Our story begins when workers accidentally struck an underground spring in the quarry. The workers luckily escaped but the machinery submerged under 45ft of water. The Surrey Dive, as it was christened, was eventually fenced, developed and leased to the newly formed “The Surrey Park Swimmer’s Club”. The Club held its first carnival on 23 February 1907. These carnivals were so popular that people would move into the Box Hill community to live close to the action, and ultimately built up the population of the Box Hill area. In 1925, Female members were admitted to the club and today represent in excess of 60% of the Club’s membership. In 1981, Box Hill Recreation Centre (now Aqualink Box Hill) opened, and the Club started to train in this centre’s indoor pool. The facade of the original building “Box Hill Swimming Pool” form our club rooms. Over those years, The Surrey Park Swimmer’s Club had great success nationally and internationally in swimming, water polo, diving, and synchronised swimming.

In recent times, Surrey Park Swimming has had great success competitively at National and International level in swimming at both Age and Open competitions. We have had multiple Olympians over the years, and more recently have had Surrey Park swimmers representing at Junior World Championships, the Youth Olympic Festival, the World University Games, Junior Pan Pacs, Australian Swimming Championships, and Australian Open Water Championships.

Surrey Park Swimming provides learn to swim and dive lessons and are unique as our program directly feeds into our competitive swimming programs. As part of our community commitment, we donate a portion of each swimming lesson fee to our Community Access Program for Swimming (CAPS). Our CAPS program provide free interactive water safety talks to local kindergartens, child care centres, primary and secondary schools in our community to ensure everyone is given the opportunity to be safer around water as well as free or subsidised lessons to those experiencing financial hardship.