Nottinghamshire ASA

We wish all of the Team GB Atheletes the very best of luck at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics that have officially started today after a years delay due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Whether our atheletes are originally from Nottingham, or further afield, from the world of swimming or any other sport. We stand as one and wish them all the very best of luck and hopefully will get the medals coming in soon and get Team GB high up on that medals table!

During this volunteering appreciation week, Nottinghamshire’s Josie Grange has been awarded the Alfred H Turner award by Swim England. The Award is awarded to those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to aquatic sport at either club, county, regional, national or international level.

Josie started swimming as a youngster and joined a swimming club in Nottinghamshire which eventually took her to the National Championships.

At aged 18, Josie went to Bedford College to train as a PE teacher and at the end of her training she came back to Nottingham to teach at Ellis Guilford. Whilst there she was encouraged to sit on the Nottinghamshire ASA committee as the schools representative by Ken Martin and so her journey through swimming began.

In 1973 a handful of swimmers from different clubs approached the committee and said they would like to train as a Nottinghamshire team and enter major competitions as a team capable of having relay teams. Josie was charged to look into the viability of this and so Nova Centurion was formed as a competition club but the training was undertaken by Nottinghamshire ASA as a County Swim Squad.

From sitting on the Nottinghamshire ASA committee Josie went on to be part of the East Midlands ASA committee. Josie went on to become President of Notts ASA., and later President of the East midlands ASA.

Josie successfully implemented a system within Nottinghamshire of registering swimmers at clubs within the county to help with running the county’s leagues. Following this success, she was asked by the Amateur Swimming Association to join their staff and start the running of the registration of swimmers and members attached to clubs in a working capacity. Josie helped develop the registration process and club codes that we still use today.

Josie went on to become President of the Amateur Swimming Association becoming the third person in Nottinghamshire to become so, she followed in the footsteps of another Nottinghamshire school teacher Ken Martin.

Congratulations Josie on receiving this prestigious award in recognition for what you have done and keep doing.

The following extensions to the period of validity for Officials Licences have been agreed, to assist those individuals who may have been unable to fulfil the renewal requirements due to the various Covid restrictions in place:

• Any licences that expired in 2020 and were not renewed have been extended until 31 December 2021
  • For example, if your licence expired on 31 October 2020 and you did not renew it, you now have until 31 December 2021
• Any licences that are due to expire in 2021 and were not renewed before 30 April 2021 have been extended by 12 months
  • For example if your licence expired on 31 March 2021 and you did not renew it, you now have until 31 March 2022
• Any licences that are due to expire in 2022 will extended by 12 months – this work is currently ongoing but should be completed shortly.

This applies to both pool and open water licences.
New licence cards will not be issued but you can check your renewal dates at https://www.swimming.org/swimengland/club-member-check/ (subject to your data protection choices).
Many thanks for your continued assistance in getting competitions back up and running for all of our athletes.

Nottinghamshire ASA have been getting a lot of questions regarding upcoming events, especially the County Relay gala.

Taking the governments advice and also that of the World Health Organisation and Swim England, we are currently going ahead with ALL events with the advice to ensure that all swimmers shower before entering the pools and after the event. Everyone should continue to wash hands thoroughly.

We can all understand concerns at this time and Nottinghamshire ASA are keeping a close eye on all of the advice given to us. If you do feel unwell or have any concerns please do not attend the competitions.

If we get any further updates or have to cancel any events due to further advice we will post more news here on the website, and also email the key club contacts that we have.

For the full advice from Swim England please click here.

Government advice on COVID-19 (Coronavirus) click here.

If you feel unwell or need more advice please visit the NHS 111 website here.

The 2019 Nottinghamshire AGM will take place at Harvey Hadden Sports Village, Wigman Road, Nottingham, NG8 4PB on 9th November. This will be a 10:00am meet with the meeting starting at 10:30am. Refreshments will be available from 10:00am with a light refreshments straight after the meeting.

All clubs are welcome to send up to 3 voting delegates, along with all Notts ASA Past Presidents.

The 2018 Nottinghamshire AGM will take place at Bonnington Theatre, Arnold Leisure Centre, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 7EE. This will be a 10:00am meet with the meeting starting at 10:30am. Breakfast rolls will be available from around 10:00am.

All clubs are welcome to send up to 3 voting delegates, along with all Notts ASA Past Presidents.

It is with regret that we have to announce the death of Mick Andrews past president of the Nottinghamshire ASA and treasurer.

Mick was a life member of Arnold Swimming Club and a Referee officiating at our events.

Details of funeral are not known but we will let you know as soon as we are told.

There is new information for all clubs and good guidance with relation to anti-doping and keeping our sport clean.

Please find the information here.

Tim Reddish CBE, Life Vice-President of Nottinghamshire ASA has been elected on to the board of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Congratulations Tim, from everyone in Nottinghamshire Swimming.