Newsletter MAY ISSUE 2021

In this edition: Presidents Message: Hear from the Head Coach As the 2020/2021 season draws to a close I would like to Something a bit different thank all our swimmers, coaches and families for their commitment to our program. Not only have we had to Club Championships endure a pandemic but also a big change to our coaching See all the pictures from the great day structure and how strong we have remained!!!

Profile on Olympic Legend I am so very proud of all our swimmers for staying strong A swimmer described as Mr. Unbeatable with their dryland during lockdowns, all swimmers commitment to entering competitions regardless of how Swimmer Profiles much time out of the pool and the last minute uncertainty Learn a little more about your team mates surrounding whether to travel to Nationals on the Gold Coast! Key dates: It was amazing to host our annual Club Championships with record numbers and I very much look forward to celebrating MLC SC Meet - 12th June everyone's achievements at Presentation Night this year. Presentation Night - 19th June MLC Long Course Meet - TBA A very big thank you to everyone so very very proud of you MLC 2022 Long Course Meet - 5th February all! Katrina Schlicht All aboard - have you booked your ticket for the ►Head Coach Message 2021 Annual Dinner and Presentation Night

Something a bit different. FLIGHT DESTINATION GATE FLIGHT It has now been seven weeks since Age Nationals, and six since Open MLC2021 HOLIDAY OF YOUR DREAMS 1906 MLC2021 Nationals. THE COMMITTEE OF MLC AQUATIC INVITES This year as we returned to training after our major meets, the PLEASE BOOK BY Performance and National squads tried something a bit different. SWIMMERS, PARENTS AND CARERS TO THE 2021 12/06/2021 is one of a very small number of sports which don’t Annual Dinner & Presentation Night www.trybooking.com/BROSV have an “off-season”. Most competitive swimmers train year-round DATE TIME DESTINATION (with the exception of last year’s lockdowns) and rarely have a 19/06/2021 6:30 PM Betty Jackson Hall, Methodist Ladies College ENQUIRIES proper extended break to reset, rejuvenate, and have a break from Kate Bowden 0427 777 919 Dress: 2021 Around the World chlorine. Cost: $30 per person This year our Performance and National squads did the Includes Gourmet carvery, desert and for swimmers also pre dinner snacks and soft drink / water unthinkable! We had several sessions a week where we didn’t get in the water at all, and several more sessions where we were only in BYO: Pre dinner nibbles for adults at your table, drinks and glasses the water for an hour. With three spin sessions a week, plus three Swimmers under the age of 15 are to be accompanied by an adult or have a nominated parent attending Bobby Folan gym sessions our water time has been greatly reduced over the last month. New MLC Swimming Members This was a big shift for some of our more seasoned swimmers and We would like to extend a warm welcome to our recent new members: the goal of the last few weeks has been to be fitter, stronger and more athletic following our cross-training/gym/ dryland focus. The small amount of time that we have been in the water has been spent working on skills, with > Charlie Tanner > Chan Charoensuk underwater work being our major focus. > Amelia Leronimo > Lily Koch General fitness and swimming fitness are two very different things, and now that we have spent a significant amount > Sophie Hall > Bolin Chen of time focusing on general fitness, we will transition to work on our swimming fitness over the next month as we > Fraser Blair > Alice Pahan start our winter season. We hope that all of our Performance and National squad swimmers have enjoyed their > Michael Charalambous > Sophie Jacka change of pace – those hill climbs and grinds will serve you well when we finally rest our legs at the end of the season. > Lucy Sadler > Nedd Betts > > Once we see the results of trying something a bit different, we will look at ways to filter down things that we learn to Grace Cox Isabella Paddle our other squads next season. In the meantime, it has been great to see our Development and Junior squads working > Eliza Zhang hard in the water, and we hope to see more of the same over the short course season.

