Dear Crocs Families,

It was so great to see our swimmers back in the pool last week and thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who made the night run smoothly. Hopefully you also saw the significant “spruce up” to the pool entry area. There is more to come to this space in time, but for now we give thanks to Lisa Hearse who painted this mural and to the White family and others who were at the Working Bee for cleaning and painting the walls and adding much needed gutter guard to the gutters!

We have so much to share with you this week, I’ll try to keep it brief!

“Summer Splashdown” carnival is this Saturday, 7 February at Camp Hill!

• Can you sign up to assist? As this is a home carnival we require many volunteers to make the afternoon a success. Please consider signing up to volunteer for a shift at www.camphillswim.club/swim_meets
• Home Bake - Can you donate home bake to our canteen for the carnival? Please ensure you attach an ingredients label with all items, thank you.
• A reminder that all Crocs Swimmers must wear (any colour) Crocs Swim Cap and that if your swimmer would like a “Crocs shirts” these are also available from the pool canteen.
• If for any reason your swimmer can no longer swim please reach out to Nat at [email protected] or to Mark at [email protected] as soon as possible, as it take some time to juggle swimmers around, thank you.
• Run Sheets will be available soon via the SwimTopia App.
• Gates will open at 130pm with racing commencing at 2.30pm.
• Please do not park on the school oval – the 2 car parks will be available to us as usual (the teachers car park near the pool and the teachers car park on the corner of Ferguson Road) along with street parking.
• Camp Hill will be racing Wishart (Coorparoo have withdrawn) 3 lanes/race.

Nominations - and volunteer sign up - are open for this week’s Club night until 430pm on Friday at www.camphillswim.club/swim_meets or via the SwimTopia App. If nominations have closed and you are no longer able to swim please contact Mark at [email protected] or 0401077981, thank you

New members - Welcome to the Crocs!

• SwimTopia App
  
  • We use the SwimTopia App for our club night run sheets. This will allow you to nominate your swimmer(s), sign up to volunteer, view your child’s pas times history, view the Friday club night run sheets so that you know when they need to be in marshalling and allows for push notifications for weather event cancellations etc. This is a free app, however you can also sign up to a paid version which will give you live timings and splits if you wish to opt in for this.
• Food
  
  • We offer sausages and hamburgers freshly bbq’d each week and tokens for these can be purchased from the canteen upon arrival (get in quick they are a hot commodity).
  • Please ensure you collect your meal before the final stroke commences to give our BBQ volunteers time to clean up, thank you.
    
    • Noodles and other snacks and drinks are available from the pool canteen throughout the night.
• Entry Cards
  
  • We offer a prepaid 10 entry “entry card” that you can purchase from the entry area. These will continue to be valid next season if you do not use all 10 entries this term.
• Volunteering
  
  • We encourage family participation and parents are asked to help the evenings run smoothly by volunteering their time. For more information please refer to our Club website www.camphillswim.club or email our Club Secretary at [email protected]

First Aid Officer

If you have volunteered as the “First Aid” officer on a club night or carnival can you please make yourself known to the Canteen volunteers upon arrival so we know you are present. We also now have a hi-vis vest for you to wear so that you can be easily spotted. Thank you for volunteering for this critical role.

Raffle Prizes

Do you know of a local business who – or would you/your family – like to donate any raffle prizes for our weekly raffles? If you can assist in any way please contact Amy at [email protected], thank you

Are you a Tradie?

The Crocs Committee are looking to some electrical, plumbing and building work in the pool area. If you are interesting in helping out and/or quoting on some work please reach out to Deanne at [email protected] thank you.

Seeking New Crocs Committee Members

We have several committee members stepping down at the end of this season and we are therefore seeking several members to join the Committee. Come along to our next Committee Meeting at 6.30pm on Tuesday 10 March at the Camp Hill Bowls Club or reach out to us (any one of us in a Committee shirt at club night or via email to [email protected]

Date claimers

• Sat 7 Feb (this weekend) – Summer Splashdown Carnival at Camp Hill SIPS Pool.
• Fri 13 Feb – Siblings Race will be held at 620pm before club night.
• Fri 20 Feb – IM is the special event at Club night and all swimmers are encouraged to participate.
• Fri 27 Feb – “Square Raffle” will be available (cash preferred – buy a square/number for $5 or $10 and win either $50 or $100 cash respectively
• Sat 7 Mar – our last fun Crocs only carnival, “The Captains Carnival”! Details coming soon.
• Fri 13 Mar – Last Siblings Race of the season at 6.20pm before club night.
• Fri 20 Mar – last chance for swimmers to practice the IM special event before our official “IM Night Comp”.
• Fri 27 Mar – IM Night Competition
• Sat 28 Mar – Age Champion Competition
• Wed 1 Apr – Presentation Night and Crocs Break Up!

After all that – please don’t forget to:

• Nominate for tomorrow/Friday club night
• Sign up to volunteer at the club night and at Saturday’s carnival
• Get your bake on for the carnival

Thank you and see you poolside,

Swim with the Crocs!