The TigerSharks hosted their final invitational of the season with teams from Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and Hong Kong present. We host the Summer Sizzler, annually in June and it has long course, Olympic pool size racing on the Saturday and then short course racing on the Sunday. It is a unique opportunity for swimmers to compete in the same event and competition, both long course and short course. The campus was thriving with activity, with vendors selling a range of items from food and beverage to swim equipment. A huge thank you to MK Restaurants for being a Gold sponsor of Summer Sizzler 2026.
The medals are rewarded in a different system compared to the traditional placing of 1st, 2nd, 3rd. The world governing body of swimming (World Aquatics) has a points system, where the closer the swimmers time is to the world record, the more points they receive. We have then been able to create gold, silver and bronze standard times to achieve a medal for each event in each age group, based on this points standard. This means despite the place they may come in their age group, they can still achieve a medal depending on the time they perform in that event.
Summer Sizzler provided a fantastic, competitive racing throughout with over 550 swimmers on Saturday for long course and over 500 swimmers on Sunday for short course. Over 160 TigerSharks competed at Summer Sizzler achieved so many personal best performances, trying events for the first time and racing fast against visiting schools. It was great to see our youngest in TigerPrawns (Year 2) taking on a large scale meet for the first time, with all TigerSharks closing off their season racing alongside some alumni swimmers returning to be with their former teammates.
A huge thank you to our parent volunteers, helping with marshalling, security, baskets for belongings and running the medal table throughout a long weekend of racing. We sincerely appreciate your continued support of volunteering at our meets and without our volunteer parents, we simply wouldn’t be able to run meets on the scale we do.
A special race was conducted on Sunday afternoon in the 50m Freestyle, which saw our graduating Year 13’s competing in their final race as a TigerShark. The atmosphere was fantastic, in front of friends and family, a truly special moment for Jasmine, Jonathan, Panna and Theo to share their final race together after 37 years collectively with the TigerSharks.
Congratulations to all TigerSharks who attended and claimed new personal bests and medals throughout the weekend. That is a wrap on the season for the TigerSharks as we head into the summer break, ready to take on the 25-26 season!
