​Norwood Swimming Club has enjoyed enormous success over the years, with Australia’s most successful Paralympian Matt Cowdrey our greatest achiever and Life Member of our club.

Closer to home, our swimmers have enjoyed great success at the State Age and Open long and short course championships, Division 1, Division 2 and Junior League and State Open Water competitions over many years, consistently finishing ranked one or two. In 2017/18, we won both the SA State Short Course and Long Course championships.

In 2018, at the Australian Age Championships in Sydney, Norwood claimed an impressive 14 medals and 10 State records, a huge improvement on our 2017 performance, when we finished 11th-ranked club in Australia. (In 2018, Swimming Australia no longer awarded a points score at the Age Championships.) In 2018, we also had 30 finalists from 87 heat swims - an amazing achievment and testament to our great depth of talent.
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In 2016, we had a record 37 swimmers qualify to swim at the Australian Age Championships - the highest number of any SA club. We finished the meet with one gold, two silvers and two bronze medals, with more than 20 finalists, and ranked 18th in Australia and the top SA club.

We had a further 13 swimmers competiting in the Australian Open Championships, which doubles as the Olympic selection trIal.

In 2015, we had 25 swimmers compete in the Australian Age and Australian Open championships. Norwood finished the Age championships ranked 34th in Australia and second in SA. Norwood swimmers claimed six medals and contested 17 finals.

Also in 2015, Norwood swimmer Dan Gill represented his birth country of Seychelles at the FINA World Championships. Norwood's James Wong also continues to represent his home country, Malaysia, internationally.

Norwood Swimming Club has consistently had the highest number of swimmers from any SA club on the State primary (SAPSASA) and secondary (SSSSA) schools teams.