Makos News April 2013

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HI EVERYONE!

Welcome to our first newsletter of the 2013/14 season!

MAKOS NEWS

Welcome to

Mountain Creek

Mooloolaba

Swimming Club,

the home of the

mighty makos!

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IN THIS ISSUE

2Presidents Welcome

3 New Swim Season

4 Club2Club Ocean Swim

4 Pier to Pub Ocean Swim

5 Australian Age Champs6 Makos AGM &Presentation

7 Noosa Sports Festival

8 Australian Open Champs

9 Media Release

9 Makos Fundraiser

10 Swimmers Profile

10 Nutrition for Teenagers

11 Birthdays

11 Upcoming Events

12 Sponsors

Thank you to our members for contributing to this newsletter. We hope you all enjoy this issue and welcome your feedback!

Website: http://www.mountaincreekswimclub.com.au/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mountain-Creek-Mooloolaba-Swim-Club/143856963725

On behalf of the committee and all club members, we would

like to congratulate our club swimmer Chelsea Gubecka and

head coach Barry Kime for their selection as national

representatives at the FINA World Championships in

Barcelona in July. For more details see page 8.

Although we are already looking

forward to the new swimming season

April was such an intense month and

full of excitement for the Mighty

Makos.

Some of our swimmers competed at

various ocean swim events, while

some of our age group and open

category swimmers swam at nationalevents, both teams enjoying great

successes, and, as you might know,

one of the Makos will be competing at

the World Championships in July!

We also had our AGM, club break-up

and presentations day; see what our

newly elected president and committee

have on their minds for the new

season.
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Hello and a warm welcome to all swimmers,

members, readers and visitors!

This is our first newsletter for the 2013-14 season and

on behalf of the clubs new committee I would like to

welcome you all and look forward to meeting you

throughout the year.

My name is Lionel Wootton-McDonald and with my

wife, Angela & our daughter Ivy, we are relative

newcomers to the club. Our daughter, Ivy has been

involved with swimming and water activities and

sports since she was born. We recommenced our

relationship with Mountain Creek Mooloolaba in 2011

and joined the local club in 2012. We certainly have

enjoyed every moment, especially the warm, friendly

and welcoming family atmosphere of this club. It is all

about the kids, fun, health and having the opportunity

to be as good as you can amongst a group of

supportive and happy swimmers and their families.

Little did we know what super coaches and an

extraordinarily talented group of swimmers we were

to meet! After a most enjoyable year and the changes

they sometimes bring I find myself willingly involved

in leading our club into a new chapter.

We have a talented and enthusiastic new committee that only want the most for our swimmers and their

families. We are all looking forward to an exciting year and sharing it with you all. If we have half the

success our kids do when training, competing & having fun together then we will have learned and achieved

a lot and had a wonderful year together.

What a start to the year! So many of our swimmers have achieved personal milestones, culminating with

numerous District, State, National and even International representatives. As I write we have 2 competitors in

the Australian Open Championships and a member of the Australian team headed to Barcelona in Chelsea

Gubecka. Of course it is always about striving to be your best rather than necessarily being the best however

we are all fortunate have Chelseas coach and family at our club and for the kids to have her as a role model.

Well done & congratulations to everyone involved!

This year will be new and exciting commencing with our A-grade meet in July to commence the short course

season. There is a lot to do and we look forward to everyones involvement to make this a stunning success

for our kids and their club.

We will update everyone regularly, encourage your feedback and welcome your participation and assistance

throughout the year. Its all about the kids and our club - Go the Makos!

Lionel Wootton-McDonald

PresidentMountain Creek Mooloolaba Swimming Club


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MAKOSNEWSApril2013

New Swim Season

The new season of swim meets is about to start and so that we are all ready, we

will be contacting all current member with reminders of renewing theirmembership with Swimming Queensland as well as encouraging up and coming

new swimmers to become members before the season starts. Annual registrationruns from 1 July to 30 June the following year, so new members will becomemembers from the 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. Current swimmers membership

will expire 30 June 2013 and will need to be renewed online on 1 July 2013. If youhave any question regarding registration or need help, please see Stephen Kime,our Registrar.

