Swimming

LIAM DU FEU

Director of Swimming

The 2014 GPS season was another big success for both the Junior and Senior schools. The Championships Day saw The Southport School finish second in both competitions, with the Senior Team just seven points behind Churchie. This meant TSS has finished in the top three for the past 12 years and in the top two for nine of the past 12 years!

In the new GPS format the Juniors swam the first-ever Junior GPS Championships (5-7 years) before the senior competition. The second-place finish behind Churchie was a massive result and started the day on a big high! David Proud, Head Junior Coach, along with Janice Cole, David Thomas and Mandy Morgan, have done a superb job over the years. To finish second behind Churchie with considerably fewer swimmers to pick from is a superb result and shows the quality of the coaching and athletes in our junior program.

The standout performances in the Senior competition came from the Open swimmers as they have done for some many years. The Opens 4x50 metre Medley relay smashed the GPS record by over 1.5 seconds, with the winning team made up by Jake Kersten, Grayson Bell, Dom Richardson and Bryton Heiniger. Other wins came from Michael Mincham in the 400m Freestyle, Grayson Bell in the 100m Breaststroke, Dom Richardson in the 100m Butterfly, the Open 6x50 Freestyle Relay (Josh Nielsen, Sam Horton, Lachlan Colquhoun, Nick Ruan, Josh Parrish and Michael Mincham) and the 16’s 4x50m Medley Relay (Tom Underwood, Cooper van der Laan, Cameron Usher and Stan MackayPayne).

OPEN TEAM DOMINANCE

With so many other GPS competitions being solely focused on the Opens to bring home the Premiership it’s important recognise the impressive record our TSS Swimming Opens have achieved under the guidance of High Performance Coach Chris Nesbit. TSS has produced the top Opens team at GPS (winning more Open events than any other school) in eight of the past 10 GPS competitions. Finishing second on two occasions behind Nudgee in 2010 and 2011 (2010 Chris Nesbit was not working at TSS and in 2011 Chris had been back at TSS for three months). In 12 years TSS has won 962 points out of a possible 1200 in all open events. This not only shows the strength of our Opens program, but also how well TSS develop our swimmers throughout their schooling.

The Championship day was finished off with another awesome presentation night, organised by Danielle Statham at the Surfers Paradise Surf Club. The support from our parents, as always, was

brilliant and a special thanks goes to the academic staff and Mr Parsons for their continued support and guidance. Many of the athletes that competed at the Senior Championships were back into training the following day in preparation for the Australian National Age and Senior Championships. The performances at both meets were as outstanding as GPS Championships. For the first time in our history TSS Aquatic won the National Age competition, making us the best junior program in the country. Dom Richardson, Josh Parrish, Lachlan Colquhoun, Grayson Bell and Chris Nesbit all made Australian Junior Teams, which resulted in two Youth Olympic Bronze medals for Grayson, two Junior Pan Pacific Bronze medals for Josh and a Bronze for Lachlan at the Junior Pan Pacs.

2014 SWIMMING

SEATED ROW: T. CONDON, R. KENNEDY, C. WOOD, D. LEHNDORF, W. THILWIND, T. SCHWERKOLT, M. FUHRMANN, L. O’CONNOR, L. GOLDIE, J. BOYLE, J. RANSBY, S. WOLFENDEN SECOND ROW: B. CAMPBELL, J. SMITH, J. BURNETT, W. STATHAM, D. ROBERTSON, H. KENNEDY, Z. ROSSITER, W. TAYLOR, W. PURCELL, G. GIBSON, L. FREE THIRD ROW: N. PHILLIPS, R. EWING, J. DONOVAN, T. HANCOCK, J. HARDESS, J. BRINSMEAD, M. VAN DER SCHYFF, J. FRIZELLE, K. KANEMURA, P. WOLFENDEN ABSENT: R. COLLIER, J. DEVLIN, H. FRENCH, B. VINE COACHES: MR D. PROUD, MS J. COLE (ABSENT)

2014 SENIORS SWIMMING

SEATED ROW: M. STATHAM, B. HEINIGER, S. MURRAY, H. SMITH, D. RICHARDSON, G. BELL, S. HORTON SECOND ROW: M. MINCHAM, L. COLQUHOUN, J. NIELSEN, J. KERSTEN, N. RUAN, J. PARRISH THIRD ROW: MR B. CURTIS, MR C. NESBIT, MR L. DU FEU, MR S. LOBASCHER

