September News
Congratulations to swimmers who competed in the recent State championships. Some excellent team results were achieved. Follow along with our results by liking the Mountain Swim Facebook page. Please check out the September news below. Note that links will only work via the website newsletter page.
Up Coming Events
Swimming Clinic: 30th September
Glenbrook
Coach Kaz is running a swimming Clinic on Saturday 30th September for all squad swimmers. Details can be found at the bottom of this newsletter.
Glenbrook Carnival: 11th - 12th November (Date T.B.C.)
MSWIM targeted
Glenbrook
This is an annual meet run by Glenbrook Club. Every swimmer should be targeting this meet to see the benefits of their training and prepare for future meets.
Bondi to Bronte:
Bondi
This is an ocean swim where swimmers swim around 2.3kms from Bondi to Bronte. Its a good meet for Silver swimmers and up. Note their is an age limit for swimmers to do this. Afterwards swimmers usually have a picnic and chill out at the beach. It always ends up being an excellent Sunday.
Canberra Carnival: November
MSWIM targeted
AIS
Tis is a regular targetted meet for Mountain Swim. Please get entries in early as it closed early last year. This year we are hoping to organise a bus/coach to take swimmers up as a team. Details of this will be confirmed/advised.
State Age LC 12under: 12- 13th December
MSWIM targeted
SOPAC
This meet is for younger swimmers that have achieved the tough qualifying times.
State Age 13+: 15th - 20th December
MSWIM targeted
SOPAC
This is a meet for swimmers aged between 13 - 18 that have achieved tough qualifying times in N.S.W. Qualifying times can be found on the NSW Swimming website. In the morning are the heats and then at night are the exciting finals. This year it would be great to get a large group of swimmers and parents coming down to final nights to support those racing!
SNSW Open Water: 9th - 10th December
Regatta Centre
This is an open water event of 5km and 10km. it is swam at the International Regatta centre and is a great meet to target for swimmers with high endurance levels. Talk to your coach about doing this.
Summer camp: 2nd or 3rd week of January to be confirmed.
Blue Mountains
As of last year Mountain Swim aims to hold an annual swimming camp. This camp will likely run for 3-4 days and feature a variety of presentations, high level athletes and coaches. This season we are also looking at accommodation options and expanding the invitation to more clubs outside the Mountains.
Glenbrook
Coach Kaz is running a swimming Clinic on Saturday 30th September for all squad swimmers. Details can be found at the bottom of this newsletter.
Glenbrook Carnival: 11th - 12th November (Date T.B.C.)
MSWIM targeted
Glenbrook
This is an annual meet run by Glenbrook Club. Every swimmer should be targeting this meet to see the benefits of their training and prepare for future meets.
Bondi to Bronte:
Bondi
This is an ocean swim where swimmers swim around 2.3kms from Bondi to Bronte. Its a good meet for Silver swimmers and up. Note their is an age limit for swimmers to do this. Afterwards swimmers usually have a picnic and chill out at the beach. It always ends up being an excellent Sunday.
Canberra Carnival: November
MSWIM targeted
AIS
Tis is a regular targetted meet for Mountain Swim. Please get entries in early as it closed early last year. This year we are hoping to organise a bus/coach to take swimmers up as a team. Details of this will be confirmed/advised.
State Age LC 12under: 12- 13th December
MSWIM targeted
SOPAC
This meet is for younger swimmers that have achieved the tough qualifying times.
State Age 13+: 15th - 20th December
MSWIM targeted
SOPAC
This is a meet for swimmers aged between 13 - 18 that have achieved tough qualifying times in N.S.W. Qualifying times can be found on the NSW Swimming website. In the morning are the heats and then at night are the exciting finals. This year it would be great to get a large group of swimmers and parents coming down to final nights to support those racing!
SNSW Open Water: 9th - 10th December
Regatta Centre
This is an open water event of 5km and 10km. it is swam at the International Regatta centre and is a great meet to target for swimmers with high endurance levels. Talk to your coach about doing this.
Summer camp: 2nd or 3rd week of January to be confirmed.
Blue Mountains
As of last year Mountain Swim aims to hold an annual swimming camp. This camp will likely run for 3-4 days and feature a variety of presentations, high level athletes and coaches. This season we are also looking at accommodation options and expanding the invitation to more clubs outside the Mountains.
School Holiday Training
School holiday training will continue this school holidays. Note there are some new changes as per below. Coaches will be on holidays for certain weeks. Please see below for details on where and when training is running:
Katoomba:
Squads will be off on the second week. In the first week, afternoon sessions for all squads will be on Monday - Thursday 5-6.30pm. Squad training will resume on Tuesday 10th October.
Springwood:
Mini and Bronze sessions will be off in first week and it will run in the second week of the school holidays. On Friday the 6th mini squad will run at 5 - 6pm. Silver and Performance will run both weeks as per the winter timetable. Squad training will resume on Monday 9th October.
