Castle Hill RSL Dolphins Swim Club

Castle hill rsl dolphins

Welcome

TO THE HOME OF CASTLE HILL RSL DOLPHINS!

We are a family-oriented swim club supporting swimmers through all stages of competitive swimming held under official competition rules. Building life long friendships and team spirit!

Our club meets at Castle Hill RSL Fitness & Aquatic Centre on Friday nights throughout both Summer and Winter seasons with races commencing at 6:30pm. All club nights are timed official times and run by our growing team of qualified Technical Officials.

Races cater for all ages and abilities in the Castle Hill Swimming indoor 25m heated pool and range from 25 to 1500m events.

Swimmers are encouraged to train at Castle Hill Swimming and to participate not just on Friday club nights, but also to represent the Dolphins at external carnivals such as:

Swimming Metro North West (SMNW) District Championships
NSW Metropolitan Championships
RSL State Trials
Speedo Sprints
Open waters
NSW State Championships
National Age Championships and International Level competitions

Friday night race

Our Friday Night Club Races are run in a family-friendly environment for swimmers most Fridays (excluding school holidays) depending on the availability of our volunteer technical officials.

All races are timed by the Dolphin System and then submitted and logged onto Swim Central as official times. Race entries close every week on Wednesday at 6pm.

We have coaches on deck most race nights to correct any issues with strokes during races.

Entry and warm up: 6:30pm

Race commence: 6:45pm

Member: $2/race entry

ALL race entries must be entered on Swim Central. Maximum 3 entries per swimmer.

Race programs

4 Race Programs are on rotation each week to benefit the swimmer no matter what age or ability, ensuring that all distances and strokes can be raced to achieve possible qualifying times.

New swimmers 10yrs and under are initially required to swim 25m no matter their ability, to acquire a qualifying time to proceed to 50m races. If you need to change your entry or make a withdraw, please email: fridayraces@castlehilldolphins.com.au

Qualifying times

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Thinking about joining the Dolphins?

Come along and enjoy 2 free trials if you’re interested in becoming a Dolphins club member!

Fill out your trial form below and make sure to scroll to the end and hit submit.

member registration

Joining us is easy!

Follow these steps below or come find one of our helpful board members on a Friday night to walk it through with you! Let us know you’ve joined and email us at: registrar@castlehilldolphins.com.au

Don’t forget to download Team App to purchase your Club Uniforms and check important club notices.

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Club calendar

January 2024

March 2024

April 2024

November 2023

13th - Dolphins development night
20th - Club races recommence (program 1),
20th - Time Trials Race Night
20th - Club Captains announcement
27th - No Club races due to SMNW champs that weekend
28th - Open water
28-29th - SMNW 2023 Summer Championships

3rd - Club Night races (program 2)
4th - SMNW 2023 Summer Championships (Long Distance) Blacktown
10th - Club Night races (program 3)
12th - Open Water Championships at SIRC
17th - Club Night races (program 4)
18th - RSL ZONE 4 Trial 1/4
25-26th - Junior Metro Championships
25th - RSL ZONE 4 Trial 2/4
24th - Club Night races (program 1) CANCELLED

1st - Club night races (program 1)
2nd - RSL ZONE 4 Trial 3/4
3rd - Dolphins Christmas party at Cables waterpark (12-3pm)
8th - Club Night races (program 2)
9th - RSL ZONE 4 Trial 4/4
15th - Club night XMAS POOL PARTY INFLATABLE. No racing this night.
10-16th - Senior States Championships
17-18th - NSW Open Water Championships at SIRC

Swim fest week (to be confirmed)

2nd - Friday club night races recommence (program 3)
9th - Friday club night races (program 4)
10th - Speedo heats (to be confirmed)
16th - Friday club night races (program 1)
23rd - Friday club night races (program 2)
24-25th - NSW Senior Metro Championships at SOPAC

1st - Friday club night races (program 3)
2nd - Speedo Sprints Finals at SOPAC
8th - Friday club night races (program 4)
8-10th - Friday club night races (program 1)
15th - Friday club night races (program 2)
15-17th NSW State Open Championships at SOPAC
22nd - Friday club night races (program 3)
23rd-24th - NSW Junior State Age Championships at SOPAC
29th - Friday club night races (program 4)

5th - Friday club night races (program 1)
6-14th - Australian Age Championships (Gold Coast Aquatic Centre QLD)
12th - Friday club night races (program 2)
15th - School holiday
17-20th - Australian Open Championships (Gold Coast Aquatic Centre QLD)

WINTER 2024 SEASON COMMENCE
9-11th - NSW Sydney Open at SOPAC

october 2023

February 2024

May 2024

December 2023

20th December 2023 ~ 29th January 2024
15th April 2023 ~ 26th April 2024
8th July 2024 ~ 19th July 2024
30th September 2024 ~ 11th October 2024

Public holidays

Christmas Day - 25th December 2023
Boxing Day - 26th December 2023
New Years Day - 1st January 2024
Australia Day - 26th January 2024
Good Friday - 29th March 2024
Easter Monday - 1st April 2024
Monarchs birthday - 10th June 2024
Labour Day - 7th October 2024
Christmas Day - 25th December 2024
Boxing Day - 26th December 2024

NSW school holidays

Duke of edinburgh

Award Program

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duke of ed info

This season we are introducing the Duke of Edinburgh Award! This award allows all of your efforts in the pool or open water to go toward a program that is internationally recognised and can lead to additional HSC grades and scholarships. Swimming NSW endorses the Duke of Edinburgh program.

