Welcome to Nottinghamshire ASA and Nova Centurion Swimming Club - proud home to double Olympic Champion, Rebecca Adlington and Paralympic champion, Sam Hynd.
LATEST NEWS 26th June Leander Triumph at Notts & Derby Junior League Nottingham Leander SC scored an impressive win in the Derby & Notts Junior Swimming League Final, at Watermeadows, Mansfield on Sunday 21st June, beating second place City of Derby by over 30 points. As the only representative from Nottinghamshire in the final, up against four Derbyshire clubs, Leander were ahead from the start, winning the first 3 races, then stretched this lead through the gala, finishing with 181 points to Derby’s 148. Chesterfield were third, followed by Long Eaton and Rykneld. The young squad of swimmers (age 9 – 12), performed particularly well in the relays by winning 8 and coming second in 5 out of the 15, illustrating the strength in depth of the club. Leander also won the League Title as winners of the Final, following victories in the two previous galas in the series. The club now will go on to the Southern Region Junior League Final in October, with a prospect of reaching the National Final in November. 27th May Entry forms for Midland Open Water Championships (12th July) now available, see open water page. 18th May Notts ASA Summer Gala for non National qualifiers - Sunday 12th July at Beechdale Nottingham. Information and Club entry packs are now available click here 18th May Open water swimming...14 degrees... no body suits... don't knock it until you've tried it! Over 120 swimmers entered the Colwick Park Annual Open Water Swim, and Nottinghamshire swimmers featured well in the results. See the open water section for more info and results... 8th May Attention Masters Swimmers! See the masters page if you fancy taking part in the East Midlands Inter-county masters event next month. 1st May Notts swimmers have been called up for international duty, with selections recently announced for the European Junior Championships and Paralympic World Cup. Ann Morris, Georgia Hohmann and Daniel Mills will all represent GB at the European Juniors in Prague, whilst Sam Hynd and Charlotte Henshaw will compete at the World Cup in Manchester. Glenn Smith has also been selected as a GB coach for the World Cup and Jamie Main is set to be announced as one of the coaches for the European Junior Championships. 30th April Nottingham Leander's Cup Final Day  Nottingham Leander took part in the 40th Cup Final of the National Swimming League on Sunday 26th April at Ponds Forge. This was the first visit of a team from Nottinghamshire to the Cup Final in over 20 years and a highlight for Leander’s chief coach Tony Holmes the. The Leander swimmers were competing against nine top teams from the rest of the country, providing very strong competition. With a squad slightly depleted by the illness of Rebecca Adlington, who nevertheless attended as a supporter, Leander finished in a strong ninth position. This was an outstanding performance from the Leander team, all of whom swam well on the day setting many new personal bests. The travelling hordes of Leander supporters had a great day, and were very vocal and visible waving flags, making noise with rattles and drums and wearing their Cup Final green polo tops and Robin Hood hats! 21st April  The 2008-2009 season proved to be extremely successful with 4th place in the A-final of the Autumn Minor League followed by a runners-up spot in the Notts & District League final. The year finished with an excellent win of the division 2 Sports Centre League title. The younger swimmers finshed 4th in the A-final of the 2009 Spring Minor League, and there were excellent results at the County Championships with William Gayne and Nathan Roome achieving a 1-2 in the 9yr Boys BAGCATs. There were also podium places for James Bull (2nd), Mia Sallis (3rd), Lewis Wiley (3rd), and the 10yr boys and 12yr girls freestyle and medley relay teams. The club is currently preparing for another A-Final in the Spring Competition and is holding its own within the top division of the Sports Centre League. It also has several swimmers preparing for the forthcoming Midlands Championships in June
The club focuses on quality training at a young age and works to help swimmers achieve their goals, whether that is another PB or a place on the Notts County Swim Squad. Carlton Forum SC was rewarded at the end of 2008 with ASA accredited as a Swim 21 club at the higher Skill Development level. A huge amount of effort went into this award and thanks go to Vicki Hardy, our Swim 21 Co-ordinator. 3rd April  Nottingham Leander Swimming Club's A won the Final of the Notts ASA Minor Gala League (Spring), at Mansfield pool on 28th March. They won the gala by a margin of 45 points over second placed Mansfield A team, and won the overall league winners trophy. Leander's squad of 9 to 13 year olds took 17 first places and 16 second places between them (out of 48 events). They also finished first or second in all bar one of the relays. 1st April 2009
