South Melbourne Life Saving Club

Current and new members welcome!  If you know anyone who is wanting to join, please let them know.
 
Current members can now renew their membership.  It would be appreciated if you could do this via Lifesaving Online.

Any membership/pricing queries can be directed to Belinda Porter, Registrar, SMLSC on Email: registrar@southmelbournelsc.com.au or use the form below (On Join SMLSC page)

You have to be in it to win it and there are great cash prizes for:
1st  place $500.00
2nd place $250.00
3rd place $125.00

This is a big fundraising event for the Club where you can purchase a duck for $5.00 and all the ducks are placed in the water a couple of hundred metres off shore and the first duck that makes it to the waters edge is the winner!

Tickets now available.

Stay tuned for more information as we will have a BBQ in conjunction with the event.

SMLSC was selected by our local Woolworths as their community charity organisation for the Aussie day BBQ initiative.

A very big thankyou to the following members that volunteered at very short notice to man the sausage sizzle BBQ.

Christine Cardwell
Dvid Porter
Belinda Porter
Alison Porter
Ming Wang
Tracey Rothwell
Peter McKay
Belinda Glare
Ariarne Graham

Thankyou to James Cardwell, Sienna and Beau Graham for their patience and support whilst their parents slaved over the BBQ.

Woolworths supplied all of the sausages, bread and condiments for the BBQ and we had $800 in sales.  Woolworth matched that amount so in total South Melbourne raised $1600.

Well done to all involved and a big thank you to Steven Filianos the Woolworths South Melbourne Store Manager who selected South Melbourne LSC for this fundraising event!

Junior Pool Carnival –  Sunday 15th May 2011
Sandringham Leisure Centre – King Club
 
What  a great turn out of the red green and white army – 16 competitors, and every one  of them receiving a ribbon or 2, or 6 for some of them.  We got off to a brilliant start with the first event with our resident fishes Ashleigh and Brittany OBrien taking out 1st and 3rd respectively in the obstacle race then followed by our U/12 boys in Matthew and Edward taking out 2nd and 3rd.

 This great start continued throughout the afternoon with one of our littlest water babies in Daisy Graham taking out first place again in the U/8 girls’ freestyle and not to let the team down our U/8 boy Fergus Kininmonth came home with 2nd place.

 Majority of our team were only ever experiencing their second carnival, so lots of encouragement and mimicking stroke action on side of pool deck had Christine and Christian exhausted by the end of the meet.

 However they still had enough energy for the parent child relays along with Fiona Hinrichsen, Andy Graham, Maureen O’Keefe and Damian Kininmonth – and all coming away with ribbons as well.

Neil OBrien and Ines Rains assisted with officiating with stop watch precision, Barbara Morgan was Carnival Referee and our team of roaring supporters/parents in the stands kept the kids revved up for their next event. 

All in all a great team effort and we only missed by a measly 3 points in winning the carnival.

Now for the Victorian Championships on Sunday 5th June at 2.00pm.  We would love to see as many of you come along and cheer our team on – or you could be apart of it?

RESULTS 
U/12  Girls
50m Obstacle Race – 1st Ashleigh OBrien 3rd Brittany OBrien
4x 25m Obstacle Relay – 3rd Brittany, Nicole Rains, Ashleigh &  Nicole Anders
50m Kickboard Rescue – 1st Ashleigh 2nd Brittany
100m Medley – 1st Ashleigh, 2nd Brittany
4x25m Rescue Relay – 1st Brittany, Nicole A, Meg Logan & Ashleigh
Line Throw – 1st Ashleigh 3rd Brittany

U/12 Boys
50m Obstacle Race – 2nd Matthew Wang, 3rd Edward Hinrichsen
4x25m Obstacle Relay – 2nd – Mathew, Edward, Lochlan Down & Christian DeOliveira
50m Kickboard Race – 2nd Matthew, 3rd Edward , 6th Lochlan
100 Medley – 1st Edward,  4th Matthew, 5th Lochlan 
4x25m Rescue Relay –  2nd Lochlan, Christian, Matthew & Edward
Line Throw – 1st Matthew, 2nd Edward, 6th Christian

U/10 Girls
25m Freestyle – 2nd Meg Logan, 5th Nicole A
50m Kickboard Rescue – 3rd – Meg (patient Indy) 6th Nicole R (patient Nicole A)
4x25m kickboard Rescue Relay – 2nd Nicole Rains, Meg, Indianna Plunkett & Nicole Anders
50m Medley – 2nd Meg
4x25m Medley Relay –  1st Meg, Nicole R,  Indianna & Nicole A

U/10 Boys
25m Freestyle - 2nd Robbie Hinrichsen eq 3rd James Cardwell
50m Kickboard Rescue – 3rd Robbie (p- James) 4th James (p- Robbie)
4x25m Kickboard Rescue Relay – 2nd – Ben Ashkanasy, Will Kininmonth, James & Robbie
50m Medley – 4th James 5th Robbie
4x25m Medley Relay – DQ

U/8 Girls & Boys
25m Freestyle – 1st Daisy Graham
25m Breastroke - 3rd Daisy
25m Freestyle – 2nd Fergus Kininmonth
25m Breastroke – 2nd Fergus

Parent & Child Relays
U/8
1st Andy & Daisy Graham 
2nd Damian & Fergus Kininmonth

U/10
1st Christian Schiebold & Indianna Plunkett
1st Fiona & Robbie Hinrichsen
3rd Christine & James Cardwell
5th Maureen O’Keefe & Nicole Anders
2nd Damian & Will Kininmonth

The Australian Surf Life Saving Championships, or more commonly known as Aussies, was held at Kurrawa on the Gold Coast from 2 to 10 April 2011.  South Melbourne Life Saving Club had a number of teams attending the championships, one of which was the Under 17 Patrol Competition Team. The Patrol Competition is a team based event comprising of 4 members. They undertake a number of tasks including:  a theory paper, surf (swim) team’s race, swims - tube - board rescue relay, resuscitation test and a practical scenario. The scenario is set up as a patrol situation where the team may need to undertake a number of rescues and first aids in a time of 10 minutes.

The team made up of;  Mary Veal (parent and team support) Lucy O'Brien, Patrena Staff, Ashley Munday and Chris Veal came 4th overall, narrowly missing out on 3rd place by a mere 6 points. This team won the Victorian State event with team member Jazmine Elomolla, who unfortunately had to withdraw from the team after breaking her arm, which is when Lucy O'Brien stepped in to help the team.  A fantastic achievement by all!

Over the rest of the championships, South Melbourne had their Under 15 First Aid Team competing, who also won the state championships, Open First Aid Team who won the state championships and our Under 17 R & R (Rescue & Resuscitation) Team who came 2nd at the state championships.