Fraser Coast Swim Club

🥓🔥 Saturday BBQ Breakfast! 🔥🥓

Kick off your Saturday morning with a delicious BBQ breakfast and great company at the Fraser Coast Swim Club!

📅 Saturday, 1 August
📍 Kick Swim Centre, 44 Islander Road, Pialba
⏰ 7:30am – 10:30am

On the menu:
🌭 Sausages on bread
🌯 Bacon & Egg Wraps
🥔 Hash Browns

Whether you're on your way to sport, catching up with friends, or just craving a great breakfast, we've got you covered.

Every purchase helps support our Mighty Sharks and the Fraser Coast Swim Club community. 💙🦈

Come along, grab a bite, and help make a difference - every breakfast supports our club!

Kawungan Quality Meats
The Gas Cylinder
Bakers Delight
Kick Swim Centre

We always love a visit from Brant Best from Swimming Queensland.

Brant spent time checking in with our swimmers and coaches, sharing tips and helping refine technique.

Having this support at grassroots level means a lot to our regional club.

Thanks for another great visit, Brant!

A huge congratulations to Riley H, who proudly represented Queensland at the Australian School Swimming Championships in Melbourne.

Competing in the 17–19 years age group, Riley finished his school swimming journey on the national stage, racing in the final of the 100m breaststroke placing 9th.

What a great achievement and a wonderful way to mark his final year of school.

Congratulations, Riley.

No Turning Back for our Fraser Coast Mums!

While this page is usually all about our swimmers, we also love celebrating our club community and giving back.

A few of our Fraser Coast Swim Club mums swapped pool deck for walking shoes and took on the 20km Beyond Blue Coastrek challenge as team "No Turning Back."

Led by our fearless leader, Allison, five other willing participants joined her for the day. While some had been training for the day, others took the more relaxed approach of, “Let’s just wing it on the day.”

There were personal challenges, plenty of chats, team camaraderie, a little competition and lots of laughs along the way.

The weather gave them everything—cold, wind, sunshine, rain, beach walking, hill walking, Esplanade walking and, thankfully, recovery at the end.

Vanessa and Kyleigh got caught up in the first wave and took off with the crowd. Sorry team, not exactly our finest display of teamwork, but they did keep the rest of the crew Allison, Carin, Elyse and Leah updated from the front.

All six kicked their own goals, looked great doing it and completed the 20km for a wonderful cause.

It seems our swimmers’ willingness to give anything a go has rubbed off on the mums too.

The walk is done, but donations are still very welcome. If you would still like to support Beyond Blue, the link is below.

https://www.coastrek.com.au/fundraisers/noturningback

What a weekend at the Wide Bay Short Course Championships

We had 34 swimmers racing over two very busy days and I honestly could not be prouder of our club.

A huge congratulations to Billie, Bodhi, Liam, Lily, Meg, Omari, Tia and William on competing at their very first Wide Bay Short Course Championships.

There was some fantastic racing across the whole team, with 236 individual swims, 155 personal bests and 113 medals.

🥇 47 Gold
🥈 33 Silver
🥉 33 Bronze

But what made the weekend so special was everything around the racing.

There were birthday celebrations, lots of laughs, great friendships and plenty of cheering from the side of the pool. Our swimmers supported each other, our parents and families stepped in wherever needed, and everyone just got in and helped.

The swimming came first, but it was all fun.

A huge thank you to Liz, who had an incredibly busy two days on pool deck. She was there for every swimmer, every race and every little moment in between. We are very lucky to have her.

Thank you to Jacquie and Carin for capturing so many great moments across the weekend.

And thank you to Xav for coming along and having some fun racing again with his old club. It was so good to have you back on pool deck with the team.

Thank you also to the Swimming Wide Bay Committee for another great championships, to St Andrew’s for hosting us so well, and to all the clubs from across our huge region for the great racing and friendly atmosphere.

I am so proud of the well-oiled machine our club has become.

