Our GB team for the European Championships to be held in Lublin, Poland 2-7 July this year are being supported by Swimpath
www.swimpath.co.uk who will provide the team kit at cost.
Swimpath are also offering 10% discount to all members on all their swimming merchandise. See members page for discount code.

What an event!! Swimmers from Ireland and the Netherlands joined us for a great days racing followed by a NDCS fun gala. Age group, English, Scottish, GB Youth, GB, European and a World record all set during the day. Fantastic! Well done to everyone and thank you for all your generosity in providing raffle prizes and purchasing auction items. Huge thanks to all the officials and to Loughborough University which once again proved to be a great venue for our competition.

It has been a very successful start to the new year for our swimmers with many more records falling already. Our Category A swimmer Alice Kinsey (11) notched up 6 long course records in 50/100 free, 50/200 breast & 50/100 back while 15 year old Poppy Leaman set a new long course 200 Backstroke time. In Cat B we had major success from Oliver Kenny (20) who set a new GB record in the 100 back long course and added the English record for 50 free. Lucy Sharp (16) continued her fine form with an age group & English record in the 50 Fly. Jack McComish broke his own long course GB record in the 50 Breaststroke while our younger swimmers were setting several age group records. 13 year old Letisha Ellis set a new 100 breast time long course & Libby Gotta also 13 claimed the 400 I.M. short course. For the boys Ryan Carstairs (12) grabbed the 50/100 free, 50 breast & 100 I.M. all short course and Harvey Spoor who has recently moved category claimed his first Cat B records 400 & 1500 free long course while adding 7 short course records in 100/200 free, 200 breast, 50/100/200 back and 200 I.M. All records are up to date as of 31 January so please let me know if there are any missed out. Congratulations to everyone.

An outstanding year for the club has ended with still more records falling including an English record for 13 year old Letisha Ellis for 50 Breaststroke short course. Letisha added age group records for 50 free, 100 breast, 200 breast and 100 I.M. 13 year old Libby Gotta also got among the age group records with 100 Fly long & short course, 200 free s/c  and 200 I.M. long course. 14 year old Lucy Jordan-Caws capped a fine year with records in 50 &100 butterfly. Abbie Williams improved her own 200 Welsh record while English records also went to Lucy Sharp (16) in 50 Free s/c and an age group record for 50 Fly. Ciara Tappenden set a new GB & GB Youth record for the gruelling 800 free s/c while Jack McComish improved his GB records for 50 free & 100 Breast. Nathan Carrington (10) improved his 50 breast time and Ryan Carstairs (12) set records in 100 free, 50/100 breast & 100/200 I.M. Our Cat A swimmers also completed a great year with Alice Kinsey (11) setting new records in 50/100 free 50/100 back & 200 Breaststroke. For the boys 13 year old Harvey Spoor set an amazing 15 new records in 50/100/200/400/1500 free, 50/100/200 breast, 50/100 back, 50 fly & 200/400 I.M. across long and short course. Congratulations to the whole club for an amazing year and we look forward to more of the same in 2018.

Congratulations to senior swimmer Jack McComish(22) who continued his great form with 2 personal bests at the Scottish National Short course championships held in the Royal Commonwealth pool, Edinburgh 8-10 December. Jack set a new GB record for 50 freestyle and lowered his own European record in the 100 Breaststroke with a time of 1.02.22. Shiona McClafferty (17) also had a successful meet a personal best in the 50 Breaststroke while Danielle Joyce(21) was forced to pull out of what is one of her favourite competitions just days before it started through injury.