Our club was founded in 1967. John Holland, coach of a training squad based at Freyberg Memorial Community School pool, was approached by a group of parents with a proposal to form a new swimming club. At a meeting of interested parties, John was appointed coach of this new club, Te Atatu Amateur Swimming Club.

The squads trained in the 25-yard indoor pool at Freyberg School, which was also the club's designated headquarters. In the winter, due to a lack of pool space, the top squad would travel up to Parakai twice a week in the evenings to train in the thermal pools. During the summer months squad members trained in the unheated outdoor 33.33-yard pool at Rutherford High School. Clubrooms were built beside the pool and night lighting was installed for evening meets.

Each year, in the winter, the club travelled to a swim meet at the Blue Baths in Rotorua competing for a trophy with Rotorua Swimming Club. In these early years great rivalry existed between Te Atatu and Western Districts Swimming Clubs who competed for the Corban Cup annually.
During the late 1980's the club used the 25 metre indoor Massey High School pool for squad training and evening club nights.The Te Atatu Swimming Club colours were teal and white on royal blue.

In 1990 the club relocated to the newly developed West Auckland Swimming Centre, later renamed Waitakere City Aquatic Centre, The Big Top, the Olympic-sized competition and diving pools built for the XIV Commonwealth Games.
The club was renamed West Auckland Aquatics in 1991 and the club colours were changed to navy blue and fluorescent orange.

With West Auckland Aquatics seeking to further raise their profile Ross Anderson was approached to join the club as Head Senior Coach. Ross had been New Zealand Coach of the Year in 1987 and Head Swim Coach at the1988 Seoul Olympics. Within six months of his appointment in June 1991 our club was competing at the leading edge of New Zealand swimming.

Our club organised the televised International Coca-Cola Starswim meet on the 22nd of September 1991. Participating were the Ansett NZ Swim Team including New Zealand's American based 1992 Olympic contenders, a Stanford University team including Jeff Rouse [World Record Holder 100 Back] and Summer Sanders [World Champion 200 Fly], a team of ten Australians including Lynley Frame [World Champion 100 Breast] and rising star Susie O'Neil with selected New Zealand swimmers in the other 5 lanes.

West Auckland Aquatics first produced swimmers on Pan Pac's and World Champs teams in this era with one highlight being Nicholas Sanders selection in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games team.
Three West Auckland Aquatics swimmers, John Munro, Craig Ford and Paul Kent were selected in the 1994 Victoria, Canada, Commonwealth Games team and Ross joined the team as Assistant Coach.
For three consecutive years from 1992 to 1994 West Auckland Aquatics were winners of the Cain Trophy awarded annually to the top club in New Zealand.
Sadly Ross had to resign from the club due to ill health in March 1997.

The club went through a rebuilding period for 3 years, but, since the appointment of Donna Bouzaid as Coaching Director in 2000, West Auckland Aquatics has again become one of the New Zealand's top swimming clubs. Donna was appointed a coach of the New Zealand Youth Olympic Team, which competed in Sydney, Australia, in January 2003, with four of our club's elite swimmers selected and performing with distinction against some of the worlds best in their age group.
At the National Age Group Championships in Auckland in March 2003 the club finished 2nd overall to underline the club's potential in coming years.

We welcome children from as young as 6 years of age into the first stage of our squad structure where the emphasis is on learning swimming drills and skills and swimming technique before they progress on into the competitive groups when they will first wear today's club colours, red and gold on black.
Our clubs senior coaching programmes accommodate athletes training for Masters Swim Meets, Surf Lifesaving, Triathlons and Water Polo.

While we have high expectations of squad members, our intention is to create a relaxed family atmosphere, with monthly club nights, occasional barbecues in the outdoor courtyard at the centre after training and social outings for squads.

Leisure, Recreation and Fitness Centres have now been developed around the existing pools and the complex has been renamed West Wave Aquatic Centre..