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The Bendigo East Swimming Club capped off an excellent 2010-11 season by scooping the pool at the 2011 Central Victoria Swimming Championships. With the vast majority of the swimmers from the defunct Swimland Swimming Club finding their way to the Club at the start of the season, coupled with good coaching and a strong desire to improve their dominant performance at their home pool came as a surprise to very few in the District. Bendigo East emulated Eaglehawk's performance of the previous season taking home the Allan Monaghan Shield, the Charles R. Turner Memorial Shield and the the Frank Burgess Trophy. Gisborne Thunder finished in second place with Echuca third.

Individual honours also went to Bendigo East swimmers with Rebecca Holmes winning the Girls 14/o trophy, Jenna Strauch the Girls 13/u Trophy, Jacob Waller the Boys 14/o trophy and Callum King the Boys 13/u Trophy.

A total of eight new District Championships records were set on the day with the records breakers came from a number of different clubs. The honours went to Callum King BDE 13/u 200 IM (2:35.65), Olivia Wright TON 9/u 50 Fly (40.58), Rebecca Holmes BDE 14-15 100 Fly (1:11.06), Bradley Mellington ECH Open 100 Back (1:04.13), Jacob Waller BDE 14-15 100 Breast (1:15.38), Jenna Strauch BDE Open 100 Breast (1:20.38), Olivia Wright TON 9/u 50 Free (36.50) and the Bendigo East Boys 14/u 4 x 50 Free Relay team of Jacob Waller, Callum King, Michael Valentine and Bryce Garland (2:05.87).

Under the guidance of Geoff Smalley of South Gisborne Sharks and with the assistance of   Team Managers Sue Dullard of Eaglehawk and James Grabham of Tongala our young swimmers have once again excelled at the SV Country 7-10 Encouragement Competition. Our squad of 45 swimmers (see the sidebar for the squad members) was made of the best 7-10 year-olds from across the District. For the second year running District 15 finished in second place with only the powerful District 21 of Gippsland ahead of us.

For many this was their first swim at Victoria's premier aquatic facility. I am sure that for many it will not be their last as they continue to improve under the watchful eye of there respective Club coaches. The future of swimming is District 15 is certainly bright!!

Well done to all the swimmers for such fine performances and to everyone who helped on the day.

District 15 star swims at Australian Championships

Echuca and District 15 star backstroked, Bradley Mellington, reached one of his personal swimming goals in March when he competed at the Australian Swimming Championships. His brilliant achievement should serve as an inspiration to all our young swimmers. If you set your goals, work hard, listen to your coaches and never waiver from your commitment you can succeed. Here is Bradley's story....

"In mid-March I went to Sydney to represent Echuca Swimming Club and the Central Victorian Swimming District at the 2010 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships. These championships were also the selection trials for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Achieving a time for Open Nationals was a goal for next year and I was never expecting to get the time this year. After I swam the qualifying time I didn’t realise that it was a national time. I was just so happy to make the Final at State Sprints. So after that weekend I realised that I needed to put in a lot of hard work to get myself ready for Sydney within a month. I completed daily dry land sessions with my coach in order to improve my core strength on top of my regular training sessions.

I went to Sydney with my mum as Team Manager and my coach Janyce Rosin. When we got there I was just blown away by the atmosphere. I saw many famous faces (including 2009 Australian Swimmer of the Year, Jess Schipper, Ed.) and I knew that I had reached the top level. I was so pumped and couldn’t wait to get in the water. My training the day before my race was very exciting as everything was being set up. I also trained in a lane with just myself and Stephanie Rice which was very exciting.

My race finally came the next day. I was in the 50m backstroke event. I was in the same race as some famous swimmers like Hayden Stoeckel and Ashley Delaney. I was very nervous as the race was about to start. I had cameras all around me and I had never seen anything like it. I swam just over my PB. I think it was because of my nerves, but it was still a great swim.

My experience at Sydney was one I will never forget. I have already qualified to go to the Championships again next year and I can’t wait. I highly recommend that younger swimmers work hard to reach this level because it is an amazing experience and so exciting." 

A brilliant results by our swimmers at the 2010 SV Country Inter-district competition! The squad of 40 of our best swimmers finished in third place overall building on the fine efforts of our youngsters in November. On the medal tally our squad won 5 Gold, 7 Silver, 10 Bronze and 14 "oh-so-close" 4th places.

The Relays provided great excitement with our 10/U Boys teams of Joshua Kennedy (Echuca), Jack Beale (Eaglehawk), Mitchell Almond (South Gisborne) and Oscar Reid (Echuca) producing a great, fighting "come from behind win" in the Freestyle Relay. Once again, with Eaglehawk's Harrison Howell swimming the Breaststroke the team gave us a "lead from the start, never going to lose it" win in the Medley relay. This team is without question the best in the whole of country Victoria. Our senior girls team of Katelin McLennan (Eaglehawk), Emma Lau (Eaglehawk), Emma Pendlebury (Gisborne Thunder) and anchored by Bendigo East's Rebecca Holmes capped of a great day with a fighting second place finish of the Open Freestyle relay.

Many thanks to Geoff Smalley (South Gisborne), Louise Mellington (Echuca) and Greg Smith (Eaglehawk) for managing the team on the day and all the parents who undertook time-keeping duties. There is no question that everyone left with a big smile on their face after a great day of excellent performances all round!

Full results can be found in the sidebar on the right.

