Welcome to the 14 April edition of the Swimming NSW e-newsletter
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To all our Swimming NSW club and area committee members, we wish you a very happy Easter holiday! We hope you enjoy this time to be with friends, family and loved ones.
The Swimming NSW office will close at 5pm today, Thursday, 14 April and re-open at 9am on Tuesday, 19 April, 2022.
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Swimming NSW clubs to be inducted into
new Child Safe Scheme
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We believe all organisations working with children should be child safe, and we want to provide children the environment and care they deserve.
The new NSW Office of the Children's Guardian Child Safe Standards are designed to drive cultural change to create, maintain and improve child safe practices.
Building on the Safe Sport Framework already in place, Swimming NSW will continue to strengthen our child-safe culture and procedures at the state level.
Likewise, swimming clubs will be inducted into the new framework over the coming months.
From next week, we'll begin to include some information on the ten Child Safe Standards in each weekly edition of Hot off the Blocks.
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CLUBS IN DEPTH
Today we're diving into Norwest SC
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Servicing an impressive 176 members, Norwest Swimming Club offers a fresh view on swimming, and caters to swimmers of all ages and abilities. The club provides a supportive environment to encourage growth, sportsmanship, teamwork, and life-long friendships.
Established at Oakhill College in September 2020 to provide the Sydney Hills District community with a fun and competitive team swimming environment, Norwest SC has established itself as a true contender in the metro north west area. |
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Swimming Australia club websites to cease 30 June, 2022
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With Swimming Australia closing it’s free club website platform on 30 June 2022, Swimming NSW has been working with Swim.Rocks to refresh the club website service that has been used by some clubs for several years.
This means, your club will need to make a decision imminently about whether to continue your website service with another provider, or accept Swimming NSW's offer serviced by Swim.Rocks.
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Details of the Swim.Rocks offer
This service will be offered at $400pa.
You can choose to nominate someone in your club to migrate all content across to your new site, or to save time, an optional content migration service will be available for an additional charge of $1,000 discounted to $600 if paid by 6 May.
Full details of this offer including website visual design will be available by 19 April.
New Swim.Rocks club websites will be available at any time after that, but clubs wishing to use the optional content migration service will need to commit and pay by 6 May.
Key dates
- ASAP - discuss website options amongst your committee members and reach a decision about your next steps
- 19 April – the full website offer (design, pricing, etc.,) will be available from Swim.Rocks
- 6 May – lock in your agreement to use the Swim.Rocks platform to take advantage of the discounted migrating service fee
- 30 June – Swimming Australia club websites cease operation
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Olympic Coach Greg Salter new resource for regional clubs and coaches
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Highly decorated coach and Mighty Blues, Greg Salter, has joined the Swimming NSW Performance Team as Regional Coaching Project Manager.
A new role for Swimming NSW, Salter’s goal in this position is to support and develop the quality of swim coaches and coaching in the NSW regions.
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Free hire of Wylas' wireless timing system for Swimming NSW clubs
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Swimming NSW and Wylas Timing have partnered to offer Swimming NSW clubs free rental of an all-inclusive Wylas wireless timing pack. This offer is available for clubs who have not yet had the opportunity to trial the system.
Bookings are open for clubs in the Sydney metro area right now.
Clubs in regional areas are invited to book a trial for January and February, 2023.
Clubs will be responsible for delivery costs when a courier is required to transport the timing system around the state. However, if your club chooses to invest in a Wylas timing system, Wylas will deduct incurred courier costs from your purchase price. |
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Upcoming meet announcements
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Entries are now open for the following meets.
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2022 NSW Multi-Class Meet #2
21 May, 2022
Entries close: 5pm, Tuesday 10 May
Event information: Full event information, including program & QT’s can be found on the event page below.
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2022 NSW Short Course Qualifying Meet
21-22 May, 2022
Entries close: 5pm, Tuesday 10 May, OR when entry limit has been reached.
Event information: Full event information, including program & QT’s can be found on the event page below.
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Stay tuned to our online Event Calendar for the most up-to-date information on Swimming NSW's meets.
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Stay, park and refuel at Courtyard by Marriott Sydney-North Ryde
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Swimming NSW members can book Courtyard's Refuel Package to stay, park, and refuel at Courtyard Sydney North Ryde from just $129 per night between February-December 2022.
This offer includes a $25 Good Call 7-Eleven gift card and complimentary self-parking with your overnight stay. You can also fuel up in the morning with $25/pp brekkie.
Or book in for our standard member rate of $120 per night with $10/pp brekkie (max 4 people). |
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We're putting our weekly updates on pause for the time being, and will pick them up again ahead of the 2022-2023 registration season.
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We're still here to help! Please see below for ongoing Swim Central support and training requests.
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