The ISHCMC stingrays is a competitive swim team for students in Grades 1 - 12 with over 120 students who regularly compete locally and internationally. They are known for both their ability and team spirit.

Stingrays is a place for swimmers to develop their aquatic skills and competitive spirit with an emphasis on resilience, teamwork, sportsmanship, and discipline. We aim to help your child to become not only a strong athlete, but also a well-rounded and balanced person.

We also emphasize team building and fostering community spirit within and outside of school. Every year, we host Sting-a-Thon, a fundraising event to raise money for Ho Tram Water Safety Programme. This has become a staple within ISHCMC. Last academic year, under the ISHCMC PTO,Stingrays joined a school wide effort in raising funds for the flooding victims in central Vietnam.

Stingrays hold tryouts twice year: at the beginning of the academic year and beginning of the 3rd quarter for students. All students need to attend fall tryouts regardless of their status on the team the previous academic year. This academic year, we will hold tryouts once on-campus learning resumes and when we are allowed back in the water.

If you have any enquiries, please send an email to Aquatics@ishcmc.edu.vn.

PLATINUM

Secondary Competitive Team – Grades 6 - 12

• High performance training

• Skill development and competitive mind set development

• Or for those who are interested primarily in competitive goal attainment

• Swimmers compete in club-hosted, regional, and international meets


Requirements to join the team:

  • Demonstrate proper techniques of all 4 strokes and turns consistently.

  • Able to swim 200 IM without disqualification consistently

  • Meet the qualifying times

  • Attend all tryout sessions

  • Commit to at least 3 x practices per week

GOLD

Primary Competitive Team – Grades 3 - 5

• Swimmers will work on the 4 pillars: techinques, speed, endurance, and self-awareness

• Introduction to training physiology and meet focus

• Swimmers compete in club-hosted, regional, and international meets


Requirements to join the team:

  • Demonstrate the intermediate level techniques Freestyle, Backstroke, and Breaststroke and the fundamental level technique of Butterfly.

  • Meet the qualifying times

  • Attend all tryout sessions

  • Commit to attend all practices

SILVER

Developmental Team – Grades 1 - 2

• Provides an introduction to the basic concepts of training and competition.

• Training focus of this program is technique, basic endurance, and FUN

• Technical objectives include basic skill acquisition, the reduction of drag and streamlining.

• Overall goal is to establish proficiency and achieve time improvements in all strokes (Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly).

• This is our entry level group. Swimmers compete in club-hosted, regional meets, and are encourage to compete international meets.

Requirements to join the team:

  • Complete 25m of Freestyle and Backstroke

  • Demonstrate the fundamental level of Freestyle and Backstroke (being able to perform Breaststroke is a plus)

  • Attend all tryout sessions

  • Commit to attend all practices