SWAS Athlete Penny Smith was given the opportunity to meet Her Royal Highness the Queen on the 26th of October, 2011. Penny was overjoyed by her invitation to the royal reception at Government House but was caught by surprise when Her Majesty chose to speak to her out of hundreds of others wanting her attention.

Over the past week Penny Smith competed in Sydney in Shootings Oceania Grand Prix. Penny shot a Personal Best score of 67 successful shots from a total of 75 attempts, with such great shooting and with this score Penny finished second overall.

The SWAS Cycling program visited Hilton Clarke who is the VIS Cycling Sprint as well as the Carnegie Caulfield Cycling Club Coach at the Joe Ciavola Indoor Velodrome located inside the Darebin International Sporting Centre Melbourne.

SWAS athletes were recently presented with their new Athlete Diaries for 2012. These diaries are a fantastic tool for the athletes to use to documents their goals, feelings, training schedule, planning competitions and events, lifestyle management and also to be able to understand themselves as athletes when they perform best and how they cope under stress.