Nottinghamshire ASA

The annual Notts ASA Festive Frenzy Open Meet is now open for entries.

Full information can be found on our County Competition page here.

Nottinghamshire ASA today hosted the annual East Midlands Inter-County Masters Challenge Cup at Hucknall Leisure Centre, Nottingham.

The Challenge Cup is an Inter-Team Competitions for Masters Swimmers in the East Midlands representing their respective counties. As Nottinghamshire were the hosts, we were allowed to put in two teams, (Notts A and Notts B) against the other counties in the East Midlands, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire.

Unfortunately, Lincolnshire could not put a team out so withdrew from this year’s competition. However, a great competition was still heald with help from Nottinghamshire Volunteers, the Everyone Active Staff at Hucknall Leisure Centre and Officials from across the region, not to mention the team managers and of course the swimmers themselves.

Nottinghamshire swimmers triumphed finishing 1st and 4th overall!

The final points totals are:

1st	Nottinghamshire A	313
2nd	Derbyshire	244
3rd	Leicestershire	240
4th	Nottinghamshire B	210
5th	Northamptonshire	173

Full results can be found on the east midlands competition website here.

Due to the high demand for entries for the 2018 Notts ASA Summer Gala we are now full and are closing entries early.

University of Nottingham Swimming Club is seeking a coach to lead and deliver a performance programme for the 2018/19 season.

Applications close soon. For more information please click here.

The Notts ASA Summer Gala is filling fast!

There are not many spaces left now as we are limited on the license by swimming time on the day we are in a position where we will soon be limiting entries.

Please be aware that the scheduled Stage 3 final round at Lammas this Saturday has had to be moved to Hucknall LC due to ongoing issues with the starting blocks.

The Gala will take place at Hucknall LC with a 6:00pm warm up and 6:30pm start. Please ensure you let your teams know.

Paralympic swimming gold medallists Ollie Hynd and Jonathan Fox have withdrawn from Team England’s Commonwealth Games squad.

The duo have been subject to a recent reclassification as part of new IPC rules that require all para-swimmers to undergo international classification before the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020.

As a result, there is no event for Fox to participate in at the Commonwealth Games, while the decision has led to Hynd focusing on this summer’s European Championships and the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Nova Centurion’s Hynd, 23, who won gold medals in the S8 400m freestyle and SM8 200m individual medley at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio, said: “My recent re-classification in my main swimming events from S8 to S9 has come as huge shock to me, having not previously been near to an S9 classification in all my years of competing.

“This very difficult news has taken an unbelievable toll on my training and mindset for the Commonwealth Games. With this in mind, I have reluctantly withdrawn from the competition and will not fly out to Australia.

“I would like to wish Team England and the rest of the Commonwealth Countries participating at the Gold Coast, all the very best of luck.”

In the run-up to the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, while at the Copenhagen world para swimming series, Nottinghamshire Paralympic Swimmer Ollie Hynd has been reclassified to a lower classification putting him with more able-bodied athletes.

Ollie is clearly devastated by this news and has said:

“I’m heartbroken and confused as to this week’s reclassification in Copenhagen. Whilst I appreciate that para-sport classification is difficult, it is clear that there are winners and losers to the new processes. Over the next few weeks, both myself and the great team around me will be focusing on the performance framework that will give continued success to Tokyo 2020 and beyond. Finally, I would like to thank you all for your amazing support to this point in my swimming career and let’s look forward now to the challenge ahead!”

Assistant Coach B Squad, Mansfield/Nova Swim Squad. (Temporary 12 month Contract) is currently being advertised. Please find the article and information here.

Closing date extended to Tuesday 2nd April.