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WATERFORCE TURNS BACK TIDE

MOLONGLO WATER DRAGONS RESULTS at ACT INTERCLUB 4 November 2018 – 25m course at Gunghalin Resplendent in our new Water Force polo shirts (see group photo), we Water Dragons were proud hosts of the meet, and rightly so. For the first time since October 2016 we came out overall winners in the interclub point score. […]

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MOLONGLO WATER DRAGONS at TUGGERANONG’s MSNSW-BPS MEET

15 September 2018 over 25m course This year Tuggeranong Vikings took two big steps to attract NSW swimmers to their annual swim meet. Their date, the 15th September, aligned with the first weekend of Floriade. Then instead of holding their “three swim” Tuggeranong Challenge, they elected to conduct a BPS meet (Masters Swimming NSW Branch […]

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Molonglo members at the NSW/ACT relay championships

Sunday July 15th was a Sydney winter’s day, not like summer but not as cold as a lot of other places we know. Club President John Collis and fellow Committee member Gary Stutsel joined with eleven other Canberrans to represent Tuggeranong in the NSW/ACT Relay Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. Swum in […]

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The Molonglo Megasaurs

The Molonglo Megasaurs, a guns-for-hire subset of the Molonglo Water Dragons lashed out on the weekend of 19-20 May to swim for 24 hours non-stop to raise funds for MS Australia.  A hardy team of 15 swimmers lined up to swim their weekend away, raising $3,775 to support people living with Multiple Sclerosis in the […]

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MOLONGLO WATER DRAGONS at STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 17 and 18 March, Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre (SOPAC)

The annual Masters Swimming NSW Long Course Championships were held at SOPAC on the weekend of the 17th and 18th March. This was a very busy weekend for Sydney Olympic Park as there were concerts by Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars, the Australian Junior Athletics Championships, the NSW Diving Championships and of course the NSW […]

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Molonglo Water Dragons roar to success at ACT Interclub meet 

The first ACT mini swim meet for 2018 was held at Queanbeyan Pool, in the 25m pool, on Sunday 25 February. The meet was scheduled for the 50m pool but this was the day the skies opened up and dumped a month’s rain on us before mid-morning. It was so bad that areas near O’Connor […]

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Molonglo Water Dragons excel in the water

Swimming with 180 other competitors from 30 other clubs the North Canberra / Queanbeyan based Molonglo Water Dragons Club excelled themselves at the Masters Swimming NSW Short Course Championships. Swimmers aged from 18 to 88 travelled from as far west as Perth and as far north as Yamba to compete in the AIS pool on […]

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This is a very overdue post about two dedicated swimmers who travelled to warmer climes to compete in the Great Barrier Reef Masters Games. What commitment! On 26 May two Molonglo Water Dragons headed north to Cairns to swim in the Great Barrier Reef Masters Games. Leaving their winter woollies behind, Adam Cowell and John […]

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Tuggeranong Challenge 2017

Calling for nominations for the Tuggeranong Challenge 2017 on Saturday 16 September. This year the meet will include a special 25m Butterfly event “The Flockart Flyer” will be swum in memory of Richard Flockart. He was one of a kind and always made us smile! We hope everyone attending will take part in this event […]

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Night dip in the lake for winter solstice

A happy bunch of wacky lappers  took the plunge into Lake Burley Griffin to mark the winter sol stice. It was more of a sprint than an endurance event, but very invigorating.  Instigator Marg Hadfield swears that on that one day of the year the lake has special rejuvenating powers which can take years off […]