FAQs

Club membership is bought through Swim Central. For more information, visit the Membership page.

We offer a free ‘Come n Try’ membership. It allows you to come and try club night races before you commit to paying for a full membership.

The ‘Come n Try’ membership is valid for 3 consecutive club nights only.

Should you wish to compete at Club Championships or Carnivals, you will need to purchase a different membership. The ‘Come n Try’ membership does not include any club trophies or club gifts.

For more information on memberships, visit the Membership page.

Club nights are held on Tuesday nights at Charlestown Pool. Please arrive by 6:30pm for a 6:45pm start.

No. Our club nights are on Tuesday Nights at 6:45pm. They run from the start of Term 4 through to March.

Lake Macquarie Council have started to run a special squad once a month on Fridays called “Fast Friday Race Nights”. This squad is aimed at teaching racing skills like dives and finishes. This is not the same as our club nights.

We use the app ‘Swim Club Connect’ to help us manage races on club nights. For more information, visit the Register to Race page.

No, if you aren’t feeling confident to make the distance or you just don’t like a certain stroke, you do not have to race it. Simply enter the events you do want to race via the ‘Swim Club Connect’ app.

We use the ‘Swim Club Connect’ app to manage races on Club Nights.
We use the ‘Stack Team App’ to broadcast news to the club.

For more information, visit the Register to Race page.

Yes! Everyone should help out on club nights.

Timekeeping is a very easy task to help out with on club nights. All you need is a charged phone and the Swim Club Connect app on it. We can show you what to do on club night.

Helping run the BBQ is another easy task. Everything that is needed for the bbq is supplied, we just ask for 2 families each week to help cook and serve the bbq.

Volunteering is a great way to meet other club members. We are a social club!

Charlestown Swimming Club does not run squad sessions.

Lake Macquarie Council runs the squad sessions at Charlestown Pool. Please contact them for information about squad sessions.

No. Our memberships do not cover squad sessions. The squad sessions at Charlestown Pool are run by Lake Macquarie Council.

For information on what our memberships cover, please visit our Membership page.

Hosted by Charlestown Swim Club, the Performance Squad is run by coach Jack Hendy. It is aimed at competitive swimmers who are wanting to gain extra experience and skills in starts, turns, finishes, warm ups and other aspects that they can apply to their competitive racing.

More information on these squad sessions, such as upcoming dates, can be found on the Stack Team app and on our Facebook page.

The Coast and Valley Swimming Association website lists the local area meets on their Meet Programs page.

Entries are done via the Swim Central website. Search for the event via the Events page on Swim Central.

There are a few reasons why this might happen.

• Ensure your swimmer has a ‘Competitive’ membership.
• If the meet has qualifying times, your swimmer will need to have achieved the time and have it recorded in Swim Central.
• Some meets are only open to certain clubs/areas.

Meet flyers for Coast and Valley meets are posted on the CVSA website.

Start list, program, timeline, and timekeeping information will be posted on the corresponding Event on the Swim Central website in the week leading up to the meet.

You’ll need to keep track of your swimmers event, heat and lane to assist with marshalling.

Make sure you are on Stack Team app. If the club has timekeeping duties, these will be broadcast to the club prior to the meet. Timekeeping duties will be shown on the Event in the Stack Team app. Everyone is expected to help out with timekeeping and other volunteer duties. Timekeeping is quite easy and a great way to get to know other club members. Reach out to us if you are new and we’ll explain how to do it.

Yes! Everyone needs to help out with timekeeping.

Timekeeping is quite easy and a great way to get to know other club members. Reach out to us if you are new and we’ll explain how to do it.

Make sure you are on Stack Team app. If the club has timekeeping duties, these will be broadcast to the club prior to the meet. Timekeeping duties will be shown on the Event in the Stack Team app. There will be various slots for you to choose from, you simply pick one and assign to yourself.

If you discover all the slots you could do are full, send a msg on the stack app and let us know. Someone should be able to switch with you.

During most meets, results are updated live through the Meet Mobile app, allowing you to track times and placings in real time.

Once the meet concludes, official results are reviewed and then uploaded into Swim Central, the governing platform used by Swimming Australia for tracking swimmer achievements, rankings, and qualifications.