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:
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
book your free trial
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
october 2023
February 2024
May 2024
December 2023
Public holidays
NSW school holidays
Duke of edinburgh
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
vicepresident1@castlehilldolphins.com.au
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
sponsorship@castlehilldolphins.com.au
ron@castlehilldolphins.com.au
scott@castlehilldolphins.com.au
jeff@castlehilldolphins.com.au
ishan@castlehilldolphins.com.au
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!
Coach
aaron wartmann
Aaron has been a national swimmer from 2015-2022 and his favourite events are 200 & 400m freestyle and 100m backstroke.
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!”
Captains
Captains - 2023/2024
YEAR
2023/2024
2022/2023
FEMALE CAPTAIN
MALE CAPTAIN
JACKIE GHAVIDEL
CAPTAIN: BELLA MULUKIN
VICE: CHARLOTTE JEFFREE
VICE: AMELIA BRICE
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.
2022 - Iain Cox, Ingrid marchant
2016 - kerrie mcdonald
2014 - tom fegan
2012 - lisa emmett, peter duigan, nikki siddle
2007 - wendy breen, simon breen, stephan coulter
2006 - graham taylor, vera melville
2005 - john mcintosh
2002 - penny bernard
2000 - ron brettle
1996 - greg carson, jan carson
1992 - george brown
1988 - lena thenus
1985 - colin ferguson
1983 - jan coulter
Life members
CONSTITUTION & POLICY
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