At the beginning of each season, the coaches and committee members put togetherthe target swim meets for the season. As this is still being finalised, we will besending out the final program once completed. This schedule will also be on ourwebsite once approved and all members will be notified by email. It is good for

swimmers, especially new swimmers, to swim at as many target meets as they canas the coach in attendance will help and guide on the day. Other swim meets noton the schedule can still be attended and are great for gaining race experience,

however, there will not be a coach in attendance. If you need any furtherinformation regarding swim meets and where to go, please speak to your coachfirst and Zonya Bird, the clubs race secretary.

Further details will be given once plans are finalised and everyone will be notified

by email. Watch this space for new info as well as the website and Facebook page.

Thank you everyone and look forward to an amazing swim season

Zonya BirdRace Secretary

Riding on the back of a successfulinaugural swim meet on 24 February2013, MCM Makos has been given an Agrade meet 27 and 28 July 2013. This is

a fantastic opportunity for the club toshowcase our pool and what we can do.

As you can imagine, there is a lot of preparation to do and planning is well

underway for this great event. We will be calling on all our swimmers and parents,both current and new to pull together as a team and make this event one to standout from the rest.


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Congratulations to Jack Burnham who

competed at the Club2Club Ocean Swim in

Forster, NSW on the 7th of April. Jack won

the 4.3km swim in a time of 50.13 and he

also took out the Forster Tuncurry

Mudcrabs 1km event in a time of 12.57.

Fantastic results Jack!

There is a great article about the event on

our website under Club Info/Media Release.

Pier to Pub Ocean Swim13-14 April 2013

Well done to our Makos swimmers who participated in the Pier to Pub Ocean Swim

Classic at Hervey Bay. Jessica Bayliss, Jack Burnham and Stephen Kime had great

swims with Jess winning both the womens 1.6km and 3.4km events and Jack

coming second in the mens 3.4km event. Unfortunately Stephen had to withdraw

from the Sunday event due to illness. Congratulations all, you did very well!


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Congratulations to our swimmers who represented the Makos at the Australian AgeChampionships in Adelaide. Chelsea Gubecka, Phoebe Hines and Emily Readshaw did somefantastic swimming and achieved great personal best times.

Chelsea won three gold medals(girls14 year olds 800m freestyle,400m freestyle with a PB and 400mIM with a PB), two silver medals

(girls 14 year olds 200m IM with aPB and the 200m butterfly withanother PB) and a bronze medal inthe 200m freestyle. She was also afinalist in the 100m butterfly whereshe finished in 9th place. Fantasticachievements, Chelsea!

MAKOSNEWSA

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8-14 April 2013

Phoebe Hines won a bronze medal in the girls 14 year olds 800m freestyle with a hugepersonal best time. Congratulations, Phoebe!

Well done to Emily Readshaw who swam in the girls 15 year olds 200m IM on the last day ofthe Championships. Emily had a great race and finished in 16th place with a fabulous PB!

Congratulations again girls for the outstanding results, you made the Makos proud! Thank youto our fantastic coach Barry Kime who prepared the swimmers for this event, and to AndrewHines for the great video footage which is available on our website.


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MAKOSNEWSApril2013 Makos AGM and Presentation

21 April 2013

Our AGM, club break-up andpresentations took place onSunday 21 April. It was a great

day to say goodbye to the2012/2013 season. Every Makosswimmer was recognised fortheir efforts and all the young -

and young at heart - had fun onthe day. Check out the photos on

our website in the Gallery.

Thank you to all who helpedout with organising the event

and worked on the BBQ.A big thank you to the leavingcommittee members for all

their hard work anddedication.

