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25.01.2022 Good Afternoon Breakers Swimmers and Families, we today find ourselves in uncharted waters. We recognise the threat of the Coronavirus and take it incredible seriously. Many of you would be getting updates from your childrens schools around measures that are being put in place. As we are a sub-committee of Birkdale State School P&C we take our guidance from the School and Principal Mr Greg Gosling. The direction thus far has been we are fine to proceed with tomorrow night...s club meet and most likely our Championships on Sunday. Things are changing daily though so we will keep you posted if there are any further updates. In the meantime we will do our best to spread out our families attending tomorrow nights meet and to continue to undertake the safe hygiene practices we have in place. If you have any questions please reach out to me directly on this page or via the details below. Regards, Brett Collins [email protected] 0423 608 557

25.01.2022 Breakers Xmas Break Up Night Reminder Families tonight will have no competitive swimming. We will have some novelty races and fun events. Parents, for those of you that want to get involved we will have some parents races as well! All Breakers Swimmers will receive a sausage on bread and popper. BBQ will be open for the usual treats of Chicken Wraps, Chicken Burgers and Hamburgers and dont forget that Leannes world famous Butter Chicken will be makin...g its debut tonight in the canteen. Oh and we nearly forgot to mention that we are hearing whispers that a Man in a Red Suit could be dropping by. We have been reliably informed that our Special Guest will arrive around 6:15 See you tonight!

24.01.2022 Due to timing of updates Online Entries will close at 10pm tonight.Due to timing of updates Online Entries will close at 10pm tonight.

24.01.2022 Some photos have been uploaded into the group for members...

23.01.2022 Pool all prepped and ready for Club Champs tomorrow . Thanks Scott Munro for your massive effort today in the rain to clean up that grassed area over the other side of the pool. Gates open at 9am tomorrow, racing from 10!

23.01.2022 Breakers Night Six Fantastic swimming Team with a slightly smaller turn out. Coach Rob will be finalising preparations for Wynnum Cup soon too as that is creeping up on us, being held on Sunday 1st December so keep your eyes peeled for that.... On the Menu next week we will have Hamburgers, Chicken Burgers and Chicken Wraps as well as Sausage on Bread and Cheerios. Jodies famous Nachos will also be making a return. YUM!!! Members head on over to the private group for specific content and reports https://www.facebook.com/groups/553244108120949/

23.01.2022 Hi Breakers families, we are asking for your help.... Birkdale State School have entered the latest Freedom competition to try and win $$$ to help pay for the chill out space P&C have planned to provide in the Library which is currently being refurbished and renovated. We know how great you are at winning competitions! Please get behind this and help us get over the line!! Dont forget to share with family and friends too ... https://www.freedomproperty.com.au/ProjectIdea See more

21.01.2022 Sign on again this afternoon. 3pm-5pm at the Pool!Sign on again this afternoon. 3pm-5pm at the Pool!

21.01.2022 Raffle Prizes for our Inter-Club Sprint Meet on Sunday 22, March. Dont forget to collect a book to sell on Tuesday night!!

21.01.2022 One More Sleep till Breakers!!! Whos excited? One More Sleep till Breakers!!! Whos excited?

18.01.2022 Dont forget sign up this afternoon 3pm-5pm At the PoolDont forget sign up this afternoon 3pm-5pm At the Pool

18.01.2022 Breakers Night Nine Great night of swimming by everyone tonight, looked liked the kids appreciated getting out of the warmer temperature and cooling off with a bit of racing! Was great to acknowledge the Awesome Efforts of our Wynnum Cup Representatives, every single swimmer did the club proud on Sunday and to come home with the Cup for the first time in 10 years is a fantastic achievement that highlights the Breakers Spirit.... Special shout outs to Montana for being awarded with the Awesome Effort Award and Blake for his Awesome Cheering and Team Spirit. Big thanks to our volunteers that helped out too, Steve, John, Ben, Jason, Sandra and Jodie you also played your parts in making the day a success for Breakers! Onto next week, as tonight was our last night of competitive swimming minestrone week is our End of Year Break Up. No swimming for points, we will instead have some fun races, some relays and Novelty Races. We also typically have some Parents Races too so parents have sure you bag your swimmers on the night. Word of warning to the dads out there we have a strict No Budgie Smuggler Policy! Registered Swimmers will be given a token on the night to get a free sausage on bread and a popper. The BBQ will be in operation as well for everyone else offering the usual Hamburgers, Chicken Burgers and Chicken Wraps as well as Sausage on Bread and Cheerios. Making their debut as well next week is Leannes World Famous Butter Chicken that will be on sale for $5 a bowl. Leanne is one half of our Dynamic BBQ Duo and has kindly offered to cook up some Butter Chicken Oh and we almost forgot to mention, we have been in contact with our friends way up North and there is a very strong possibility of Big Old Man in Red making an appearance too! See you then !!!

