Teagan and Tyler Richards took the long trip over to Ocean Grove on the weekend to complete in the first Victorian carnival for the season.

Conditions were reasonably kind on Sunday with ~2-3ft surf – with Nippers competing in an impressive 4-6ft surf the day before.

Teagan competed in Open Boards; U17/19 Boards; U17 Open Swim; and U17 Iron Person, making all finals and finishing extremely well.

Tyler competed in all events and made finals across all events, also finishing extremely well. Tyler was also lucky enough to join some of the Altona SLSC boys for the Cameron and Board Relay.

Well done!

Junior update this week includes:

• Training Time Table
• Rostered Jobs
• Calendar Changes
• Uniting SA Christmas Appeal
• Youth Teams Carnival U12 to U15
• Nippers Christmas Show
• Junior Carnival 2
• Post Carnival Dinner

Rostered Jobs

This week the rostered jobs are:

Calendar Changes

Endurance Event – West Beach Nipperthon has been removed from theSurf Life Saving SA Calendar for the 2019/20 season.

Swim Training has also been delayed till the New Year.

Uniting SA Christmas Appeal

In a bid to help less fortunate families we are asking all of our Nippers to support the Uniting SA Christmas Appeal. 

Please drop a small non-perishable, unwrapped gift into the box by the Christmas/Nipper Board.  All donations will be delivered to Uniting SA on Monday 16th December.

The Christmas / Nipper Board is  is now set up in the North Western corner of the club next to the Bar.  

Thanks in advance for your support

Youth Teams Carnival 8th December – Seacliff SLSC

****VENUE HAS CHANGED FROM MOANA TO SEACLIFF****

A Youth Carnival is scheduled for the 8th of December 2019 involving the Under 12 to Under 15 Age Groups.  The carnival will start at 10am and is expected to be finished early afternoon.

Age Group Manages are asking for competitors to be on the beach by 9:15am to assist with setup, warm-up and being ready for marshalling for the first event. Its going to be a warm day so a warm up swim may be on the cards!!

Events will include:

• Swim (sep male & female for each U12, U13, U14 & U15 )
• Mixed Board Relay (2 x male + 2 x female) – U12/13 + U14/15
• Mixed Wade Relay (2 x male & 2 x female) – U12/13 + U14/15
• Mixed Cameron Relay (2 x male & 2 x female) – U12/13 + U14/15

Nippers Christmas Party – 14th December 2019

We will have our usual Christmas Breakup on Saturday 14th December after training and all families are asked to bring a plate – Boys are allocated Savoury and Girls Sweet.

Items are required to be cut and plated before delivery to the canteen before or during training (don’t forget to pick up your plate/serving container afterwards).

We ask that items requiring warming be limited to 2-3 families per age group as it takes time to warm items.

Training will finish early from 2:30pm and each age group will take turns going upstairs to the food, starting with the Under 7’s and moving through to the Under 13’s.

We will also have a visit from a very special person who usually dresses in a red suit!!!

Volunteers are needed to assist in the kitchen with plating up and overseeing the serving tables.

Please text Steph Breden on 0429 046 362 if you can help  

Junior Carnival 2 – 15th December 2019 – Glenelg

The second Junior Carnival is scheduled for Sunday 15th of December at Glenelg SLSC.  This carnival is primarily a teams event with Beach Relays, Wade Relays, Board Relays, Swim Teams, and Cameron Events along with individual events in Flags, Iron Person with an individual swim for competent U8’s and U9’s.

Your Age Group Managers will be asking for your nominations this weekend as entries will need to be entered to the Surf Life Saving Event System. Only Nipper that are full members and are pre-entered can compete on the day of Carnival so be sure to let your Age Group Manager know if your intending to compete

The Scheduled Events are shown below.

Post Carnival Dinner at the Club

After another great day on the beach competing a why not clean up and come to the Club to celebrate everyone’s achievement.

Simple meals at a member discount will be available at the Club from 5:00pm with a short wrap up of how we went on the beach for each of the Age Groups.

Don’t Miss It!!!

Junior Calendar

If you missed Club Captain Andrew Edwards speaking to the ABC about the Club’s wonderful experience providing water cover for a large group of refugee children from Salisbury North School – many of whom were swimming in the sea for the first time – you can listen to it here.

“There are some moments in life that you will remember forever and this week a few of us were lucky enough to experience just such a moment. We were asked through Stephen Harris’s neighbour to provide water cover for a large group of refugee children from Salisbury North School. Within this group there were five different cultures, five different languages and children from all of the troubled parts of the world. Some of these children had never been or swam in the ocean before! For us to witness first hand the sheer look of joy and excitement on their faces as they played in the water for the first time was truly amazing and so uplifting to be a part of.

The kids would call out to show you how good they could swim, or how they were able to put their face underwater, they were just so happy to be enjoying that moment with us and their friends. The teachers enjoyed a few rides in the IRB with some of them never having been in a boat with a motor on before! At their lunch break they surprised us all with fish and chips from Soto’s for lunch – always a favourite with the Semaphore Surf Life Savers!

Thanks to Stephen Harris for arranging this and thanks to Michael Kenny, Sean Kenny, Heatha Leslie and Connor Tunbridge for putting their hand up to help, especially at late notice. It is moments like this that make you really appreciate how lucky we are to have been born here in Australia and to be able to serve our community through Surf Life Saving. I am not sure who got more out of today, us or them!”

Andrew Edwards
Club Captain, Semaphore SLSC