Warringah Masters Swimming Club

17/10/2026

Last weekend! What a great weekend for a trip to Canberra and the State Short Course Championships.

Very happy to come away with 2nd in Division 1 given the size of our team. Perhaps it was the pre-comp preparation team dinner Friday at the Old Canberra Inn? And for some, Saturday’s MSNSW dinner at the Labor Club.

Anyway. some great performances and a fair amount of bling shipped across the border to NSW; age group top-3 placings for Jayden van den Bosch, Milt O’Dell, Abel Bernstein and Graham Campbell.

Stand out performance has to go to Abel with 5 Golds out of 5 events!.

In addition to Abel a swag of individual medals as well …. Including for: Keith Bourdon (4), Sue Chalmers (2), Gerry Campbell (2), Helen Campbell (5), Graham Campbell (5), Charmaine Groppler (3), Steve Hyde (1), Milt O’Dell (3), Jayden van den Bosch (1), Larissa Vella (2), Gordon Whyte (3) and Tony Wozniak (2).

Relay wins for Men’s 280+ Medley, and Mixed 280+ Medley. Plus placings (2 or 3) in Women’s 240+ Medley, the 240+ and 280+ Mixed f/s, Women’s 240+ f/s and 240+ Mixed medley.

Nice also to see one of our founding members, Max van Gelder, on deck Sunday.

Thanks as usual to all who helped on timekeeping and officiating along with our principal sponsor Vege Chips.

17/10/2026

Last weekend! What a great weekend for a trip to Canberra and the State Short Course Championships.

Very happy to come away with 2nd in Division 1 given the size of our team. Perhaps it was the pre-comp preparation team dinner Friday at the Old Canberra Inn? And for some, Saturday’s MSNSW dinner at the Labor Club. (Congrats in order though for Div 1 winners Blacktown and Tuggeranong (Div2) for most points.)

Anyway. some great performances and a fair amount of bling shipped across the border to NSW; age group top-3 placings for Jayden van den Bosch, Milt O’Dell, Abel Bernstein and Graham Campbell.

Stand out performance has to go to Abel with 5 Golds out of 5 events!.

In addition to Abel a swag of individual medals as well …. Including for: Keith Bourdon (4), Sue Chalmers (2), Gerry Campbell (2), Helen Campbell (5), Graham Campbell (5), Charmaine Groppler (3), Steve Hyde (1), Milt O’Dell (3), Jayden van den Bosch (1), Larissa Vella (2), Gordon Whyte (3) and Tony Wozniak (2).

Relay wins for Men’s 280+ Medley, and Mixed 280+ Medley. Plus placings (2 or 3) in Women’s 240+ Medley, the 240+ and 280+ Mixed f/s, Women’s 240+ f/s and 240+ Mixed medley.

Nice also to see one of our founding members, Max van Gelder, on deck Sunday.

Thanks to everyone who helped out on timekeeping and our officials on deck (Julia Atkins, Helen Campbell, Tony Tooher and Graham Campbell) and Charmaine Groppler was on the Medal Table.

principal sponsor

30/09/2026

Warringah swimmers at the Winter Swimming Nationals, Perth 20th September : six of our swimmers headed of to Perth as part of the Harboard Frigid Frogs team and came back with a bit of bling! Wendy Cooper won Gold in the 70+ women’s 50 Free, setting a national record (again!); John de Vries collected Gold in the 60+; Helen White a Silver the 70+ and John Pagden a Silver in the 85+. The Golden Girls (Helen Campbell, Violet Wilkinson, Helen White and Wendy Cooper) took Gold in the Women’s 70+ 4x50 relay for the third year running. John Pagden, Graham Campbell with John Wilkinson and Don Gain (Frogs) collected Bronze for the 80+ relay. A good time had by all ! Overall, the Frigid Frogs came 3rd on total points (2nd= for Women and 4th for the Men). AI used to brighten up our post-swim clothing!

29/09/2026

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20/09/2026

MSNSW STATE DINNER | CANBERRA

Heading to Canberra for the MSNSW State Short Course Championships? Join us for dinner on Saturday night!

📅 Saturday 10 October 2026
⏰ 6:00pm
📍 Canberra Labor Club, Belconnen

We’d love to have swimmers, teammates and supporters come together for dinner after Day 1 of racing.

RSVP is essential if you would like to attend, as we need to ensure we reserve enough tables for everyone.

📧 Please RSVP to Lauren at [email protected]

16/08/2026

Some more pix from the NSW SC relay championships. Our team of 33 came 3rd - well done against Penrith and Blacktown who had the numbers! Steve ‘Top Hat’ Towner did a great job getting swimmers in the right place at the right time, so no MIAs! Good job ‘Buster’ as well for the relay picks. A long day, but fun! Thanks also to sponsors VegeChips and Pureau.

15/08/2026

Fun, fitness and friendship in full force at the State Relay carnival last weekend.

33 Warringah swimmers took to the pool to compete, with several also helping to keep the chaos as organised as possible by timekeeping and officiating.

Special thanks to Steve Towner, captain for the day, keeping the relays teams on top of their events, heats and lanes and making sure no races were missed.

Congratulations to Penrith and Blacktown Masters Swimming Club on incredible team performances to come first and second, to Coogee Randwick Masters Swimming and Manly for rounding out the top 5, and all the other clubs that took part on the day.

19/07/2026

Pix from 2026 State Long Distance Short Course

19/07/2026

Some pics from the State Long Distance Short Course was held yesterday at the Peninsula Leisure Centre, Woy Woy. A number of our swimmers went up Saturday and enyoyed dinner together at a pizza & pasta restaurant in Ettalong

Coming to the swimming (forethought or aftethought?) some good performances, however Blacktown had the largest contingent and worthy winners.

Certainly a memory test - especially the 1500s! Apologies for so few pics as your correspondent was officiating when not swimming ( along with Helen, Julia, Charmaine, Ray and Tony T)

Congratulations to Abel Bornstein on his State / Branch record for 1500 Breastroke!👏👏👏

Age group placingings (1st to 3rd) for Michel Le Vieux, Charmaine Groppler, Sue Chalmers, Julia Atkins, Abel Bornstein and Graham Campbell.

Thanks as usual for sponsor support from Vege Chips

07/06/2026