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Issue 4 Winter 15 July 2016 Leisurefit Booragoon pool is open The pool at Leisurefit Booragoon has reopened. The normal amount for squad training will be deducted today, when direct debits go through - the reduction in charges for the two weeks that the pool was closed will be made in NEXT MONTH's direct debits (since the Centre wasn't 100% sure how long the pool would remain closed). You don't need to do anything or contact the centre - this should happen without you needing to request it. Club will recommence on Monday night and normal training sessions will resume from Monday morning. Thanks to the City of Melville LeisureFit for making free land-based training available over the school holidays for swimmers who are 12 and over. Jeremy takes South Shore to Perth TV screens News items on South Shore Paralympian Jeremy McClure will air on both Channel 7 and Channel 9 on Saturday 6-7 pm. Make sure you all tune in! Jeremy's mum and dad are shown here looking on. Please also consider donating via My Cause to help Jeremy fund his trip to Rio. No donation is too small - every bit of support is appreciated. Jeremy is a serious medal contender in Rio. https://www.mycause.com.au/page/130623/jeremy-for-rio-2016

Stevo Stevo is well and truly gearing up to compete in the World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships. Today is a rest day. The team will meet the ambassador, change hotels, then have afternoon tea with their families. All the other countries are starting to arrive! There will be a final pre comp training session on Saturday at the competition pool then it's all go on Sunday! Keep up with the latest news on our Facebook page!

Kalgoorlie Tour Twenty seven South Shore swimmers and their families, along with coach Chris, travelled to the Kalgoorlie Boulder Short Course Crusher over the middle weekend of the school holidays and had an amazing time. Everyone came away with at least one medal and a lot of fun was had on the Harry Potter train trip, panning for gold, at the superpit and other locations around Kalgoorlie. Thanks to Gail Della-Marta and Chantal Allchin for helping to organise the tour. Open Distance Championships We will run the 200 Breaststroke to complete the final leg of the Open Distance Championships at club on July 25. This event was originally scheduled for 16 May but had to be deferred due to an (unscheduled) pool closure. The rest of the July 25 program will remain the same. The next club night will be on Monday 18 July. See you then. Bogan Bingo Start tuning your air guitars - Bogan Bingo is coming on 17 September. Please pass any donations for our silent auction to Gail, Chantal or Deb, or bring them along to club. Do you have your own business that may be able to make a small donation - if so please consider South Shore - this night is going to be BIG! Lush donations Thanks so much to Lush Garden City for donating some beautiful soaps and bath bombs for our Bogan Bingo fundraiser. We really appreciate the support! Thanks also to Maddie and Bella for collecting the items.

Performance Pathway Program Massive congratulations Amelie Prinsloo and Ellie Fry , who have been selected in the SWA 2016/17 Performance Pathway Program junior squad. We are very proud of you both! JX Awards Swimming Australia Junior Excellence Awards have been published but we are already aware of numerous errors. Please check the list at http://www.swimming.org.au/Junior-Excellence.aspx carefully against the criteria and if your child has been omitted or given the wrong award you can notify Swimming Australia on the link below. You must check this yourself and not rely on the committee to do so. Please also let the club know so we can chase up with SWA once the correct items have (hopefully) been forwarded. Bonus offers from the Entertainment Book Get yourself an Entertainment™ Membership today for only $65 and you can enjoy hundreds of up to 50% OFF and 2-for-1 offers from Perth's most popular restaurants, cafes, takeaway chains, attractions and hotels. 20% of the proceeds of your purchase contributes to our fundraising cause.Plus, for a limited time, you'll enjoy an amazing selection of valuable Bonus Offers from Jamie's Italian, The Shorehouse, and The Flour Factory just to name a few. Hurry, offers like these won't last, and supplies of Entertainment™ Memberships are nearly sold out. Please share among family and friends and help South Shore Swimming Club fundraising! LeisureFit Competition Swim The club welcomes anyone interested in swimming as a sport or for fitness into the LeisureFit Competition Swim coaching program. New Head Coach Chris Twomey oversees all squads from Bronze through to Nationals. For information about the program please go to www.southshore.swimming.org.au/page.php?id=9672 Please share or email this link to any friends who may be interested in joining. Strong junior swimmers able to swim continuously for an hour will be considered for enrolment in Bronze. Dress for success See Apparel Officer Kylie Baker for all your apparel needs.

Club polo shirts $35 Club caps $11 Club shorts $25

Upcoming meets Coaches will only attend Target meets. All entrants must provide a helper to fulfill the duties allocated to the Club by Swimming WA (e.g. t ime-keeping, selling programs and refreshments). This generally only involves a 1 to 1.5 hour commitment per meet. 2016 West Australian Newspaper Short Course Qualify ing Meet #2 Friday 29 to Sunday 31 July 2016 at HBF Stadium Online entries by Tuesday 19 July 2016 UWA-West Coast Short Course Challenge - Target Saturday 6 August at HBF Stadium Online entries by Tuesday 26 July Save the date Bogan Bingo 17 September

Coach’s Corner Now that I have really settled into the groove in our great club I am pleased to be able to contribute regularly to The Scccoop. The swimmers are all training well and we are all working hard on building the South Shore team. It was great to spend some time with the swimmers and families in Kalgoorlie over the weekend and these trips away reinforce the relationships in our club. It was amazing to see the amount of PBs achieved in the pool and the medals won. Moreover, it was fantastic to see the South Shore parents jump in and help the Kalgoorlie Piranha's to run a great meet. That is what we are about. Over the next phase of our Winter Training Program we will continue to focus on stroke correction, but we will gradually increase the workload. Some swimmers will experience challenging times in this phase. I encourage them to work through these challenges and discuss any issues they may encounter with their coach. “Nothing great was ever achieved without hard work!” Speaking of hard work, it was great to see a group of our top swimmers participating in our pilot gym sessions over the holidays. There is strength and mobility that can be developed on land that is much more challenging to achieve in the pool. Over this term we will endeavor to introduce land-training for all our squads ranging from 15 minute sessions for our younger swimmers to 45 minute sessions for our older more experienced swimmers. Now that the coaches are much more familiar with the abilities of the swimmers we will initiate a process of ongoing assessment. In the first and second week of term we will be running a series of test sets to establish a baseline assessment and provide some feedback to the swimmers and parents. This assessment and feedback will help us look at which squads need to be adjusted and where swimmers can be moved between squads to provide the best opportunities for long term athlete development (LTAD). Thanks for all your support and enthusiasm to date. We are all looking forward to another exciting term of swimming! Chris Twomey

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