Throughout the year the Molonglo Water Dragons get together for swim meets, social events and the very popular Wednesday night dinners after swimming. Currently our Wednesday dinner venue is the City Bowling Club in Ainslie. Here we enjoy each other’s company, a meal and a laugh. Visitors and new members are always welcome.
Category: Social
C’mon swimmers we need you!
We now have five volunteers for the MS 24 Hour Mega Swim, which means we would each have to swim for five hours and count laps for five hours. We need another seven volunteers at least. It’s a fun event and you will enjoy the change of doing a long swim, and getting into a […]
Official of the month Award – John Collis
Masters Swimming has selected John Collis as Official of the Month for the outstanding work he does in volunteering to make our club run like clockwork. Congratulations and well done John! John Collis has been a Water Dragon for many years and is one of the most regular attendees at our training sessions. He is always […]
Enter now for the MS 24 Hour Mega Swim
This is a fun event. Be involved for those with MS. With just over a month to go until the 2016 Canberra 24 Hour Mega Swim, it’s time to jump on board and register! We would love to have you back on pool deck again this year making a splash for people living with multiple sclerosis. Register […]
Broulee Classic inspires many talents
Not only are Molonglo Water Dragons keen swimmers, at prose they are also talented! Broulee Classic 2016 A 1400m swim from Broulee Island to South Broulee Beach The day dawned grey and foreboding. Our intrepid Molonglo Water Dragons band assembled resolutely on the frigid shore of Broulee beach. The moment was nigh. Members of the band […]
Come and join Masters Swimming
If you are over 18, like to swim for health and fitness, have fun and meet other like-minded people, come and join us. See here for details. 2016-01-20 ACT Masters Swimming Pamphlet
ACT Interclub swim results
The ACT Interclub swim at Gungahlin was meet held on 22nd November. There were some fine swims especially from Margaret Hadfield, Tim Hides and Ross Burden. With points at 10 for first, 9 for second, 8 for third, you will see that everyone scored a podium finish. See the results here: MOLONGLO RESULTS 22.11.15 Interclub
Geoff Llewellyn competed in the Sri Chinmoy Triple Triathlon recently and was part of the winning team, Rad’s Ratters in the Open 60+ T9 category. Geoff completed the 3.5 km swim in 1hr 6min 43sec. Geoff is an older member of the team, and seen here, is possibly also the fittest – he’s not even puffing! […]
The weekend of 17 and 18 October saw Canberra play host to the NSW Short Course Championships with local clubs Tuggeranong Vikings and Molonglo Water Dragons both featuring high in the results. In fact Tuggeranong were the overall winners and winners of 1st Division, while we at Molonglo managed 7th overall and won the 4th Division with […]
Short course championship a winner
The Molonglo Water Dragons were fully stoked at the NSW Short Course Championships at the AIS recently snagging 31 individual medals and lots of personal best times. It was a lot of fun and a great morale boost, and 13 swimmers will be training with more enthusiasm this week. The attached photo shows some of […]