Bobby MLC Aquatic Winter Competitions Calendar 2021 *Current as of May 2021 ‐ Subject to Change* National National National Sprint Date Competition Venue Closing Date State Squad Development Junior Squad Performance Squad & Senior State Coaching Team MLC Aquatic Committee: Squad Committee May 2021 Representatives: 8 May 2021 MLC Club Championships Camberwell Grammar 5/05/2021 YES YES YES YES YES YES June 2021 Head Coach /Performance President - Katrina Schlicht 6 June 2021 Ringwood Encouragement Meet Aquanation 1/06/2021 NO NO NO NO YES YES Squad - Bobby Folan Vice President - Stephen Maloney Performance Squad - Xin Liu 12 June 2021 MLC SC Meet MSAC Opens 12/5 YES YES YES YES YES YES 12‐17 June 2021 Australian Trials Adelaide, SA Individual Individual Individual NO NO NO Assistant Head Coach /National Treasurer - David Hay National Squad - Natalie Hood 26 June 2021 Cheltenham Encouragement Meet Waves Leisure Centre 18/06/2021 NO NO NO NO YES YES July 2021 Squad- Jayden Brian Secretary - Sharon Brian & Sam National Sprints and Senior 10 July 2021 Firbank Aquastars Meet MSAC 4/07/2021 YES YES YES YES YES YES National Sprints , Senior and MacKenzie State - David O’Keefe 18 July 2021 Surrey Park SC Meet MSAC ASAP * 800/1500 ** 800/1500 ** 800/1500 * NO NO NO 25 July 2021 Northcote SC Qualifying Meet MSAC 20/07/2021 YES YES YES YES YES YES State Squad - Josh McIntyre Registrar - Deb Patterson State Squad - Ann McAllister August 2021 Development and Junior Squads Social Coordinator - Kate Bowden Development and Junior Squad - 7‐8 August 2021 Vic Metro SC Meet MSAC TBA YES YES YES YES Qualified Qualified 27‐29 August 2021 Vic Age SC Champs MSAC TBA YES YES YES YES Qualified NO - Zoe Scherret Uniforms - Emma Subramaniam Graham French September 2021 11‐12 September 2021 Vic Open SC Meet MSAC TBA YES * YES ** Qualified ** Qualified * NO NO Newsletter - Craig Brown 11 September 2021 Ballarat LC Ballarat Aquatic Centre TBA NO * YES ** YES ** YES * NO NO

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2 / MLC AQUATIC Newsletter MLC AQUATIC Newsletter / 3 Saturday 8th May saw a flurry of swimming activity at the Camberwell Boys School pool. Swimmers aged 8 and above were ready to race. Our younger swimmers were adopted by our National and Performance swimmers and taken on the wild ride of meet and greet and then warm up with the big guns. You could see it in the eyes of our younger swimmers what an experience this was going to be.

Many thanks to our coaches and committee for pulling this event together and making an impact on each swimmer. Further thanks go to our leadership swimmers for leading by example and showing us why MLC Aquatic is such a great club to be part of.

Take a look at some of the photos from the day:

4 / MLC AQUATIC Newsletter MLC AQUATIC Newsletter / 5 Olympic Gold Medal Swimming Legend ► Konrads was inducted into the Sport Hall of Fame in 1985. John Konrads ► In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer John Konrads has “Once an Olympian, always an Olympian. That was John Konrads. My sincere condolences to John’s wife Mikki, sister Ilsa and the entire been described as “Mr Unbeatable” as Australian swimming Konrads family,” remembers one of its greatest ever champions, following his death on the Sunshine Coast yesterday. And Olympic historian, the late Harry Gordon reflected on the decision to select Konrads as an emergency on the 1956 Olympic Article by IAN HANSON - OCEANIA CORRESPONDENT - 26 April 2021 Team, just four months before his 14th birthday, when he wrote:

Konrads, the 1960 Olympic champion in the 1500m freestyle, and a “The selection of John Konrads was in fact a fine example of enlightened extravagance. From the start it was known that he would not prolific world record holder, passed away in Noosa Hospital after a be required to swim. Several legs would have to break for that to happen. His task was to absorb, to hang around with heroes, to be an long illness. He was 78. investment for the future – and he obliged in a wide-eyed kind of way.”

