Dude, Where's my Bowling Ball?

The Coen brothers may have immortalised the sport of bowling in their movie 'The Big Lebowski', but the Riverton AUSSI Masters members, families and friends have taken it to even greater heights. The latest event on the club's social calendar was bowling at AMF Cannington on Sunday 26 July.


Some stellar footwork and arm action was on show by all 14 bowlers that made up 3 teams of adults and kids and some very fancy scores were recorded. Everyone that attended had a great time and enjoyed the fun. Many thanks to Lesley for organising the event.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Attached is the flyer for the SHORT COURSE RELAY CARNIVAL

WHERE – Challenge Stadium

WHEN – SUNDAY 16th August 9.15am Start

WHY –This is all about swimming together as a CLUB. There are NO individual swims. Only 25 and 50m relay swims.

4x25 Free, Medley and Mixed Relays
4x50 Free, Medley and Mixed Relays

That’s it !

COST - $5 INCLUDES POOL ENTRY AND FREE LUNCH AFTERWARDS !! -

WHAT NEXT – Simply click on the reply button and type “Damo I am in” Then click on send.

I strongly encourage anyone who has thought about having swim to enter, it’s all about having fun, No PB’s to worry about, just dive in and swim !

Yes or No by 6th August.

Sensational Swimming at Swan Hills

A very early start on a cold morning saw six intrepid Riverton swimmers take on all comers from ten other clubs in a sensational morning of great swimming.


In a tradition that has been etched in concrete since time immemorial, here is the run down of the meet in the all-too-familiar list of bullet points (with a few sporting clichés thrown in for good measure!).

The Brilliant

• Robert’s sizzling 2.18 PB in the 200 metre freestyle. Absolutely sensational! Does it get any better than that?
• Graeme’s three relay legs on the trot after three other fantastic events. He dug deep and gave 110%.
• Lea’s ‘first place in her age group’ 50 metre freestyle in 38 seconds. Fabulous swimming from start to finish and she remained focused for both laps.
• Barbara’s herculean 25 metre butterfly to cap off a weekend of birthday celebrations. After a huge night of partying, she took the meet one heat at a time and came out a winner.
• Uli’s 33 seconds in the 50 metre freestyle. She’s got to be happy with that!
• Kazza’s ‘second place in her age group’ 25 metre backstroke, complete with a PB. She finally got the monkey off her back and gave backstroke a go.
• Riverton’s 4 X 50 metre freestyle relay team of Uli, Graeme, Lea and Robert. There’s no ‘I’ in team and they say that records are made to be broken. A pity there were no points for this event – it was beautiful to watch. Uli led the field at the first leg. Graeme increased the lead in the second leg and then Lea further increased the lead in the third. Robert brought the team home and showed a lot of heart in lapping one other team completely and almost lapping two other teams. In a word - simply sensational!!!

The Wrap-up

• Good venue and great organisation.
• The team placed ninth out of 11 teams and with only 6 competitors was a brilliant effort. I can honestly say it was a total team effort. A short movie of the action can be seen here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vn8SwO_JqQ

The movie shows Robert in action, Graeme and Barbara swimming, and then Lea handing over to Barbara in one of the relays.