Mission Statement

Castle Hill RSL Dolphins strives to support all swimmers across all levels of competitive swimming and will encourage swimmers to participate and compete in club competitions and social activities as well as district and representative swimming events.

Friday Night Swimming

Trying for the first time

All interested swimmer are welcome to have 2 trial nights to see if the Dolphins Friday night swimming is something they would like to do. There is no minimum age limit, however children must be able to swim a length of a 25m pool.

All interested parent are asked to come to the Recording Room (rear of pool) around 6pm Friday evening during our swimming season. Our recorders will enter the children in maximum of 3 races each and organise the second trial.

Once the two Friday night trials are completed and the child is interested in joining the Castle Hill RSL Dolphins Swimming Club, parents will need to register their child and pay the necessary membership fees.

For Registration Information and Membership Fee Structure, please click here

Start and Finish Times

We suggest parents bring their children for about 6pm on Fridays so your child can have a warm up swim. If you only enter your child in 25m events you will be finished around 7.30 otherwise you should be done by around 8:00 -8:15 p.m.

Races

Your child will be placed in races to match their swimming ability not age. If your child is under 10 years of age, they must start with 25m races and achieve qualifying times in order to progress up to 50m events. Children older than 10yrs may start with 50m races if they wish. Qualifying times are available on the Dolphins Website.

The first time a child swims a particular distance in a stroke they will be placed in the slowest heat (first race) and have their card marked as 'time trial'. The next time they swim, the time achieved in previous races will be used and they will be placed in a heat with swimmers of similar speed.

Entries for a Friday night must be submitted on a Dolphins Multi-Entry Card, by 7:30pm on the preceding Wednesday. Once completed, Dolphins Entry cards can be placed in the Dolphins box located at the reception desk of the Coulter Swim School. Once the swimmer becomes a registered Dolphins member, entries can be submitted online.

To complete Dolphins Multi-Entry Card:
- Enter name / Date of birth/Age/ Date
- Circle up to 3 races that will be available on the Friday night of the trial.
Please check the Program to ascertain what races are available.

For Summer 2011-2012 Program, please click here

For results for each Friday night click here

Cost

There is no cost for the two Friday night trials.

After the trials, for children to continue swimming in Friday night races they must be registered with NSW Swimming.

Once the swimmer is reqistered, all Friday night entries will be covered by the registration fees and the parent can choose whether they enter on-line via the Dolphins website or manually using cards.

Programs

We have a series of four programs which are cycled throughout the swim season. For current program please click here

Pointscores

Once you have registeredyour child with the club a point score will be accumulated each time they swim. The more they improve the more points they earn! At the end of the swimming year trophies will be awarded in age categories.

Carnivals

Castle Hill RSL Dolphin members will have plenty of opportunity to participate in other clubs invitation carnivals.

Talk to our coaches Greg, Vera, or any other coach at Coulter about when and which carnivals are appropriate for your child. Watch the notice board and the as notices will go up inviting members to numerous carnivals.

District Events

Our club belongs to the Swimming Metro North West District and all dolphis are encourage to participate in the SMNW Championships held in both summer and winter.

Speedo Sprint series is another great carnival for swimmers up to 13 years of age.

The Friday racing also offers an opportunity for its member s to attempt to qualify for State and Metropolitan championships held each season. All the members need to do is tick the 'qualifying' box on their Multi-entry card.

Championships

Each year our club championships are held at the end of the summer season. A child needs to have swum at least 50% of the summer season to be eligible to participate. There is no attendance requirement to be able to swim in the winter sprint carnival held at the end of the winter season.