Swimming
Making Waves
St Peters Lutheran College is one of Australia’s finest swimming schools. From the Primary Years, upwards, our students are taught to swim in modern, world-class facilities. These facilities are located on our Indooroopilly campus and Springfield students have access to them. These include:
- 50m Long Course Aquatic Centre
- 25m Short Course Aquatic Centre
- Gymnasium & Weights Gym (fully equipped and staffed)
- State-of-the-art Recovery Centre
- Dry Land Training Facilities
The St Peters swimming coaches are highly awarded and well-renowned. Under their guidance, our students have won the last eight QGSSSA Swimming competitions and the last three AIC Swimming competitions. Our coaches have also produced numerous State and National swimmers, including Ariarne Titmus (2018), Jack Cartwright (2015), Georgia Bohl (2014) and Maddie Groves (2012). Our current students continue this legacy of making wave in the pool—a lot of them represent the country on the world swimming stage, and many of our Junior Squad swimmers possess enormous potential.
St Peters swimming coaches include:
- Dean Boxall (Head Coach, High Performance Squad) - Australian Youth and Age Coach of the Year (2019, 2017), Hancock Prospecting Olympic Program Coach of the Year (2019), Oceania Coach of the Year (2018) and current Australian Senior Team Coach
- John Gatfield (Assistant Head Coach and National Age Group Squad) - New Zealand Junior and Senior Team coach (2019)
- Stewart Melton (Head Coach, Junior Squad) - Queensland State Teams coach (2018)
- Maxine Seear (Assistant Coach, High Performance Squad) - Australian Olympic Representative (2004)
These full-time coaches are supported by a quality group of assistant coaches for the various squads.
St Peters Western
The College is the home of the St Peters Western Swimming Club, currently Australia’s number one ranked club. Supported by some of the best coaches in Australia and a hard working Club Committee, St Peters Western has developed an outstanding balance of participation, achievement and excellence in coaching.
The Club has been recognised by Swimming Australia as a High Performance Centre (HPC) which assists high performing swimmers through an elite development pathway. The St Peters Swimming Pathway begins at Learn to Swim and continues through to our Junior Squad, the National Age Group Squad and finally the elite High Performance Squad.
