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Croquet Club

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:44:06 +0000

The Blue Mountains Croquet Club play at Blackheath Bowling Club in Clanwilliam Street although they have moved venues a few times in the past 30 years. They play Monday Wednesday and Friday and are looking for new players of any age. Fridays are the ‘come along and try’ days from 9am to midday. As Michael, the club president, says “if you can walk and swing your arms you will be able to play!”
Please wear flat soled shoes. The green needed attention but is being improved with the excellent help of Rob Johnson, the greenkeeper from Blackheath Golf Club
Croquet is a great game for younger players as there is plenty of skill required and tactics to learn at competition level. The club travel around NSW and got through to the finals of the State Competition recently.

Table Tennis Club

admin — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:30:27 +0000

The table tennis club was established 4 years ago by René Buhler and Ferenc Szabados and plays in St Hilda’s Church hall in Katoomba. Competition nights are on Wednesdays and training is on Thursday nights. There are usually 4 tables being used on competition nights with about 20 players. Juniors from about 10 year sold [...]

Katoomba RSL Swimming Club Make History

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:46:05 +0000

Simon O’Toole, Jake Post, Brian DeBono, Josh Watkins from Katoomba RSL Swimming created club history when they qualified and competed at the NSW Swimming State Age Championships. This is the first time that Katoomba RSL has qualified relay teams at State Swimming.

The Katoomba RSL Swimming team qualified for both the medley and freestyle 200m relays with some very impressive times swam in the medley relay. Coach Kathy Dobson always felt that the boys would shine in the medley relay and they didn’t disappoint their coach. Starting with the backstroke Brian DeBono started strongly for the team and Jake Post followed with an impressive breaststroke leg, Josh Watkins then hit the water and swam with determination in the butterfly and Simon O’Toole bought the team home with style in the freestyle. This was a truly impressive swim with three swimmers gaining a Pb and the fourth swimmer swimming to their previous Pb.
Jake Post and Josh Watkins also qualified for individual swims at State Age. This was also an impressive feat as both boys have only just turned eleven and gained qualifying times at this very competitive level. Jake had swims in the 50m and 100m freestyle and Josh swam in the 50m freestyle.
This weekend of swimming is only just the beginning for a very busy time ahead for the swimmers. Katoomba RSL are sending a very strong team to the Regional Championships at Bathurst on the 24th and 25th January and also have nine swimmers already qualified for NSW Country Championships at Homebush in February.
If you are interested in joining Katoomba RSL Swimming Club they meet every Friday night at Katoomba pool at 6pm. Come down and try out swimming for your next sport.