Wobbegongs

Club nights are held in the Wooloowin State School pool every Friday night at 6pm during the date periods noted in the Key Dates/ Calendar section, generally during terms 4 and 1 of the school year.

The Club offers a program of events each week, including:

• Pups 10m event in the shallow end of the pool
• Freestyle 22.5m and 45m
• Breaststroke 22.5m and 45m
• Backstroke 22.5m and 45m
• Butterfly 22.5m and 45m
• Distance Race/s
• Individual Medley
• Team Relays

Each swimmer is timed in their nominated stroke over the 22.5m distance to set their initial “best time”. Past members commence the new season with their best times from the previous season. Swimmers are encouraged to improve their time each week and must qualify to move on to the 45m.

The automatic qualifying age for 2 lap events is 10, and this is the distance swum for most carnivals and the club championships.

Points are awarded each week according to how swimmers perform against their own best time and contribute toward scoring for annual awards.

Qualifying Times

Qualifying times to progress to 45m (2 laps) are as follows:

• Freestyle < 22 seconds
• Breaststroke < 26 seconds
• Backstroke < 25 seconds
• Butterfly < 23 seconds

Swimmers are expected to swim 45m upon achieving the qualifying time and will no longer swim in the 22.5m race.

Qualifying times to progress to 112.5m (5 laps) are as follows:

• Freestyle < 44 seconds
• Breaststroke < 52 seconds
• Backstroke < 50 seconds
• Butterfly < 46 seconds

Each club night, qualifying swimmers can choose to swim the 5 lap events scheduled. Each club night a different stroke or strokes may be scheduled as a distance event. Unless by special request this is generally only freestyle.

To qualify for the individual medley on Club Nights, swimmers must qualify for 45m in three strokes. Other swimmers are accepted to swim in the individual medley at the discretion of the master timekeeper.

Pups

Pups are our youngest swimmers, who may not yet be ready to swim an entire lap. With all pup events, a parent, older sibling or senior club member may accompany pup swimmers until they are confident to swim unassisted.

This season we will be offering 2 events for our pups swimmers, which we will open our club nights with.

Pups Splash

An event very much to promote water confidence and participation.

5m races in the shallow end. We fit in multiple races, so pups do get to have several races.

Pups Dash

A stepping stone for our pups to move up to a full lap. The pups dash is a 10m race, starting from the blocks in the deep end. At this stage, our intention is for it to not be timed, nor require nominations, however we are open to feedback on this. This will be a single race for any pup who wishes to compete.

Registration

Registration fees are to be paid by the end of the 4th week of term 4 or at the time of any later registration. A family enrolment form and individual medical forms must be filled in for all swimmers.

Please fill out the online registration form found here.

Volunteers

The club relies entirely on the generosity and help from volunteers. When nominating your child to swim with the Wobbegongs, you are expected to volunteer regularly on Club Nights in one of the following areas.

-BBQ/Canteen
-Timekeeping
-Race Marshalling

Bad Weather

The Chairperson will decide whether a club night should be cancelled due to bad weather. This decision will be made by 5pm each Friday and will be notified by email / swimptopia app (via push notification) and published on the Wobbegongs Facebook & Instagram feeds. If a Swim Club night is cancelled due to bad weather, all swimmers must re-nominate for the following week. Nominations will not be carried over.