Many of our Elite swimmers competed at the short course Winter Nationals over 4 days last week, and had some absolutely outstanding results. We finished in fourth place in the medals table, behind Loughborough University, Loughborough National Centre and Bath National Centre - ie the 'top club' in the whole country, a really fantastic achievement. Our swimmers won 4 gold medals and a silver, broke 1 British record, 4 Regional records and 4 County records. Imogen Clark lowered her own British record by 0.13 seconds with an outstanding swim in...

Imogen Clark is back in Derby after her successful racing at the European Short Course Championships. Those medals look great Imogen!

Imogen Clark has done it again! Swimogen won another medal at the European short course championships in Romania this evening, in the 50m breaststroke. Her time of 29.41 was just outside her own British record, and helped the GB team to their best medal haul ever. The British team topped the medals table with 9 golds, 8 silver and 6 bronze (23 in total) - with France second with 22 medals, and Italy third. We are all so proud of you Imogen!

Our team travelled to Rugby for the final round of the Arena League, where we competed in the W Mids Premier League final. There were some eye-catching results, with swimmers putting in some excellent performances which collectively saw us finish in fourth place on 223 points, just 13 points behind 3rd place Worcester. Repton were the winners on the night, with Coventry in second place. Leamington were 5th, Redditch 6th, and Belper Marlin 7th, and Solihull in 8th. Thanks to all the officials, team managers and helpers, we really appreciate...

Wow! Our very own Imogen Clark won a bronze medal as part of the GB ladies 4 x 50m medley relay team at the European Short Course Championships in Romania today. She swam a blistering time of 28.66 seconds in the breaststroke leg, the quickest breaststroke leg of any team. The team of Kathleen Dawson, Imogen, Keanna Macinnes and Anna Hopkin set a new British Record for this event, 1:44.67 Imogen also reached the final of the 100m breaststroke earlier in the week, finishing in 8th place. Her best event,...

We have a new area on our website with information which is for 'Members Only' - including the new training timetable which starts in January, and the latest competition calendar. We will be adding more content over the coming weeks. If there's anything in particular you feel should be on there, please email me: [email protected] Thank you Babs

What a fantastic night of racing last night at Pingles Leisure Centre, which saw Derby Excel win with a total of 305 points! In a hard fought night of racing, Derby Excel held off a strong challenge from Repton A, who finished in second place with 294 points, with Redditch third on 284 points. Bramcote were 5th then Orion, Witney and Wolverhampton in 8th. There was a fantastic atmosphere, and the result was nail-bitingly close, with Derby closing it out at the end. Derby Excel were hosting the event on...

Derby Excel had an amazing weekend at the Regional Championships at Harvey Hadden in Nottingham last weekend, finishing with a medals tally of 23 gold, 12 silver and 7 bronze. All our 4 relay teams won, with new Derbyshire county records: In the 4 x 50m freestyle relay: Anna Tyers, Imogen Clark, Ellie Tennant and Georgie Pryor Tom Trueman, Ethan Lawton, Ben Twynham and Tom Rochelle with Derby Excel B also winning a bronze: Liam Dawson, Charlie Miller, Alex Harrand and George Whittle In the 4 x 50m medley relay:...

Congratulations to all our swimmers who represented Derbyshire at the Inter-county Championships. Derbyshire were promoted to Division 1 last season, and were looking to push on and establish themselves this year. The team were coached by Repton's Ash Morris and Long Eaton's Ollie Tipping. Our swimmers performed brilliantly, especially as the event was so early in the season with Derbyshire finishing in 8th place with 367 points, 2 points ahead of Lancashire on 365 points, and 14 points behind Northumberland & Durham. Nottinghamshire were 20th and were relegated to Division...

Fourteen Derby Excel swimmers competed recently at the Swim England Summer Nationals, and produced some outstanding swims at this end of season event: Lucy Cadden, Oliver Osbourne, Tom Trueman, Eden Saint, Nikolai Khutoryanskiy, Charlotte Hall, Millie King, George Whittle, Sebastian Ebanks, Jaden Leo, Tilly Hase, Eden Saint, Isla Johnson and Oliver Henshaw Many of the swimmers produced personal best times, made finals, and we had some medal winners: Leading the way was Jaden Leo (14), who won gold medals in all three breaststroke distances – 50m, 100m and 200m, a...