Nottinghamshire ASA

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.

The Irish Long Distance Swimming Association held two swims on the 12^th August 2017 Celebrating 70 years.

Tom Blower, member of Radford Swimming Club and the first to successfully swim the North Channel, this is a fun swim in Donaghadee. 750m and 1500m events available. A great chance to be part of the North Channel story and honor a pioneer of our sport. Funds raises were for the Donaghadee Lifeboat.

The event was part of the Donaghadee festival programme.

We have now released full meet information for our Festive Frenzy 2017 Meet which can be found here.

This meet is now open for entries on a first come first serve basis and is open to any Swim England Registered swimming member.

Entries close on Wednesday 13th November 2017.

NOVA Centurion’s Ollie Hynd broke his own world record en-route to gold at the British Summer Championships at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.

The 22-year-old produced an impressive performance to win the final of the S8 400m freestyle, taking more than two seconds off the world record he set at the Rio Paralympics.

Ollie said: “Really happy to smash my 400 freestyle world record tonight! Two seconds faster than Rio!”

The European, world and Paralympic champion in that event, he swept to victory in 4:19.74, beating his previous competition best of 4:21.89.

A huge congratulations to Ollie Hynd on his Honorary Doctorate from Nottingham Trent University recognising his achievements in the Swimming World.

Congratulations to Charlotte Henshaw (ex-NOVA and Nottinghamshire swimmer) who has just won a European Silver medal on her international debut as a paracanoeist.

Charlotte has said:

I’m 100% aware this is the first, small step on a long journey but it was an incredible experience & something I am very happy to have accomplished. There’s more hard work to be done and I still have a lot to learn but the British Canoeing team have been nothing but supportive and welcoming since I made the transition from swimming & I’m proud to be on the team with and learn from them all.

Please click here for a DRAFT copy of the 2018 Nottinghamshire ASA County Championship Qualification Times. These are being passed to you for consultation.

The qualification times have been derived by looking at previous entry number into events and feedback that we have received from the 2017 championships, along with the pool time we have managed to secure for the 2018 championships.

Please note that the 800m Free/1500m Freestyle events will be restricted to 4 heats of each due to time constraints at the pool. If oversubscribed these events will be restricted as a percentage across all age groups from submitted entries and all rejections will be notified as soon as possible after entries have closed.

We would appreciate it if you could take these back to your club to review and provide constructive feedback. Please consolidate any feedback from your club by filtering through a single contact to the county email address (county.entries@notts-swimming.co.uk). The consultation period will close on Sunday 13^th August 2017. Genuine comments will be reviewed and we will then look to publish the final qualification times (subject to licensing) towards the end of August/Early September.

Live Results and Scoreboard for the Notts ASA Summer Gala 2017 can be found here.

Falcon ASC (Hucknall) are currently looking for a new head coach to train their squads.

Please find more information here.