Record Numbers at club night and JX Club of the year for FNQ...

Hello Marlin Coast Members! 

It's been a while since an update was posted here, so we have plenty of good news to share:

• We had the biggest turnout at club night we've had in some years last night, with 58 swimmers racing. Thanks to all the parents for the hard work put in to make it happen!
• Good luck to Cameron Keith who will be swimming at the NATIONAL Open water event in Victoria in one weeks time. He will be swimming the 10km race and I wish him all the best as he has been training extremely hard.
• Our next big Marlin Coast Carnival is on Saturday 22^nd February and it will be a twilight Carnival. This will be the last opportunity for swimmers to achieve any qualifying times for the Peninsula Team. Please see the following link for details about qualifying times etc for the Peninsula Swimming Team and how to nominate: http://pensport.eq.edu.au/swimming.htm
• The coaches will be running a training camp at Tobruk Pool on Saturday morning15^th February from 6:00am to 12:00pm approx. Please speak to them about further information and I will forward you more information shortly.
• The Saints Carnival flyer is posted under upcoming meets. Please speak to your coach before nominating for this event as it will be on the same weekend as the Coaches have organized a training camp and we have our own Carnival the following weekend.
• A big thank you to all those parents who assisted last weekend at the FNQ Sprint Meet and to those parents who helped on the Bunnings BBQ before Christmas as we raised nearly $1,000.00 which will go towards coaching and assisting swimmers who attend State Meets.
• Thanks to the hard work of our swimmers and coaches, we have been awarded JX Club of the Year for FNQ. Awesome work, guys!

Congratulations to the following swimmers who attended the Queensland State Championships in December representing Marlin Coast Swimming Club:

Ryan Clark

• Regional FNQ medley relay placing 5^th

• Boys 14 100m fly – 2.28sec PB

• Boys 14 200m back – Placed 24^th

• Boys 14 100m back – 3.45sec PB

• Boys 14 200m IM – Placed 16^th (21.78sec PB!!!!!)

Simon Moore

• Boys 14 100m breast – Placed 14^th (6.5 sec PB)

• Boys 14 400m IM – 8.90sec PB

• Boys 14 200m breast – Placed 13^th, 8.37sec PB!!

Nathan Lang

• Regional FNQ relays for freestyle and the medley relay placing 5^th in both.

• Mens 15&O 400IM – 8.03sec PB

• Boys 15 100m free – 1.01 sec PB

• Boys 15 100m breast – placed 15^th

• Boys 15 200m breast – placed 11^th

• Boys 15 200m IM – 2.83 sec PB

• Boys 15 100m fly – 0.21sec PB

Lauren Arenas

• Regional FNQ relays for freestyle placing 9^th and 7^th in the medley relay.

• Girls 14 200m IM – 1.67sec PB

• Girls 14 200m back – placed 18^th

• Girls 14 100m free – 0.10 PB

• Girls 14 100m back – 0.81sec PB

Ryleigh Lammert

• Regional FNQ relay for freestyle and the medley relay placing 4^th in both relays

• Girls 14 200m back – placed 13^th

• Girls 14 100m back – BRONZE MEDAL

Tanya Stovgaard

• Regional FNQ relay for freestyle and medley relay placing 4^th in both

• Girls 13 200m free – SILVER MEDAL, 6.03sec PB

• Girls 13 200m IM – Placed 7^th, 2.19sec PB

• Girls 13 100m fly – BRONZE MEDAL, 5.21sec PB

• Girls 13 200m back – BRONZE MEDAL, 17.10sec PB

• Girls 13 200m fly – BRONZE MEDAL, 8.91 sec PB

Hannah Witten

• Regional FNQ relay for freestyle and medley relay placing 4^th in both

• Women OPEN 200m breast – Placed 14^th

• Girls 16 100m breast – BRONZE MEDAL

• Girls 16 200m breast – SILVER MEDAL, 4.74sec PB

Abriel Reed

• Regional FNQ relays for freestyle placing 6^th and medley relay placing 7^th

Jack Hare

• Regional FHQ relay for freestyle placing 5^th and medley relay also placing 5^th

Jasmine Tong

• Regional FNQ relays for freestyle and the medley relay with both these teams placing 4th

These are great results from all the training and effort that has gone into the pool and great coaching.

Thanks everyone and I look forward to seeing you all at the next Club Night on the 28th Feb.

Keith Layton

President – Marlin Coast Swimming Club