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18th July 2010 - Summer Gala - Beechdale
Results now available. View on the web or download and print your results >> here

 

12th July
Results from Midlands Open Water Champs are posted on the open water section. Notts swimmers won four gold medals across the various age groups and distances at one of the best and most popular open water events of the year.


26th June 2010 - Summer Gala Update

Entry must be via your club, entry file sets for club coordinators are
available >> here Closing date is Friday 9th July.

 

From 1st September 2010 all ASA Open Meets Licensed at Level 1 or Level 2 require all Officials qualified as Judges and above to be Licensed Officials.

Swimming Clubs.
Do you have a Licensed Official? If yes then this message does not apply to you. If, however, you have any qualified Judge Level 1 or above and they are not yet licensed then please read on.

All newly qualified Judge Level 1 officials should have received the relevant form for completion upon qualification. Any official who has attained an additional qualification may also use any new qualification to enable them to become licensed.

If they are not yet licensed and have not attained any additional qualification within the last 12 months all is not lost. You will need to demonstrate that you have undertaken the FINA Rules Update 2009 and "Contemporary Issues", the Officials Awareness course, as well as being an active official during the previous 12 months. The County can organise this course for you - just let us know if you have officials that are in need of going on the course and we will sort one.

 

Licence Forms can be found on the British Swimming Website

19th May 2010

Notts ASA Summer Gala (for Non-National Qualifiers) will be held at Beechdale on Sunday 18th July. Swimmers wishing to enter should contact their club gala coordinator. For details click >> here

 

 

It is with regret that we have to announce that John Brough a member of Radford Swimming Club died on Friday 14th May.

At the European Downs Championships held in Southampton in April, Nova's Oliver Pratley broke 2 Junior World short course records in the 100 metres Freestyle and 50 metres Backstroke.

Oliver has also received confirmation that he has been selected to swim for Great Britain at the Downs Syndrome World Swimming Championships in Taiwan later this year.

Oliver joins two other Nova swimmers, Claire Crawford and Andrew Banks, who also swam in Southampton and gained new PB's as well as Gold and Silver medals in the squad for the Championships.

Congratulations to them all.

 

NOTICE TO ALL CLUBS. Please be aware that theere has been some changes to the venues for some clubs since the first announcement was sent out. Please see the leagues page in the swimming section for up-to date venues.

Rebecca Adlington, Sasha Matthews, Jessica Sylvester and Katherine Wyld have been selected for the England Team for the Commonwealth Games in India, 3-14 October.

There are still 14 places remaining and the rest of the England team will be selected following the LEN European Championships (4-15 August, Budapest) and the British Gas ASA National Championships (18-21 August, Sunderland).

Check out the news article - pool to be completed by mid 2011... http://bit.ly/9sYvwD

We are please to announce that Nottingham City Council have recently been awarded the Inspire Mark Accreditation for delivering the free swimming initiative to those aged 16 & under and 60 & over from 1st April 2009 -31st March 2011 in ALL Nottingham City Council pools. The accreditation is awarded to projects that are inspired by 2012 as a mark of excellence. A Huge congratulations to Nottingham City Council.

IPC have now updated their Technical Rules and these are now in alignment with the wording of FINA Swimming Rules.

Click Here.

The main points to note are as follows:-

Swimming rule exceptions have been reviewed to ensure an athlete is not disadvantaged by their disability.

Toes no longer have to be under the water in a backstroke start.

Butterfly kick is now permitted during the first arm stroke after a start or turn in breaststroke.

The requirement of shoulders to be in line with the normal water surface in butterfly has been removed.

Some useful information for competition organisers.

 

Single Gender Events:

 

Question: Our club would like to organise an Open Meet that includes 800m and 1500m Freestyle events but want to swim males and females together. I understand that FINA has introduced a new rule that prevents us from doing that. Is this correct?

 

Answer: Yes, that is correct. FINA has introduced a new rule.

 

SW10.1. All individual races must be held as separate gender events.

However, it may still be possible for you to include these events as mixed providing they are age group events. FINA provides the opportunity for Federations to adopt their own Age Group rules (SWAG 1).

 

You will need to ensure that the competition conditions state clearly that these are Age Group events and will be swum as mixed male and female.

 

Nottinghamshire swimmers and coaches featured well in the County Council's annual sports review of the year, which took place on Friday 5th Feb.

Winners were:

Glenn Smith: Coach Of The Year (Performance)

Sam Hynd: Disabled Sportsperson Of The Year

Role Of Honour: Alan Urch, Sutton In Ashfield Sc

 

Also Short listed were:

Rebecca Adlington: Sportsperson of the Year (winner was Carl Froch, Boxer)

Charlotte Henshaw: Disabled Sports Person of the Year

Andrew Zawadzki: Junior Disabled Sports Person of The Year

Campbell Plant: Junior Disabled Sports Person of The Year

Jacob Parker: Junior Disabled Sports Person of The Year

Graham Davies: Coach of The Year-Arnold Sc (Community)

Find out more on http://www.sportnottinghamshire.co.uk/news/2010/02/08/Sporting-heroes-recognised-by-county.php