Molonglo Water DragonsIntroduction Formerly known as the Aerobic Swimming Program, the Endurance 1000 is a program for swimmers who want to improve their fitness and endurance. It is used to promote aerobic fitness by providing an incentive (in the form of points and awards) for members to swim longer distances throughout the year. Recognition is given to […]
The “lucky last “ ACT interclub meet for the year was held at the Gunghalin Leisure Centre on Saturday 29 October. To everyone’s great surprise, the Molonglo Water Dragons topped the pointscore for only the second time since the ACT interclub meets resumed at the beginning of 2010! In what was a first this decade, the […]
One of our newer members Paul Maggs just returned from the Alice Springs Masters Games with a swag of medals. Paul won gold in the 160-199yrs (combined ages) Mixed Medley Relay, silver in the 70-74 yrs 25m and 100m Freestyle and bronze in the 50m and 200m Freestyle. Paul had a great time in Alice […]
Congratulations to the Molonglo Waterdragons swimmers who competed in the Tuggeranong Branch Point Score Meet on 17 September 2016. A strong team of nine Molonglo Waterdragons lined up against swimmers from across the ACT and NSW and really did us proud. Molonglo took out the trophy for the most points for a visiting club, and […]
The Water Dragons team of three women and 12 men acquitted themselves well at the interclub swim held at Tuggeranong Pool on Saturday afternoon the 18 June 2016. With just a few more swimmers to make up say, three mixed relay teams (two men and two women per team) we would have been in a position […]
Molonglo Water Dragons treasurer, Gary Stutsel, looks to be on the way to recovery following an horrendous 12 months. In the 2014 calendar year Gary recorded the fastest time in Australia in his age group in 38 different events. This dropped to a mere three in 2015 before he was hit by family tragedy in April […]
Now our Johnny Collis was champing at the bit To try out his luck at the State Championships So off to SOPAC our Johnny did go Hoping his opposite numbers were slow His best stroke was breaststroke and boy was he keen He flew down the pool like a thrashing machine His 50 was fine […]
The Molonglo Megasaurs excelled at the MS 24 hour swimathon recently – doing their bit to raise funds for MS. The team exceeded the pledged amount of $2,000 and had lots of fun on the journey! We had someone in the water the whole 24 hours. Stay tuned to find out our total distance swum. […]
Four swimmers from the Molonglo Water Dragons: Mary Liz Partridge, Jenny Bruce, John Collis and Peter Coggins, tested themselves at the Masters Swimming Association (MSA) Nationals in Melbourne. Jenny was the only one of the four to win a prize, Jenny won a raffle prize, but all 728 swimmers at the superb Melbourne Sports and […]
Swimming in a competition can be daunting, but it needn’t be. You are among friends and Masters Swimming encourages you to have a go, but most importantly, to have fun. Are you new to Masters swimming competitions? This article assumes that you know the rules applicable to the stroke(s) you are swimming so they will […]