2014 GPS SWIMMING TEAM

SEATED ROW: L. COLQUHOUN, M. STATHAM, M. MINCHAM, J. NIELSEN, B. HEINIGER, S. MURRAY, H. SMITH, D. RICHARDSON, G. BELL, J. KERSTEN, S. HORTON, N. RUAN, J. PARRISH SECOND ROW: MR B. CURTIS, H. SARGEANT, J. WHITAKER, S. GOADBY, B. THORNBURGH, S. SANDERMAN, A. LEIDER, X. BARTLETT, S. MACKAY-PAYNE, T. UNDERWOOD, D. O’NEILL, C. USHER, C. VAN DER LAAN, MR S. LOBASCHER THIRD ROW: MR L. DU FEU, K. BARRY, E. COLE, R. HIROSE, J. JONES, R. GOODHEW, J. EDLINGTON, J. HARDY, T. DAVIES, M. NOSKOV, T. REDLER, L. PEARCE, J. GILES, MR C. NESBIT FOURTH ROW: H. SHARPLES, T. FURHMANN, W. THILWIND, J. HOPKINS, M. HARRIS, C. KENNEDY-LEVERETT, T. VAN DER SHYFF, F. BAILDEN, K. LOWE, J. RUTHERFORD, L. BRUCE, M. OSBORN FIFTH ROW: Z. BALTUS, F. BONGERS, J. JONES, G. NIELD, M. KERSTEN, C. MEULEMAN, B. RADEL, Z. MAHER, B. KINIVAN, T.J. RIGBY

TERRY SAUNDERS

Director of Tennis

The transition and subsequent consolidation of Years 5-7 into the GPS fixture competition joining Years 8-12 went off smoothly, with the Prep players benefiting and gaining valuable insight and experience for their future development. Many thanks go to Mr Alex Kelley (prep School sports master), Mr Robert Baker (teacher) and Patrick Yelland and Simona Fairelough (TSS Tennis coaches) for their efforts and considerable input into making this new experience for our Prep students beneficial, enjoyable and successful. Apart from their after-school squad coaching, sports skills sessions, over 30 Years 5 and 6 players trained diligently on Friday afternoons. As a result of their training efforts notable improvements were evident in the performances of Year 5 players, including Nicholas McKenzie, Louis Chabert, Judd Ramsey and Sam Ledingham. Our Year 6 players led by the efforts of number 1 player Dustan Rsovac, displayed sportsmanship and fighting spirit. Tom Schwekolt, Sam Robinson, Guy Gibson and Nino Bruhlman all kept pace with the efforts of Oliver Weir and Oscar Portelli.

Our Year 7 teachers with squad of players including Angus Timoney, Soshi Jo, Aiden Kitchen, Matthew Manley, Sam Sharlton, Will Muir, Ryan Murphy, Taj Yung, Ben Owen, Marsh Dight, Connor Gray, Alex Mills, James Claxton and Foster Lane sees the future strength of TSS Tennis is in good hands. Their ability, attitudes and effort levels are to be congratulated. Congratulations to the following students for their standout performances:

Year 7 – Aidan Kitchen (MVP) Will Muir (Most Improved)

Year 6 – Oliver Weir (MVP)

Oscar Portelli (Most Improved)

Year 5 – Victor Wu (MVP)

Jordan Yoo (Most improved)

The reformatting of pre-season training camps, GP training times and sign-on procedures were all refined to provide the optimal functioning of the GPS Tennis season.

Therefor many thanks to Mr Bryan Hain (Director of Sport) and his invaluable assistant, Ms Siobhan Maguire), Mr Ian Browne and Dan Trollope (Sports Managers) as well as the TSS Friends of Tennis Committee.

President – Mr Shaughn Murphy, Secretary, Mrs Jody Rasmussen and treasurer Mr Nedunchezhian)

Their contributions, as well as those of Mr Mark Wilkins (Home Host) and Mr Andrew Stark (Co-curricular staff), combined with those of the TSS Tennis Coaching Staff, enabled all our Year 5 through Year 12 students to experience an enjoyable 2014 GPS season.

Special acknowledgement and thanks must go to our TSS Friends of Tennis Committee who were responsible for the support and development of tennis within our school community. Their contributions included the following: Liaising with the TSS P&F committee to provide an array of sporting and cross training equipment at both the Prep and Senior Schools.

• Coordinating and hosting the GPS pre-season information day and

BBQ.