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Traralgon Swimming Club Presentation Night 2011 More than 200 members and families attended the annual Traralgon Swimming Club Presentation night held at the Premier Function Room in Traralgon recently. The night celebrated the end of the 2010/2011 swimming season and congratulated all swimmers on their achievements throughout the year. The presentation night began with a late afternoon junior awards session and continued throughout the evening with the senior awards.
President Jane Mitchell, Senior Head coach Brian Ford, Head Coach Ben
Geard, Senior coaches, Will Morrison, Michelle Ford, Matt Dinsmore, Sam
Fenton and junior coaches, Charley Askew and Georgia Collings awarded
130 trophies for participation and achievement throughout the night and
congratulated the swimmers for their dedication and commitment in making
Traralgon Swimming Club the top Victorian Country club. The club’s
achievements for the season including winning the Victorian Country
Swimming Championships for the 11th time in 12 years, winning
the Gippsland Swimming Championships for the 12th year,
continuing to place in the top 10 at Victorian State Championships and
medalling at the National Age Championships were recalled and celebrated
along with individual and team achievements. 14 year old Georgia Tsebelis was awarded the Kathleen Froud Memorial Trophy as the Club Champion for the season. Georgia’s point score accumulated through outstanding swimming from local through to National level saw her take out the award for the second session in a row. Erin Roberts, Trent Morrow, Alex Tsebelis, Bridget Cain, Riley Akers, Ashleigh Mihaly, Mikayla Underwood, Elayna Pistrin and Lincoln Ingravalle were awarded the Coach’s Awards for excellence in training. Ten year old Georgia Moon was presented with the Loy Yang Power Encouragement Award and the First Year Swimmer with Potential went to ten year old Lauren Akers. Philip Blunt (15 years) was named Traralgon’s most successful swimmer in the local Gippsland fixture.
Traralgon’s Age Group Champions were named: (7 years and under) Jasmin
Underwood and Benjamin Fleming (8 years) Chance Doultree and Elayna
Pistrin (9 Years) Oscar Harry and Bridget Cain. (10 years) Alex Tsebelis
and Georgia Moon (11 years) Jasmine Doultree and Thomas Fleming (12
years) Erin Roberts and Caiden Gill (13 years) Georgia Tsebelis and Ian
Melrose (14 years) Taylah Willaton and Trent Morrow (15 years) Nicole
Moon and Philip Blunt (16 years) Shae Haney and Jordan Radosavljevic (17
years and over) Stephanie Morgan and Ben Geard.
Jeremy Meyer, former Club Champion who is now based at the AIS in
Canberra was in attendance to celebrate along with his former team
mates. Jeremy was named in the club’s prestigious Top Ten based on
accumulated points for the seas Traralgon swimmers are now back in full training preparing for the Victorian Country Short Course Championships which will be held in August.
Congratulations to Trophy winners:
Most Successful Swimmer In Gippsland
Loy Yang Power Encouragement Award
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A PowerPoint presentation was shown throughout the night of photos and
video clips of the swimmers in action taken throughout the year. There
were many laughs and much applause as swimmers and their families
relived the year through photos and speeches. The highlight of the
evening was the Victorian Country Championships DVD which was made by
the coaches and swimmers showing not only the success of those
championships but the fun times that was had around the pool throughout
the weekend. 
LaTrobe Financial’s Most Improved Swimmer Awards went to Georgia Moon,
Bridget Cain, Annabelle Reid, Samuel Reid, Chance Doultree and Alex
Tsebelis (10 and under) and Chloe Trickett, Grace Biram, Ellie May,
Finley Peddle, Jason Withell and Ashton Arthur (11 years and over).
These awards are based on cumulative improvement to times over the
season. 
The Most Valuable Club Member award was presented to Veronica Roberts
for her invaluable service as the club's masseur throughout the swimming
season. Club President Jane Mitchell also thanked all the members of the
committee for their contribution throughout the year.
on. The Top Ten Traralgon swimmers were:
Georgia Tsebelis, Erin Roberts, Jeremy Meyer, Maggie O’Keefe, Jasmine
Doultree, Alex Tsebelis, Ben Geard, Trent Morrow, Brayden Haney and Gemma Radosavljevic. 
