The IceBreaker Newsletter Oct 2018

Upcoming Events:

• 13 Oct– Gary Hurring

Session– PNBHS

• 14 Oct— Dolphin

Carnival– Makino

• 26 Oct– Chocolate Fish

Night– PNBHS

• 28 Oct—Dannevirke

Carnival—Freyberg

• 4 Nov– Kiwi West

Allstars Junior Meet

—Freyberg

• 11 Nov—FASC Spring

Carnival—Makino

• 17 Nov– Gary Hurring

Session– PNBHS

• 25 Nov– Ice Breaker

Aquatics presents The

BLUE RIBBON with

Inspire Net Carnival–

Freyberg

• 1 Dec– CHRISTMAS

PARTY —PNBHS

• 16 Dec– Manawatu

Short Course—Freyberg

• 7/12 Jan– Gary Hurring

Summer Training

camp—PNBHS & Lido

• 15 Feb—NZ JUNIOR

FESTIVAL- ALLSTARS—

KILBIRNIE

ELISAPETA NAMED MANAWATU’S TOP JUNIOR SWIMMER

Swimming Manawatu have named Ice Breaker

Aquatics swimmer Elisapeta Seumanu as Junior

Swimmer of the Year for the Manawatu region 2017-

2018. This is huge recognition for Peta for what was

truly an outstanding year in the pool featuring being

ranked 3rd in 200m Backstroke in New Zealand at

Februarys NZ Junior Festival (competing at the All

Stars meet in Wellington). At the All Stars meet she

achieved 6 gold and 2 silver medals. Peta broke the

200m Back IBA SC record in December 2017; the

100m Back IBA LC record in February 2018; and the

200m Back IBA LC record in March 2018.

RAGE AWARDS WINNERS

Ice Breaker Aquatics swimmers received three R.A.G.E (Regional Age Group

Excellence) Awards for 2017-2018. These Awards are for the best swimmer in their

age group over the past year in the Manawatu region. Congratulations go to Alex

Odom, who picked up the award for 12yo Male, Milan Glintmeyer for 10yo Female,

and Kase Glintmeyer for Under 8yo Male.

This achievement is recognition for the outstanding performances these three

swimmers have achieved over the past year. Alex, Milan and Kase continue to go

from strength to strength and we are looking forward to continuing to watch their

progress. Congratulations Alex, Milan and Kase, this is thoroughly deserved.

Well what a day in the pool!! It was a long wait to have our first carnival of the year and with a total of 87 swimmers made up from clubs as far away as Taranaki and Wellington. With this meet being on the first weekend of the school holidays, and with a number of Ice Breaker Aquatics swimmers away with the National Cycling Championships in Christchurch, Nippers Cup Water Polo in Wellington, or jet setting off to all parts of the world on holiday, the club was finely represented by 30 swimmers competing in 101 events. Many swimmers were competing in their first carnival. Our swimmers swam hard and from the 101 events, they managed 75 new PBs!

A fantastic effort by all Ice Breaker Aquatics swimmers who took part in this carnival: - Shanti - 3 PBs - Awhina - 2 PBs - Macy - 3 PBs - Hawaiki - 2 PBs - Josh - 3 PBs - Hayley Collins - 1 PB - ——-Samuel - 2 PBs - Olly - 1 PB - Hayley Cornwall - 4 PBs -Tom - 2 PBs - Tayla Cornwall - 2 PBs - Ashton - 2 PBs - Costa - 4 PBs - Priyanka - 4 PBs - Riza - 3 PBs - Madi - 2 PBs - Jacob - 2 PBs - Hannah - 4 PBs - Ryan - 4 PBs - Alex O - 3 PBs - Connor - 3 PBs - Nicole P - 2 PBs - Juliette - 1 PB - Madeline - 2 PBs - Peta - 3 PBs - Ella - 2 PBs - Alahna - 5 PBs Some of the PBs gained above absolutely smashed times - swimmers should feel incredibly proud!

A big thank you to Darryl and Emma for their coaching today - it was a massive job and we appreciate

you giving up your time.

The biggest winners were of course the winders of the tanks filled with candy. Even though we had

some pretty good guesses, Ice Breakers Swimmers couldn't quite win a tank for the club. The winning

tanks went to Eric Wong from Kiwi West for the big tank, Ian Tsui from PNASC for the middle tank and

the small tank was won by Cole Buchanan from the Breakers club. Congratulations goes to them.

To the parents who assisted with the running of the meet - on the computer, time keeping, runners,

marshalling and helping distribute drink/food to the officials - a massive THANK YOU to you all. Running

a meet is no easy task but definitely made easier by many people helping out .

ICE BREAKER AQUATICS FISHING FOR CANDY CARNIVAL

CHOCOLATE FISH NIGHT

The ever popular Chocolate Fish club night returns on Friday

26th October. This is a great opportunity to come along and have a

bit of fun and is also a great chance to invite a friend or two along for

the night.