18.01.2022 Good Evening Breakers Swimmers and Families, for those that werent there tonight and those that maybe didnt fully catch my announcement. This evening, I received a call from Mr Greg Gosling, Principal of Birkdale State School to inform us of the Education Queensland decision to cancel all school sports. As we are part of the Birkdale State School set up this extended to us.... Unfortunately it seems tonight was our last night of swimming for the 19/20 season. As it stands now we have had to cancel both the Sprint Championships on Sunday and the Long Distance Championships next Tuesday. At this stage it is not clear when we will be able to meet up again for our Trophy Night and AGM. It is a bitter pill to swallow to not be able to bring our season to its fitting conclusion but these are challenging times we find ourselves in. A massive thank you to all of our Breakers Swimmers and Families you have braved a particularly tough second half of the season weather wise but it has been a fun season filled with lots of laughter and effort from our swimmers. I look forward to getting the Breakers Family together as soon as we are allowed. Please stay close to our Facebook page and check your emails, when we have any further information we will share. If you have any questions please reach out to me directly on this page or via the details below. Regards, Brett Collins [email protected] 0423 608 557

17.01.2022 Breakers Night Seven Great Night In the pool team! Coach Rob has finalised the team for Wynnum Cup and spoken to most of this selected so please let us know if you can make it.... Even better to have our regular BBQrs back on the tongs this week. On the Menu next week we will have Hamburgers, Chicken Burgers and Chicken Wraps as well as Sausage on Bread and Cheerios.

17.01.2022 Rise and Shine swimmers! Todays the day we take on Wynnum Cup! Good luck to all Swimmers! There is $5 entry fee for families to enter Wynnum Cup. Also please check your emails as there wont be programs printed at the venue so if you want to follow along you will need to print one out from home. See you there

15.01.2022 Reminder $5 entry fee per family today. Cash only Gates open 9am

13.01.2022 Breakers Night One Welcome Back to so many returning swimmers and so great to see a lot of new faces as well! Thanks all for your patience tonight as we worked through registrations and nominations!... We hope all of our swimmers had fun and were happy with the results they put up on Qualifying Night. We discussed tonight but didnt confirm but in order to qualify to swim 50 meters in any stroke you must first make the following qualifying times: Freestyle 25m : 23.99s Breaststroke 25m : 29.99s Backstroke 25m : 27.99s Butterfly 25m : 25.99s Freestle 50m : 44.99s Also best way to avoid having to line up now that we are through registration is by nominating strokes online, please refer to the attached instructions on how to register, link your swimmer to your profile as well as how to submit your pre-entries. We typically open up for the next week after we post each weeks results. This week will be a bit later as Dave has to set up the season. Keep an eye out on the Private FaceBook Group and we will let you know when nominations are open. Generally nominations are closed off on Monday night. On the Menu next week we will have Hamburgers, Chicken Burgers and Chicken Wraps as well as Sausage on Bread and Cheerios. The special stroke will be 100m Breastroke Pre-entries are conducted at the website www.birkdalebreakers.com.au, follow the attach instructions on registering, linking swimmers as well as swim entries, If you have any issues please email [email protected]. Please include in your email your username for the website, as well as your registered swimmer name(s). See you then

13.01.2022 Hi Breakers Fam, at this stage our club night will go ahead tonight. We are monitoring the weather and Committee Members will be onsite at around 4pm to assess conditions. Whilst there is a lot of guesswork to predicting the weather multiple sites suggest rain in the area will drop off significantly after 4pm, but as I say there is an element of guessing in that. So fingers crossed and remember to bring some warm clothes to keep our swimmers nice and warm and if you can a hot water bottle is a nice option too! Hopefully see you tonight

