Skills maintenance – only a couple more opportunities!
Our primary role is to protect the public visiting our beach and making rescues where needed. In order to do this, we need to ensure our lifesavers have maintained all the skills covered to keep the beach safe. Bronze Medallion and ARTC Skills Maintenance will contain both online and practical requirements this season. You MUST complete both online and practical portions to be sign off as proficient! The online portion needs to be complete before attending the practical session or we will not be able to process your proficiency. The online portion can be accessed through your Members Area account, in the eLearning section. If you cannot find it in the 'My Training' section please look for the Skills Maintenance 2022/23 (SRC or BM) in the training library and enrol. Remaining practical dates are as follows: You will need to enrol online for the date you wish to attend. This is done through e-Learning. Here is a guide on how to do it! Meet in the Heritage room for the following Skills Maintenance: SM3 - Saturday 10 December SRC - 8.30am BM - 9.30am SM4 - Sunday 18 December SRC - 10am BM - 11am Meet in the Lifesaving Shed for following Skills Maintenance: IRB Drivers & Crew Saturday 18 December 7am You must be proficient in order to patrol. Any questions to our Lifesaving team at [email protected] Checking your patrol hours With the season well underway, it’s a good time to remind you to please check your patrol hours now and then. You can check them in the Members Portal. It’s really hard for us at the end of the season to re-open patrol logs to have hours checked and fixed. It’s inevitable that your hours may not be logged properly, as the patrol ops app seems to be quite buggy this season. If you make a habit of checking your hours now and then we can fix them up quickly for you. If you do find an error, please get in touch with Ash at [email protected] Check your roster and finding subs Leaving it to the last minute to find a sub for your patrol is highly unadvisable, as success is quite low. Please do not wait for the patrol reminder text to look for a sub. You can find your roster online here, note your dates and plan ahead. Make sure you’re a part of the Club’s subs Facebook group or use the members portal to request a sub. Use the how to find a sub guide. IRB Drivers – please use the Club’s IRB drivers WhatsApp group for driver subs PCs – please use the Club’s PC WhatsApp group to find a sub New IRB Drivers and Crew A massive congrats to our newest IRB drivers and crew who went through their assessment over the last two weekend. The IRB is a vital lifesaving resource on our beach and having skilled operators is key to our lifesaving service. I’d also like to thank all the trainers who helped get them through, your help is very much appreciated. Lifesaving gear maintenance A quick reminder how important it is to report any broken gear. There is no way for us to replace or repair equipment if we don’t know it’s broken or not working as it should. Please do let us know as a soon as possible so we can move faulty gear out of service. You can report issues to Nicole at 0413025512 or [email protected], or to Darren at 0410 622 009 or [email protected] Key lifesaving contacts Now that the season is well underway a quick reminder of who to contact within the lifesaving team with any queries or concerns: Can’t make patrol? Contact your Patrol Captain (their phone number is on the patrol teams list) Got an education question? Contact Codie on [email protected] Patrol log not right or not submitted. Contact Ash at [email protected] IRB issues? Contact Nicole at [email protected] Memberships issues? Contact Michelle at [email protected] SRC to Bronze intensive course We will run an SRC to bronze upgrade course in January – on 20, 21 and 22 (you need to attend all three days). If you’re a current SRC and are or will be 15 years old by 22 January this is perfect for you. Please register your interest on this form
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It has been a very busy start to the season with lots of nipper action at the beach and competition in full swing. Thanks to you all, South Maroubra is once again the LARGEST nipper club in AUSTRALIA! With over 1100 nippers including cadets, congratulations to you all for joining the best club in the east.
We are so thankful to all of our volunteers for running this great program. Nothing makes me happier than seeing our cadets helping out with the younger age groups, volunteering their time to teach others what they have learned. We are also very excited to introduce the Nipper Club Captains for season 2022/2023, Christopher Kondilios & Emily Henville They are supported by their amazing Nipper Committee: Grace Madden, Isabella Di Blasio, Lilly Carter, Amy Dickson, Willow Skeen, Carter Hughes, Zack Stanilovskiy, Aiden Renford and Daniel Driscoll. Each month they will be putting together a Nipper Committee Newsletter, keeping us all up to date with what's been going on at the club. They also have some fantastic fundraising ideas in progress. CLICK HERE to read their first edition. The last nipper session for this year will be on Sunday 18th December. Mark it in your diaries. It's going to be a fantastic Xmas celebration with our annual Xmas Scramble, visit from Santa, BBQ, entertainment and much much more. More information to come out closer to the date. Looking forward to seeing you all on the beach. Peter Kondilios Director of Youth Development Competition Update - November 2022
