Training sessions will resume on Tuesday 9th January 2023. Please make sure you are a financial member as membership fees were due 01 January 2024. Please log into Swim Central where you can pay your membership fee on line.

Unfortunately due to other commitments, Head coach Bridget has decided to move on and will not be coaching us next year. Bridget has been a great asset to the Club and will be greatly missed, especially on the Wednesday technique sessions.

She will still be a member of the Club and from time to time we will see her around the pool and at open water events. So Bridget thank you for your coaching time and if you see her, give her a nudge and tell her how much we want her back, 106 of us should send a pretty strong message.

Saturday Evening 02 December

Ahoy, matey! Get ready to set sail on a thrilling Caribbean adventure like no other. The Rocky Rays invites you to our Christmas function with a twist – set aboard a luxurious Caribbean cruise.

Put on your best pirate attire, cruise wear, or elegant island outfits. Prizes for the best-dressed mail and female as well as a lucky door prize!

Ticket Price: $20.00 each for members and their partner. Reserve your spot now for a night of mystery, merriment, and memories. Price includes food, but BYO alcohol.

To purchase tickets, click here go to our Upcoming Events page or alternatively pay by EFPOS at training.

Don’t miss the boat! Get your boarding pass now for this unforgettable Caribbean cruise experience.

Come aboard and celebrate the holiday season with your fellow club members. It’s going to be a night filled with suspense, laughter, and great company.

Saturday 21 October 10.00am – 2.30pm approx

Can the mighty Rocky Rays take home the BP Cup again? Or is it Mandurah’s turn?

Please join us on Saturday October 21st at Aqua Jetty from 10am to 2pm for an informal competition that includes a mix of fun and serious races.

Raffles, fun and food to be had!

The BP Cup is a friendly competition between Rockingham and Mandurah Masters in memory of two wonderful swimmers Ken and Steve.

We would love for you to join us so could you please RSVP here your intention or otherwise.

Sunday 15 October 2.00pm – 5.00pm

We have organised an easy social get together before our end of year spectacular Christmas party presentation night.

Please join us for a Sunday afternoon of playing Petanque. The event is a family day fun day with partners and kids welcome.

The cost is $13.00 per person playing which gets you Boules hire, instructions and nibbles. However it is strictly NO BYO as soft and alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase at the bar on site and at club prices.

For further details and to purchase tickets please click here or please head to our events page.

Our Head Coach, Bridget will be now focusing on taking the Wednesday evening technique training sessions. Her Thursday night sessions will now temporarily be taken by Erica Thomas, until Heather Preston is up and running as one of our new coaches. Erica will not be advising on stroke correction, nor coaching as such, but will implement the programmes and run/organise the training session.

We have also welcomed back Cherie Savin, our previous Head Coach, who has rejoined us and taken over Jeannette’s training nights.

Including Motivational Speaker and Opera Singer Extraordinaire

Come down to Waikiki foreshore and participate in another open water beach swim at 8.30am on Sunday morning, 22nd January.

The previous swims last year have been a great success with everybody having a great time as well as socialising and getting to know one another over a free BBQ breakfast.

So register your interest here to help with catering and come on down to the beach for a swim and a feed. Remember that this is an event for all levels, no matter what your open water swimming ability is like.

Our coaches will be taking a well earned break over the Christmas period. Training sessions will finish up on Thursday 15th December 2022 and will return on Tuesday 10th January 2023.

From all of us here at our Club we wish all our members a safe and Merry Christmas as well as a great New Year and hopefully will see everybody back at training in January.

We are excited to announce that we will be holding an end of year Christmas function on Saturday evening, 17th December from 6pm to 11 pm.

This will be a great evening and themed as the 1920’s Great Gatsby. There will be dancing, a roulette and blackjack table so you can dance and gamble the night away. And what’s even better is that you don’t even have to provide your own gambling money. Professional croupiers will supplying chips and manning the tables with a prize given for the best gambler.

The venue is the Safety Bay Yacht Club, with the ticket cost being $20.00 per member and partners and $30.00 for non members. Finger food will be provided during the evening, however alcohol and soft drink is BYO. There will also be some raffles and presentation of trophy’s by our President Mark.

So save the date, find your 1920’s outfit and register your interest here for catering and other organisational purposes.

The Social Committee are pleased to announce that they have organised another great social evening so our wonderful members can get together for a fun night of bowling and socialising.

Please join us on Friday evening the 11th November at 6:30 pm at the Safety Bay Bowling Club, Penguin Road, Shoalwater.

