Team
Aqualicious
is Brisbane’s GLBTI Swim Team, and an AUSSI Masters Club
(QAL).
The group is made
up of swimmers of different abilities united by an enjoyment of swimming
for fun, fitness and
friendship.
They
train at the Centenary Pool on
Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill.
Team Aqualicious Squad Times
are
Tues & Thurs 6 - 7:30pm, Sat 9- 10.30am,
Sun 2:30-4:00pm (new time on Sunday for Winter)
Squad sessions are
$11.25 per casual session or $102.50 for 10 sessions
- cost includes pool
entry and coaching fee .
Tuesday and
Thursday night sessions cater to all levels of swimming ability and
fitness with lanes allocated to varying levels
(from beginner to elite level)
Saturdays &
Saturdays focus on stroke technique and fitness. These
sessions are perfect if you want to meet some other swimmers and/or are embarking
on swimming for fitness. Come along and
check out the squad for yourself.
For more information
call Ken or Kellie on 0433 127 130 or check out their website:
www.aqualicious.com.au
Lawrie Fabian is the
Team Aqualicious Coach.
Lawrie Fabian has
been coaching swimmers and tri athletes for over 10 years. He was
founding President and Coach of Melbourne’s Glamourhead Sharks Aquatic
Club, the first gay and lesbian swim team in Victoria. He has coached
swimmers and tri athletes to personal bests at World Masters Games, Gay
Games and has had one of his tri athletes selected to compete for
Australia at the World Triathlon C’ships in Mexico City in 2002. He has
been competing in Aussi Masters swim meets since 1991 and has completed
20 Olympic distance triathlons since 1988. He
successfully coached Team Aqualicious to the Club Champions Trophy at
the 2007 Qld State Short Course Championships held in Noosa.
Team
Aqualicious at 1st Asia Pacific Outgames
Aqualicious
finished with the Most Gold Medals in the Medal Table at the 1st Asia
Pacific Outgames in Melbourne held on the weekend of the 1st-3rd
Feb 2008.
Coming in with 85 medals: 36 Gold, 25 Silver and 24 Bronze medals,
the team narrowly edged out their more fancied friends from the Melbourne Glamourhead
Sharks (also with 85 medals: 27 Gold,
30 Silver and 28
Bronze medals), and the Sydney Wett Ones
(with 84 medals: 34 Gold,
29 Silver and 21 Bronze medals).
A
wonderful weekend of swimming was topped off with the team of 32
swimmers coming in second in the overall points tally, just 174 points
behind the overall points winner & host club: Melbourne Glamourhead Sharks,
and the Sydney Wett Ones very close behind.