Glenbrook
Silver and Performance sessions will run both weeks as per the winter timetable. On Saturday 30th September there will be no session. Instead Kaz will be running a swimming clinic (details below) for any that can make it. Squad training will resume on Monday 9th October.
Katoomba:
Squads will be off on the second week. In the first week, afternoon sessions for all squads will be on Monday - Thursday 5-6.30pm. Squad training will resume on Tuesday 10th October.
Springwood:
Mini and Bronze sessions will be off in first week and it will run in the second week of the school holidays. On Friday the 6th mini squad will run at 5 - 6pm. Silver and Performance will run both weeks as per the winter timetable. Squad training will resume on Monday 9th October.
Glenbrook
Silver and Performance sessions will run both weeks as per the winter timetable. On Saturday 30th September there will be no session. Instead Kaz will be running a swimming clinic (details below) for any that can make it. Squad training will resume on Monday 9th October.
Summer Timetables
Summer timetables are available on the website. They can be accessed by clicking here. Summer timetables will start after the school holidays.
Note:
Glenbrook squads are going to trial a group session for all squads prior to club on Monday nights. This will be a trial session for October to see if it's possible to run.
Katoomba squad. On Tuesday afternoon a new Bronze squad will be running. Swimmers training in this squad will be contacted via email. This format is aimed to build the squad numbers at club and in squads for the summer season. A new session on Friday has been added for the regular Silver and Bronze squad. By combining sessions with club hopefully swimemrs will have more time for homework etc on afternoons off.
Springwood Squad. For sun safe reasons we are planning to continue the Saturday Bronze session at Springwood as a trial for October. The session will start at 10.20am with skipping.
Note:
Glenbrook squads are going to trial a group session for all squads prior to club on Monday nights. This will be a trial session for October to see if it's possible to run.
Katoomba squad. On Tuesday afternoon a new Bronze squad will be running. Swimmers training in this squad will be contacted via email. This format is aimed to build the squad numbers at club and in squads for the summer season. A new session on Friday has been added for the regular Silver and Bronze squad. By combining sessions with club hopefully swimemrs will have more time for homework etc on afternoons off.
Springwood Squad. For sun safe reasons we are planning to continue the Saturday Bronze session at Springwood as a trial for October. The session will start at 10.20am with skipping.
Cross Training
Cross training will be off for the school holidays and will resume when the summer season starts. The cost for three months of cross training is $120 this summer. Note that swimmers need to register/ re-enroll for the summer season. A minimum of 10 swimmers enrolled by 8th October will be needed to keep the land training running. The link to enroll for the summer season can be found here. If we cant get enough numbers we will look at running one on one or small group classes instead.
Cross training is highly recommended for swimmers in Performance and Silver squad. The benefits of just two hours strength training greatly magnifies the strength condition levels of swimmers already doing an involved swimming program. In addition the program run by coach Gillian works in tandem with the squads swimming program to maximize benefits and minimise injury/over stressed muscles. For more information on the program coach Gillian has a letter about the program which can be found here.
Cross training is highly recommended for swimmers in Performance and Silver squad. The benefits of just two hours strength training greatly magnifies the strength condition levels of swimmers already doing an involved swimming program. In addition the program run by coach Gillian works in tandem with the squads swimming program to maximize benefits and minimise injury/over stressed muscles. For more information on the program coach Gillian has a letter about the program which can be found here.
Canberra Carnival
The Canberra carnival weekend is being held on 25th - 26th November. This meet will close very soon so please try and get entries in asap as last year many people missed out. You can enter online by clicking here.
Squad Criteria
A set of guidelines that swimmers might use to find out what is required to move up to the next level of squad has been added to the website. Note that the swimming level will be assessed by coaches and moving up is at their decision. When coaches think swimmers are ready for the next level of squad they will talk to them at training. The criteria can be accessed here.
New Senior Coach
A new senior coach will be joining Mountain Swim for the summer season. Brad Thurlow is an experienced swimming coach currently based at Wagga Swimming Club. He will start with our team at the beginning of the season. Brad will be based at Springwood and will oversee the squads there. A big thank you to coaches Gillian and Cameron who have been helping out with the squads since jacqui left. Both coaches will continue in the summer season and will be working with most of the swimmers at each level in some capacity. Coach Ella will still be around and may take some odd sessions though will mainly be focusing on her uni commitments.
Open Water Swimming
This season swimmers may be interested in trying out some open water events. Aside from the Bondi to Bronte ocean swim there are a number of swims held at the Regatta Centre. For more information on open water and the calendar please click here.
Team App
Team App is a free app used by Mountain Swim. It can be downloaded on your phone and is great for receiving up to date information and newsletters. Once downloaded search for the Mountain Swim team.
Swimming Clinic
