Many of our Masters squad competed at the Masters Nationals event recently at Ponds Forge. Georgie Pryor had a particularly fine meet, breaking 4 Masters team World records, and also the European 100m butterfly record in the 25-29 years category. Georgie was swimming for Okehampton, as part of a team put together by Sonny Trigg, also know as 'theswimsuitguy' on Instagram, where he has 129k followers (Sonny is second from the left in the photo). Also competing was Jamie Ingram, who is a member of Derby Excel, son of our...

Derby Excel will be entering 2 teams in this year's Notts and Derbyshire Junior Swimming League (DNJSL, ie the Diddy League). The first round of the competition is on Saturday 28th March 2026. Both A and B teams have been drawn together in gala 2, against CABSC, Mansfield, Long Eaton B and Sherwood. We don't yet know the venue/warm up time. As we have 2 teams, we will need to provide 2 sets of officials and helpers. If anyone would like to help out, or train as an official, please...

Our swimmers were in action at Moorways last night in the second round of the Arena league, with Derby Excel hosting the event. Eight teams competed on the night, and after 51 events, Derby Excel were tied on points with Redditch, both on 294 points. The result was decided on countback with Derby Excel having more wins over the evening, meaning we finished in first place! Huge congratulations to everyone who took part - every point won turned out to be crucial to getting us over the line! City of...

We'd like to extend our grateful thanks to Rebecca Caddy and her team at Zerographic for their very kind support in faciliating the purchase of a printer for Derby Excel at reduced cost, and providing a free one. These will prove invaluable especially at our Open meets, when we need to print heat sheets and results. Thank you so much for supporting Derby Excel in this way. For more information about Zerographic, please check out their website: www.zerographic.com

East Midland Short Course Championships were held at a freezing Harvey Haddon Leisure Centre Friday to Sunday last week. All the swimmers and volunteer helpers had to contend with these challenging conditions, whilst attempting to bring their ‘A’ game to their races. With Repton and Loughborough fielding large teams, including swimmers who have represented Team GB at the Olympics and World Championships, it was always going to be challenging to medal, or even reach the finals. Our swimmers did themselves proud with their races, and there were many PBs and...

Derby Excel swimmers headed to Matlock yesterday to take part in Belper Marlin's Ghoul in the Pool. This is always a really fun meet, with Halloween decor, and many officials and helpers in Halloween costumes! Well done to all the swimmers who took part. We were Top Visiting Club, and there were some really good performances throughout the day. It was a bit challenging however as the whole building was was very cold, but the swimmers coped well with this adversity and still managed to bring their A game to...

The second and third days of the DASA short course competition were held at the Arc, Matlock, and were another success for our Derby Excel swimmers. Well done to everyone who took part, we had many many excellent swims, with excellent skills on show even at this early point in the season. Our gold medallists over the weekend were as follows: James Lee (13) who won the 800m freestyle, finishing a minute and 17 seconds ahead of his nearest rival. James also took gold in 400m freestyle Laurel Roberts-Burrell (18)...

Important Announcement for Derby Excel Volunteers, Helpers and Officials The Trustees have signed an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for the next 5 years with Everyone Active, who manage and run Moorways. This agreement ensures Derby Excel continue to receive our pool time at a discounted rate, thereby giving us financial security. Because of this, we are now in a position to reward the volunteers at Derby Excel who regularly give their time and expertise to help run the club, making it the success that it is. As announced at the...

Derbyshire ASA held the first day of their new County Short Course Competition at our home pool of Moorways on Sunday. It continues next weekend (18th and 19th October). Only swimmers affiliated to Derbyshire clubs can take part, with entries coming from 17 clubs in the county. The full results can be found here: https://results.derbyshireswimming.org.uk/2025/2025%20-%20County%20Short%20Course%20Competition/ As you can see, Derby Excel and the swimmers from Belper, Long Eaton and Derby Phoenix who train in our performance squads had a highly successful day. Our swimmers won many of the events or...

Our swimmers were in action in the Arena league on Saturday evening. Derby Excel are in the W Mids Premier Division, which has 24 clubs in it and the team travelled to Sandwell Aquatics centre in Smethwick for the event. It was a close competition, with DX finishing in 3rd place on 264 points behind Nuneaton & Bedworth A who won with 286 points, just ahead of Repton B on 279 points. City of Oxford finished 4th with 243 points, with Leicester Sharks 5th on 223 points. Bramcote were 6th,...