The Inter-School Championships is now a one and a half day competition usually held on a weekend. The venue is the Aquatic Centre in the Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex. Launched in 2001, this championship organised by BSC and is conducted in coordination with the Youth and Sports Department in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, the Brunei Amateur Swimming Association, and the Department of Co-Curricular Activities and the Department of Schools in the Ministry of Education.
Students will compete in five age-groups for boys and girls as shown below, and the events usually include the 50 and 100 metres in all four disciplines and the ever-competitive 4 x 50 metre Freestyle Relay. This championships is also a viewpoint for national selectors to seek out swimmers with potential to compete and represent Brunei overseas.
Group Age
1 15-17
2 13-14
3 11-12
4 9-10
5 7-8
Open to all schools in Brunei, this competition looks to service the local sports community by:
1. Encouraging young students to take up swimming as a survival skill,
2. Promoting swimming as a school co-curricular activity,
3. Providing an avenue for swimmers of all ages and schools to meet,
4. Developing swimming as a recreational as well as a competitive sport,
5. Refreshing the technical skills of the officials,
6. Recruiting and training new technical swimming officials.
