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....

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