There has been some amazing results across all disciplines by our members since the beginning of the season: Triple Crown Round 1 - Wanda On Saturday 15 October 2022 3 members (Georgie Kiernan, Vectis Buckett and Charlie White) competed in round 1 of the Sydney Branch Triple Crown Series at Wanda. Each round consists of 3 surf races and 3 board races. (This round however only had 2 surf races due to conditions). The carnival is split into 2 age groups, Youth (u15) and Open (u17, u19, Opens, Masters). Georgie & Vectis were fortunate that they are at the upper end of their age group, while Charlie was at the bottom end of his age group. When you see the results below, you'll realise that this did not phase Charlie. In tricky conditions there were some great performances from all three of our members. Their results are as follows: Georgie (Youth female) Swim 1 – 4th | Swim 2 – 3rd | Board 1 – 2nd | Board 2 – 1st | Board 3 - 1st Vectis (Youth male) Swim 1 – 4th | Swim 2 – 3rd | Board 1 – 6th | Board 2 – 4th | Board 3 – 5th Charlie (Open male) Swim 1 – 6th | Swim 2 – 1st | Board 1 – 10th Sydney Water Round 2 (Interbranch Trials Opens) Aidan Renford U14: 7th iron, 3rd swim but given 4th, 6th board Georgie Kieran U15: Iron 6th, Swim 4th, Board 2nd. Jasmin Alexiou U15: Iron 2nd, Swim 1st, Board 7th Charlie White U17: Iron 7th, Swim 6th, Ski 7th Vectis Buckett U15: 8th surf race, 8th Iron man Chris Kondilios U14: 1st Flags, 1st sprint Jess Henville U15: 2nd flags, 3rd sprint Josh Ballard U15: 1st flags Luke Newrick U15: 1st sprint, 2nd flags Ruby Gray U17: 1st sprint, 1st Flags Wanda One Club Carnival On Saturday 26th November, we sent a small but committed team to the Wanda One Club carnival to participate in one of the biggest carnivals of the season. It is the only carnival of the season that has a combined point score from Nippers through to Masters, meaning it really is ONE CLUB. With the assistance of our Junior friends, I am extremely proud to announce that we finished second, only to the host club Wanda, who had a much bigger senior team in attendance. There were some late changes to logistics for the day due to expected surf conditions and a lack of a vital element for a surf carnival - a beach. Due to these circumstances, the Nippers water was moved to Cronulla , the sand competitors were asked to attend North Cronulla. Just to confuse things a bit more - the 1 and 2 km runners were at Wanda first before heading to other locations for the rest of their events. The u14s to Masters surf events and all R&R events remained at Wanda. It may have been ONE CLUB, but it was three beaches. YOUR MEMBERS who represented YOU were Ruby Gray (u17), Luke Newrick and Jessica Henville (both u15) in the sand events, while Jasmine Alexiou, Maddie Chesher, Genevieve Dommel, Georgie Kiernan and Vectis Buckett (all u15) were our water representatives. Jessica got the day off to a great start with a dominant performance winning the 2km run and backed it up with a 3rd place in the flags. Ruby blitzed the competition once again, grabbing the chocolates in both the Flags and Sprint event. While Luke pitted himself against the older u17 boys in the flags and came home with a 3rd place, while winning the u15 sprint. Over in the wet stuff our u15 girls Cameron Relay (Jasmine, Georgie and Isabella (u14)) were unlucky not to stand on the top step of the podium, finishing second in a tight finish with a strong Manly team. While there wasn't a Surf Teams event, the performance of our girls in the u15's would have taken 1st place by some margin, with exceptional swims from Jasmine (2nd), Georgie (4th), Genevieve (11th) and Maddie (15th). This was backed up in the Ironperson event with Georgie (4th) and Jasmine (9th) showcasing their skills in tricky conditions. The final event of the day was the board race. This is Georgie's pet event and she showed everyone on the beach why, pushing the reigning Australian Champion all the way to finish 2nd. Jasmine also performed well in her least favourite event, making the final. Over in the boys water area, Vectis had a love/hate relationship with the board, so we'll focus on his Surf race, where he has taken his performances to another level this year, finishing 5th in an extremely competitive field. That is it for local carnivals for this year. We'll keep training over the Christmas break before getting back into the racing in January. Qld State Open Water Swimming Championships - Coolum Beach, Sunshine Coast Jasmine Alexiou competed in the 14 years 5km open water swim at the Queensland State Open Water Swimming Championships on 15 October. She completed the race in 4th position (just missing 3rd place by less than 9 seconds) in a personal best time of 1:02:35.80; Jasmine lowered her personal best time (1:10:40.73) set at the Australian Championships in January 2022 by more than 8 minutes. Jazz is now ranked #1 in NSW for 5km open water swimming for her age (previously #7) & ranked #4 nationally (previously #13). An amazing achievement given she is only at the start of her preparation for the new open water & surf lifesaving season which culminates in the Australian Open Water Championships in January 2023, State SLS Champs in February 2023 & Aussies in March 2023. Interbranch Team Selection After some amazing results at the Interbranch Team selection carnivals it was no surprise that South Maroubra is well represented in the Sydney Branch Team. Congratulations to the following Clubbies for making it into the teams: U17 Female - Ruby Gray U15 Male - Luke Newrick U15 Female - Jasmine Alexiou U15 Female - Jessica Henville U15 Female - Georgie Kiernan (reserve) U14 Male - Chris Kondilios U14 Male - Aidan Renford (reserve) U13 Male - Rory Muldowney U12 Male - Krishna Inder NSW Waratahs Slightly unrelated to Surf Lifesaving but wonderful news that our Clubbie, Tom Farr Jones and (ex Clubbie Luca Cleverely) were been selected into the NSW Waratahs Under 16’s Squad. We would like to congratulate them on this wonderful achievement of being selected in a very talented squad and celebrate in their success - the team were unbeaten in a 5 match campaign and are the National Champs beating all other State Teams - well done. Finally thanks to Phil Stivano who has stepped down as Boat Coordinator responsibilities due to work commitments. A mid-season opening has arisen for Boat Coordinator (Captain). EOI to [email protected] |
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