Haileybury Swim Club is dedicated to promoting the sport of competitive swimming across Haileybury and the wider community. We strive to foster a passionate and supportive environment to assist all members to achieve their goals both in and out of the water.
We are a nationally registered swimming program open to both Haileybury students and members of the broader public.
We welcome all swimmers from a beginner squad level up to and including a national performance level.
Meet our Head Coach, Sarah Scott
Sarah began her coaching career in Western Australia prior to moving to Victoria to begin a role assisting the Nunawading High performance squad, eventually advancing to leading the National Age and Junior programs. During her tenure at Nunawading, the program progressed to become the second highest performing program in Australia. Under Sarah's tutelage, her athletes have achieved, collectively, dozens of National podiums and titles, one Australian Age record, countless Victorian and Western Australian podiums and records, and progressed to represent Australia at a Junior and Senior level.
She holds an advanced coaching qualification and a Bachelor in Exercise Science majoring in Exercise Physiology. In conjunction to her academic studies, she also seeks out practical learning opportunities, most recently completing a six-month period on the Gold Coast in 2023 alongside Janelle Pallister and Michael Bohl, and their squad of High-Performance athletes consisting of Emma McKeon, Kaylee McKeown, Lani Pallister, and Brendon Smith.
As a coach, Sarah is known for her ability and achievement across all strokes and distances, but has a particular love for individual medley and the 200/400 distances.
Swim Squad programs
Development Squad
Junior Squad
Bronze Squad
Silver Squad
Gold Squad
Senior Squad
Development Squad
Development Squad is the first squad beyond Learn to Swim and focuses on providing swimmers with opportunities to strengthen the foundations of their competitive strokes and skills. Sessions focus on athlete education regarding technique and racing skills across all four competitive strokes.
This squad caters to swimmers primarily aged between 8–11 years of age who are at the beginning of their competitive swimming journey. Sessions run for 60 minutes with swimmers required to attend two sessions per week. Swimmers must hold a valid Haileybury Swim membership via Swim Central in addition to their training enrolment.
Junior Squad
Junior Squad focuses on increasing the intensity and duration of training for our developing swimmers whilst still focusing on developing and consolidating technique and race skills. In Junior Squad swimmers will be exposed to more regular competition and will be challenged to develop an aptitude across all strokes and to begin to explore a wider variety of racing distances.
This squad caters to swimmers primarily aged between 9–12 years who have shown active participation in competitive swimming. Sessions run for 75 minutes with swimmers required to attend three sessions per week. Swimmers must hold a valid Haileybury Swim membership via Swim Central in addition to their training enrolment.
Bronze Squad
Bronze Squad is the first level within the Haileybury squad program that focuses on developing swimmers to perform at a state level. As well as developing greater abilities in training, athletes in Bronze Squad will be exposed to more challenging levels of competition where they will begin to focus on developing their race performances through critical thinking and constructive feedback in consultation with the squad coach.
This squad caters to swimmers primarily aged between 10–13 years who have shown active participation in competitive swimming. Sessions run for 90–120 minutes with swimmers required to attend four sessions per week. Swimmers must hold a valid Haileybury Swim membership via Swim Central in addition to their training enrolment.
Silver Squad
Silver Squad is primarily focused on developing, educating and preparing young athletes to perform at a state level in addition to qualifying and racing at a national level. Athletes will be encouraged to develop all aspects of stroke technique, fitness levels and race skills to prepare for competitions. Athletes are invited by the Head Coach to become a member of this squad.
Athletes invited to this squad will be expected to make a full commitment to the training requirements of the squad and competition schedule, and work to meet the training standards set forth by the coaching team.
The squad caters for swimmers aged primarily 12–15 years and swimmers attend five or more sessions per week. Sessions run for 90–120 minutes with a mandatory dryland component. Swimmers must hold a valid Haileybury Swim membership via Swim Central in addition to their training enrolment.
Gold Squad
The Gold Squad focuses on developing and educating national level athletes to assist them in performing at their individual best at national level and beyond.
Athletes are invited into the Gold Squad by the Head Coach and are required to fulfil the commitments as outlined by the squad coach.
Athletes in the Gold Squad will primarily be aged 15 years and older and attend seven or more 120 minute sessions per week with a mandatory dryland component.
Senior Squad
The Senior Squad is designed for older athletes who are focused on developing fitness and race ability in a club training environment.
Senior Squad training sessions are designed to improve technique, efficiency, speed and endurance in a challenging and supportive environment.
Athletes in Senior Squad will primarily be 13 years or older and encouraged to train at least twice per week.
