the Fast Lane….
Very eager smiles amongst our Black-Tips & Crocodile Sharks this morning – being the first to randomly draw their teams!
Joining the Red team: Sofia, Ethan, Hugo, Verran, Eva, Omar, Arden, Bella, and Christopher.
Joining the White team: Duke, Sean, Thomas, Max, Nate, and Ayla
Joining the Blue team: Ewan, Aston, Aiden, Sophie, Darcey, Cameron, Henry, McKenna & Alex.
If you haven’t drawn your team yet – you will at your next training session.
We had an exceptional group of candidates nominating for Captains, thank you all for your nomination, we can see this is going to be a lot of fun, with some very tight results to come!
Our Team Captains are:
Red Team – Sofia Kalamaras
White Team – Duke Cloke
Blue Team – Ewan Grassick
The White team took out the Coaches points this morning for the streamline challenge – superb!
McKenna sneaked in some late points for the Blue Team – putting the block covers on – good on you McKenna!
Watch this space for weekly posts of the Fast Lane, also on the Team App and facebook: TSS Aquatic
Home-made Christmas Puddings and Cakes
The TSS Parents and Friends Association is delighted to let you know that they will be co-ordinating the Christmas Pudding & Cakes Fundraiser for the third year running. The Fundraiser is open to the whole School, and 100% of funds raised will be directed to the TSS Support Groups.
Simply nominate TSS Aquatic as your preferred Support Group in the ordering process on Trybooking.
Our supplier Mandi’s Kitchen has been producing home-made Christmas Puddings & Cakes since 1993. Mandi’s Puddings & Cakes are made using traditional methods. In addition, Mandi offers an assortment of delicious non-traditional gourmet Puddings. The Puddings & Cakes come in a range of shapes and sizes and are priced from $32. The Puddings come in TSS branded pudding bags, and the Cakes are beautifully boxed.
In 2022 we are delighted to also be offering a limited edition TSS Tea Towel. The Tea Towel has been designed collaboratively by our Banam Bowai boys with the support of Ken Brown, Stephen Eardley, Matt Dalton and Cameron Lestro. There is also a unisex TSS denim Apron available for purchase.
Ordering will be via Trybooking www.trybooking.com/CASJM
Trybooking is now open. Trybooking will close at 6pm on Thursday 20 October. Due to a tight turnaround with our supplier, we are unable to accept late orders.
Porsche Centre Gold Coast Splash for Cash is on!
Will you be one of the top 10 finishes in the 50m freestyle event at the 2022 TSS Aquatic Transition Meet?
2022 Patron Shield Team
Congratulations to
Julian Angus (Captain), Christopher Kalogeropoulos; Ishaan Mehra and Charlie Henrison
selected to represent the Gold Coast Region in the inter-Regional Patron Shields Team Competition.
A weekend of fun and fast racing with the Swimming Gold Coast team taking out the aggregate trophy!
Great racing – well done to you all!
Junior World Open Water Championships
Good Luck to Jasmine Rayward as she prepares to represent Australia at the Junior World Open Water Championships on Friday.
Jasmine will compete in the Seychelles in the 7.5km on Friday at 2pm (Australian). We will be cheering for you and the team!
News from the pool deck
A massive week at TSS with the 50m pool renovations underway – our trades were onsite bright and early Monday morning.
Works are underway on the tiles and increasing the depth, then it’s a new filtration system!
The swimmers have watched in awe – not very often you get to see a pool of size of ours with no water in it..
A huge commitment by The Southport School to the sport we love the most , we cannot wait to see you getting the benefit of this investment.
In the meantime, our 25m pool is buzzing with activity, with our Coaches both onsite and offsite training with our squads.
We are planning to celebrate the reopening when completed and look forward giving you details on this as we get nearer.
Queensland Tri Meet – September 2022
Congratulations to Kalani Creech and Bianca Rayward on their selection to represent Queensland at the upcoming Queensland Tri Meet – this is a very exciting team event – have fun!
Australian National School Sport Championships
What a week our Swimmers have had competing at the National School Sport Championships!
Our Swimmers were:
Danny Baxter, Alyssa Jacklin, Sarah Kalogeropoulos, MJ Lowe, Sara McCarthy, Bianca Rayward and Hudson Sheehan.
Plenty of excitement and action across the Meet at Chandler, getting the touch in some fingernail finishes!
Friday was a rest day with a Team activity (at Dreamworld!) with the Senior School Swimmers concluding with more relays on the Saturday.
Congratulations to Sarah Kalogeropoulos and Danny Baxter who competed in the 10-12yrs competition over these last 3 days. This was a first experience at this level for both Swimmers and they acquitted themselves excellently – both making finals, racing confidently and aggressively.
Danny placing 5th in both the 12yrs 200IM and 100m Butterfly
Sarah placing 8th in the 11yrs 200IM and 9th in the 11yrs 100m Backstroke
Well done to you both!
A great result and exciting competition for all our Swimmers, top ten results (not including top 3’s) = 14 events!
Well done to you all and thank you to our wonderful parents for supporting and braving the M1 each day.
Our Medalists
| Bianca Rayward | Silver Gold Gold Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Gold | 13-14yrs 200m Freestyle 13-14yrs 400m Freestyle 13-14yrs 200m Butterfly 13-14yrs 4x50m Medley Relay 14yrs 100m Butterfly 14yrs 100m Freestyle 13-19yrs 4x100m Freestyle Relay 13-19yrs 4x50m Freestyle Relay |
| Hudson Sheehan | Bronze Silver Bronze Gold Gold Gold Gold | 13-14yrs 200m Freestyle 13-14yrs 400m Freestyle 14yrs 50m Freestyle 13-14yrs 4x50m Medley Relay 13-14yrs 4x50m Mixed Medley Relay 14yrs 100m Freestyle 13-14yrs 4x50m Freestyle Relay |
2022 Qld SC Championships – Day 3
Day 3 (Final day) Sunday 14th August
We continued in great form right to the end of the Meet. Securing 8th place in the “unofficial point score” – a fantastic Team result!
It’s a big weekend for Swimmers and families – well done Swimmers and thanks to our wonderful parents for supporting us, cheering us on, timekeeping and driving up and down the M1.
Medals for the final day were:
| Oscar Eddy | Silver | 14yrs – Boys 200m Breaststroke |
| Ishaan Mehra | Silver | 13yrs – Boys 50m Backstroke |
| Kai Gilbert | Gold | 14yrs – Boys 400m Freestyle |
| Kalani Creech | Bronze | 15yrs – Boys 400m Freestyle |
| Oscar Eddy | Gold | 14yrs – Boys 50m Breaststroke |
| Elke Rayward | Silver | 11yrs – Girls 400m Freestyle |
| Samantha Fowler | Bronze | 17yrs – Girls 400m Freestyle |
| Kai Gilbert | Gold | 14yrs – Boys 400m Freestyle |
