2009 Annual Report.pdf - Wide Bay Regional Swimming Assoc.
2009 Annual Report.pdf - Wide Bay Regional Swimming Assoc.
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Kilkivan District <strong>Swimming</strong> Club Inc.<br />
President: Rob West<br />
Secretary: Marg Elliot<br />
Treasurer: Dot Nolan<br />
Race Sec: Michelle Perrett<br />
P.O. Box 33,<br />
KILKIVAN Q. 4600<br />
Phone: 07 5484 1500<br />
Email:<br />
kilkivan@widebayswimming.org.au<br />
PRESIDENTS REPORT 2008/<strong>2009</strong> SEASON<br />
The 08/09 season has been a very eventful one for our club this year. Whilst we are only a small club made up of<br />
recreational and competition swimmers, one thing is assured that all our swimmers enjoy themselves in whichever field<br />
they choose to swim. Our club nights which are held weekly on a Tuesday, have been exciting with a lot of swimmers<br />
attending on a regular basis making for entertaining and thrilling nights of friendly competition. Our parent support<br />
throughout the year assisting on these nights has been invaluable and makes the night run smoothly. Each of our<br />
swimmers from 5 years of age upward swam on a weekly basis to not only improve their swimming generally, but also<br />
to add to a friendly atmosphere of competition amongst a group of kids who enjoy their sport of swimming. It was great<br />
to see the smiling faces turning up each week and showing enthusiasm even when the water temperature got a little<br />
more on the cold side.<br />
Our carnivals this year were a great success, we were fortunate enough to hold both the Lions Goodchild shield in<br />
October and then our regular swimming carnival in February. We had great attendance at both carnivals and enjoyed<br />
great days not only for our local kids, but also the feedback received from a number of clubs was also positive. The<br />
volunteers from our small club also managed to ensure the days ran as smoothly as possible, and a special thanks goes<br />
to those technical officials and volunteers from other clubs who helped fill the void on each day when numbers were<br />
running a little short. These carnivals are an integral part of our fundraising for such a small club in a small rural<br />
community.<br />
This season also saw a number of our competitive swimmers attend regular carnivals both within the South Burnett area<br />
and also attending a carnival on the sunshine coast. This has not been done with our swimmers for some years and it<br />
provided these swimmers with the experience of swimming amongst a larger more experienced pool of swimmers. Our<br />
swimmers did not only our club, but themselves very proud when representing the club at various carnivals throughout<br />
the season and hopefully their success and enthusiasm will rub off on some of our more junior members to build our<br />
numbers in the competitive ranks.<br />
Our club has been represented at the <strong>Wide</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> Championships this season with a couple of our girls doing us proud for<br />
such a small club. It has been some time since Kilkivan has been represented at this level and it shows the dedication<br />
and commitment of all our swimmers and coaching staff to achieve this. There were also a number of swimmers within<br />
the club who improved their times over the season which resulted in a number of long standing club records being<br />
broken this year – well done to everyone who competed and participated at every level of this club.<br />
On a personal note I would like to express a sincere thanks for the dedication and commitment shown by all our<br />
swimmers, parents, supporters and committee members throughout the season. The involvement of such a small but<br />
dedicated group of people makes our small but active club very successful.<br />
Rob West<br />
President
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