Mountain Creek Mooloolaba Swimming Club

Committee 2013/2014

President: Lionel Wootton-McDonald

Vice-President: Darrell Firth

Secretary: Shannon Harben

Treasurer: Leonie Wallace

Race Secretary: Zonya Bird

Fundraising: Hayley Bayliss (with assistance from Jess Bayliss)

Club Night Co-ordinator: Michael Gibson

Registrar/Uniform Officer: Stephen Kime

Swimmer Rep: Kareena LeeWebsite/Photographer: Csilla Faller


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MAKOSNEWSApril2013 Noosa Ultimate Sports Fest

27 April 2013

What a great day it was for the Makos swimmers at Noosa!

Jessica Bayliss, Michaela Bird,

Jack Burnham, Chloe Gubecka,

Jordan Gubecka, Kolby Gubecka,

Stephen Kime, Kareena Lee, Emily

Readshaw and Olivia Shipton

tackled various ocean swim

distances, including 3.8km, 2km

and 1km swims. It was a glorious

day with fantastic water conditions

and our swimmers achievedawesome results.

Well done again, everyone! Full set of results and

photos of the day are uploaded on our website.

Jack Burnham 3.8 km Open Male - 2nd, 1 km Male 16-19yrs - 1st (second overall male finisher of

the 1 km event, only 0.02 second behind Olympian and ironman Ky Hurst)

Michaela Bird 1 km Female 11-12yrs - 4th

Chloe Gubecka 1 km Female 11-12yrs - 1st (first overall female finisher of the 1 km event)

Jordan Gubecka 1 km Male 11-12yrs - 1st

Kolby Gubecka 1 km Male 9-10yrs - 1st

Stephen Kime 3.8 km Open Male - 8thKareena Lee 2 km Open Female - 2nd (second overall female finisher of the 2 km event)

Emily Readshaw 3.8 km Open Female - 2nd (second overall female finisher of the 3.8 km event)

Olivia Shipton 1 km Female 16-19yrs - 2nd


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MAKOSNEWS

April2013

Australian Open Championships26 April - 6 May 2013

On Day 2 of the Championships Chelsea and

Phoebe competed in the womens 1500m freestyle

preliminaries. Both girls had a great swim,

Chelsea qualified with the fastest time from the

preliminaries and Phoebe qualified fourth for the

finals. That, by itself, is an awesome achievement.

Congratulations to Makos swimmers Chelsea Gubecka and Phoebe Hines who competed at the EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships in Adelaide. The event was held from 26 April to 3 May; it also doubled as

a selection trial for the FINA World Championships.

In the final Chelsea took an early lead and increased

the gap with each lap to finish in a championship

record time of 16:22.35, lowering her personal best

time by more than 22 seconds. What a fabulous swim,

Chelsea! Phoebe also put on an excellent

performance, finishing in 6th place with a huge PB of

over 10 seconds, which is a fantastic result!

Later in the week Chelsea produced some morefantastic results in the 800m freestyle final where

she finished 8th and in the 400m IM where she

finished as a reserve for the final.

Congratulations should go to our coach Barry Kime

who prepared the Makos girls for the

championships. Barry has also been selected as a

coach on the national team; he and Chelsea will be

off to the AIS for the orientation camp with the

Australian team, while Phoebe Hines and our other

great distance swimmer Kareena Lee will

participate in a one-week open water camp inParramatta.

Well done Chelsea, Phoebe and Barry, the club is very

proud of your achievements!

Congratulations to Chelsea

who has been selected as a

member of the Energy

Australia Swim Team to

represent Australia at the

FINA World Championships

in Barcelona. She will

contest the 1500m pool

event and the 10km openwater event at the World

Championships in July.


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Makos Fundraising

I would just like to make everyone aware thatIamfundraising coordinator with Jess Bayliss as myassistant and would really like to hear everyones

ideas for raising funds for the club. Also, anyonewho would like to get involved with fundraising is

more than welcome to join us. Over the past few

days the volunteers grant has been submitted and

the GoClub grant is being prepared.

