2018 Swim Team Training!

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Hi everyone and Welcome to our 2018 TC Swim Season.

Training days for term 4 will be;

Monday : 6:20 – 7:30am
Friday: 6:20 – 7:30am

We will swim from Week 1 Friday 13th October to Week 8 Friday 1st December.
We look forward to seeing you all back in the pool next term!

Thank you!

Siobhan

Swim Meet invitation to all TC Swimmers Yr 4-8

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We invite all of our under 13 (year 4-8) Squad swimmers to take part in the Round 3 of the Private Schools League against Penrhos/Wesley, Trinity and Christchurch College on Sunday the 10th of September. The event will be held at the All Saints’ College Aquatic Centre.

Team warmup will commence at 2.30pm, Racing at 3.00pm with an expected finish time of 4.30pm.

An entry fee of $10 will cover swimmers’ entering in 3 events of their choice and a sausage sizzle at the conclusion of the meet. Payment can be made here in the online store.

Prizes will be awarded to swimmers who place in the Top 3 of each heat and cash prizes awarded to Individual Overall Achievers.

Details and entry forms below.

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Dion Mepham
mepham.dion@trinity.wa.edu.au

TC Pre-Season Fitness Swimming

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Winter sport is over. Summer sport is on the horizon.

It’s that time of the year again, when you hunt through the back of your drawer for a pair of bathers and get down to the pool for fitness training.

The programme is open to all Senior School swim team and now, thanks to the Federal Government’s ‘Sporting Schools’ programme, we are able to offer this service to all Junior School boys.

Training will be held –     When-Monday-Thursday 3.30-4.45pm from Week 5-Week 10.

Cost-$0.

Expectations-     1) You are not to attend if you are supposed to be at Athletics training.

2) You will have goggles, bathers and a working attitude.

3) You still need to keep club (WSS or other) training commitments.

4) Attend when you can. There are 4 available, you can attend all or any, your choice.

Hope to see you a lot of you next week.

Dion Mepham

Reminder-SWIM LEAGUE LAUNCH

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Hi everyone.

As promised, we have been able to activate the new Private Schools Swim League.

The concept is new for swimming and really exciting.

6 teams from schools around Perth (Perth Coll, All Saints, St Hildas, Wes/Pen, CCGS & TC) will be competing in round robin style swim meets over the winter. There will be plenty of prizes and giveaways and hopefully lots of fun mixing and competing with the other schools. Attendance at meets qualifies you for camps and trips away and we will be releasing training details this week.

Don’t forget- to get the ball rolling, we are having our first meet vs Wesley/Penrhos this Saturday June 10th, at TC from 2.30-4.30pm.

  • 50m Freestyle
  • 100m Backstroke
  • 50m Butterfly
  • 50m Breaststroke

Hope to see plenty of you on Saturday. Food available.

All swimmers welcome and it doesn’t matter if you haven’t swum since Inters. It’s just a chance to keep your racing skills sharp.

Dion Mepham

Swimming Wrap 2017

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Well….2017 Swim season is over. That went too fast for my liking. Please see the results documents attached for Top 100, Full Results and TC Splits/PBS.

My apologies for the delay in releasing them.

I would like to conclude the season with a few points;

  • Leaders- I would like to sincerely thank Callum, Lachlan and Sam for their  excellent leadership this season. I didn’t make it clear how much influence these boys had on the success of the team, but watching the way they lifted their swimming performances as individuals and the way they put everything they had into the team on Thursday made us, as coaches, so proud. The whole Yr 12 group needs to be congratulated for a stunning season.
  • Swimmers- in the wash-up of Inters night, it is easy to look at statistics like pb rate (48%) and feel a little disappointed. Indeed there have been years recently where we have had pb rates over 70%. However, we need to remember, that this season has had much more competition than previous seasons and the improvement rate before the Inters was stunning. So you are actually going into Inters already having improved. To consolidate these times is still an amazing achievement. I think of the likes of Joe Ricci who dropped from 31sec to 27 sec during the year and even though he did not pb on Inters night, he can be very proud of his season. There are more swimmers than ever in that category.
  • Where to from here- I have been talking with boys around the school in the past week and many feel a little flat, as though we may not have achieved our potential. I agree to a certain extent, but I also try to convey the message that, ‘you care now’. What I mean by this is; for the past 5 years or so, most swim team members swam for 6 weeks and forgot about the sport. Their performance at Inters was measured by points alone. Now it seems that more and more swimmers are measuring their performance based on their own potential and goals. This means that you have made a great transformation and learned an incredible life lesson. That is judge yourself based not on what others are doing, but what you are capable of. In other words, you are holding yourselves accountable for your own performances. The question is- are we satisfied with ourselves? What are we going to do about it?
  • New season- as I mentioned to the boys, we are about to launch a school swimming league. This league will comprise 8 schools competing in head-to-head meets and championship rounds, joint training camps and tours. The league will launch with a tour to the Singapore Open swim comp in August . This competition will be open to TC swimmers and will mark the start of the new competition, which runs through Term 4 and some of the summer holidays. It’s a really exciting initiative and I hope everyone will want to be involved. I will elaborate as time goes on.
  • Parents ad supporters- Thank you for a fantastic season, you behind the scenes work was incredible and we really appreciate your efforts. Your support on Inters night inspired the team and I’m sure you were very proud of your boys.
  • Coaches- Fantastic effort on Thursday. Thank you so much for your support and patience. Adam Gage-thank you for your efforts. The job you do is not always publicly visible, but definitely appreciated.

Bring on 2018.

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Dion Mepham