Prominent club members have included Susie O'Neill, Cate and Bronte Campbell, Kieren Perkins and Libby Trickett.

[3] The beginning of the club in 1903 and after, shows a very different story to the modern swimming scene.

The women' club conducted a three-mile race in the Bremer River, on 22 March 1913, won by Minnie King.

According to Jim Dunning, the men's club's original Secretary: "On the Saturday before the three mile swim, the Queensland Ladies' Amateur Swimming Association allowed men to be spectators at a ladies carnival for the first time in many years.

[3] The men's club's first world record holder, James William Thompson, won it swimming one mile backstroke.