The 2009 County Championships are now completed. For full results service click here >> more 1st April 2009  Bramcote Swimming Club has been accredited as a Swim 21 Club by the ASA. This is something the Club has actively been working towards over the last two years and is delighted to have been recognised by the ASA. "Swim 21 is recognition of the high standards we've achieved. Bramcote is a thriving club with growing numbers of young swimmers, excellent coaching and teaching staff and a committed management team. Particular thanks to Juie Graham and Paul Martin for all their hard work in helping us to achive this badge of recognition." 30th March 2009 Well done to all the swimmers that represented Calverton and Bingham SC at the East Midlands Biathlon on the 29th of March 2009. Congratulations to the following competitors who all qualified for the National Championships to be held at Macclesfield in May - Esme Fairhurst 4th in the 13/14yrs, Nicole Goulding 1st in the 11/12yrs, Susannah McMillan 2nd in the 13/14yrs, Gina Radford 2nd in the 17/18 yrs, Ben Barsby 2nd in the 13/14yrs and Dan Winter 1st in the 17/18yrs. Once again well done and Good Luck at the Nationals. 25th March 2009 Comic Relief Family Fun Gala  Sherwood Colliery Swimming Club raised £510 for Comic Relief at their Family Fun Gala on Thursday 12 March. The Club held the gala to mark the closure of Sherwood Baths ahead of a £5m transformation. Nigel Powell, chairman of the club, said: "We wanted to mark the closure of the pool. We over 100 swimmers, aged seven to 50, who were prepared to 'do something funny for money' and raise money for Comic Relief. We had a fantastic time and raised £510 for this great cause at the same time." "The closure of the pool will be a difficult time for the club but we are all looking forward to a great new facility opening in the New Year." The centre is set to re-open in January next year after a total refurbishment including increasing the number of lanes from four to six, new changing rooms, an enlarged fitness suite and a ground source heat pump to provide sustainable heating for the pool and building. 12th February Notts ASA had two winners at the award ceremony for Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year today. Olympian of the Year
Rebecca Adlington Unsung Hero Award
Wendy Coles (Notts County Secretary) 5th February
The Nottinghamshire sports awards took place at East Midlands Conference Centre last Friday. Swimmers featured very strongly! Bill Furniss - coach of the year Rebecca Adlington - Female athlete of Year Sam Hynd - Junior disabled athlete of year 4 x 200 Nova relay team - team of the year Jess Sylvester - outstanding achievement award
18th January The funeral of Mrs Sue Birchmore will take place on 27th January 1.15pm at Bramcote. Sue joined Nottingham Swimming Club when her children started swimming in 1975, and has taken an active part in the sport ever since. Having sat for several weeks watching lessons she realised that she was capable of helping, and so joined the teaching team of Nottingham SC. Initially this was with the younger non-swimmers and later the adult learner group. Since then she taught and coached at all levels within the club. When her children started attending galas she became interested in officiating and took and passed the County and National examinations as a timekeeper, judge and starter. She attended both District and National events as a timekeeper/judge and willingly gave her time to help other clubs at their galas. Sue served on the Nottingham SC Committee from 1980 initially in the role of Gala Secretary and then in 1983 as Club Secretary a position she held until sad passing. She served on the Notts ASA Leagues Management Committee and the Notts Sports Centre League Committee for which she acted as Secretary until the present time. In 2004 Sue took over as Treasurer on Nottinghamshire ASA and has served since on the Management Committee in this role. When the East Midland Region was formed she became the editor of the handbook. Sue will be sadly missed within the County and the Region for her love and dedication to our sport. 23rd December Bill Furniss was presented with a High performance coach award at the Uk Coach Awards held on 17th Dec in London at the Dorchester Hotel. Glenn Smith, Linda Bennett, Ian Negs and Bill, were awarded the Coaching Chain award for Coaching Rebecca from Grass roots to Performance and Olympic level. 4th December
 Olympic double gold medallist Rebecca Adlington won the BBC East Midlands Sports Personality for 2008 at the awards ceremony in Nottingham last week. Sam Hynd picked up two awards and Bill Furniss was also rewarded for a fantastic year.
Sam Hynd collected awards for both the Junior Disabled Sportsperson of the Year and the Disabled Sportsperson of the Year.
