A warm welcome to Darren Gum who has joined the Aquatics Department as Lead Swim Coach! Coach Darren has over 20 years swim coaching experience amongst a number of Singapore’s international schools. Originally from Sydney, Coach Darren as an Australian Born Chinese (ABC) is able to bring together the best of both the Eastern and Western styles of training methodologies. e has been fortunate to spend time with some of Australia's best Olympic swimmers and coaches. He loves seeing that “aha” moment when swimmers suddenly get it! As a swimmer...

ACSIS Middle School was held at the German European School Singapore (GESS) on Saturday 7th February. Held in a long course pool (50m), this was the first meet GESS have hosted. ACSIS stands for the Athletic Conference of Singapore International Schools and is an opportunity for international schools to pit their student-athlete talents against each other across a range of sports. In a swimming context, students are racing for team points, with the top 8 swimmers scoring for their school. At middle school level, swimmers are selected and entered in...

Lions Swim Academy competed at Bangkok Patana's Feeding Frenzy held in Thailand on 9th -11th December. A team of 21 swimmers made the plane journey. It was the Stamford American first athletics team to travel overseas since November 2019. The meet had 8 other travelling Singapore schools aswell as multiple teams from Vietnam and Thailand. There were plenty of Personal Bests (PBs), particularly with some swimmers racing for the first time long course. The running total finished with 86 PBs from 110 swims (78.18%). With some tough competition signed up,...

Stamford American were in action on Friday 18th November at Nexus Wave Invitational Swim Meet held at Aljunied Road. Lions Swim Academy took 30 athletes by bus to compete against schools from Tanglin, St Joseph, North London and of course Nexus. There was lots to feel inspired by, the cheering was loud, the music was on and there was plenty of racing. Swimmers were permitted to enter 3 individual races and so had to select carefully. There were 62 personal bests (PBs) from 90 swims (68.89%). The biggest PB on...

On Saturday 12th November, 18 of our Lions Swim Academy athletes were competing in the ACSIS High School Swim Meet held at Nexus International School. There were 15 international schools from all over Singapore taking part and the standard was tough. The meet was swam short course (25m) over a range of events. Swimmers were racing for points, the top tanked 16 swimmers in each event would score for the end result. Unfortunately the weather claimed the last few races of the meet and the event had to stop early....

Stamford Lions Swim Academy competed over the weekend at the Canadian International School in West Singapore on Saturday 1st October. There were 24 student-athletes taking and for 13 of them it was their first time in a 50m long course pool. Swimmers arrived at 7:15am and over the course of the morning competed in 66 different races. There were a massive 59 personal bests (PB) swum, an impressive 89.39% PB rate. Much of this is down to first time swims in a long course pool, an opportunity our younger swimmers...

Lions Swim Academy hosted their first official meet on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September at Lincoln pool for the new academic year. There were 70 athletes that took part ranging from Elementary all the way to High School. The electronic timing and touchpads were in operation along with the video scoreboard, really adding to the professional atmosphere. “It was a busy day and the Aquatics Department did a great job in keeping the flow of the meet. Many swimmers were attempting race distances for the first time.” said Aquatics...

Lions Swim Academy pulled out all the stops for their final meet of the academic year. On Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May, swimmers from Stamford American International school were blessed with beaming sunshine for their event held at Lincoln Pool. This year, Lions Cub Championships took an interesting format. The longer events of 200m and 400m events were ‘heat declared winners’, meaning they only had to race once for a placing. In a change to last year, there were heats and finals for 50m and 100m events adding further...

�� Lions Swim Academy ��, part of Stamford American International school, completed their Junior SEASAC meet over the weekend. The swimming competition was held at another local Cognita school, AIS (Australian International School) on Friday 6th May to Sunday 8th May. It was a case of early starts, with the team arriving at 6:45am on Saturday and Sunday. With a lot of back-to-back racing, swimmers had very little recovery between their events. This is what they had trained for, but also something that was unfamiliar with the hiatus of competitions...

Lions Swim Academy hosted their “Red & Blue Swim Meet” on Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th April at Lincoln pool of the Woodleigh Campus. The meet was split with Elementary aged students attending in the morning and Middle & High School students attending in the afternoon. The Canadian International school was also invited to bring a range of swimmers to race and enhance the racing opportunities. A range of events were available and spread over the 2 days, 200m events for freestyle and individual medley (each stroke), 50 and 100m...