April Update: Summer is (pretty much) over!

Whats Happened:

INTRA Winners

Congratulations to the Retrograde Rascals for being the Brightest Stars in the pool this INTRA season! 

Whilst this was a bit of a shortened season we had a blast and saw a whole lot of improvement in our players. Special honours go to our new booties who completed their first season.

The final results:

• First - Jarod’s Retrograde Rascals
• Stary Second -  Joseph’s Celestial Body-oddy-oddies
• Third - Kingsford’s Swimming Supernovas
• Fourth - Andrew’s Astrogirlz
• Fifth - Phoebe’s Magnificent Meteors

Winter INTRA Sign Ups

Are you an aspiring frigid bitch? Then it's time to sign up for the winter season. Please fill in the form for INTRA Season sign ups by 24th April if you're interested in sharing your cold hearted playing skills in the pool. Any questions or queries for sign-ups or Metro season please contact Dylan (vicepresident@sydneystingers.org.au) or a coach. 

Tournament + End of Season Awards 

Get ready for the new season with a little warm up tournament followed by end of season awards at Ryde on 11th May. An internal club tournament is a perfect way to get back into the swing of things, meet some of your teammates and enjoy the most important part of the day. Food. We’ll be having our Summer Season awards afterwards, so keep those laps up over the break and see you back in the pool soon. 

Whats On:

Trivia Night - 15th June

New year, new venue - Rocks Brewing Brewing Co Tap House in Alexandria will host us on Saturday 15th of June 2024 for our annual Trivia Night. This year's theme is Olympic Sports. Earn some rewards for the most creative team name (must include an Olympic Country).

If you are free on the night and would like to volunteer (selling raffle tickets, performing or marking) please contact Coach Rachel. Additionally please reach out if you can donate gifts, big or small, as we are going to be creating raffle/game prize packs. It could be a holiday, swimming gear, a bottle of wine or a candle.

Rise and Shine Party 

Stingers have been invited to join Sydney’s LGBTQAI+ sporting leagues for the Rise + Shine Bondi Beach Party, Saturday 27th April. This event hosts an afternoon and evening filled with friends, fun, DJs and dancing, right on Bondi Beach. For more information and tickets have a look at the event page. 

IGLA 2024 Buenos Aires Expression of Interest

Buenos Aires, Argentina will be hosting the next IGLA Championships with events to be held on 5 - 9th November, during the country's Gay Pride Celebrations. Please fill in this form if you're thinking about attending.

Whos-Who at Stingers

Meet the Executive Committee

This month we had our club strategy day where we discussed all things stingers related and made some plans for the future of the club. We want to introduce our Executive Committee to all our newbies who haven’t met us yet. We are:

Dylan Vitucci - Vice President (top left)

Bec Colechin - Ordinary Exec (top middle)

Thomas Cooney - Secretary (top right)

Dean Lane - Ordinary Exec (bottom left)

Joshua Sprake - Treasurer (bottom middle)

Ben Thomas - President (bottom right)

Stef Jelic - General Exec

Rachel Collier - Ordinary Exec

You can find out the whos-who of Stingers here on Rev sport (including contact details), feel free to approach any of us if you have any questions or queries. You can also check out Club Management and Structure (linked from the Member Zone) for an overview of the roles needed to keep the club running, and if there is anything you’d love to be a part of please don’t hesitate to reach out to anyone on Exec!

Stingers On Tour

Keep an eye out for your teammates as Stinger set out for world domination! We'll be battling it out in the pool and attending these events:

• IGLA in Buenos Aires, 5-9th November 2024 (coincides with Gay Pride events in Argentina)
• IGLA Washington DC, 2nd-6th June 2025 (during Pride Month).

General Information:

• If you have Facebook, please join our Stingers Members Page, where you can keep up to date with announcements.
• See the Member Zone for club information
• Check out the Club Calendar for upcoming events and the training plan, you can also subscribe to the calendar on your phone using the link provided
• Grab exclusive merch available on the Stingers Shop at bargain basement prices!

Try this out:

One if the easiest ways to get better at waterpolo is building up your swim fitness. Write down the set below and head off to the pool, remember you can adjust the times as need. And give those shoulders a stretch afterwards!

Total Time: 40min with rest

Total distance: 1800m

Warmup:

100 Free, 100 IM, 100 Free.

Main set:

4 x 150m with last 50 form. 

- 3min for 50m pool, 2:45 for 25m pool.

4 x 100m Free, last 25m kick.

- 2:20 for 50m pool, 2:10 for 25m pool.

100 easy, double arm backstroke

4 x 50m Free, first 25 easy, last 25 sprint

- 1:10min for 50m pool, 1min for 25m pool.

200 easy cooldown