Good luck to all our swimmers at the Aquatics GB Next Gen Championships this week in Sheffield. Enjoy the event, we will be cheering you on! Live stream: http://www.youtube.com/@Aquatics_GB/streams Full results can be found here: https://results.swimming.org/swimming/results/2025/agbnextgen/

Derby Excel hosted our last meet of the season last weekend, the Summer Sizzler, a long course level 3 meet featuring a skins event at the end of the morning session each day. It was a brilliant event, which ran smoothly throughout. Some of our Elite squads were there, tuning their preparations ahead of Nationals later in the month, but it was mainly for our younger swimmers to show what they could do in their end of season swims. There were many excellent swims, with the swimmers doing their coaches...

It is with much sadness that we announced the sad passing of Peter (Pete) Marshall on the 15th June, Pete held the post of Treasurer at Belper Marlin from 2004 to 2018 before retiring from swimming to Devon. He was also very much involved with DASA and the initial running of Derventio Excel. His daughter Fran swam with Derventio for several years. We send our sincere condolences to his wife Ann, and children Matt, Francis, Erin and Ryan

Some Derby Excel swimmers were in action today at the Repton Sprint meet, gaining valuable racing skills at the sprint events. In an event dominated by the host club, Derby Excel gave it their all, and came away as Top Visiting Club. Pictured here are Tyler Shaw and Keira Parker with the award. Sophie Woodhall won gold in 11/12 years 100m butterfly, over 7 seconds ahead of the silver medallist. She also won gold in 100m breaststroke, silver in 50m butterfly, and bronze in 50m breaststroke, 50m freestyle and 100m...

The Derby Excel Club Championships took place on Saturday 14th June at Moorways - and what a fantastic event it was. We had nearly 100 competitors aged from 8 years up to Masters swimmers, racing from 25m events to 200m freestyle over a frenetic few hours! Swimmers were divided into teams - red, blue, yellow and green - so were racing for their team as well as themselves. Each team were coached by one of our coaching team - Becky and Oli on Red team, John on Yellow team, Ed...

Congratulations to all our young swimmers who competed over the 3 rounds of the Diddy League (or to give it its full title the 'Notts and Derbyshire Junior Swimming League'. The third round took place on 7th June, with Derby Excel competing in gala 2 at Hucknall. We were up against Carlton Forum, Hucknall, Sutton, Dronfield and Chesterfield. Derby Excel took the win with 166 points, an excellent result - with Sutton in second place on 150 points, Hucknall third on 131, joing 4th on 126 were Dronfield and Chesterfield,...

Some of our Derby Excel swimmers attended the Nottingham Northern Swimming Club meet at Harvey Haddon Leisure Centre in Nottingham, and did themselves proud. We finished as the second placed visiting club on 327 points, ahead of Ripley Rascals, Nottingham Leander and Arnold. 10 year old Edie Geis-McCormick was the second placed female swimmer finishing just one point behind the winner from Satellite. Olivia Lee was in 8th, and Amelia Sheil 14th. There were 49 competitors in the female category. For the boys, Max White (10) and James Lee (12)...

Many of you will have seen or heard about tonight’s BBC Panorama programme that addressed issues within the swimming community. We want to make it clear that the Derby Excel is not featured in the programme. That said, we take the topic very seriously. At Derby Excel, we have zero tolerance for bullying, body shaming, or any behaviour that compromises the wellbeing of our members. The safety and support of our members is at the heart of everything we do. We strictly follow all Swim England safeguarding procedures and are...

Imogen Clark will be joining Repton Swimming from the end of the season, with Adam Peaty as her breaststroke training partner as they prepare for the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and beyond. Imogen has been with us on and off for 14 years - she began her swimming career at Rykneld before joining Derventio Excel aged 11. Imi then had spells at Loughborough and Winchester, before returning to our club, where she has been coached by John Adye since 2022. All of us at Derby Excel look forward to seeing...

Huge congratulations to all our qualifiers, who will be swimming at British and/or English Nationals at the end of the season. Derby Excel hosted level 1 meets at the first and last weekends of the qualifying window, the first being a hectic event at Ponds Forge in March, and the second at Moorways last weekend. Qualifying for British Nationals are 12 swimmers: Connie Bunhejee, Anna Tyers, Imogen Clark, Georgie Pryor, Marija Romanovskaja, Miley Aram, Eden Saint, Jaden Leo, Jacob Pemberton, Logan Wiggins, Laurel Roberts-Burrell and George Whittle. The following 21...