Competition Report: Santa Sprints 17th December 2022
Last Saturday, just over forty swimmers turned up for the inaugural Santa Sprints at Queen Mother pool in Victoria. First up was the 100M Individual Medley followed by 25M in Freestyle, Backstroke and Breaststroke. There were 50m sprints in all four strokes, followed by 4 x 50m freestyle relay with 8 teams ranging from 100+ to 240+ years.
We completed the meet with two fun relays: Pass the Christmas Tee Shirt – where each swimmer had to wear the Tee Shirt and pass it on to the next swimmer. The Balloon relay ended the session – each swimmer had a balloon and passed it to the next swimmer. The last swimmer ended up with 6 balloons to deliver to Santa. After all the fun, fun, fun – there was cake – then to the Market Halls, Victoria for a pint.
Richard Walton’s amazing team of 13 Out to Swim Officials presided over the meet with Nick J and Ian Wollard (Barnet Copthall/Middlesex) running the meet system. The Referee was Hilary and Phil was in control of the starting 'gun'. Martin and Stephen were our marshals and a further seven volunteers helped to make the meet run like clockwork, blowing up balloons, hanging banners and clearing up afterwards.
The organising committee, Lead by Danny Hadden (Chair of Swimming) were: Isabelle, Christopher, Michelle, Ryan and Richard.
