Save the Date!

Well done to:

BOP Relays 2nd April

CBoP Skills Sunday 3rd April

25m pool, Rotorua

3-4.30pm, FREE, pay door entry only. Following Inter-schools, school years 4-8 & competing 6th April in Whakatane & anyone wanting to brush up on Starts / Turns and racing technique.

Rising Stars Saturday 16th April

Start 10.30am

This is only for Registered competitive swimmers who have not competed or qualified for National events.

Those eligible have been notified!

Welcome! Returning members & Teams:

Julia Dodd – Gold Squad - STARSHIP

Ella Dodd – Gold Squad - TITAN

New Members & Teams:

Silver Squad:

Sienna Scott – JET

Quinn Coleman- APOLLO

Griffin Hine – TITAN

McKenzie Scott – STARSHIP

Zoie Bacal – APOLLO

Terore Cooper - TITAN

George Terry - APOLLO–

Sophie Twist – STARSHIP

Gold Squad:

Campbell France – APOLLO

Riley Hine – APOLLO

Keaton Hine – JET

Congratulations to Lance Shilton and Gert van der Merwe promotion to Metro and to our many movers from Silver to Gold this term in the Junior Academy!

Take the splash and give it a try ☺

Performance A Squad off to NAG’s- National

Age Group in Wellington!

Junior Academy: Brief

Travelling Saturday 16th April. Competing 18th to 22nd April. The work has been started by qualifying, but now for the hard work to begin, especially for those going for the first time!

Congratulations to Bianca, Milla, Emily, Damon, James, Paddy, David, Jack and William who are attending and well done to those who qualified

but unable to attend this time.

Above some of the Sizzler Meet team!

The Junior Academy is back – inside 25m pool from Term 2. We hope you have enjoyed the sessions outside but now the weather is making itself known, best to leave the 50m pool to Metro & Performance!! Debi’s special E-News letter is in your inbox so make sure you check that out too!

AGM Date for the diary

Swim Rotorua AGM Friday 7pm in

The Easter Bunny came early to the Summer Sizzler Meet on a not so Sizzler Day! Thanks Jackie for brightening it up!

A great effort from our swimmers & congrats the new qualified Timekeepers: Penny, Mel, Stephanie, Shane & Lorna, & to Dirk on becoming a qualified IOT too!

CLUB CHAMPS Sunday 1st May 2016.

It’s back and coming up fast so you do not want to miss this event – details to follow.

Save the Date for May 2016

Swimming BOP: The website can be found on Swimming New Zealand for regional information, meet flyers and news http://www.bayofplenty.swimming.org.nz

Thank you for the baking, help and swimming the Lake Okataina event on

the 13th March!

Kane is swimming the last Ocean Swim Series – King of the Bays this coming weekend 2nd April. Then it’s off to USA for training Camp, followed by Portugal and the final selection event for Rio! Good Luck Kane so close now!

Please help him on his way by checking and donating to his Give a Little Page please.

WWW.GOFUNDME.COM

The Awesome Training Machines!

How many clubs can say they have 4 Officials attending! Our awesome ladies Wendy, Helene, Fiona & Ellen

SNZ Opens Officials are awesome!

They have continued to support the Open Water events at Okataina. Congratulations to Rosemary Bond, Clive Luckhurst & Kerry Maccormick who along with all our others swimmers have made this event the biggest number of swimmers yet!

For our new families please note: Swim Rotorua account statements are emailed out 1st of the month. If you do not receive one, please let me know. If you have any changes to your account, moving squads, increasing the times you swim or no longer swimming, please email me directly so that I can update your account and let Pauline know too for Junior Academy swimmers. Most swimmers are invoiced a term fee for coaching, but if you are in Performance C you account will be changed to monthly to enable you to train during the holidays.

Payments into ANZ bank account 01-0414-0471371-00

Swim meet fees only into ANZ bank account 01-0414-0471371-01

Please do not give your payments to anyone pool side.

If you have any account queries email: swimrotoruaaccounts@gmail.com

The Account’s lady- Stacey!

She’s not moaning, but, from the Swim Rotorua Recorder……. Please, please, please when entring meets please repsond to: swimrotoruarecorder@gmail.com

only. As Bronwen deals with the enteries she needs to have all emails to hand and not be checking her other in-boxes to see if anyone has replied to those instead, or contacting Admin email to see if you are there! She does not want to miss anyone out! Many thanks.

Save the Date for June 2016 Taupo XLR8 Your Points Meet 11th & 12th June in Taupo. Further details out soon. It’s not that far away!

Bronwen is delighted to have Allanah Carson-Soar

join her, your team is Apollo

Metro Squad Facebook page, look for Swim Rotorua, or the website, DO IT NOW to keep up-to date with all the info. Pass it onto friends and family and get them to push “Like” Swimming New Zealand site: http://www.rotorua.swimming.org.nz