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Club’s office holders and Board members
Club Patron & Office Holders
John Bagnall
Patron
John Bagnall can’t remember a time when he was not associated with the Balmoral Beach Club. The Club features in many of his earliest childhood memories. He was taught to swim in the famous Clem Morath School on the Club lawn, and then graduated to the rock pool. Since then he has always been a very active participant at the club. There are not many days that he not down at the Club for a swim. He was overall club champion seven times in the 1970s and 1980s, and athletics champion ten times during this period. He served as Club Captain from 1980 to 1985.
John likes to participate and volunteers to help with many things at the club, he is a member of the BBC Events Board and also on the Balmoral Swim committee and part of the Club a cappella choir that visits care homes in which some Club members reside.
Duncan Adams
President
Duncan’s initial introduction to the Club was when his sons did Nippers in the later 1990s and he joined the Club in 2004. Duncan is a regular swimmer in both the weekend races and during the week. Between 2105 and 2018 Duncan was a board member of the Club and in 2017 and 2018 he also acted as the Company Secretary. In 2018 Duncan joined the Board of Balmoral Beach Club Events until stepping down in 2021. Between 2018 and 2021 Duncan was also a member of the Membership Sub-Committee.
Duncan’s professional background is as a Chartered Accountant and later an Investment Banker. Most recently Duncan is an owner and operator of several businesses in the corporate accommodation sector. Duncan is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand and is graduate of the University of New England. Duncan also is on the board of SpinalCure Australia.
Patrick Thompson
Secretary
Patrick has been a Club Member since 2013 when he and Kim moved to Mosman from Lindfield, their grown up children having flown the nest. His early childhood years were at Pymble. He learned to swim first with Forbes Carlile then at the Eastwood Epping Swim Club at Dence Park.
From being driven by his mother to Dence Park through market gardens along Epping Road in the 1960s, he moved to live on the family sheep station near Goulburn in 1968. That is when his swimming became exciting as he swam with tiger snakes in the Wollondilly River. Nevertheless, perhaps because of the snakes, Patrick lost interest and became being a cricket/rugby tragic from his early teens. He concentrated on these sports to the detriment of his swimming until introduced to the delights of ocean swim races with the Maillot Jeune desperados in his mid 50s.
Covid in 2020 opened his eyes to the wonders of Balmoral. Up until then he had been swimming during the week at North Sydney Pool and only at the Club regularly on Saturdays. Once Covid hit Patrick began to swim swam every day at the Club. This evolved to swimming in the dark with the 5.45 group. That in turn led to an explosion of adventure swims which is ongoing.
It is the core values of the Club that have attracted Patrick since he joined, being its heritage from the time the Smugglers kept the Rocks Push gang at bay, to its inclusive and egalitarian ethos today.
He is currently co secretary with Dr Jessica Hudson, the brains behind the duo. Patrick’s professional background, apart from being a sports and history tragic, is as a practicing solicitor for the last 43 years. He and a colleague opened a specialist civil litigation practice in 2002.
Chris Mortensen
Club Captain
Chris has been a Club member since 2018 and swims most mornings and loves to compete in the weekly BBC swim races. As a competitive pool and surf swimmer in his teens, up until 2020 most of Chris’s swimming training was done following a black line in a pool.
Once Covid hit Chris began to swim at the Club, travelling each morning from Bilgola – some 30km away. Along with Duncan Adams he formed the 5.45am swim group – swimming in the dark in winter and now attracting other brave souls! He hasn’t been in a pool since.
It is the community of the Club that has attracted Chris since he joined. Chris’s professional background has been in the heath and medical device industry for the last 20 years.
Nicola Boustred
Treasurer
Nicky has been a member of the Club since 2009. She is a regular morning swimmer with the B-team and enjoys participating in weekly races, as well as the social aspects of the club. Nicky was a member of the finance subcommittee before becoming Treasurer of the Club. She is trained as a Chartered Accountant, is a Certified Financial Planner and currently Principal and Private Wealth Adviser at Stanford Brown Private Wealth.
Board Members
Charlie Davey
Charlie joined the Balmoral Beach Club in 2014. Originally from England, he moved to Mosman with his family in 2006. The Davey family quickly embraced the Balmoral community and became actively involved in the Beach Club Nippers program. Charlie had the privilege of helping run Nippers for many years, with all three of his children participating.
Beyond Nippers, Charlie contributed significantly to the Club. He managed ground operations for the Swim for Children’s Cancer event and served on the Balmoral Beach Club Events Board for eight years, stepping down as Chairman in 2023.
An enthusiastic swimmer and keen athlete, Charlie counts his greatest sporting achievement as winning the iconic Peter Mac Iron Man competition, held annually. For Charlie, the true essence of the Club lies in its community spirit, camaraderie, and the simple joy of “having a go.”
Sarah Laverty
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Travis Macauley
He has been running the Juniors Swim races on Sundays—something inspired by being a dad to Thomas (8) and by his strong belief in encouraging the next generation of BBC swimmers.
For Travis, the club’s traditions of sportsmanship and friendship are what matter most. He hopes to contribute to BBC’s longstanding legacy and the vibrant community that makes it special.
Peter Millist
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