12.01.2022 Breakers Night Four Great work by all swimmers especially as the weather was a little cooler. Amazing to see our littlest swimmers progressing well. Great to see our captains and other senior swimmers in helping those that need it too! ... Reminder 10th November is Sprint Meet such a fun day to compete, get your nominations in! Lots of raffle prizes on offer, if you havent picked up your book please do so next Tuesday On the Menu next week we will have Hamburgers, Chicken Burgers and Chicken Wraps as well as Sausage on Bread and Cheerios plus the Fan Favorite Nachos is back!!! The special stroke will be 100m Medley See you then! Members head on over to the private group for specific content and reports https://www.facebook.com/groups/553244108120949/ Pre-entries are conducted at the website www.birkdalebreakers.com.au, follow the attach instructions on registering, linking swimmers as well as swim entries, If you have any issues please email [email protected]. Please include in your email your username for the website, as well as your registered swimmer name(s). See you then

12.01.2022 Breakers is on tonight. Only reason to cancel is if there is any Lightning in the sky. The committee will monitor this closely over the evening.

11.01.2022 A massive shout out to two locally owned and run family businesses that always support our Breakers family. Both Grandmas Pantry and Me&My have both generously donated prizes for our raffle on Sunday. Please support those that support us! https://m.facebook.com/grandmaspantry/... https://www.facebook.com/memyhair/

11.01.2022 Breakers members head on over to the private group for results from Sundays sprint championship events

08.01.2022 GENERAL MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING AT BIRKDALE STATE SCHOOL (Arts Tech Room) 7PM. ALL WELCOME.GENERAL MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING AT BIRKDALE STATE SCHOOL (Arts Tech Room) 7PM. ALL WELCOME.

07.01.2022 Please feel free to add photos from this past week, into the closed group for Breakers. Cheers!

06.01.2022 Reminder: Trophy Night Tomorrow Night 5:30 - Food Served 6:00 - AGM 6:30 - Trophy PresentationReminder: Trophy Night Tomorrow Night 5:30 - Food Served 6:00 - AGM 6:30 - Trophy Presentation

06.01.2022 Raffle Prizes for our Inter-Club Sprint Meet on Sunday 22, March. Don’t forget to collect a book to sell on Tuesday night!!

05.01.2022 A huge shout out to Randalls Farm on Birkdale Road for their awesome donation of a yummy fresh fruit tray for tomorrows raffle, as well as donating all the sliced onion for the BBQ! #supportlocalbusiness

05.01.2022 We are a go, Breakers is on! See you tonight...

05.01.2022 Dont forget to purchase a raffle ticket or 10 tomorrow to be in the running to win one of our 2 major prizes..... A return barge fare to Straddie thanks to Stradbroke Ferries. A $300 99 Bikes voucher, kindly donated by ex Birkdalian Don Brown MP.

05.01.2022 Breakers Night Two Amazing to see so many new faces, welcome to our club! Great work by all swimmer especially as the pool was a little chilly.... Reminder that best way to avoid having to line up on the night is to register through our website (www.birkdalebreakers.com.au) Lock in the diary 10th November for our Sprint Meet its a great day and the kids love it. The Sprint Meet is also one of our best opportunities to Fund Raise and we typically have a big raffle. If you own or work in a business that would like to donate please seek out Scott Munro at our next night or message the page, funds raise go towards improving amenities for our swimmers. Last year we contributed significantly to the purchase of a new Pool Cover as well as storage equipment and a New BBQ to cook all those lovely burgers on. On the Menu next week we will have Hamburgers, Chicken Burgers and Chicken Wraps as well as Sausage on Bread and Cheerios plus the Fan Favourite Nachos is back!!! The special stroke will be 100m Medley See you then! Members head on over to the private group for specific content and reports https://www.facebook.com/groups/553244108120949/ Pre-entries are conducted at the website www.birkdalebreakers.com.au, follow the attach instructions on registering, linking swimmers as well as swim entries, If you have any issues please email [email protected]. Please include in your email your username for the website, as well as your registered swimmer name(s). See you then

