Club publicity officer Leasa Turner said the club had registered more than 150 so far.

“We have employed a new assistant coach, Andrew Vincent, who will be an invaluable help to head Sharks coach Nicolas Monet,” she said.

“And we have 36 Sharks members who have achieved 2014 Junior Excellence Program (JX Awards) in gold, silver, bronze or green standard with the times set by Swimming Australia.

“It’s an excellent achievement for a country swim club.

“The club would also like to extend a very big thank you to the Tamworth Regional  Council for all its  assistance and general support of our club.”

The Australian Junior Excellence Program recognises, rewards and encourages junior swimmers who, through their development of aquatic skills and fitness, achieve a high standard of swimming excellence.

Under the program, swimmers aged from 9 to 13, who  accomplish times set by Swimming Australia, qualify at the four colour standards.

As it turned out, the Sharks had one swimmer qualified at Gold Plus standard (Mikhaela Short) and four more at Gold (William Burnett, Clementine Monet, Chris Taggart and Ryan Taggart).

Eight swimmers qualified at Silver standard – Alexandra Burnett, Josie Chick, Edward George, Molly Johns, Josh Riggien, Amelia Summer, Nathan Summer, Eloise Turner.

Four swimmers – Daisey George, Liam Mair, Robert Mair and Angus Wallace – qualified at Bronze level and 19 qualified at Green standard. They were: Patrick Bolte, Kathryn Burke, Joshua Carter, Codie Cottrell-Dormer, Benjamin Duddy, Nicholas Farmer, Eleanor George, Lucy Hamlin, Harriet Lyden, Tom Mair, Joe Mitchell, Isaac Moxon, Lucy-Kate Thompson, Georgia Van De Graaf, Reiko Vermeulen, Ben Wallace, Jack Wilson, Mitchell Wilson, William Woods.