No need to worry whether you know how to play, send the bowl in the wrong direction or even know what the jack or “kitty” is (or what is used for) as you will have a lot of fun working out the bias and getting too much grass and good weight.

Please  register your interest here to assist us with catering.

In conjunction with Masters Swimming WA we are participating in a state-wide “Come and Try” day.

Please join us on Saturday 5th November at 10.30am to 12.30pm at the 50m outdoor pool at Aqua Jetty.

This is a great way to get a taste of what our club offers by having “fitness, friendship and fun” by meeting the swimming coaches and participating in some swimming sessions that are indicative of our training nights.

It is a free event, including entry into Aqua Jetty and to top it off we will be providing refreshments and a bite to eat after the swimming sessions so that you can have a chat to existing members, find out more and get any of your questions answered.

The Banks Phillips Cup is a hotly contested competition between the Rocky Rays and the Mandurah Manna’s Swim Clubs. This competition began 3 years ago to honour a swimmer from each of our clubs who sadly passed away in the same year. It is a very fun based competition of mostly games and relays with a bunch of prizes and a magnificent trophy up for grabs for the Team who scores the most points. Please save Sunday 30th October from 1pm if you care to join us for this afternoon of fun and friendly rivalry. Afternoon Tea will be served in MARC clubrooms afterwards and we may even take home the trophy again?

This coming Thursday 22nd September, to honour our late Queen the Warnbro Sound Warriors are having an ocean swim at 9am followed by a sausage sizzle at Palm Beach (near the Bell St roundabout). Sausage sizzle is provided (but feel free to bring bacon and eggs), please bring a plate to share and wear your best tiara. If you don’t want to swim then you can walk the beach, kayak, SUP, or turn up around 10 for the food. 

We are holding a sausage sizzle fundraising event at the Rockingham Bunnings store on Saturday 3rd September from 7.00am to 4.00pm. So come down and purchase a snag or two and help support the club. Money raised will help us to subsidise our great end of year Christmas function that the Social Committee has organised for all members in December.

Can’t make a Tuesday or Thursday night for training? Or would like to train some more?

Starting on Wednesday 6th April we will now also have Wednesday as a training night in addition to Tuesdays and Thursdays. This training night will be taken by our head coach Bridget and will be held in the indoor 25 metre pool.

The focus on these Wednesday night sessions will be breaking down the various strokes (freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke) as well as stroke correction techniques.

So come along and give it a go in the shorter and shallower pool.

Unfortunately, training night last Tuesday (26 July) was one of our favourite coaches last coaching session with us and our club. After numerous years of coaching us, Cherie has had to relinquish her position as a coach due to other commitments.

We wish her well and thank her greatly for the time and dedication that she has given us and our club. As she will still be a member of the club and a keen swimmer, I’m sure we will still see her down at the pool or in the ocean.

Cherie’s position as coach will be taken by Michael Cook and we look forward to officially welcoming Michael to the coaching team. 

Come along to our next social event.

This will be an old fashioned car rally starting at a local place in Shoalwater around 8.30-9.00am and finishing at lunchtime at a secret location with toilets and undercover area.

Every car will get coded instructions as to where to go and it will be timed to the speed limit so as not to be a race as such.  It will have many stops with questions to answer and things to collect along the way.

It will be a family friendly event with BYO drinks and lunch (bbq facilities), arriving between 12.00pm-1.00pm at the final stop. There will be lots of prizes and fun for the correct answers, games and activities for kids and adults and an emergency “if lost envelope” (sealed of course) that can be used if you get geographically embarrassed.

So please keep the date free and register your interest/attendance here for organisational purposes. 

Join us while we partake in the Act Belong Commit Winter Solstice Swim.

This is a Masters Swimming WA event which will take place 17 June – 20 June 2022 and is an open water swim that can be completed any time during the competition period. As a club we have nominated Sunday 19th June as the day for our own swim session and will be at Palm Beach (Bell Street Roundabout), followed by breakfast of bacon and egg roll etc.

This is a competition between Masters WA clubs, with the winning club taking home the perpetual Winter Solstice Swim Trophy! Mandurah Masters are the club to beat, having won two years in a row.

To find out more and register your interest/attendance please click here.

Now that the weather is getting a bit cooler, do you wish to order a club jacket to wear to and from training?

If so, please go the Hot Klobba store in Port Kennedy by the end of May and ask for Chris or Victor. They will assist you in choosing the correct size jacket and allow you to place an order.

The approximate cost of the jacket is $60 which is to be paid by you on delivery at a later date.