Entries for this event will be via the Swim Nz website. Keep an eye

out for the flyer on the Facebook page.

BLUE RIBBON CARNIVAL

Time is catching up quickly and excitement is building for the inaugural running of

the Blue Ribbon. There is a lot of work being undertaken behind the scenes to

deliver what will be a premier event on the swimming calendar. We are grateful to

have some wonderful sponsors come on board. Inspire Net have naming rights for

this carnival, and this Blue Ribbon event certainly would not happen without them.

They are an awesome business and are wonderful people to have in our community.

We have also received some pretty cool spot prizes from DKSH (think Lindt Chocolates, Mentos, Chupa

Chups), Mortgage Link Manawatu, SBA Accounting, M&M’s, Cookie Time, Mega Mitre 10, More FM and

quite a few more in the pipeline so watch this space. In saying that, we can always do with more, so

please contact a committee member if you can assist or provide a link to a business that might be able to

help.

HEAD COACHS REPORT

The club has been well represented at recent carnivals. It was good to see so many Ice Breaker Aquatics

swimmers at our just completed Fishing for Candy Carnival. I was especially pleased to see so many of

our junior swimmers in attendance, and also swimmers that have recently joined the club or were swim-

ming in their first carnival. Congratulations to you all. This really gives us a good base to build on as we

move to the Blue Ribbon and we should have some really big numbers swimming from our club at this

meet. I will announce the swimmer of the meet when I have time to analyse all the times and PBs. Con-

sidering there were so many, this may be a big task. Also a big thanks to Emma for assisting at this

carnival.

We had five swimmers attend the PNASC carnival. There were some really good swims at this meet. I

named Nicole P the swimmer of the meet for an outstanding 100m Butterfly. I was also impressed with

the progress Kohae is making. I look forward to watching him at carnivals.

We had 16 swimmers attend the Wellington Short Course held over two weekends at the start of Sep-

tember. There were so many amazing performances that I could not possibly narrow it down to a single

swimmer of the meet. In fact I ended up with five swimmers of the meet. Elisapeta with 3 golds, Milan

with 5 golds, Cole who did a really good 100m Backstroke, Kohae for his 200m Breaststroke, which I was

very impressed by. He was also not far away from a bronze, considering he has only been to a handful of

meets this is very good, and Madi who was second in the 50m Freestyle and took 1.6 seconds off her

100m Butterfly time.. Awesome stuff everybody.

Well done to our swimmers who competed at the Aims Games in Tauranga. Cole swam really well and

won silver in the 50m Backstroke in 32:08. This is a new Ice Breaker Aquatics record. Well done Cole. He

also won bronze in the 100m Backstroke. Alex W swam well, achieving 3 PBs at this meet. Alex O also

swam well despite being ill—swimming 4 events and making 4 finals, with a PB also. Well done to you

all.

There is a busy calendar coming up for swimmers for the rest of the year. Dolphin carnival is next off the

rank over at Makino, followed by the ever popular Kiwi West Junior All Stars meet for 13 & under swim-

mers, and a Feilding Carnival just after that. These all lead into the Blue Ribbon and I am really looking

forward to the club turning out in numbers into what I hope to be a marque event on the calendar.

NEW MEMBERS

The Ice Breaker Aquatics family would like to welcome a number of new members to the club over the

past few months.

Welcome to the club Max & Olivia Calder-Kerr, Samuel and Hayley Collins, Milla Heal, Ryan Laurence,

Anne Moores, Ben Petch, and Brooke Smyth who have all joined recently. We look forward to seeing you

at the pool and at any various events that you may enter.

NON SWIMMING ROUNDUP

Anchor AIMs Games

Swimming: There were 3 of our swimmers competing at this event with PNINS:

• Cole - 1 silver (50m Back), 1 bronze (100m Back) - 7 events, 4 Finals, 4 PBs

• Alex O - 4 events, 1PB (Alex qualified for 4 Finals but withdrew due to illness)

• Alex W - 5 events, 3 PBs

Waterpolo: Congratulations to Cole, Alex O and Alex W - part of the PNINS waterpolo team who picked

up 2nd in the Plate Final.

Tournament of Minds:

Congratulations to Abby, Telaina and Josh whose school teams took out the National titles of this event

in Wellington. Abby & Telaina are part of the Arts Team, Josh is part of the STEM team. Winning teams

had the option of competing in the International Finals in Darwin 12-13th October. Unfortunately, Abby

and Telaina have prior commitments with Manawatu Hockey, while Josh heads to this event on 11th Octo-

ber. Best of luck!

