Each year, at the
end of the Summer season, Swimming ACT hosts the Brophy meet. We have
done so for over 30 years! These days the meet is held at the AIS on Sunday near the end of
March.
Brophy
is a team event and over recent years seven teams have competed in the
meet. These teams come from the southern half of NSW, the ACT and the
NSW/Victorian border region.
The events contested are the 50m events plus relays. Age
groups for the individual events are 8 and under, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
15 and 16 and over. Each team can enter two swimmers in each event and
every legal swim gains points. There is an overall pointscore as well as
a handicap pointscore.
There is fierce, but friendly, competition
across the meet as each team vies for those all important points! Our
team fights very hard to take out the overall pointscore each year.
In 2019 one of the regular teams was unable to compete in Brophy so we,
Swimming ACT, fielded two teams: our ACT team and the Joan
Kellett team.
Being
part of a Brophy team is great fun and is a wonderful opportunity to
meet and swim against youngsters (and the not so young) from across
country NSW.
The
selection of our ACT team(s) generally takes place following the local Speedo Sprint heats with selected swimmers receiving an
invitation and their club notified of their selection once the initial selections are done.
The Brophy meet commenced its life back in the days well before the Swimming ACT area was formed. The Brophy Shield came into being back in the days when we were part of the Southern District Amateur Swimming Association. When we became a district in our own right, the Capital Territory Amateur Swimming Association (which later adopted the name ACT Swimming and then Swimming ACT), the hosting of the Brophy Meet came across to the new association.
The participants in the Brophy Meet adopted a handicap system to determine the winning team who would claim the Brophy Shield. Later, an additional trophy was added, the Peter Love Trophy, which commemorates one of our Life Members. This latter trophy is awarded to the team with the highest pointscore.
Here is the list of winners over the years.
2019 | Riverina
| Swimming ACT
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2018 | Mountains and Plains | Swimming ACT
| |
2017 | South Eastern | Swimming ACT | |
2016 | Riverina | Swimming ACT | |
2015 | Riverina | Swimming ACT | |
2014 | South Eastern | Swimming ACT | |
2013 | Western Districts | Swimming ACT | |
2012 | South Eastern | Swimming ACT | |
2011 | Western Districts | Swimming ACT | |
2010 | Swimming ACT
| Swimming ACT | |
2009
| Ovens and Murray | Swimming ACT | |
2008 | Swimming ACT | Swimming ACT | |
2007
| Southern Districts
| South Coast and Tablelands
| |
2006 | Central Western | Swimming ACT | |
2005 | Swimming ACT
| Swimming ACT
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2004 | Western Districts
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2003 | Central Tablelands
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2002 | South Coast and Tablelands | | |
2001 | Central Western | | |
2000 | Southern Districts
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1999 | Riverina | | |
1998 | ?
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1997 | ? | | |
1996 | Central Western | | |
1995 | Western Districts | | |
1994 | Central Western | | |
1993 | Central Tablelands | | |
1992
| Riverina
| | |
1991 | South Coast and Tablelands
| | |
1990 | Capital Territory
| | |
1989 | Capital Territory
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1988 | Capital Territory
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1987 | Capital Territory
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1986 | Capital Territory
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1985 | Riverina
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1984 | Riverina
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1983 | Riverina
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1982 | Canberra ASC
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1981 | Yass ASC
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1980 | Burley Griffin ASC
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1979 | Burley Griffin ASC
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1978 | Narooma ASC | | |
1977 | Telopea ASC
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1976
| Telopea ASC
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