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Hadleigh dolphins held their
Annual Club presentations evening at the Town Hall on Saturday 2nd
February. This is a great family occasion where all members and
swimmers at the club can join with family, friends and supporters of the
club and celebrate swimmer' s achievements from both the, teaching and
coaching sections of the club for the last year.
We also take time to remember all
th e members of the committee (who manage the finances of the club and organise day-to-day running). Also the Teaching and coaching Staff and
all the parents and volunteers who help at galas and behind the scenes,
making the club the well oiled swimming machine that it is!
Incentives awards were presented
to various swimmers. These are 1, 2 or 3 dolphin flashes representing
the number of Gala appearances for the club, culminating in a silver hat
for 30 appearances and the sought after, Gold hat for 50 appearances.
One dolphin Flash (5 gala
appearances) were presented to; Amy Pettitt, Bronwyn Cottrell, Lucy
Evans, Rachel White, Henry Mackenzie, James Honeywood and Lewis Kempson.
Two Dolphin Flashes (15 Gala
appearances) were awarded to: Alanah Barton, Charlotte Mackenzie, Lucy
Greenway, Rebeccah Mann, Adam Cottrell .
Three Flashes (25 Gala
appearances) to: Bethan Highland, Georgia Howard, Ben Olive, Harry
Smith, Luke Bunce, Matt D'Souza and Richard Goodchild.
Club Silver Hats (30 appearances)
to; Collette Bunce and Lucy Mackenzie.
Finally, A rare Gold hat (50
appearances) to: Georgia Barton and Nathan Garrity.
Many Trophies were awarded, some
dating back to the 1970's,
 These are for age group and open and master
swimmers. (See full results below)
The top 7 trophies were awarded
for, Male Masters and Female Masters, Top Boy and Top Girl, Endeavour
Trophies for male and female and the Victor Ladorum Trophy for the
overall swimmer who has accrued most points in swims over the whole
club championships .
Richard Goodchild lifted the Male
Masters trophy and Sue D'Souza the Female Masters winner.
The Endeavour Trophies are
awarded to a male and a female swimmer whom competed enthusiastically
across many races, did not finish first but accumulated the most
points. This was Harrison Moore aka Barry and Shan Bendall (female
Captain).
Top Girl Trophy was awarded to
Lucy Mackenzie, winner of 25 races, setting 22 PB's, 13 club champ
records and 13 HSC records.
Top Boy Trophy went to Tom Olive
(Male Captain) winner of 21 races, setting 24 PB's, 14 club champ
records and 12 HSC re cords.
Winner of the Victor Ladorum
trophy with most points was Tom Olive.
Sharon Tan (chairman) comperred
the evening and we were joined by Steve Mitchell (former Chariman and
all-things-known-to-swimming), Helen Salisbury (former Chairman), Laura
Salisbury (master swimmer, Vice- chair and teacher) and Kern Death
(master swimmer and new Head Coach), all of whom presented the awards to
the swimmers.
Following the speeches , in which
Coach Kern Death named Amy Pettitt and Brian Russell as his "swimmer of
the Month" winners and presentations , much food and beverages were
consumed, followed by some serious boogeying.
Well Done and congratulations to
all the incentive award winners and trophy winners. A BIG thank you to
all the committee members who laid on such a memorable event. Thanks go
to all the guests who presented and all the parents who brought some
lovely food and continue to support the swimmers and members all year
around.
2007 proved to be a year of
positive change for the dolphins, with A new head coach and coaching
team, successes in the County Championships, Regional Championships and
Development Championships , League Galas and Open Meets. Many Novice
swimmers joined the squad competing for the first time and even the
oldies brought home medals from the Regional masters Championships. New
swimmers joined the teaching section and many within teaching, achieved
new badges and moved up groups.
COME ON DOLPHINS, Lets build on
these successes and make 2008 even better!
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