Welcome to Waterlions Swimming Club
The Club:
The Waterlions Swimming Club has more than 150 registered swimmers spread over a number of squads from learn-to-swim through to National Squad.
The club is based at the Grenda Aquatic Centre at the Haileybury College Keysborough campus. There are additional squads and swim lessons at the other campuses of Haileybury College at Brighton and Berwick.
The Beginning:
The Waterlions Swim Team took shape around 1978, when Wayne Lawes brought together a group of junior and senior swimmers at the Freeway Sports Centre in Dandenong. The squads trained at Freeway Sports for the following few years as the team grew in numbers and stature.
In 1989, Wayne took the Waterlions to the King Club in Sandringham, where our swimmers trained alongside the King Club Squads and Swimming Victoria District Three members.
The Pool
The club is based at the Haileybury College pool (the Grenda Aquatic Centre) in Keysborough, a southeastern suburb of Melbourne.
This is one of the main competition pools in Victoria, hosting many competitions for the club and Metro District South, and has had many international teams training there.