Swimming clubs emerged with the development of swimming as a competitive sport in the early 1800s in England. By 1880, when the first national governing body, the
Amateur Swimming Association
Swim England is the national governing body for swimming, diving, water polo, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming in England. It forms part of British Swimming, a federation of the national governing bodies of England, Scotland ( Scott ...
, was formed, there were already over 300 regional clubs in operation across England.
The more notable swim clubs often have association with past Olympic athletes and future contenders, and vice versa.
Notable swim clubs around the world include:
Australia
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Australian Paralympic Swim Team
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Australian Swim Team
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Bondi Icebergs Club
The Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club is an Australian winter swimmers club, located at the southern end of Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales. The swimming club was established in 1929 and has a small museum on the first floor. A defining characte ...
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Commercial Swimming Club
Commercial Swimming Club is a swimming club that is based at the Fortitude Valley Pool in centre of Brisbane, Queensland. It is one of the most successful clubs in Australia and has produced many Olympic swimmers and medalists. Commercial swim ...
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Melbourne Vicentre
Melbourne Vicentre is a swimming club based at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC), Melbourne, Australia. Its head coach is 1992 Olympian Craig Jackson, supported by Kenrick Monk, Brad Harris and others. Prior to his resignation in ...
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Randwick & Coogee Amateur Swimming Club
United Kingdom
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City of Southampton Swimming Club
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Durham University Swimming Club
Durham University Swimming Club (or DUSC) is the Swimming (sport), swimming club of Durham University. The club is made up of a wide selection of swimmers throughout the university from the various Colleges of the University of Durham, colleges, ...
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Nottingham Leander Swimming Club
Nottingham Leander Swimming Club is a volunteer-run competitive swimming club in Nottingham.
They have been accredited with the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) as a swim21 club. These kitemarks indicate that the club provide a safe sporting ...
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Portsmouth Northsea Swimming Club
Portsmouth Northsea Swimming Club (PNSC) in Portsmouth, England, is the largest swimming club in South Hampshire. In recent years, the club has been well known for producing Olympic swimmers including Katy Sexton, MBE, and Gemma Spofforth, as we ...
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West London Penguin Swimming and Water Polo Club
United States
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Aquabombers
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Canyons Aquatic Club Canyons Aquatic Club, (CAC or CANY) is a competitive swim team located in Santa Clarita, California. CAC is a USA Swimming affiliated swim team competing in the Southern California Swimming region. CAC's home pool is located on the campus of Colle ...
, founded in 1978, located in
Santa Clarita, California
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Cincinnati Marlins
The Cincinnati Marlins are a non-profit, USA Swimming–affiliated swim team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States serving Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Founded in 1961, the team competes at the elementary school, high school, and college ...
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Industry Hills Aquatic Club
The Industry Hills Aquatic Club (IHAC) was a prominent USA Swimming club located in the City of Industry, California, from 1979 until August 2005. For almost three decades, the Club was a successful training ground for a considerable number of ...
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Irvine Novaquatics
Novaquatics (also known as Nova) is a swim team in Irvine, California. They are a nonprofit organization that receives their funding through membership dues, fundraising events and sponsorships. They are a member of the Orange Committee within ...
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Mission Viejo Nadadores
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New Trier Swim Club
New Trier High School (, also known as New Trier Township High School or NTHS) is a public high school, public four-year high school, with its main campus for sophomores through seniors located in Winnetka, Illinois, United States, and a campus in ...
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North Baltimore Aquatic Club
The North Baltimore Aquatic Club (NBAC) is a swim club based in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1968, it continues to offer training for young swimmers. It is best known for developing a dozen Olympic swimmers, six of whom earned gold m ...
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The Woodlands Swim Team
The Woodlands Swim Team (TWST) is a swim club based out of The Woodlands, Texas. The team has sent twenty-five swimmers to the Olympic trials, holds numerous TAGS (Texas Age Group Swimming) records, and has won 39 of 50 TAGS state championships ...
, founded in 1975, based in
Woodlands, Texas
The Woodlands is a special-purpose district and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area. The Woodlands is primarily located in Montgomery County, with por ...
See also
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List of 10-meter diving platforms
This is a list of diving facilities, especially those including 10-meter diving platforms. This is usually the last feature of an athletics complex required for training and competition in the full program of Olympic swimming and diving. In the U ...
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List of Australian surf lifesaving clubs
Australia has well over 300 surf lifesaving clubs. The following is a partial list of Australian surf lifesaving clubs.
*Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club
*Bronte Surf Lifesaving Club
* Cabarita Beach Surf Life Saving Club
* Clovelly Surf Li ...
References
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Lists of sports clubs
Clubs
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises
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