GARY HURRING TRAINING SESSIONS

Gary Hurring is back at PNBHS on Saturday 13th October & Saturday 17th

November. Both of these days will run two sessions, 9am—11am and

2pm—4pm. The indicative cost for these days are $40 per day (not bad at

$10 per hour for a coach of the level of Gary). Numbers are strictly limited so

please talk to your coach to register your interest.

Pencil in 7th—12th January as Gary will be back for the Summer Training

Camp. Places on this camp are strictly limited and sort after, and will be held

again at both the PNBHS pool and the outdoor pool at the Lido. Talk to your

coach or register your interest for this camp soon as places will fill fast.

NEW ICE BREAKER RECORDS

Congratulations to the following swimmers who have broken some Ice Breaker Aquatics (IBA)

1st December 2017-19 September 2018. Recognition of these has been a long time coming and we do

apologise:

SHORT COURSE

9 year Female

• 50 Free 33.81 Milan @ East Coast Champs June 2018

• 50 Back 38.43 Milan @ East Coast Champs June 2018

• 100 Back 1:21.69 Milan @ East Coast Champs June 2018

• 200 Back 2:57.47 Milan @ East Coast Champs June 2018

• 50 Fly 35.31 Milan @ PNASC April 2018

• 100 Fly 1:23.93 Milan @ Manawatu Winter Champs July 2018

• 100 IM 1:27.16 Milan @ East Coast Champs June 2018

• 200 IM 3:04.73 Milan @ East Coast Champs June 2018

10 year Female

• 200 Back 2:51.51 Elisapeta @ SWN 12&Under Junior Champs December 2017

• 50 Fly 34.84 Milan @ SWN SC Champs September 2018

• 100 Fly 1:24.01 Milan @ SWN SC Champs September 2018

16 year Female

• 50 Fly 30.06 Madison @ NISS 2018 May 2018

• 100 Fly 1:07.60 Madison @ SWN SC Champs September 2018

12 year Male

• 100 Free 1:03.65 Alex O @ Manawatu Winter Champs July 2018

• 200 Back 2:34.35 Alex O @ Kiwi Cash Meet July 2018

• 100 Fly 1.13.32 Alex O @ Kiwi Cash Meet July 2018

• 200 Fly 2:43.51 Alex O @ Kiwi Cash Meet July 2018

13 year Male

• 50 Back 32.08 Cole @ Anchor AIMs Games September 2018

• 50 Fly 30.86 Alex O @ SWN SC Champs September 2018

NEW ICE BREAKER RECORDS (contd)

LONG COURSE

9 year Female

• 200 Free 2:58.41 Milan @ Manawatu Summer Open Champs March 2018

• 50 Fly 38.05 Milan @ Manawatu Summer Open Champs March 2018

• 100 Fly 1:39.66 Milan @ Manawatu Summer Open Champs March 2018

10 year Female

• 50 Back 38.39 Elisapeta @ Manawatu Age Group Champs February 2018

• 100 Back 1:24.47 Elisapeta @ Manawatu Age Group Champs February 20148

• 200 Back 2:59.04 Elisapeta @ Manawatu Summer Open Champs March 2018

16 year Female

• 50 Free 25.95 Laticia @ Gold Coast Commonwealth Games April 2018

• 100 Free 55.75* Laticia @ Gold Coast Commonwealth Games April 2018

• 50 Fly 30.31 Madison @ Manawatu Age Group Champs February 2018

* This is also a NZ Record

FUNDING APPLICATION RECEIVED

The club has received a funding from Trillian Trust. We are super grateful for these funding agencies as quite simply most

sports clubs in New Zealand would not be able to exist without funding from agencies. The club is able to use these types of

funding to assist in the hire of lane space at the pool and therefore we are able to keep our subs at the level that they are.

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS/ SUPPORTERS

COMMITTEE & CONTACTS

Chairperson – Steph Mckay icebreakeraquaticsschair@gmail.com

Secretary – Michele Wagner icebreakeraquaticssecretary@gmail.com

Treasurer – Amy Odom/ Julia Elmsly icebreakeraquaticstreasurer@gmail.com

Head Coach *– Darryl Gledhill icebreakeraquaticsheadcoach@gmail.com

Race Secretary – Karen Willis icebreakeraquaticsracesec@gmail.com

Enrolments—Lynette Singleton join.icebreakeraquatics@gmail.com

Media/ Events- Jeff Cruickshank/ Michelle Carroll icebreakeraquaticsmedia@gmail.com

Uniforms/ Health & Safety—Niki Glintmeyer icebreakeraquaticsgear@gmail.com

Funding– Du Randt Potgieter TBA

James Ross TBA

*Please note, emails addressed to Head Coach will be administered by Coaches Liaison Officer—Steph McKay

Positions outside committee:

Official Liaison Officer—Eddie Mckay icebreakeraquaticsofficial@gmail.com

Website Development—Thomas Singleton