Welcome to the Firbank Aquastars Website

Firbank Aquastars proudly celebrated 15 years of swimming excellence in 2012.  Firbank Aquastars is a small club that caters for swimmers at all levels from Learn-to-Swim to National Level.  We operate our program at Firbank Grammar School's indoor pool and physical conditioning/gymnasium facility.

In 2012 Firbank Aquastars was acredited Gold Go Club status for the 2nd consecutiveyear.  Only 11 clubs throughout Australia were accredited with Gold status in 2012 and only 3 of those were from Victoria.  We are very excited to be in the running for Gold status again in 2013.  Gold Go Club 2011Gold Go Club 2012

Metro West District SC Meet - Results

On Saturday 8th June, 30 FAS swimmers attended the Metro West Meet. This is one of the first chances our swimmers have to gain qualifying times for State Short Course Championships held at the end of August. The meet was very well attended by the clubs in Victoria, and with a 10 hour meet ahead of us, it promised to provide some great racing opportunities for Firbank Aquastars. Along with our older swimmers chasing times were some of our newest members: Madison Malone, Billy Pearson and Ollie Bream, who had not competed outside of our race nights held at Firbank. It was great to see these y...

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Firbank Aquastars Presentation night 2012-13

Firbank Aquastars held its annual Presentation Night on Saturday June 2013. We had a bumper crowd on the night and with almost 30 new awards to give out, it was a challenge to get through them all in a timely fashion! Award winners on the night were:

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Energy Australia Open Championships 2013

From April 26 to May 3 three of our finest and fittest competed at the 2013 Energy Australia National Open Championships, those swimmers were, Nick Findeisen, Louise Mitchell and James Nettlefold. It was great to be able to watch their efforts on channel One in the evening finals and semi-finals sessions. Both Nick and Louise both made their way into semi-finals, with the following results: Nick: 16th in the Men's 50 Breast Louise: 10th in the Women's 50 Fly 13th in the Women's 200 Fly 16th in the Women's 100 Fly Fantastic effort guys! And well done and thank-you to head coach...

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Metro All Juniors Wrap

Over the weekend of April 20th and 21st Firbank Aquastars had 8 of our young swimmers representing Metro South in the Metropolitan All Juniors Finals and Semi-finals. Those swimmers were: Georgia Buck, Sarah Cooper, Amelia Jones, Zac Jones, Harrison Preston, Alessia Root, Adam Sharman and Kieran Start. Over the course of the weekend all of our swimmers swam PBs (Personal Best times) or close to their PB. For many of our swimmers this is the highest level of competition that they have swam at to this point in time, the semi-finals is made up of the top 40 swimmers (10 from each district) in ...

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Metro All Junior Semi-Finals

Congratulations to all our semi-finalists that swam off at MSAC today. We had 7 swimmers in the Semis today - Alessia Root, Amelia Jones, Sarah Cooper, Harrison Preston, Georgia Buck, Kieran Start and Adam Sharman, and we have 5 swimmers that are swimming in the finals tomorrow - Alissia, Amelia, Harrison, Kieran and Zac Jones (Zac will be swimming in 3 MC events that were all straight finals). Good luck tomorrow!! I look forward to some great racing in the morning! (full update to come!)

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Australian Age Championships 2013

Throughout the week of April 7 to 14, 8 of our best traveled to Adelaide for Australia's highest level age-group competition - the National Age Championships - and the competition was fierce! The week started with a warm-up at the SA Aquatic and Leisure center on Sunday afternoon, one of Australia's top swimming facilities. Monday morning saw James and Adam in their first swims for the meet with the boys 17/18 years 50 Free, with James posting a PB and Adam swimming to his best time. Bridget and Matt were up next in the 17/18 (girls, boys respectively) 100 Breast, both had great swims, just...

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