🏊♂️ Maccabi AJAX Swimming Club
The Maccabi AJAX Swimming Club had a steady and active year in 2025, with strong participation across junior squads, senior swimmers, Masters groups and the All Abilities program. Training continued across multiple venues and formats, supported by accredited coaches and committed volunteers. The club’s focus remained on consistency, participation and providing opportunities for swimmers at every level to stay engaged and improve.
2025 Impact
Total Member numbers in 2025:
| Total | Male | Female | |
| Junior Member | 26 | 11 | 15 |
| Open/Senior members | 37 | 28 | 9 |
| Volunteers | 6 |
- We field teams of juniors in Regional and State swim competitions based on capability to do so at their appropriate age level.
- Masters swimmers self-select which Masters Swimming events they would like to swim in.
- Our extensive swimming programs feature:
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- Juniors squad swimming at the Bialik College Gringlas Sports Centre on Monday – Friday.
- Masters squad swimming at Bialik College Gringlas Sports Centre on Tues, Thur, Sat & Sunday (formal training with coaches on pool deck)
- Masters swimming group on Wed mornings at Harold Holt pool (informally organised)
- Masters open water swimming group on Mon and Fri mornings at Elwood beach (informally organised)
- All Abilities swimming program on Sunday morning at Bialk College Gringlas Sports Centre
- The Club was delighted to welcome back Tommy Eylon into the role of Senior Coach during the year. We look forward to her dynamic energy and approach, to help build the junior squad into a competitive unit.
- Including Tommy, we now have four coaches with a formal Development Coach accreditation through Swimming Australia.
- Andrew Maver, a former Club President and a Life Member, swam the English Channel in July this year. We had the pleasure of Andrew joining the Club open water swimming enthusiasts a few mornings at Elwood beach for a training swim. In September we held a special evening event for our Masters swimmers and Andrew’s invited guests to celebrate his success in swimming the 50km swim in 11hrs 30mins. Thank you to Adam Posner for taking the lead on organising this event.
- Andy’s talk to our Junior squad about his Channel swim was similarly a great success – thanks Andy Maver for taking the time out to do so.
As a Club we are very proud of our All Abilities program and the fantastic swim coaches that make this happen every Sunday morning at the Bialik College Gringlas Sports Centre.
- Our plans are to expand our attendance of the All Abilities program and we have appointed a committee member dedicated to the All Abilities program.
- We will continue to build our junior squads for competition readiness and future Maccabiah participation.