At the end of May, we will pay for all the orders on your behalf and arrange embroidery with our club logo before delivery and payment at training.

Also for our “big headed “ people in our club we have asked for a polar fleece navy beanie which may suit you better. Please try one on and if that style fits and you are keen for a warm noggin after winter swims, then place your order as above before the end of May. 

If we can get 15 or so jackets we get a good discount.

Should you have any questions or require further information then please SMS our Uniform Officer Lyle on 0439 965 007.

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a Social Get-Together function for members and their partners on the evening of Saturday, 28th May 2022 from 7.00pm to 10.30pm

This will be a fun night of Latin dancing instruction, entertaining games, music quiz, social interaction and surprises held at McLarty Hall in Shoalwater.

So, if needed get babysitters organised and to find out more and register to attend go to the Upcoming Events page here.

Cherie Savin has informed us that she was going to stand down from the position of Head Coach. We accepted this with sadness with the proviso that she remains on as a coach with her fun colourful socks and big smile on the pool deck. Thankfully she agreed.

So a big thankyou to Cherie for what she has done in this position. She has been a great influence in the growth of the club and for that we will be forever grateful.

As her replacement, coach Bridget Young has accepted the head position and is keen to take on the role.

Please welcome Bridget to her new role, and we all look forward to working with her.

Following on from the successful pacing clinic at training night on Tuesday 8th February, we are pleased to again be joined by Masters WA Coach Kareena Preston who will run a speed clinic for the training hour. So come along on Tuesday 29th March and benefit from Kareena’s knowledge and coaching skills. 

Coach Jeanette will still be running her normal training session for those that don’t want to participate, but Kareena’s last session was well attended with members enjoying her coaching and presentation skills as well as performing the variety of drills.

The Rockingham Masters Swimming Club AGM will be held on Friday March 25th at 6:00pm at the Dome Cafe, Waikiki. All members are encouraged and welcome to attend. The AGM is your chance to take part in the development of your club and have a chat with fellow members over some food and beverages!

You can BYO at the Dome or enjoy their amazing coffee and drinks.

RSVPs are essential as we’re limited to 30 people so please register your interest here or on our Facebook page

At training night on Tuesday 8th February, we are pleased to be joined by Masters WA Coach Kareena Preston who will run a clinic for the training hour. So come along and benefit from Kareena’s knowledge and coaching skills.

Club renewal fees for next year are due in December. All members who renew their Master’s Membership between 1^st December and 31^st January will be eligible to be included in a prize draw which will take place on the 1^st February. This includes those members who have taken out the 16-month option.

There are two prizes on offer:

1. a refund of your membership fee for the year; and
2. a kit bag with equipment.

All membership renewals and re-registrations are done online through Masters Swimming WA..

Come down to Waikiki foreshore and participate in another open water beach swim at 8.00am on Sunday morning, 30th January.

The previous two swims last year have been a great success with everybody having a great time as well as socialising and getting to know one another over a free BBQ breakfast. 

So register your interest here to help with catering and come on down to the beach for a swim and a feed. Remember that this is an event for all levels, no matter what your open water swimming ability is like.

The last training session for the year will be on Tuesday 23^rd December.

This training session will be a festive fun training night where the gruesome warmup and main set will be replaced by some fun activities and games.

Be sure not to miss this light-hearted session, as you are guaranteed to have a fun time and some laughs in place of our normal training session.

Training will then resume in the new year on Tuesday 4^th January 2022

The Rocky Ray’s Christmas Beach Ball is at the Cruising Yacht Club in Rockingham on Sunday 19th December. Please register your interest below so we can get an idea of numbers for catering.

Masters WA Coach Kareena Preston will be running an open water skills clinic at Palm Beach on Wednesday morning 15 December for 1 hour, starting at 6.00am in the morning (leaving you enough time to get to work, after a refreshing a swim).

Kareena will take you through

1. Identifying beach and water conditions;
2. Wading and dolphining;
3. Stroke adjustments;
4. Sighting; and
5. Turning

Plus, there’s the opportunity to have a coffee and a chat after the session so you can ask Coach Kareena all your swimming-related questions!

And best of all – it FREE

Please register you interest here.

“We both attended this clinic last Wednesday at South Beach Fremantle. It was very informative and we learnt a few things that hopefully will help us when participating in the open water swimming events. Kareena is an excellent coach who presents this clinic exceptionally well. We both recommend that all the club members who participate (or want to participate) in the open water events come along and you will pick up something new”.

Greg and Richard