About the Club

A Brief History

The club started in November 2001 when the Casey ARC complex opened. Four members of the North Lodge Neptunes in North Dandenong wanted that club to branch out to include training sessions at the new pool. When this proposal was not accepted by the club, the four (Greg & Lee Chaplin, Jan Williams and Greg Bailey) left North Lodge and set up a new club at Casey ARC.

We were fortunate to secure Nigel Krieger as our coach from the start and 5 swimmers were present at the first training session held within a few weeks of the Casey ARC opening.

Within a year, we were getting upto 30 swimmers at training. This settled back into more manageable numbers a few years later, but the enthusiasm of those early years has not abated.

A full history of the club can be found on the History page.

Notable Achievements

We have steadily grown in strength and depth over the years, and this has been demonstrated by a number of great achievements:

• Consistently being ranked 4th in the Victorian Championships for several years.
• Holding over 100 Victorian and Australian records.
• Breaking a world record for the 4 x 100 mixed medley relay at the 2010 Victorian championships (although this was disallowed as one of the swimmers was under the FINA minimum age of 25).
• Club members being prominent in the running of Masters Swimming Victoria, including one of our founding members, Greg Bailey, as President of the body and Jan Williams (another founding member) on the Swim Meet Committee and doing the catering for many years.
• Ebony Ebenwaldner winning 2 Lorne Pier to Pub swims, and countless other open water swimming events.
• Ranked 12th club overall in the 2010 Australian National Championships, with a reduced number of swimmers competing.

Victorian Championships results

Victorian & Australian records

At last count, Casey Seals swimmers held 79 Victorian records and 24 National records, with over half of them belonging to our coach Ebony. In 2010, our relay team broke a World record, but we could not claim it because the FINA World Masters minimum age is 25 and one of the swimmers was younger than that.

In total, Casey Seals have broken over 165 Victorian records since the club started in 2001, which is an average of around 17 per year!