This is grassroots sport at its best. A great team, a strong community and people who genuinely enjoy being there for each other.

What a club. What a weekend. 💙

Congratulations to both Liz and Sebastian, who were selected to attend the 2026 BrisVegas Development Camp.

The camp focused on detailed stroke education, pacing concepts, race skills, underwater work, training behaviours and athlete ownership — challenging athletes to understand not just what they are doing, but how to apply it every day in training.

Bash was selected as part of the butterfly development group, working on stroke mechanics, body position, rhythm, timing, propulsion, breathing control, pacing and race ex*****on.

Coach Liz was selected as part of the coaching team, leading and supporting the backstroke development group, helping athletes turn technical feedback into strong training habits.

A huge three days, with not much rest, plenty of pool work and so much learning for both swimmer and coach.

Thank you to Swimming Queensland for providing such an amazing opportunity. We definitely have one very pumped coach and swimmer.

Hervey Bay Half Marathon

We love getting out and about and supporting community events whenever we can.

While we may be water-based creatures, last weekend a few of our swimmers swapped the pool for the pavement and took on the Hervey Bay Half Marathon, while the Sharks crew were there at the turnaround point cheering them — and the rest of the community — all the way through.

A huge thank you to everyone who stopped to thank us. It was honestly inspiring watching so many runners push through, smile, wave and keep going. Events like this remind us how lucky we are to be part of such a strong and supportive Fraser Coast community.

Congratulations to everyone who ran, walked, volunteered, supported and helped make the event happen. From all of us at Fraser Coast Swim Club, well done.

We will absolutely be back next year to cheer you on again.
A special thank you to our resident photographer and Shark family member, Jacquie Hancock, for capturing the day so beautifully.

Bundaberg Swim Team Prep Meet

Our usual Bundy meets normally comes with rain, so when the clouds rolled in and the wind decided to join the party, it felt like familiar territory. Thankfully, the sunshine won and so did the Sharks .

It was one of those meets where the racing was great, but the people were even better. Swimmers cheering for each other, helping where needed, supporting their mates and competitors, and having plenty of laughs along the way.

Molly and Hannah K kept us entertained with a bit of friendly sisterly rivalry, taking turns getting the better of each other in the 400m and 200m freestyle.

The big lads lined up for their 25m, 50m and 100m freestyle showdowns, with just the right amount of racing, bragging rights and banter.

A special shout-out to our swimmers who took on the 200m butterfly. This event is not for the faint-hearted, but they gave it a crack, grabbed some PBs and finished with smiles — or at least relief!

We had Dash for Cash winners, Age Champions, Plenty of Bling and PBs across the days, but for me the biggest win was the community. These are the days that build our team. The friendships, the cheering, the laughs, the support and the little moments between races are what make our club so special.

A huge thank you to our timekeepers, Lisa for marshalling, Carin for photos, amazing parents and our wonderful coaches Liz and Ella. A special thank you to Ella for stepping back in to support the team today while Liz takes on BrisVegas.

We are truly blessed with the people we have around this club, and we are so looking forward to Swimming Wide Bay Short Course Championships in a couple of weeks.

Well done, Sharks.💙🦈

💙 Congratulations Coach Liz 💙

It’s not always about the swimmers — today we are celebrating our Head Coach, Liz Kopacz.

Liz has been selected for Swimming Australia’s W32 Accelerate Program, an initiative supporting high-potential female coaches as they continue to grow, learn and progress through the coaching pathway.

We are incredibly proud to have Liz leading our Sharks and inspiring the next generation both in and out of the pool.

Congratulations Liz — very well deserved.

https://www.swimming.org.au/articles/carlile-foundation-and-swimming-australia-join-forces-for-women-in-coaching?fbclid=IwY2xjawSgXqBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF4VFBGY3FzWm5MYmMyWDczc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpuY2bECQfqoUrwSnzxQb3pS9YxvYu4ks37qunvDzQi3LgNMEFBKFKhtxn8n_aem_zecAWfSGir8IQxTZrWl1Vw