How did Pacer come to be?

Early in the year 2012, my 2 sons were training in APSC in an attempt to swim faster for Water Polo. When Aunty Wendy received an invitation from the Singapore Swimming Association to send in a team to compete in Flippa Ball in the ACS Barker Challenge, she approached me in hopes that I would know of someone who could coach a Flippa Ball team they were looking to put together. I suggested that since this was a simpler version of Water Polo, why don’t we get some secondary school students to coach the young kids. Aunty Wendy loved the idea of having a “older brother teaching the younger brother” coaching system and so my son got a few of his teammates from his school team to come down to their pool to coach.

They trained a few kids who were interested in playing Flippa Ball on Sunday mornings and after a few weeks, they clinched a Bronze medal at the competition. The kids fell in love with Flippa Ball and their parents asked me if there was a more structured course or a club that they could join. With that in mind, I spoke to the then head coach of the National Men’s Water Polo Team, Sai Meng and he was game to start a Water Polo Club. We started training on the 4th of March 2012 with Ryan, Yee Heng, Herman, Lynem and my younger son, Wai Piew. Soon after, Benedict and Darius joined and the rest was history.