Stamford American hosted the last of the swim in the Red vs Blue series on Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April at Lincoln Pool. The weather was beautiful, if a touch hot, but it stayed dry for the majority of the racing. There were 2 other schools that took part in the racing alongside Stamford American. North London and Chatsworth House were both in attendance bringing 54 swimmers between them. There were 122 athletes in total that raced 655 events over the course of the weekend, with 68 students taking...

Singapore National Age Groups took place at OCBC National Aquatic Centre following on from the Junior Championships just a few days before. They ran over 6 days from 12th - 17th March. Stamford American were represented by several swimmers, Jaiden, Seth, Lang, Miller, Mayya and Ariel. There was a massive 14 personal bests from 16 swims (87.5% PB rate) with everyone walking away with at least one personal best. Two swimmers made B finals, Jaiden in the 200m Butterfly eventually finishing 9th and Mayya in the 200m breaststroke finishing 22nd....

The Stamford American Athletic Awards night took place on Tuesday 12th March in the Reagan Theatre at teh Woodleigh Campus. The night was an opportunity to celebrate sporting acheivements from around the school. Lions Swim Academy were celebrating their SEASAC Senior Representatives of Jaiden, Seth, Lang, Altan and Andrew. We also celebrated the 20 swimmers that attended Feeding Frenzy in Bangkok Thailand; Mayya, Greta, Seth, Ezra, Skye, Amina, Laila, Stepan, Thomas, Kim, Nils, Alyson, Ariel, Nevan, Elias, Zoe, Jaiden, Harper, Hery and Andrew We were able to recognise the following...

Singapore National Age Group Championships took place at OCBC National Aquatic Centre from Friday 8th - Sunday 10th March 2024. Stamford American were represented by 4 young swimmers who had swam under the qualifying standard for the meet. Ezra, Nevan, Zoe and James were all representing Lions Swim Academy. James competed in the 50m freestyle and did not let th enerves get the better of him. Despite having just qualified two weeks previously he posted a 37.91 finishing 69th. Ezra swam personal bests in every event he swam. Ezra swam...

DAY 1 - JUST THE BEGINNING SEASAC Senior Swim Meet took place at the Canadian International School in Hong Kong. Landing after a 4hr flight, the cool 20c conditions startled some students and were something different for many of the swimmers to experience. After a busy warm-up, a short and sweet 20 minutes, Jaiden took to the water first in the 400 freestyle. With such excitement to get going, Jaiden was out strong, perhaps a little too strong. His time of 4:36 reflected such. Nevertheless, he came back with a...

Stamford American were in action at the Singapore Proficiency Awards on 24th & 25th February at Tampines Hub Swimming Complex. It was the first time this meet had been swum at this particular venue, and a novel one at that. The 50m olympic size swimming pool is located 6 stories up and with a 4m deep multipurpose pool, certainly was an interesting proposition for our swimmers. This was one of the few meets where our swimmers compete in long course 50m pool events and our young lions did not disappoint....

Our Lions Swim Academy hosted their 3rd meet in the series on 27th & 28th January at Stamford American's Lincoln Pool. ��♂️ The sun shone all weekend with pleasant clouds when needed! ☀️ There were nearly 100 swimmers who competed 604 times over the weekend. 42 swimmers from SAIS, 32 from the International French School, and 24 from Chatsworth International School participated. A massive thank you to our parent volunteers for helping out. �� There were 211 Personal Bests (68% PB rate), with many swimmers displaying impressive improvements. �� Our...

Our Stamford American athletes finished their season on a high with 16 different records being smashed over the weekend. The Lions Cub Champs was the end of year competition with heats and finals, with 5 other visiting school it pushed swimmers to new heights! Sixteen records fell for student-athletes across a range of age groups. School Records x16 Ezra 800 Freestyle 11-12yrs Kim 800 Freestyle 13-14yrs Andrew 800 Freestyle 15yrs Seth 800 Freestyle 15-16yrs Seth 100 Individual Medley 15-16yrs Jaiden 800 Freestyle 17-18yrs Jaiden 400 Freestyle 17-18yrs (also an Open...

A massive two days of swimming for Stamford American and visiting schools… even the thunder and lightening could put us off. There were 1180 entries from 6 different schools and 67 relays were swum. 10 different swimmers broke 31 school records from Stamford, 14 of these were double age-band records. Congratulations to all our record breakers Ezra, Kim, Andrew, Seth, Jaiden, Courtney, Ethan, Jasmine, Ariel and Hana B. Our wider team took 285 PBS from 448 swim, 64% of swimmers improved their times from Stamford! Obviously some good coaching going...

Stamford Lions Swim Academy travelled to Bangkok, Thailand to race at SEASAC Junior Swim Meet designed for swimmers aged 11-14yrs of age. The team performed above expectation with a massive 76 personal bests from 91 swims (83.5% PB rate). The team of 13 swimmers consisted of Courtney, Aashna, Ksenia, Stepan, Kim, Hannah, Thomas, Altan, Arjan, Hery, Laila, Jasmine and Andrew. Courtney was our sole medalist, taking 1x silver and 4x bronze bronze medals. Thomas took a massive 1 minute 11 seconds off his 100m breaststroke for the biggest PB award....