Welcome! Willkommen! Bienvenue ! Benvenuti ! Bainvegni! Isten hozott! ¡Bienvenido! Witam! いらっしゃいませ ! Ласкаво просимо! !ברוך הבא Tervetuloa !
Thank you for your interest in our LGBTQ+ swimming club – the Zurich Sea Lions.
I'm Bastien (pronoun: he) and I've been running the club since March 2016. Together with my deputy Nerico (pronoun: he), we look after more than 90 Sea Lions.
For trans and intersex people who want to go swimming in a safe environment and don't necessarily want to take part in swimming training, we recommend TINA+ swimming on Tuesdays from 8pm to 9pm (except school vacations) at the Altweg school swimming pool, Letzigraben 200, Zurich. You can find more information at TGNS.
Our training
We have four swimming sessions per week (Monday afternoon and evening*, Wednesday and Friday evening) in which we practise the four swimming styles (crawl, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly) and swim a variety of series. You decide which training sessions you take part in.
* Please note that newcomers cannot currently take part in Monday evening training due to lack of space (only two lanes). However, once you have become an official member, participation will be possible during the school vacations. You will be informed in our chat group and by e-mail.
About the Zurich Sea Lions club
We are a very international swimming club with people of all genders, sexual orientations (even a few heterosexuals), age groups and countries of origin.
The official language of the club is (Swiss) German. Therefore, training is mainly conducted in High German, with a bit of English here and there. As we are so international and not everyone can speak/understand German, we adapt and help everyone to understand the exercises during training.
We are an active club that participates in various international LGBTQ+ swimming competitions throughout the year (Amsterdam/Vienna, Barcelona, Lisbon, Frankfurt and of course the EuroGames). These competitions are fun and suitable for all swimming levels.
Want to swim with us? Then dive in!
Admission criteria
We do not accept complete beginners.
Newcomers must already have some swimming experience and be able to swim at least (!) 100m crawl, 100m backstroke and 100m breaststroke in one go
Anyone interested can take advantage of a free, no-obligation 3-week trial training session. You can start on the first Friday of every month.
The next dates for a trail session are:
Friday, 29th November 2024
Friday, 27th December 2024
Friday, 31st January 2025
Friday, 28th February 2025
Friday, 28th March 2025
Friday, 25th April 2025
Which date would suit you? As soon as we have agreed on the day of your first visit, I will inform the Sea Lions one week in advance. Please confirm your participation one week before your first visit.
Please also give me the following information about you via WhatsApp (+4179 786 03 05) or e-mail (bastien_v@hotmail.com)
A recent photo of you (without sunglasses or cap) so that we can easily recognize you on your first day
Name, age, preferred pronouns
Country of origin
Profession
Mother tongue, other languages you speak and do you speak/understand German/Swiss German?
Swimming level (average, intermediate or advanced)
Swimming experience
Important: Before your first visit, you should read the swimming pool rules and the abbreviations of our swimming program, which you will find attached as a PDF below.
Your participation in swimming CHF 150 / year (plus basic membership)
Our 4 weekly traing sessions:
Monday 12 am - 1 pm
Hallenbad Oerlikon (50m pool)
2 lanes available, bring along: Fins and 5-franc coin for the locker, regular entrance fee.
Wednesday 8 - 9 pm
Hallenbad Oerlikon (50m pool)
2 lanes available, bring along: Fins and 5-franc coin for the locker, regular entrance fee.
In Oerlikon, we swim during public swimming times. This means that we don't have changing rooms and showers to ourselves. There are changing rooms for “women” and “men” as well as for families with a few individual lockers. The showers are for “women” and “men”, each with a few individual showers with curtains.
Monday 7.30 - 8.30 pm
(currently full)
Friday 8–9.15 pm
Hallenbad Bläsi (25m pool)
Entire pool (5 lanes) available, bring along: Fins and 2-franc coin for the locker, free entry.
At Bläsi, we have two changing rooms and showers (one for “women” and one for “men”), which we sometimes share with athletes from other clubs. In the changing rooms there are individual cubicles with curtains. The showers are large-surface showers, whereby individual cubicles in the “women's” shower can be separated with a curtain. There is also a shower in the indoor swimming pool at the edge of the pool.
Agenda
Downloads
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Abkuerzungen.pdf | 98 KB |
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Rules-of-the-Pool.pdf | 208 KB |
Do you have further questions?
You can always contact me on my cell phone at 079 786 03 05 (e.g. WhatsApp) or by email at bastien@rainbowsport.ch if you need more information.
Are you trans/non-binary or intersex and have specific questions? If so, Alecs (alecs@rainbowsport.ch, no pronoun preference) will be happy to help you feel as comfortable as possible and have fun swimming with us.
We look forward to swimming with you soon and hope you enjoy being part of our Sea Lions family.
Bastien & The Sea Lions' family
Your participation in swimming
CHF 150.00/year
plus Basic Membership