2024 WOLLONGONG
MS MEGA SWIM

9 - 10 MARCH 2024

Make a splash for over 33,300 Australians living with MS

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Join us at UniActive on Saturday 9 March 2024, for the 2024 Wollongong MS Mega Swim and make a life-changing impact for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS).

There are over 33,300 people living with MS in Australia and everyone’s experience is unique. Living with MS is complex and unpredictable with varied symptoms that range from mild to severe. They may flare up once in a while, or last for long periods of time.

Funds raised contribute to the MS Go for Gold Scholarships, the Plus Financial Assistance Program and provide services to directly benefit people living with multiple sclerosis.

Make a splash this March in the 2024 Wollongong MS Mega Swim!

START
Saturday 9 March 2024
12:00 PM

DURATION
24 Hours

LOCATION
UniActive

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HOW IT WORKS

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Register for the 2024 Wollongong MS Mega Swim.

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Share your challenge and fundraise to support Aussies living with multiple sclerosis!

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SWIM

Join us at UniActive on Saturday 9 March 2024 and SWIM TO FIGHT MS!

The MS Mega Swim is a fun, team relay event, where swimmers are sponsored by friends, family and colleagues to freestyle, backstroke, butterfly or doggy-paddle for 24 hours, whilst raising vital funds to support people living with MS.

Swimmers of all ages and abilities are welcome - swim one lap, or fifty, for ten minutes or four hours. Your team just needs to have one swimmer in the pool at all times.

And if you don't have a team, let us know and we'll team you up with some other amazing mega swimmers.

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ENTRANTS

$21,386

raised of goal $45,000

$21,386

raised of goal $45,000

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TEAMS

MS GO FOR GOLD

MS GO FOR GOLD

MS Go For Gold Scholarships are funded by the generous fundraisers and support of the MS Mega Challenge and offer people living with multiple sclerosis one-off grants to follow a personal dream.
 

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GET REWARDED

GET REWARDED

Whilst the greatest reward for fundraising is knowing that you are making a difference in the lives of people living with MS, we would like to say thank you by giving you a little something extra!
 

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OUR COMMUNITY

OUR COMMUNITY

Read the stories of some of the inspirational people in our MS community that you are helping support with your fundraising and participation in an MS Mega Challenge event.
 

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Mega Swim 2024 Hoodie

MEGA MERCHMEGA MERCH

 
Get your hands on the official 2024 MS Mega Swim merchandise and show the world that you’re part of this mega swim challenge to support people living with MS! Get in quick though, as merchandise is made to order and needs 2-3 weeks for production and delivery.
 

VISIT SHOP

Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, 3-time Paralympic Gold Medallist and 9-time Para-Cycling World Champion, Carol Cooke AM PLY has dedicated her working life to raising awareness and funds for MS.

In 2001, Carol founded the MS Mega Challenge program with a 24 Hour Mega Swim at the Fitzroy Pool in Victoria. The program has since expanded to over a dozen events across the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria.

Nothing is impossible if we dare to face our fears and believe in ourselves. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Carol Cooke AM PLY

The events raise money for the MS Go for Gold Scholarship program - scholarships which enable people living with multiple sclerosis to follow a dream - and also fund the Plus Financial Assistance Program and services to directly benefit people living with multiple sclerosis.

Carol Cooke - MS Ambassador

MS Plus acknowledges the Dharawal people as the Traditional Owners and true sovereigns of the land now known as Wollongong. We also acknowledge the significant contributions made by other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to life in Wollongong. We pay our respects to Elders from all nations here today—and to their Elders past, present and future.