GS Aquatics FAQ.

No, the GS Aquatics Swim Club membership cost pays for your child/ren to race each Tuesday night for the entire season.

All children who attend club nights must have in attendance a parent, responsible for their supervision. If a parent is unable to attend, arrangements must be made for another responsible person to accept the supervision of the child concerned.

GS Aquatics Swim club is all about preparing children for swimming events. It may be a learning curve the first few times, but they quickly get the hang of it and learn by watching the more experienced swimmers.

Swimmers sit in the grandstand and listen to the Club Announcer for marshalling calls. Marshalling occurs at the far end of the grandstand (Good Shepherd College end). Please familiarise yourself and your child/ren with the Event# Heat# Lane# system of marshalling. Only Event numbers are called by the Club Announcer, so it is important for swimmers to know their Event, Heat and Lane numbers for each race. These race details are published within the Meet Program. It might sound confusing at first but after rehearsing each Club Night you will soon find this easy! Writing the E#H#L# on your swimmer’s wrist is a standard practice at Club Nights and Swim Meets. Knowing your E#H#L# for each race you have entered into, is the best way to prepare your swimmer for marshalling at Swim Meets, and to make sure they don’t miss any of their events.

Swimmers take their seat in the marshalling area arranged into Event, Heat and Lane numbers, and wait for their race to be called to the Blocks.

Although Club uniform is not compulsory to wear, we have included a Club Polo & swim cap with swimmer memberships and encourage these to be worn at Club Night. If your child/ren race at external meets for GS Aquatics Swim Club, the club merchandise is the preferred apparel to identify them as a proud GS Aquatics Swim Club member.

Nothing is compulsory (apart from having fun), each member is able to nominate the week prior which events they wish to take part in.

GS Swim Club caters for younger children with 12.5 events. As their confidence and ability increases they can then proceed to 25mtr events.

Club Night nominations are entered through the Swim Central portal, accessed on the Swimming QLD website. Race nominations must be entered before the ‘Close of Nominations‘ each week, which is 9am Monday morning, the day before each Tuesday Club Night.

Club Night nominations are entered through Swim Central. Race nominations must be entered before the ‘Close of Nominations‘ each week , which is 9am Monday morning, the day before each Tuesday Club Night. If you missed nominations your child/ren can still attend and race; however, without nominations, entry into their preferred events is not always possible. We operate a ‘no nom – no time’ Club Night Meet. Without nominations unfortunately your child/ren won’t appear in the Meet Program and their times won’t be recorded, as Swim Central requires a swimmers nominations for results to be matched. Only results recorded in Swim Central count towards end of season Club Awards.

Club night is not compulsory. We love it when our members can swim, however understand they are not always able to make it due to illness, work and family commitments.

In the event of extreme weather conditions such as torrential rain, thunder and/or lightening, club is generally cancelled, however we have a Club Facebook page so we post if club night has been cancelled.

50mtr and 100mtr events have a qualifying time for each of the strokes which need to be met consistently to allow the swimmer to progress to these events.