Along with sister , herself a star-studded teenage world Taking delivery of the Olympic tracksuit was close to the biggest event of my life. And just to be on the same beater, Olympian and gold medallist, team as people like and ! together they became known as the “Konrads kids” after legendary coach discovered them at Revesby Primary School in 1952. Konrads himself would also reflect on this many years later, saying: “The excitement was fantastic. I remember trying to talk Latvian to a huge, 7ft 4in guy on the Soviet basketball team. And it was good blooding. Olympics can be Gary Winram, a team mate of Konrads from the 1956 Melbourne overpowering, and I had this great chance to be inside them, at a very impressionable age. I watched win gold medals, and I Olympics, where Konrads at just 13 was selected as an began to target myself for Rome.” emergency (for experience) and from the 1958 Commonwealth “He was an amazing swimmer and a great competitor who set Games in Cardiff, described the Latvian-born migrant boy as one of Konrads was born in , on May 21, 1942, when that city was under German occupation. In 1944, with the end of World War II still a 26 world records who was so well known back in the hey day of the greatest competitors he ever raced against. year away his parents accepted a German invitation to move out and after staying in a series of homeless camps in west Germany, the family swimming – it was the golden era of swimming in Australia. eventually accepted another offer to move to Australia and finally settling in , a railway village south of Wagga where John’s Konrads left his mark on Cardiff, winning three gold medals and father, a dental technician who worked as a laborer, encouraged his children to swim mainly because nearby dams, rivers, creeks and rivers “It was exciting to be part of it and John and his sister Ilsa were very Winram experienced first hand just how powerful he was. represented a hazard. much among the faces of the sport – with their photos and stories on the front pages of newspapers and magazines. At just 16 years of age, Konrads would beat a 21-year-old Winram But it was the move to where the Konrads kids, John and sister Ilsa would attend Revesby Public School and in 1952 John, aged 10, in the 440 yards and 1650 yards freestyle, where Konrads broke met a young student teacher called Don Talbot – himself only 19. “John idolised his coach Don Talbot and Don idolised him…it was a the Games record by over a minute in the heat and by another ten two-way street and I have to say it is a very sad day for swimming to seconds in the final. Talbot would eventually ask John to join him in a swimming squad where he was the assistant coach to the great Frank Guthrie, and in 1953 see the passing of John Konrads.” Ilsa, then nine-years-old, joined up as well, the siblings powering to become instant teenage success stories under Talbot’s tutelage. Winram, also an Australian champion surf swimmer and North President, , like Konrads, a Bondi lifesaver, finished second to Konrads over the 1650 and third Ilsa also won Commonwealth Games gold in the 440 yards freestyle in Cardiff in 1958 beating 1956 Olympic champions Dawn Fraser and 1500m freestyle great also remembered Konrads as a dominant over the 440 yards. , in a stunning trifecta as Australia and the “Konrads kids” scooped the pool. force in Australian swimming scene during the ‘50s and ‘60s. Konrads would go on to join , Brian Wilkinson and Their International Swimming Hall Of “Firstly, on behalf of Swimming Australia I’d like to send my to add a third gold as the Australians beat Scotland and Fame citation of 1971 read: “Thirteen condolences to John’s family, friends and loved ones – it’s a terribly Canada in the 4×220 yards freestyle relay by 20 seconds in a new year old Ilsa set the Konrads’ first world sad time,” Perkins said. Games record time. records in the 800m and 880yd. freestyle on January 9, 1958 under coach Don “John’s story is quite amazing, it’s one of resilience and Two years later in Rome, Konrads would win Olympic gold in the Talbot. perseverance. To arrive in Australia as a young boy from Latvia who prestigious 1500m freestyle – beating the legendary Murray Rose, couldn’t swim, to then attend an Olympic Games as a 14-year-old the defending champion and his hero, to become one of five Fifteen year old John set the same 800m only a few years later is remarkable\ individual gold medallists from 1960, along with Devitt and Dawn and half mile records for men two days “During his peak in the 1950s and ’60s John dominated the Fraser (in their respective 100m freestyles), David Theile (100m later, then followed with 200m, furlong Australian swimming scene and achieved sensational feats in the backstroke) and Rose (400m freestyle). (220 yards), 400m and quarter mile distance freestyle events. The 1500m race obviously holds a very “At his best John was unbeatable and so focused. In 1958 as a records during the next week. special place in my heart and I was lucky to have role models and 16-year-old he was very mature and very focused on what he was mentors like John shine a light on this event for Australia – his doing, no nerves what so ever, he just dived in and that was that, After this week, the swim world, still in feats helped cement it as an iconic event for our country at every no one in the world could catch him in those days, no one. He was shock from Australian dominance in the Olympics.” a helluva competitor,” said Winram, as he remembered his former 1956 Olympics, wondered how anyone team mate. would ever catch up. Australian Olympic president John Coates paid tribute, saying: “John Konrads also devoted himself to the Olympic movement with “John and I became very close at the 1958 Commonwealth Games During the next two years, between significant contributions for ’s bid for the 1992 Games, in Cardiff and afterwards when we toured together on our way January 1958 and February 1960, the Melbourne’s bid for 1996 and ultimately Sydney’s successful bid for home through Japan and Hong Kong where we really got to know Konrads Kids established 37 world 2000. each other very well. records.”

