer Coach of the Year.   Nominations close on 1 November @ 5pm with Colin Sasse Selectors@swimwn.co.nz with a copy to Operations@swimwn.co.nz Award criteria nomination form 2014

    • 2015 National Qualifying Changes
      • We would like to acknowledge and ensure all swimmers are aware of the following changes to Swimming New Zealand’s nationals qualifying criteria for the 2015 season: SNZ Junior Nationals and SNZ Age Groups- Long course and converted short course times can be used for qualification. If a swimmer uses a converted short course time they will be seeded in the slowest heat. SNZ Div II- The event will be swum as a long course event in 2015. Long course and converted short course times can be used for qualification. If a swimmer uses a converted short course time they will be seeded in the slowest heat. SNZ Opens- Only long course times are able to be used for qualification. Swimmers may NOT use a converted short course time. Meet fliers for each of the events are now available on the Swimming New Zealand website. We encourage swimmers to gain their best long course time in order for them to have competitive advantage at a national level. Swimming Wellington is providing swimmers with three opportunities to obtain long course times for nationals qualifying times, these are: Swimming Wellington Signature Meets, Swimming Wellington Open Long Course Meet, and the Swimming Wellington Long Course Summer Champs. Additional meets in 2015 are being considered at this time, pending availability of pool space. Information about the mentioned above meets can be found in the ‘pre meet info’ section of the website, or from your club.

    • 2014 Zonal Championships
      • The SNZ Zonal Championships is being held in Auckland on October the 7th at the West Wave Pool. The All Stars team will be travelling up on Tuesday 7th, stay in Auckland, and then return on Wednesday the 8th October. We are currently looking at options for flights, accommodation, along with sponsorship/funding to cover these costs- we will send out this information as soon as it is available and bookings have been made. The two selection meets for this competition, as advertised, are the Swimming Wellington Short Course Championships and the SNZ New Zealand Short Course Championships being held this week. If you do NOT want to be considered for this competition you need to complete and return an unavailability form. If you are not competing in either of the selection events but wish to be considered for selection you will need to fill out a dispensation form. These forms are both available in hard copy from the recorders desk this week and attached below. Please return these forms to Colin Sasse Selectors@swimwn.co.nz , or Henrietta Operations@swimwn.co.nz or  in hard-copy to Laura or Henrietta at the pool. 2014 Zonal Champs unavailability form 2014 Zonal Champs dispensation form  

    • SW Winter Champs – Week 1
      • Week 1 –  2-3 August 2014 -  week 2 9-10 August 2014 Wgtn SC Champs 14 Final Meet Events-Wellington Short Course Champs 2014-02Aug2014-001 Seating Plan week 1 Seating_Allocation_Wk 1 2014 Winter Champs Session times – please use an approximate only  – Session timing report week 1 Results Session 1 Results Session 2 Results Session 3 Results Session 4 Meet Results-Wellington Short Course Champs 2014-02Aug2014-001  

    • SNZ Service Awards
      • The annual Swimming New Zealand Service Awards close on Monday 30 June 5pm.   Please submit your application with a copy to Operations@swimwn.co.nz by Sunday 29 June for Regional support.   For further information please follow this link below http://swimmingnz.org.nz/community/awards/snz-awards-and-honours

    • MetroLeague 4 – Final
      • Coastlands Aquatic Centre 5pm-5.30pm Warm-Up 5.45pm Start Final draw:  METROLEAGUE FINALS DRAW  - SZR Furious has now withdrawn and not swimming the final. Congratulation to PCA-EasySwim who where the inaugural winners of the MetroLeague Trophy.  Raumati’s Coastal Warriors where the winners of the B final. Points Metro Final Points Results of the MetroLeague Final Meet Results-MetroLeague 4 Final-21Jun2014-001 CACT Seating updated 19.06.14 1.30pm

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