Round 23 - Barbecues: 3 votes; Training: 2 votes; Dynamic Coach: 1 vote

What the Brownlow Medal is to the AFL world, a barbecue with awards is to the Riverton swimming world.

Less bling ... but more T-shirts
Fewer Manolo Blahniks ... but more thongs and sneakers
Fewer cheesy acceptance speeches ... but more awards to be given

On Monday evening, 22 of us barbecued after a short and sharp training session in the pool. The event was to mark the presentation of a series of awards reaped by members over the past few months. As president, Mark introduced the theme of the evening and then passed over to Coach Damo to make the presentations.

First up were the presentations of certificates to everyone who participated in and completed the Bunbury Postal Swim. This comprised swimming 400 metres of each of freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke. Congratulations to everyone who participated. A top effort!

Special congratulations go to Robert Weir who swam the fastest overall time by a swimmer from all the clubs that participated in the event. In doing so, Robert was awarded a medal. (Seen in the picture below being held by Damo). A fantastic achievement Robert! Well done!

Seen below are various members scrutinising and comparing their times recorded on their certificates.

A couple of further certificates were presented to Malira Cocking for breaking her own state records in her age group for the 100 metres and 25 metres breaststroke events at the State Swim held earlier in the year. (See picture below). To continue to break state records is a fabulous achievement. Well done Malira!

Thanks to Lesley for organising the barbecue, her team of helpers with the cooking, and to everyone who attended for helping to make the evening another successful social event.

Riverton caught hook, line and sinker at Snappers

Well Well Well,

Hang on i know what you are thinking....here we go again, Damo is going to dribble on and on about another bloody gala (swimming carnival).

Well guess what...YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON McDUFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!

You see what i did there? Goodness me i am clever, am i not?? Oh yes teach you i can....BUT as i sit here in the throes of a sugar coma let me not dribble too much. Instead let me lay it out so you can play it out...

• YES 9 fearless Riverton Masters swimmers went to Challenge Stadium and came away with a 5th Placing....missing out on 4th place by a measly 5 points


• YES we all helped time keep thank you to everyone who took a seat !
  

• YES it was Tammy's fault we missed out on 4th place...Unfortunately Tammy was unable to attend the Gala (swimming carnival) as she was out digging trenches. No really she was apparently this is what South African people do when their rugby team slips out of the top 4 ranked teams in the world.

• YES you can find a summary of the results here
  http://www.portal.aussi.org.au/meets/index.php?EventId=151905&filter=*&split=no&js=on
  

• YES there were many PB's and great swims from our team....


• Scotty Z awesome 35 for his 50 fly, did it so well we got him to do it again in the relay !


• Steve J 36 for his 50 Free great swim


• Hilary pulled a 1.34 out for 100 Free....that's a 9 sec PB !


• Steve-O 31 for his 50 Free (more on this later)


• GP 1.23 for his 100 Free and an awesome Breaststroke leg in the relay !


• Kazza very solid 100 Free with a dodgy foot and slid off the bench and onto the blocks for the women's relay
  

• Nadine held her 50 Free together very nicely


• Barbara swum an excellent 200 Breast


• Even your correspondent was happy with his 50 fly...Hey Tammy i had your nemesis in the lane next to me and guess what....Yes i beat her !!


• YES i have used the word YES far too many times...


• YES the relay teams all swum very well


• YES there was an excellent lunch afterwards


• YES GP WON THE RAFFLE !!! (See picture below)
  


• YES we got a team photo (Thank you Simon) and Kazza was all set to depart as there was much painting to be done at home, however, after some well placed "peer pressure" (thanks for your help GP) Kazza decided to stay and dare i say it....go on dare dare...i think she just maybe, a little, enjoyed herself.

STORY OF THE DAY - A conversation between Steve-O and Myself

Steve - "You know Damo i just really struggled with the last 15m of that race....man what did you have for breakfast?"
ME- "Fruit and oats, why mate what did you have for Brekky?"
Steve- "Ummm oh hang on a minute i did not have any?"
ME - "Ah yes well i think we just might have a solution for your problem"

45 mins later after Steve-O has a) eaten something b) smoked 31 for his 50 free

ME- "Hey great swim mate how did you feel towards the end of that one?"
Steve- "Felt great it's amazing what a difference eating makes isn't it - i just had so much more energy"

For all you kids reading this out there, remember breakfast is the most important meal of the day..Steve will be writing this on the white board 100 times tomorrow night before training

Yours in Powerade
Damo