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Welcome to the official Central Victoria Swimming website. Please make sure you visit this site often during the season. As information about what's happening in the Central Victoria swimming scene comes to hand you'll find it here first!

Good luck in Season 2024-25. We hope you have a successful and fun year of swimming in Central Victoria.

Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee

8th October 2024 by the President

Bendigo Hawks Aquatic along with Central Victoria Swimming extend an open invitation for the members of District 15-affiliated clubs to participate in a Butterfly Masterclass with Swimming Victoria Performance Pathways Manager and recently retired Australian Dolphin Bowen Gough

This will be the second session of the day. The first session was fully booked within an hour of opening, so don't delay in booking your spot.

• Event: "Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee" masterclass with Bowen Gough.
• Date: Saturday November 9th 2024
• Time: 1.30pm until 3.00pm
• Venue: Faith Leech Aquatic Centre
• Entries: Entries will open in Swim Central at 7pm Monday 14th October, capped at 25 participants
• Entry Fee: $20 per swimmer
• Targeted Swimmers: 11 years +

Coaches are welcome to attend and support. Keep an eye on the Hawks Facebook page this week for confirmation that entry is open in Swim Central.

Strauch Strikes Silver at the Olympic Games

5th August 2024 by the Vice-President

Bendigo's Jenna Strauch has crowned her wonderful swimming career with an Olympic Silver medal in Paris today.

Australia's Women's 4 x 100m Medley relay Final team of Kaylee McKeown (Backstroke), Jenna Strauch (Breaststroke), Emma McKeon (Butterfly) and Molly O'Callaghan (Freestyle) brought home Australia's final medal for the Meet in a time of 3:53.11. Competing at her second Olympic Games, Jenna clocked an impressive 1:07.31 for her leg. As our nation's best female breaststroker, she also represented Australia in the 100m and 200m events.

Jenna started her career in the pools of Central Victoria as a 12yo member of the Bendigo East Swimming Club, with her prodigious talent soon becoming apparent to all who saw her swim. In 2011 she left Bendigo to chase her Olympic dream. Like all of the greatest athletes she was challenged with significant setbacks, persisted, stayed true to her beliefs and today prevailed on the podium at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Congratulations Jenna! Everyone in the Central Victoria swimming community has been watching your career progress and we couldn't be happier for you with your success today.

All Junior Squad Announced

4th March 2024 by the Vice-President

After some fierce competition at the 2024 CVS All Junior Qualifying Meet, held at the Bendigo East Pool on February 18th, the selection of the squad to represent Central Victoria's clubs has been finalised.

The best eight swimmers in each of the 76 Qualifying events will swim in the SV Country All Junior Semi-finals at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre on Saturday March 16th against the best young swimmers that regional Victoria has to offer. From the Semi-finals the best ten will proceed to contest the Finals on the next day. We've got a really strong team this year so I have great hopes for plenty of individual and team success. The squad will be guided by our coaches John Jordan, Anne Sherman, Tyson Jelbart, Vanessa Laidlaw and Alanna Bullen. Managing the team on the day will be Nicole Rykers, Brooke Williams and Emma Brown. Many thanks to Sue Dullard for getting the Qualifying Meet organised and run, the squad selection and liasing with SV our coaches and our Team Managers.

2024 SV CVS Country All Junior Squad by Event

2024 SV CVS Country All Junior Squad by Name

About Central Victoria Swimming

Central Victoria Swimming Inc. is Swimming Victoria's District 15. Stretching from Gisborne in the the south to Swan Hill in the north, this is a large District comprising eleven clubs across a geographical region that is roughly aligned with the Loddon and Campaspe river valleys.

The Clubs that form District 15 are:- Bendigo East, Bendigo Hawks Aquatic, Castlemaine, Echuca, Gisborne Thunder, Kangaroo Flat, Kerang, Maryborough, Nyah Two Bays/Swan Hill, Rochester and Tongala.

Representative teams always compete at important Swim Meets such as the SV Country Junior District Competition, SV Country Inter-district Competition and the SV Country All Junior Competition.

The Central Victoria Championships are held each year in March. All District 15 clubs are eligible to compete with trophies being awarded to the Clubs with the highest Boys, Girls and Overall aggregate points as well as the best performed 13/U and 14/O swimmers.