If anyone has any unwanted new gifts they would

like to donate for raffle prizes, please let me know,

as we need to start collecting prizes for our club

swim meet.

Hayley Bayliss

Fundraising Coordinator

Media ReleaseWe regularly upload articles about our club swimmers on our website under Club

Info/Media Release. The articles are usually published in the local (or national)media, e.g. Sunshine Coast Daily, The Age, etc., and on the Internet.


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Swimmers Profileby Stephen Kime

Name: Kareena Lee

Age: 19When did you start competing: 5 years oldBest swimming moment: winning a bronze medal from the

slowest heat at my first carnival, I was 5 racing in the 7

and under age groupFavourite race: I don't have a favourite but I love the 1500,

800 free and 200 flyHow many sessions a week do you train: 8-12 swim sessions

and 8 gym sessions (only 3 weights sessions)Greatest achievement: making the Australian team for the

Junior Pan PacsChallenges you have faced: last year I got glandular fever and

then got chronic fatigue and anaemia, I am just starting toget back in the pool now and hope to get back to

competition soon.

Any competitions coming up: I have no competitions coming up but Phoebe Hines and myself aregoing to an Australian open water camp on the 12th of this month.Favourite colour: pinkFavourite food: fresh fruitFavourite place you have been: HawaiiFavourite saying: Dream. Believe. AchieveWhat pets do you have: a beautiful dog named Daisy

Nutrition for TeenagersThe teenage years mark one of the greatest

periods of change during our lifetime -

physical, emotional and intellectual changes

in particular. Physical changes include the

final 15-20% of growth in height and 50% of

adult body weight. This rapid growth

increases the body's demand for energy and

nutrients including iron, zinc and calcium.

It is important that teenagers make

nutritious food choices so they can satisfy

both their hunger and increased nutritional

needs. Eating the right foods in the right

amounts at the right times will assist with

their energy levels, keep their brain alert and

help the body cope with stress. Preparation

is key to help teenagers make good

decisions on what they eat. Here are some

great ideas to help.

HEALTHYSNACKOPTIONSFORHUNGRYTEENS

Freshseasonalfruits Wholemeal/wholegrainbread Allnaturalnutbutterssuchasalmondsorcashewspread

Bakedbeans(insingleservetins) Naturalcheese(avoidheavilyprocessedcheesesingleslices)

Driedfruitand/ornutmixes Dipssuchashummusortzatziki-withcarrotorcelerysticksready

Yoghurttubs-sourceofcalciumforhealthybones Tunaorsalmonincans(optforthoseinnaturalspringwater)

Mueslibars(avoidsugarloadedyoghurttopped

varieties) Portionedhomemadesoup-forthecoldermonths


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UPCOMING EVENTS

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M Y 2013

EVENT DATE VENUE

EnergyAustralia Swim Team Orientation

Camp

4-9 May 2013 AIS, Canberra

Australian Open Water Camp 12-19 May 2013 Sydney

Family Social Night and Fundraiser 19 May 2013 Mooloolaba Bowls Club

Family Social Night &

FundraiserWhere: At the Mooloolaba Bowls Club

When: Every 5 weeks commencing Sunday19th May at 5pm.

PleasecomedowntotheMooloolabaBowlsClubon

theSundayfrom5pmforasocialdrinkanddinner

whilsttheclubsellsrafeticketsforfundraising. We

askthatmembersweartheirMakosClubshirtstotry

andpromoteourclubandwearealwayslookingfor2

volunteerstosellthetickets. Thisisareallyfun

eveningwherethefamiliescancatchupandgetto

knowoneanothersocially,stayfordinnerandstillbe

homeearly.

Dates:

Ifwestartgettingsomegoodnumberswearehoping

tohaveabarefootbowlsnight...

HappyBirthday to:

Holly Harben

Ashy Weir

Daisy WhiteheadEmily Readshaw

19thMay

16thJune

14thJuly

11thAugust


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