The College Swimming Carnival in 2025 returned to the Oak Park Swimming Pool. This was a welcome return with more space, larger water polo pool, expansive shade, and of course the water slides. Serious swimmers had signed up in advance to swim in SACCSS trial events in Freestyle, Breastroke, Backstroke and Butterfly. The pool was then open to all students to swim in the same strokes to earn points, contributing to their house totals. The 25m events were by far the most popular with short and sharp races and students rewarded with a ride on the water slide for their efforts.

Support events were held outside of the main pool. Land novelties saw students compete in several minor games including filling water jugs with small sponges and skipping rope with a cup of water and trying to spill less than their competitors. Volleyball was competitive all day with a mix of students that play regularly and those that were new to the sport. As always, water polo in the wading pool was a major highlight and an opportunity for non-swimmers to get in the water and cool off.

The day was a success with the return to Oak Park encouraging a high level of engagement and competition across the College. We congratulate those students that did well in the trials and were selected to represent our College at the upcoming SACCSS swimming carnival on March 25 at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre and to all students for contributing to a successful carnival in 2025.