04.01.2022 Hi Breakers Families, hope everyone is safe and well. Just wanting to provide you all with an update and a few key pieces of information for upcoming dates; 1. 19/20 Trophy Presentation - (Current COVID Outbreak aside) we are looking to host this event on Sunday the 13th of September from 3pm-4:30pm on the Birkdale State School Agnes Street Oval (Next to the Pool) due to the size of the area this will allow us to host the event with limited restrictions. Breakers will provi...de food and drinks for the event and we will provide more of an update around the details for this event closer to the time. 2. 20/21 Season - We are working closely with the Birkdale State School Leadership Team to be able run a season this year. The committee are working feverishly on putting together our COVID Safe plan. What we can tell you is at this stage we will probably have to limit the number of people in the pool area to between 130-140 we are working through this plan and hope to have it available prior to our Trophy Presentation. 3. Sponsors - We would like to thank our Sponsors for the last two years of; * EDB Training Services * All States Directional Boring * INZ Electrical * Todds Fibreglass Repairs * Carolyn Mole - Redlands Realty * Outlaw Charters * JF Interior Renovations * H3Aquatics We are so grateful for their support and as a community run organisation we rely on the funds injected by these sponsors to help us run the season and provide for our swimmers. Thank you to each sponsor listed above. With this in mind we are on the look out for sponsors for the upcoming season so if you have a business or know someone who is interested in sponsoring our great little club please reach out to us. Thanks all, we will get back to you with more details as they come to hand. Any questions please reach out directly to any of the committee. Many Thanks, Birkdale Breakers Committee

04.01.2022 Breakers Night Eight Awesome night of Swimming capped off by a boil over in the last event with Ryder taking down Coach Rob. Pretty sure that is the first time Coach Rob has been beaten in the Breakers Pool, well done Ryder! Coach Rob you will have to lift or pretty soon we might be handing the reins to Coach Ryder! Was fantastic to announce our squad for Wynnun Cup, we are confident that they will display that fighting Breakers Spirit on Sunday and do us a...ll proud! See all those swimmers and their families on Sunday. On the Menu next week we will have Hamburgers, Chicken Burgers and Chicken Wraps as well as Sausage on Bread and Cheerios. Jodies World Famous Nachos are back on the Menu too! The special stroke will be 100m Medley See you then!

03.01.2022 Congratulations 2019/2020 Club Captains Keeley and Lachlan

03.01.2022 Season 2019/2020 is fast approaching. Come along to our sign on days. Please reach out if you have any questions...

02.01.2022 Hi Breakers Families, at this stage tonights meet remains on. The committee are monitoring the weather conditions and will keep you posted of any decision ASAP. Regardless with all of the rain the pool and its surrounds will be substantially cooler than usual. We recommend jumpers/jackets to rug up, as well as hot water bottles to keep swimmers warm between swims. We are onsite early this afternoon and will assess the conditions then. Thanks for your patience.

02.01.2022 Registration is still open if you havent signed on yet. Pop down on Tuesday evening and the committee can help you out! Welcome to the Birkdale Breakers 2019/2020 season starting this Tuesday 8th October Gates will be open from 5pm to nominate for races...please see Fiona and Dave at the computer area.... All races will be 25m to be timed for progress to 50m. Volunteers will be needed for timekeeping, if you are able to help please let us know upon arrival. Please note a roster for timekeeping will start in week 2....more information will be supplied on Tuesday night. The canteen and bbq will be open with chicken wraps, chicken burgers and hamburgers (all $5 each) together with sausage on bread for $2.50 each. Drinks and snacks will also be available. Remember to bring a robe/jacket, extra towels and/or a hot water bottle for in between races to keep warm as it will be cool. The committee members will be introduced on Tuesday night and please feel free to approach any of the committee if you have any questions during the season. Looking forward to a great season Birkdale Breakers Committee Members Birkdale Breakers Swim Club Agnes Street Birkdale Q 4159 (opposite Birkdale SS)

02.01.2022 Thanks to all our wonderful members that jumped on and voted for this competition!! We won a new gazebo to be printed with our logos and colours!! Awesome work team and thanks Don Brown

01.01.2022 One more sleep till first Club Night of 2020. Pool is looking amazing and ready for all of our swimmers tomorrow night!