Age requirement for the Duke of Edinburgh program is between the age of 14 to 24 years. Additional costs are expected due to your other activities that you may want to complete outside of swimming and the camp that is compulsory toward the end of your program.

We are commencing with the Bronze camp but are considering adding the Silver and Gold programs in the near future.

For more information and/or to commence the program at CHRD, contact Award Leader:

president@castlehilldolphins.com.au

Club board

Email Contact

PRESIDENT - Angelique Soliman

VICE PRESIDENT - Iain Cox

SECRETARY - Susan Hsiao

REGISTRAR - Belinda Dale

TREASURER - Andris Galvins

RACE SECRETARY - Andris Galvins

CHIEF RECORDER - Lei Zhang

FRIDAY CLUB RACE - Lei Zhang

UNIFORMS OFFICER - Heijin Choi

SPONSORSHIP OFFICER - Scott Targett

T.O COORDINATOR - Ron Brettle

IT OFFICER - Scott Targett

ASSISTANT TREASURER - Jeff Park

ASSISTANT SECRETARY - Ishan Mohanty

WELFARE OFFICER - Leanne Brown

president@castlehilldolphins.com.au

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secretary@castlehilldolphins.com.au

registrar@castlehilldolphins.com.au

treasurer@castlehilldolphins.com.au

racesecretary@castlehilldolphins.com.au

recorder@castlehilldolphins.com.au

fridayraces@castlehilldolphins.com.au

uniforms@castlehilldolphins.com.au

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leanne@castlehilldolphins.com.au

Coaches

Castle Hill RSL Dolphins Swimming Club is proud to be closely affiliated with Castle Hill Swimming (CHS), whose coaches provide support and guidance to all Dolphins swimmers during training, competitions, club activities and programs.

Head coach

haibin zhu

Haibin is our clubs Head Coach with over 20 years of coaching knowledge and experience! Haibin was a National junior record holder of 100m Fly in SC & LC in China. Haibins favourite hobbies is to travel & hike. His favourite food is Thai food~ yum!

Favourite Quote “JUST DO IT”

Coach

aaron wartmann

Aaron has been a national swimmer from 2015-2022 and his favourite events are 200 & 400m freestyle and 100m backstroke.

Favourite Quote “An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head” - Emil Zatopek

Coach

Chris thomson

Chris’s favourite stroke is the butterfly, he loves teaching breaststroke but secretly hates swimming it . His favourite colour is green and loves eating spicy foods!

“I might look scary or mad but I’m actually a teddy bear, a big softie!”

Favourite Quote “Do or Do Not. There is no Try.”

Captains

Captains - 2023/2024

YEAR

2023/2024

2022/2023

FEMALE CAPTAIN

MALE CAPTAIN

JACKIE GHAVIDEL

CAPTAIN: BELLA MULUKIN

VICE: CHARLOTTE JEFFREE

VICE: AMELIA BRICE

PREVIOUS CAPTAINS

JAIDEN GENG

CAPTAIN: ROHNAN LINDSAY

VICE: JOEL ROGERS

Club history and life members

Castle Hill RSL Dolphins Swim Club had its origins in West Pennant Hills when Pat Norton (a former Olympic Swimmer who swam backstroke at the 1936 Berlin Games), opened a Swim school at the Sun Valley Pool in 1955. In 1968 as the swim school grew club social races were introduced. In the late 1960’s Jan Coulter came to work for Pat Norton and became the club coach.

In 1973 the club was officially registered with NSW Swimming as West Pennant Hills Amateur Swimming Club (ASC).

Max Ruddock was the federal member for the Hills at the time and became patron of the club. His son Phillip Ruddock also lived locally and his children all learnt to swim at the Sun Valley Pool. The Max and Emmie Ruddock trophies are still presented each year and usually Phillip Ruddock finds time to personally present them at the annual summer presentation.

In 1974 the Castle Hill RSL relocated from Old Northern Rd to its present Castle St location. The new club had an indoor 25m pool in the lower floor referred to as “the moat” by the locals. In 1978 the RSL engaged Jan Coulter to operate the swim school. The West Pennant Hills Swimming Club was no longer able to operate from Sun Valley and relocated to the Blind School pool at North Rocks for a short period.

By 1980 the Coulter Swim School had grown and Jan Coulter introduced Friday Night “Developmental Races” at the RSL for her competitive swimmers to swim time trials and races. She applied for the RSL to close the pool to public swimmers from 6-8pm each Friday Night. The swimmers still competed in NSW Swimming events as members of the West Pennant Hills Swimming club. The numbers were high and the West Pennant Hills Swim Club won the Castlereagh District Championships for 5 years in a row from 1978 through until 1982.

In 1982 it was decided to change the name of the club from West Pennant Hills Amateur Swimming Club to Castle Hill RSL Dolphins ASC. The club would swim weekly in the Friday time-slot. Swimmers also participated in NSW State RSL Swimming Championships representing Castle Hill as part of Zone 4, the local district. At the time the club was one of the biggest in the Castlereagh District and hence the Dolphins Swim Club as we know it today was born.