Castle hill rsl dolphins

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/per race entry (no refund policy)

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

Thinking about joining the Dolphins?

Come along and enjoy 1 free trial 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.

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

Once you have joined, collect your free club swim cap at Friday club night races.

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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

Our board members consist of swimmers parents and friends. We aim to provide ongoing support to the Dolphins club that will benefit each and every swimmer and their family. You can meet our friendly board members on our Friday night races.

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.

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.

CLUB DOCUMENTS

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