18th November
The link below will take you to the calendar for Into Sports courses for 09. Please note that you require for swim21: Safeguarding & Protecting children Equity in Your coaching - 1 teacher/coach to attend How to coach disabled people - 1 teacher / coach to attend A club for all - 1 committee member to attend Note that these courses are valid for 3 years so if you are due for reaccreditation in 2009/2010 it would be worth getting on these courses ASAP.
3rd November Sam Hynd was awarded the Best Male swimmer Trophy at the Disability Sport Events (DSE) National Short Course Swimming Championships in Sheffield's Ponds Forge this weekend. Sam broke three World and five European records, including the S8 100m Freestyle (European), 50m Breaststroke (World), 100m Medley (World), 400m Freestyle (World) and the 200m Individual medley (European). 26th October Several of Nottinghamshire's 'more experienced' swimmers competed at the British Masters Championships in Sheffiled this weekend. The Nottingham Leander men's 72+ medley relay set a new British record of 1:24.61 (Alex Thurston, Jack Bates, Tom Willdridge, Matt Tutty). There was also a gold for Leander in the 100+ Freestyle relay (Matthew Tutty, Tom Willdridge, Alex Thurston, David Baines). Helen Gorman set a European and British record in the 35-39yrs 200m Breast stroke (2:42.58). Former Notts swimmer Julie Gibson (Wilmott) set a European record in the 40-44 200m Butterfly (2:29.20), now swimming for Etwall Eagles. Matt Driscoll (Nottingham Leander) won gold in the 35-39yrs 1500m (17:11.98). Apologies to any record breakers or gold medallists we've missed, there's lots of results to look at! 20th October
Congratulations to Helena Thornton for winning a silver medal in the 200m breast stroke at the CommonwealthYouth Games in India. She swam 2:34.11 to win her second medal of the event. If you missed The Times newspaper yesterday, there was a double page feature about Becky Adlington. Follow the link HERE to read it.
17th October
Helena Thornton claimed a gold medal in the girls 200m Individual Medley at the Commonwealth Youth Games in India yesterday after touching home in a time of 2:18.43. She turned in fourth place at the first turn, climbed up to first place at the 150m mark and after an excellent final 50m won her first gold medal of the competition. "I am so happy to have won," Thornton said. "The time is a lot faster than I had expected at this stage of my season. I knew the others would be strong at the end and I knew that I had to try and break them on the breaststroke leg and then hold on on the final freestyle leg. To compete at a Commonwealth Youth Games is just as good an experience as the European Youth Olympic Festival but to win an individual gold makes this extra special." 7th October
 Meet the Olympians - members of Nova Centurion Swimming Club had the opportunity to meet Olympic swimmers Jess Sylvester, Becky Adlington and Sam Hynd last night as part of the club's AGM. Head coach, Bill Furniss spoke about the dedication and determination that is required to make it to the Olympics. The swimmers were presented with commemorative glass wear to mark their amazing achievements in Beijing. If anyone has good photographs of the event, please send them to us, as our cameraperson was a little amateur! 18th September
Welcome back Sam! Ashfield District Council will welcome home Paralympic hero, Sam Hynd on Monday 22nd September at Ashfield District Council Offices, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. See flier for more detail and come along to support Nottinghamshire's latest gold medallist! 12th September
 Sam claims Paralympic Gold
Congratulations to Sam, gold medallist in the S8 400m Freestyle with a fantastic new world record, 4:26.25! 11th September Sam wins bronze!
BRONZE MEDALIST - 200 IM SM8 CATEGORY 2:29.9 - New European & British Record
Sam Hynd breaks records in Beijing
Sam Hynd has had two fantastic swims so far at the Paralympics in Beijing. In his two weaker events Sam has set British record, which looks really positive for his best events today and tomorrow.
100m Freestyle 1:01.04 - 6th place new S8 Cat British Record 100m Breaststroke 1:15.24 - 5th Place new SB8 Cat British record by nearly three seconds. Sam has qualified second fastest for the final of the SM8 200m Individual Medley, the final is later today.
Charlotte Henshaw swims in the SB6 100m Breaststroke on tomorrow. 16th August
 Well done Becky Adlington, double Olympic Champion and World Record holder in the 800m Freestyle. Becky won the 800m freestyle in a time of 8.14.10, a new World record, beating the 19 year old previous record by 2.12 seconds. Watch it again! BBC online coverage...
11th August
 CONGRATULATIONS REBECCA ADLINGTON, Olympic Champion, 400m Freestyle! 
14th July 2008 Summer Gala - Sunday 13th July, Beechdale, Nottingham Results now available > here | 
