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,...

Christmas Social 2025 As the nights start to get longer and there is a chill in the air on the way to morning training, we are getting ever closer to that wonderful time of year…no, not the start of the long course season, but CHRISTMAS!!! We are planning a SOCIAL that will be fun, whatever the weather, and involves food, what more could a swimmer ask for?! What? 2 games of laser tag… Plus a hot food buffet and drinks in the party area. The delicious buffet includes pizza, fries,...

Huge congratulations to our 7 swimmers who have been selected for Swim England Development programmes. DiSE (Diploma in Sporting Excellence): Jacob Pemberton (DX/Belper) Miley Aram (DX/Long Eaton) National Age Group Development Programme: Toby Drayson (DX/Belper) Connie Bunhejee Liv Male Isla Johnson (DX/Belper) Regional Development Programme James Lee For more information about these exciting initiatives and the selection policy, please see: https://asaner.org.uk/swim-england-selection-policy-2025-2026-para-swimming-swimming/ Well done to you all, we are super proud of you!

Congratulations to our swimmers who represented Team Derbyshire today at the National County Team Championships at Ponds Forge. There were 2 Derby Excel swimmers, Ada Moorhouse and Connie Bunhejee, and three from Pathway clubs - Ava Carter and Eden Saint (Belper Marlin), and Connor Furnish (Long Eaton) The Derbyshire team were superb throughout, and came second in Division 1, the highest finish Derbyshire have ever had. The team scored 446 points, second behind winners Kent who finished on 478 points, retaining the title they won last. Yorkshire were a very...

Our novice swimmers have been competing at the Derbyshire Junior Grand Prix at Matlock. Once again, this is a great learning experience for our young swimmes, giving them their first taste of racing, and building on their skills over the three rounds. The results can be found here. Thank you to coaches Glenn Fisher and Becky Mills, and the Team Managers for their support.

Notice to all J1 Officials If you want to progress to become a Judge Level 2, the course is now online: https://www.swimming.org/sport/become-swimming-judge-level-2/ J2 officials do 2 extra roles at Open meets and galas - stroke judge and finish judge. Please let our officials co-ordinator Ralph Shepherd know if you are doing the course, as he can provide support and mentoring: Ralph Shepherd If anyone wants to train as an official, please let Ralph know. Thank you

Save the Date! Saturday 29th November 2025 We have exciting news to share with you today. Sheffield Steelers Ice Hockey Club have very kindly invited Derby Excel to attend their match against Nottingham Panthers on Saturday 29th November, to attend as a group. They are offering tickets free of charge to our swimmers as well as any siblings aged up to 18, and then any swimmers over 18 and adults would also be discounted to just £13.50 each. They've added this: A night at the Steelers guarantees constant excitement, plenty...