COMMITTEE - Chinese Swimming Club

SPORTS & GAMESCOMMITTEEINTRODUCTIONThe celebration of 100 years of sportingexcellence was no doubt the focal point of2009. Various Sections contributed to thefund-raising effort for Dover Park Hospice byorganising charity events in commemorationof the centenary. The Tennis and Table TennisSections held invitational tournaments, theBadminton Section conducted the “RonaldSusilo Training Camp” and the Golf Sectionwent the furthest by organising our largestcharity golf game in the last decade. Thehighlight was the “Laps for Charity” whichinvolved swimming legends from pastand present, all taking the plunge for aworthy cause.HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEARWe maintained our stature as a top swimming club byholding on to the Junior Interclub crown and capturing thelong-awaited Open Midget title. Unfortunately, we couldnot defend the ASEAN Cup for the fourth consecutive time,narrowly missed out on a clean sweep of interclub agegroup competitions.Swimming Championships. At the World Championshipsheld in Rome, Mylene Ong helped to re-write the National4 x 200m Freestyle relay record. She was again part of thequartet that bettered the same record at the SEA Games,contributing to one of her two relay Golds. Koh Ting Tingperformed admirably to achieve a Bronze at the FINA/ArenaSwimming World Cup and Cheryl Lim also marked her SEAGames debut with a Silver.The forward-looking Badminton Sub-Committee continuedto grow the sport aggressively. Chinese sports equipmentgiant Li Ning came on board to sponsor the inaugural ChineseSwimming Club – Li Ning Badminton Doubles (Invitational)Championships with $70,000 worth of products.In National meets, CSC came in second overall in both the40th Singapore National Age Group (SNAG) SwimmingChampionships 2009 and the 5th Singapore NationalSwimming Championships (SNSC) 2009. Lionel Khoo wasin the limelight once again after he re-wrote the NationalUnder-14 records for 50m, 100m and 200m Breaststroke.Internationally, it was an excellent year for our swimmers.Koh Hui Yu was part of the golden quartet that broke theNational record for the 4 x 100m Freestyle relay at the 1stAsian Youth Games. She later won two Bronzes in her SEAGames debut. Jeremy Tan clocked five personal bestsand took home six medals from the 33rd SEA Age GroupThe extremely popular Chinese Swimming Club AgeGroup Badminton (Invitational) Tournament attracted anoverwhelming response for the fifth year running. Theweek-long event saw more than 1,000 shuttlers sweat it outfor honours in 16 different categories. Main sponsor C&TSports Trading – distributor for Protech, Proace and Apacs –strongly supported this tournament along with co-sponsorBrother International.An influx of new Section members revitalised the mature Golffraternity and sparked off new concepts. Section mainstays– Patrons’ Cup, Annual Golf Championships and ChristmasGolf Bash – as well as the Monthly Medals continued tobind our golfers. The Annual Dinner gathering was also heldfor the second year running, with great success. The moreadventurous made the annual pilgrimage north and toXiamen in search of golfing haven. We also clinched our firstever victory at Kelab Golf Batu Pahat’s arduous course in theannual bilateral.28