One hundred and seventy eight of Central Victoria’s best swimmers gathered at the Bendigo East Aquatic Centre on Sunday to contest the 2010 Central Victoria Swimming Championships. In warm and sunny conditions the young swimmers gave their all, striving for personal best times, podium finishes and the glory of their Club. 

Eight new Championships records were set on the day with the lion’s share going to Eaglehawk’s Matthew Sherlock. Sherlock set 5 new records in the Mens 16/over and Open events, grabbing Mark Edebone’s long-standing 1980 Mens Open 100 Backstroke record in the process. Other records breakers were Bendigo East’s Callum Moloney in the Boys 9/U 50m Freestyle, Echuca’s Bradley Mellington in the Mens 16/over 100m Backstroke and Eaglehawk’s Open Womens Freestyle relay team of Emily Smith, Emma Lau, Amanda Gawthrop and Katelin McLennan. Mellington, a Backstroke specialist, also set a new District Record in the heats of the Mens 16yo 50m Backstroke event at last week-end’s State Sprint Championships. He finished in fourth place in the Final. 

When all the swimming was done District vice-President Wally Stables presented trophies to the best-performed individuals and clubs. Matthew Sherlock picked up the award for the best-performed senior Male swimmer while Bendigo East’s Rebecca Holmes and Gisborne Thunder’s Emma Pendlebury shared the award for the Girls. Holmes won the junior swimmer’s award at last year’s Championships. This year the best junior swimmers on the day were Bendigo East’s Callum King and Gisborne Thunder’s Samantha Simpkins. 

Each year at the Championships the club’s strive to win the coveted Allan Monaghan Shield for the highest Girls aggregate, the Charles R. Turner Memorial Shield for the highest Boys aggregate and the Frank Burgess Trophy for the highest combined Boys and Girls aggregate. On Sunday Eaglehawk “scooped the pool” winning all three trophies! “What a sensational performance by the whole club. Every swimmer from our youngest to our oldest contributed to this fantastic result”, declared an excited Head Coach James Sherlock.

Next week-end the swimmers and coaches will unite as a team to compete against the best country Victoria has to offer at Swimming Victoria’s Country Inter-district competition to be held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. The forty-strong team will be hoping to emulate the feat of the District’s younger swimmers who finished in second-place overall at November’s 7-10 Encouragement Meet.

Central Victoria Swimming's 2009 SV 7-10 Encouragement Squad has excelled at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre today. The squad of 46 youngsters from across the District finished in second place overall at this very important Meet for young swimmers. Click on the link in the sidebar on the right to see all the results.

Congratulations to all the swimmers, their Club coaches and the Squad coach Geoff Smalley and Team Manager Debbie Morris. You should all be very proud of your fine efforts.

About forty of Central Victoria’s up and coming young swimming stars were treated to a very special afternoon last Sunday when they were visited by one of Australia’s greatest swimming champions of recent years, Michael Klim OAM.

Klim, along with Swimming Victoria Target 2012 coach Andreas Falkenau of the Rochester Swimming Club, conducted a swimming clinic in the Eaglehawk Swimming Club’s home pool at the Peter Krenz Leisure Centre. The clinic was part of Swimming Victoria’s Go Club Program to help develop young swimmers in regional Victoria.

For more than two hours the swimmer’s benefited from Klim’s years of experience swimming at the highest levels of the sport as he explained and demonstrated the finer points Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly as well as race starts, turns and finishes.

After the session in the pool the swimmers, coaches and parents gathered in the Eaglehawk Swimming Club’s rooms to hear Klim offer advice on topics such as nutrition for young swimmers, getting the most out of training sessions and how to best prepare for success in competitions. He also answered a range of questions about swimming in general and related of some of the highlights of his long and distinguished career, much to the delight of the audience.

Klim’s international career started at the 1994 Commonwealth Games while he was still a secondary school student in Melbourne. He went on to swim at three Olympic Games and four World Championships where he won 9 Gold medals, 5 Silver medals and 3 Bronze medals setting 3 World Records and 5 Australian records along the way. His long career concluded at the 2007 World Championships where, as part of Australia’s winning 4 x 100m Medley Relay team, he finished as a World Champion.

“To have such a highly decorated elite athlete as Michael give up his time to help the District’s young swimmers develop is wonderful for the sport in our region”, said District President, Hayden Stewart, as he thanked Klim for his support. Mr. Stewart also thanked Swimming Victoria’s Sport Development Officer, Mark Pettifer with whom he had worked to secure the services of Klim.

After the formalities, Klim stayed to chat with the excited swimmers while he happily signed autographs and posed for photographs

Central Victoria Swimming Inc. is Swimming Victoria's District 15. Stretching from Gisborne in the the south to Echuca in the north, this is a large District comprising thirteen Clubs across a geographical region that is roughly aligned with the Loddon and Campaspe river valleys.

The Clubs that form District 15 are:-

Bendigo, Bendigo East, Castlemaine, Eaglehawk, Echuca, Gisborne Thunder, Kangaroo Flat, Kyneton, Maryborough, Rochester, South Gisborne Sharks and Tongala.

Representative teams always compete at important Swim Meets such as the SV 7-10 Country Encouragement Meet, SV Country Interdistrict Competition and the SV Country All Junior Competition.

The Central Victoria Championships are held each year in February. All Disrtict 15 clubs are eligible to compete with trophies being awarded to the Clubs with the highest Boys, Girls and Overall aggregate points as well as the best performed 13/U and 14/O swimmers.