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 (he/him) and I've been running the club since March 2016. Together with my deputy Nerico (he/him), we look after roughly 90 Sea Lions.
Our training
We have four swimming sessions per week (Monday midday and evening, Wednesday evening 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.
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).
Temporary Membership Stop from 1st March 2025
We regret to inform you that we are unable to accept new members from 1st of March 2025 on, as our swimming club has reached its capacity limits. We will have a final trail session on Friday, 28th February 2025. After that, we regularly assess the situation and will inform you here as soon as we are able to welcome new swimmers again.
If you would like to be placed on the waiting list or have any question, please contact us. To register for the last trail training session, please fill out the respective form below.
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
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.
Documents
|
Abkuerzungen.pdf | 98 KB |
|
|
Rules-of-the-Pool.pdf | 208 KB |
Our 4 weekly training sessions:
Monday 12 am - 1 pm
Hallenbad Oerlikon (50m pool)
1 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
Hallenbad Bläsi (25m pool)
[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
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