Swim Team ~V~ Newsletter Feb 26 2010 Ed’s Comment: Look around you at the pool. Who are the Champions? Now, Do What They Do. A message from the Teacher in Charge of Swimming, Mr Voss. The Ivanhoe Grammar Swimming Tea m has a long, proud and v ery successful history. Long before any of us wer e born, swimmers from Ivan hoe Grammar School were winning AGSV Premiershi ps. This winning history has set the bar high for our team and it asks the question of you: will you continue this proud tradition? What we must remember is that only our current team members can continue this tradition and make this year another winning year. Our luminous past does not guarantee the same success for the future. You are the ones who carry the history of the team now. Our success is only possible through your commitment and dedication to the task at hand. Winning both the boys ’ and girls’ premiership cups is our goal. Should we achieve this goal, this tea m would make history. This team would be the first AGSV Swimming team to win both Swimming Premierships in the same year. Whilst we are a team, and anyone who has ever been to an AGSV Swimming Championship night would ever argue that we are anything but a team, our success comes down to each of you doing what you ca n as individuals. No one is pretending that being a successful swimmer is an easy path. Being a successful swimmer is about preparation. It is about turning up to training early in the morning, at times long before many others have woken. It’s about your hours of training in the water, putting in maximum effort and dedication, improving your stroke technique and your fitne ss. These all add up to your success in the pool and our success as a team depends on you. Every swimmer must do what they can to ensure that they reach their best. Through this, we as a team, reach OUR best. This is the only way we can maximise our chance of making history. Whilst you could argue that we owe it to all the teams of the past to continue to their tradition. I would argue that you owe it to each other to be the best that you can be. Finally, I ask you this: do you want to make this year the m ost successful year in this team’s history?You know the answer so see you on pool deck.
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Ed’s Comment: Look around you at the pool. Who are the Champions? Now, Do What They D
A message from the Teacher in Charge of Swimming, Mr Voss.
The Ivanhoe Grammar Swimming Team has a long, proud and very successful history. Long before any of us were born,
swimmers from Ivanhoe Grammar School were winning AGSV Premierships. This winning history has set the bar high for
our team and it asks the question of you: will you continue this proud tradition? What we must remember is that only our
current team members can continue this tradition and make this year another winning year. Our luminous past does not
guarantee the same success for the future. You are the ones who carry the history of the team now.
Our success is only possible through your commitment and dedication to the task at hand.
Winning both the boys’ and girls’ premiership cups is our goal. Should we achieve this goal, this team would make history.
This team would be the first AGSV Swimming team to win both Swimming Premierships in the same year.
Whilst we are a team, and anyone who has ever been to an AGSV Swimming Championship night would ever argue that weare anything but a team, our success comes down to each of you doing what you can as individuals. No one is pretending
that being a successful swimmer is an easy path. Being a successful swimmer is about preparation. It is about turning up to
training early in the morning, at times long before many others have woken. It’s about your hours of training in the water,
putting in maximum effort and dedication, improving your stroke technique and your fitness. These all add up to your succe
in the pool and our success as a team depends on you. Every swimmer must do what they can to ensure that they reach
their best. Through this, we as a team, reach OUR best. This is the only way we can maximise our chance of making history
Whilst you could argue that we owe it to all the teams of the past to continue to their tradition. I would argue that you owe it
to each other to be the best that you can be.
Finally, I ask you this: do you want to make this year the most successful year in this team’s history?
At Ivanhoe Grammar School, the swimming team is about building champions – everyone
from swimmers to coaches and managers, to the old bloke who starts the races each
Friday night. It matters not, whether you come to the team a champion or develop
champion traits as your experience as a team member increases. If you don’t swim your
last race for Ivanhoe believing you are a champion then I would be greatly disappointed.
We’ve seen them all – Olympians and Para-Olympians, National and State champions bumostly just champions. Swimming at Ivanhoe will teach you many lessons – nearly all of
them unspoken but if you open your mind and absorb the best that is around you then it w
happen. Let it. GKH
Cheer Squad: Mr Ward and Mr Harder are volunteering to supervise a Cheer Squad bus which will depart
from and return to The Ridgeway. It will hopefully bring in about 50 true supporters, not noisy hoons, to
provide vocal support throughout the sports. More about the arrangements for the sports coming soon.