Our swimmers were in action very early in the new year with the Level 3 Repton New Year Meet. This was a level 3 event, held over 3 sessions on Friday 3rd January. All the results can be found here: https://www.foxsgalatimings.co.uk/onlineresults/RNMeet25/ Isaac Hawksworth was second overall in the 11/12 years male category, with Johan Hawksworth 6th and James Lee 7th. Alexander Thompson was 6th overall in 13/14 years male category, and Gabriel Sutton 6th in 9/10 years boys. For the girls, Maddie Heron was 5th overall in the female 11/12...

Our swimmers were in action at our Christmas Cracker meet on 21st/22nd December at our home pool, Moorways. It was a very well attended meet, with nearly 3000 swims over the 2 days of competition, with swimmers making the most of the last short course meet of the year, and an opportunity to post qualifying times for the County Championships and Regionals. Clubs entered from all over the country: Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester, Cambridge, Corby as well as closer to home. We had over 80 of our own swimmers there, from...

Our swimmers raced at the third round of the Arena league on Saturday evening at Pingles Leisure Centre, and came away with a thoroughly deserved win! Derby Excel finished top of gala 2, with 286 points, 10 points ahead of Walsall, with Bramcote third with 253 points. Braunstone were 4th with 231 points. Sandwell Aquatics were 5th on 220, just 2 points ahead of Abingdon Vale. Chase were 7th and Solihull 8th. Well done to everyone who raced, all the officials, helpers and supporters for making it a very special...

Winter Nationals December 2024 Our swimmers have been competing at the only National short course event of the year, Swim England Winter Nationals at Ponds Forge, over 4 days last week. Our Queens of the pool Imogen Clark and Georgina Pryor once again prevailed against some tough opposition. Imogen Clark (25) won GOLD in the 100m breaststroke – with a heat swim of 1:07.80 to qualify in third place, then smashed the final to win in a time of 1:05.79, nearly a second ahead of Loughborough Performance Centre’s Elizabeth Booker....

Our swimmers were in action again in Round 2 of the Arena league on 9th November. We were once again racing at Sandwell Aquatics Centre, the venue that staged the swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. We finished in third place overall on 251 points, with the event being won by City of Coventry A who amassed an impressive 342 points, and Blythe Barracudas second on 287 points. Newcastle Staffs were 4th with 228 points, Belper Marlin in 5th with 199 points, HINA in 6th, Solihull 7th, Boldmere Swimming and...

Thirty five of our swimmers headed to Harvey Haddon Leisure Centre in Nottingham last weekend to take part in the 2024 East Midlands Regional Short Course Championships. Swimmers from all over the region took part, including around a dozen Olympians from the Loughborough Performance Centre. Our swimmers had a very successful meet, and it was great for them to race against such high quality opposition - even though it meant medals were harder to come by! Dylan Jamieson (16) started off on Friday night with a gold medal in 16/under...

Swim England have produced a resource for swimmers regarding periods: https://www.swimming.org/justswim/menstrual-cycle-information-for-aquatic-participants/ We will put the link on our website as well. As a club and committee, we are keen to normalise the conversations around periods, and hope this information will help.

We are hosting a Masters Development Day on Saturday 23rd September, intended for Masters swimmers of all ages and abilities. This will take the form of a full day's workshop covering various topics such as Strength and Conditioning training, injury prevention, psychological skills, endurance/distance training and a technique session. For more information, click here