Upcoming Club Events

Only a few days to go until the RSC Twilight Sprint Meet on Sunday! There are lots of preparations going on behind the scenes to make it a great day for everyone! Please read through all the information below so you and your swimmer are ready for Sunday.

You can access the meet program, session report and athlete roster on our website: Events for October 2024

A few tips:

• Arrive early to get a parking spot
• Unless you are helping with the meet, please sit in the stands rather than on pool deck near the swimmers. Coaches will be available to help your swimmer with marshalling etc. Parents lingering on pool deck create congestion and make it difficult for our check starter and officials to do their job. Swimmers will all sit together on the cement steps, opposite the grandstand, with the coaches
• Make sure your swimmers bring plenty of water and healthy snacks to have throughout the meet to keep hydrated and energized. 
• Help your swimmer to write their event information on their arm with a sharpie before arriving at the meet so they have the information available and know what events, heats and lanes they are in and can show a coach if necessary. Example: you have booked your child to swim in the following events:
• Event 2, 50m Freestyle
• Event 8, 50m Backstroke
• Even 12, 50m Breaststroke

Go to the meet program for your session (#1 for swimmers 12/U and #2 for swimmers 13/O), look up these events, find your child’s name and write down the following information: Event, Heat and Lane.

It will look something like this…   

50 Free E2  H3  L4

50 Back E8  H2  L1

50 Breast E12  H1  L6  ⇐ This is what you can choose to write on arm.

**If you’ve never done this before your swimmer can ask one of the more senior swimmers to help them or a coach!

Arrival time:  12:15pm

Dryland warm up: 12:30pm

Pool warm up: 1:00pm

Meet commences at 2:00pm

Coaches on deck: Andrew, Brendan, Bella S

**We have 2 Team Managers - if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch with them as the coaches may be busy watching races or speaking with swimmers. They will be happy to touch base with the coaches if needed and provide feedback. 

Team Managers: Chris Bamford & Alison Papp

Uniforms

Swimmers should arrive in club uniform, as advertised in our new uniform expectations. Please do not arrive in non-club hoodies, or polos. If you don't have an RSC hoodie, please wear your RSC polo over a black hoodie. Black track pants or shorts can be worn on the bottom.

Swimmers are also expected to compete in their new RSC caps. If your swimmer has a State cap they may wear them.

Selina, our Uniforms Officer, will be in the clubroom on Sunday if you need to purchase any items. Please come early as she will be busy with other duties as soon as the meet starts!

Timekeeping Roster

We are running 10 lanes and each lane needs 2 timekeepers in order for the times to be official. We have asked other clubs attending to cover some of the lanes, but RSC will have to cover the majority of them. The meet will only be about 2.5 hours so it will be a quick one!

We have 2 shifts of about 1 hour and fifteen minutes each.

RSC volunteers will be walking around to provide you with refreshments throughout the meet. Please bring your own water bottle, which can be refilled by a volunteer if needed. Timekeeping gives you the best seat in the house, and seats in the grandstand will be in short supply. We currently have 356 swimmers entered which is a great turn out!

The RSC Twilight Sprint Meet is one of our 4 annual fundraising events, and we really need as many people to help out as possible. We have a team of volunteers that have already put in many hours organizing the meet as well as a team that will be running the meet, organizing catering, marshalling and check starting as well as awarding medals. Running a meet of this size is quite a large undertaking and we appreciate your help in ensuring that our swimmers and swimmers from visiting clubs have a great time and that the event runs smoothly.

Never done timekeeping before? No problem! It’s not hard and there will be someone there to explain what to do. You will be in teams of 2 so there will always be someone who has done it before who can help out. 

The roster is below:

**The Bendigo Skins Race will be taking place immediately after the conclusion of the last event. It will take about 15-20 mins. Please stick around and help us with timekeeping for this event as the top 10 swimmers from event 4, 50m freestyle, in each age group (11/12, 13/14, 15&O boys and girls) go head-to-head over four knockout rounds of 50m Freestyle. Watch the excitement unfold as swimmers race for a cash prize!