6 / MLC AQUATIC Newsletter MLC AQUATIC Newsletter / 7 Q. If there was a 100m free race between Bobby, Jayden and Josh - who would win: WHAT ARE THEY UP TO A.JAYDEN!!! All those spin classes are getting him fit and in shape! TEAM MATES: ► - CHARLIE MILLARD

Charlie Millard Sam Mathieson Ella Robertson Brown Oliver MacKenzie Age: 16 next month Age: Age: Age: What school and year level are you: 16 16 next month 16 Melbourne Girls College and Year 10 Which school do you attend: What school and year level are you: What school and year level are you: What book are you reading at the moment: St. Kevin’s College MLC and Year 10 St. Kevin’s College and Year 11 me before you by Jojo Moyes Year Level: Favourite subject at school: Favourite subject at school: Favourite musician: Year 11 Science Legal Studies Birdy Do you study hard at school: Do you have a nickname: Yes, I am very motivated to do well ERB Favourite musician: Favourite meal: Dr. Dre Chicken nuggets and chips If you could go on holiday right now - where would you go: Pre race meal - what do you eat: Favourite holiday destination: probably Italy because I love pasta and food Baked beans on toast What AFL team do you follow: The Mighty Hawks Anywhere with a tropical beach Favourite movie: What makes you angry: What makes you happy: Black panther Not achieving PBs All time favourite meal: Resting on my bed watching movies Sleep or eat - which comes first for you: What motivates you to keep swimming: Large KFC Zinger box with a pepsi Best part about swimming for you: eat I am motivated by my team mates and the ability to If you could go on holiday right now - where would you go: Seeing my friends every day, and we all are going through If l saw your bedroom right now - clean or messy: gain speed and PBs Greece the same thing at training. Also being able to just focus on clean, I like to be organised What is your favourite stroke in swimming: What has been the best highlight for you in swimming: swimming for those two hours. Pre race meal - what is it: Freestyle Making my first national finals Worst part about swimming: spaghetti bolognaise What are your goals in swimming this year? Underwaters because I cannot hold my breath for long Do you have any pre race ritual: Favourite stroke in swimming: To achieve National times not really, I just do some arm and legs swings to get What is your pre race ritual: breaststroke If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? I get up early, I have a light breakfast of peanut butter toast, blood flowing You get to training and you see what you are about to do - London I deal with my nerves by making sure everything is prepacked How do you calm the nerves before a race: the night before. Finally, I stick my headphones is and get in what is your first thought? What is your favourite meal: Jayden never puts the whole set up because he knows My dads Chicken and pumpkin riosotto having some water and talk to people in marshalling the zone for some tough racing. about other things to take my mind off the race we will probably leave or try and get out of it Favourite part of swimming How do you calm the nerves before a race: What are your swimming goals this year: I think about the tough training sessions I have done to the Do you have any pre race rituals? Pulling together a race with speed and technique - get lots of pbs and qualify for open nationals leadup to competitions and trust my body that I am capable of I always have to eat pasta the night before a race does not always happen but when it does that has doing this. Favourite part of swimming: the best feeling If you invited 5 people to dinner who are they: feeling accomplished when you do something well What is your best memory of swimming so far: What is your favourite sport to watch on the tv? Bobby, Jaydon, Josh, Elon Musk and Colonel Sanders States and nationals 2021, the vibe, and the squad culture Who inspires you in life: AFL footy - l follow the mighty Cats If you were not swimming what other sport would you do: was so amazing, other people around me achieving their goals Who makes you laugh the most? basketball I really enjoy it even though I am terrible at it my swimming team mates What are your swimming goals this year: What are your swimming goals this year: 1500 free or 400 fly This year I hope to make the short course state teams to have quicker and stronger starts and turns and pla- What would you rather do - a 400IM or 1500 freestyle? 1500 free partially because I would never be able to ce top 5 in the 100 breaststroke at short course states. definitely 1500 free and go to open SC Nationals complete the 400 fly What would you rather - 100 fly or 200IM: If you were deserted on an island with one swimming team Who is your heroe in life: What would you buy right now with $1000 My hero would be my mum because she manages 4 kids with 100 fly – I am very bad at backstroke mate - who would it be: buy some food and spend the rest on shoes very different schedules and doesn’t really complain at all. If you had 3 wishes granted for a day what would they be: Charlie - both so practical we would build a raft and clothes If l gave you a million dollars what would you buy: free donuts, my own car and a pinball machine and get off the island I would buy a lot of ben and jerries chocolate cookie dough tubs, then I would buy a house for myself.

8 / MLC AQUATIC Newsletter MLC AQUATIC Newsletter / 9 Recipe - Pasta Frittata MLC Aquatic Club Deal

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