1953-1963
SUCCESS FROM THE START
Club's first swimmer was John Harrison. After several years he was widely acclaimed as a natural coach and teacher. Over his 20-year volunteer career, it has been estimated that more than 200,000 children learned to swim at his Swim Club.
OUR BEGINNIGS
The Oxygen Swim Club is competitive swim club, founded in October 1953 by swimmer coach John Lee.
AWARDS
This award recognizes the swimmer with the highest percentage of overall improvement in all strokes.
FIRST MEDALS
In April 1962, Oxygen Club hosted the single largest swim and diving meet ever to be held at the college level.
JUNIOR TEAM
Comprehensive training programmes began with our Junior Squads right through to Performance squads.
1964-1978
WATER POLO CLUB FOUNDED
Many Oxygen swimmers gained acclaim and success in water polo competitions too. First water polo major star was local resident Richard Tompson who started playing water polo with the club in USA National league at the age of ten.
2010-NOW
MORE MEMBERS,
MORE MEDALS
We've operated within the City Swimming Club and therefore all swimmers had the opportunity to progress through a seamless pathway from swimming lessons to Olympian. We also had squads for those who choose to continue swimming for enjoyment.
NEW MEMBERS
With the help of this grant funding, the Club continued to fast grow with the number of all age swimmers.
POOL LOCATION
Above all Oxygen Club operated in a friendly fun filled environment where the focus was solely on all members.
JUNIOR TEAM
From the start, Club’s members act in accordance with the Swim Code Comprehensive of Conduct and Ethics.
CHAMPIONS
The swim programme consists of one 30 min. session per week and all children are grouped on best ability.
TRAINING DURING SUMMERWEEKLY SCHEDULE
*In case of bad weather training will be canceld.