Swim Team

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Newsletter Feb 26 2010

Eds Comment: Look around you at the pool. Who are the Champions? Now, Do What They Do.

A message from the Teacher in Charge of Swimming, Mr Voss. The Ivanhoe Grammar Swimming Team has a long, proud and very successful history. Long before any of us were born, swimmers from Ivanhoe Grammar School were winning AGSV Premierships. This winning history has set the bar high for our team and it asks the question of you: will you continue this proud tradition? What we must remember is that only our current team members can continue this tradition and make this year another winning year. Our luminous past does not guarantee the same success for the future. You are the ones who carry the history of the team now. Our success is only possible through your commitment and dedication to the task at hand. Winning both the boys and girls premiership cups is our goal. Should we achieve this goal, this team would make history. This team would be the first AGSV Swimming team to win both Swimming Premierships in the same year. Whilst we are a team, and anyone who has ever been to an AGSV Swimming Championship night would ever argue that we are anything but a team, our success comes down to each of you doing what you can as individuals. No one is pretending that being a successful swimmer is an easy path. Being a successful swimmer is about preparation. It is about turning up to training early in the morning, at times long before many others have woken. Its about your hours of training in the water, putting in maximum effort and dedication, improving your stroke technique and your fitness. These all add up to your success in the pool and our success as a team depends on you. Every swimmer must do what they can to ensure that they reach their best. Through this, we as a team, reach OUR best. This is the only way we can maximise our chance of making history. Whilst you could argue that we owe it to all the teams of the past to continue to their tradition. I would argue that you owe it to each other to be the best that you can be. Finally, I ask you this: do you want to make this year the most successful year in this teams history? You know the answer so see you on pool deck.

Go For It Girls
Below are recent results for the girls championships. This year looks like it might be a swim off between us and PEGS the two schools who seem to have improved progressively the most since 2007. Interesting to note, PEGS picked up 26.5 points in 2008 and if Peninsula does that this year they would likely win as they would take points from both PEGS and us. You see, the tables are volatile and nothing can be assumed. Right now you girls are shaping up to be our best team ever. Girls, the season is short and intense give it all youve got at training and when racing and whatever the result you can at least say YOU DID YOUR BEST. 2007 2008 2009 2010 1. Peninsula 143 1. Peninsula 148 1. PEGS 148 2. Ivanhoe 135 2. PEGS 136 2. Ivanhoe 141 3. Mentone 111.5 3. Ivanhoe 133 3. Peninsula 121 4. PEGS 110.5 4. Mentone 100 4. Mentone 103 5. Yarra Valley 108 5. Yarra Valley 83 5. Yarra Valley 99 6. Assumption 38 6. Assumption 47 6. Assumption 39

Any girl member of the team if you arent training 3 times a week, look in the mirror and say to yourself

Well?
Bernard Lim: 1989-1994, Premiership Captain 1994
Bernie was an all rounder swimming individual events in all strokes and winning most of them. His record in relays is also astounding he swam in 11 relays and 10 of these were victorious including the wonderful Open Freestyle Team in 1994 comprising of Bernie, Ray Hass, Andrew Gott and Simon Strahan. Their time of 1.43.12 remains the best swum by an Ivanhoe team and it remained the AGSV record until 2009. st nd st st 1989: U13 Free 1 , U13 Back 2 , U13 Medley Relay 1 , U13 Free Relay 1 , st nd st st 1990: U13 Fly 1 , U13 Back 2 , U13 Breast 1 , U13 Medley Relay 1 , st st st st 1991: U14 Fly 1 , U13 Breast 1 , U14 Medley Relay 1 , U14 Free Relay 1 , st st st st 1992: U15 Free 1 , U15 Fly 1 , U15 Medley Relay 1 , U15 Free Relay 1 , st nd st th nd st 1993: U16 Free 1 , U16 200 Free 2 , U16 Fly 1 , U16 Breast 4 , U16 Medley Relay 2 , U16 Free Relay 1 , nd rd st st 1994: Open Free 2 , Open Breast 3 , Open Medley Relay 1 , Open free Relay 1 ,

A Message from Jo Love:

BOYS ARE YOU BETTER THAN AVERAGE?

The Ivanhoe Grammar Swim Team holds a special place in AGSV sporting history, due to its ongoing success year after year. It is a team that over the years, has fostered individuals to greater personal success. Many of our older swimmers commenced their Ivanhoe Grammar swimming career as only relay swimmers. One example is Year 11 Student Alastair Cooper. In Year 7, Alastair swum in two relay team, by Year 9, with hard work and persistent dedication Alastair swum one individual swim and two relays. In 2008, Alastair was swimming the full complement of 2 individual swims and 2 relays and he is now ranked in the top 10 swimmers in Australia for the 200m Butterfly, and will be a swimmer to watch in this years team. To earn a berth in a freestyle relay team the average time sum over the past years has been U/13 swimming under 35secs U/14 swimming under 32secs U/15 swimming under 31secs Are you better than average? If not, what are you doing to improve?

At Ivanhoe Grammar School, the swimming team is about building champions everyone from swimmers to coaches and managers, to the old bloke who starts the races each Friday night. It matters not, whether you come to the team a champion or develop champion traits as your experience as a team member increases. If you dont swim your last race for Ivanhoe believing you are a champion then I would be greatly disappointed. Weve seen them all Olympians and Para-Olympians, National and State champions but mostly just champions. Swimming at Ivanhoe will teach you many lessons nearly all of them unspoken but if you open your mind and absorb the best that is around you then it will happen. Let it. GKH

Cheer Squad: Mr Ward and Mr Harder are volunteering to supervise a Cheer Squad bus which will depart from and return to The Ridgeway. It will hopefully bring in about 50 true supporters, not noisy hoons, to provide vocal support throughout the sports. More about the arrangements for the sports coming soon.