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• 2012 New Zealand Junior Championships Results  -Great swimming by our team of 7 swimmers at the NZ Juniors at WRAC last weekend. The team swam 26 p.b.’s and there were many outstanding swims. Highlights include: Theo Holst - national bronze medal (50 back) and George Dorrington – 3 national 4th placings (100 back, 400 IM, 200 fly) and 1 national 5th placing (100 fly).  Aliesha Mitchell,  Andrew Loveard, Thomas Watkins & Laura Stewart all achieved regional top 10 places, and Sean Register, swimming as a 9 year old in the 10 & under age group, swam fantastically and gets the opportunity to swim again in the same age group next year. Well done! Alison Dorrington (Team Manager) Read more >>
• 2012 New Zealand Age Group Championships Read more >>
• The recent Wellington Long Course Champs were a big success for the club. Karori Pirates finished 3rd out of 41 clubs. There were numerous medals. Well done to all our swimmers. Steve says "the standout swim of the meet was Devlin Forsythe's Wellington record set in his 1500m Free swim in the new time of 17:24.57". This was more than a minute faster than the second-place getter. Congratulations Devlin. Read more >>
•  Div 3 LC Meet to be held on 24 March 2012  at Naenae Pool Read more >>

Payment Information

Note that this does not apply to Tuesday night swimming payments. Payments for Tuesday night swimming will be collected as described by the Tuesday night swimming organisers.

Club Payments:

All Club payments, if possible, should be made to the Karori Pirates Swimming Club bank account.

As a general rule, cash payments will not be accepted by the club. However, cash may be accepted on some club funding events when specifically advised by the club.

Payment methods:

1. Internet Banking with the following details:

Particulars: Swimmers Last Name
Code: Swimmers First Initial (if more than one swimmer use the first initials separated by '&' e.g. "A & B")
Reference: Event reference, a 6 digit code as defined below

2. Banking direct into the Club account where you can't use the above format or use any letters in the payment reference:

Event reference: (6 digit code as defined below without any gap), followed by the swimmer's date of birth in the format 'DDMMYY' e.g. entering a swimmer with a birth date of 4 Nov 1999  for a meet held on 24 September 2011; the code would be 112409041199. Note that gaps are not required in the reference.

3. Cheques deposited at the pool box:

Cheques should be placed in a sealed envelope with the swimmer's full name and event reference clearly written on the front. No cheques should be posted to the club PO Box or passed on to any club member.

Event references:

Races: Always given in the meet details on the Pirates website. The format is ususally (but now always) the date of the meet displayed as 'YY DDMM' e.g. The reference code for a meet held on 24 September 2011 would normally be 11 2409. Please note that race payments not received by race date may result in your swimmer being scratched from the event.

Uniform: 11 1111

Competitive Annual Membership: 33 3333

Club end of year camp: 44 4444