Nottinghamshire ASA

The Nottinghamshire ASA AGM for 2023 will be taking place at the Sir Julien Cahn Pavilion, West Park, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7JE on Saturday 25th November 2023 from 09:00am. Parking is available on site.

All members of Nottinghamshire Swimming Clubs, and past presidents are welcome, but a maximum of 3 voting delegates may sign in from each Nottinghamshire ASA affiliated club.

Kate Bulls funeral will take place on Monday 6th November at 10:45.

It will be at Rushcliffe Oaks Crematorium in Cotgrave followed by a wake at the Nottinghamshire Golf and Country Club just over the road.

Anyone whom knew Kate or the Bull family and wishes to pay their respects is more than welcome to attend.

Family flowers only have been requested with family request for donations to Heartlink.

On behalf of Denniss Bull, Marianne Remnant and Andrew Bull, we hope you can join us to remember Kate on this sad day.

It is will huge sadness that we have to inform you all that Nottinghamshire long standing Official, and County Treasurer, Mrs Kathleen (Kate) Bull, sadly passed away this morning at 7:45am.

Our thoughts and condolences are with Denniss and the family at this sad time.

This is a shock to all of us within Nottinghamshire Swimming, and we will issue further details of funeral arrangements when we get them.

For all qualified officials, there will be a rules update course coming soon for the rule changes taking place accross out sport. The new rules are due to take effect from 10th March 2023, please ensure that all competitions run up to the 10th March are run under the current rules and not anything that comes out of this update.

All qualified officials that are registered in Nottinghamshire (taken from the OMS database at the end of December), will have just recieved an email informing them that there will be a course coming soon for them to attend. The email will be from officials@notts-swimming.co.uk (please check spam folders). If you have recently quailified or have not recieved the email, please contact us on the email address to ensure you are added to the circulation list.

Details of venues and times of the course will be published as soon as we have secured some venues and have had all of the relevant information cascaded down to us.

Please see below a statement from British Swimming regarding the 2023 FINA Rules update:

World Aquatics (FINA) is currently reviewing its technical rules in all disciplines. In respect of swimming, the revised rules, covering the 2023-25 period, were published on 3 January 2023. The British Swimming Swimming Officials Group will shortly circulate details of the new rules, create training materials and determine a suitable date for their implementation.

The new rules should NOT therefore be applied at swimming competitions held in England until the implementation date is determined.

County Age Group Championships should therefore be judged in their entirety under prevailing Swim England Laws, Regulations and Technical Rules of Swimming, WITHOUT reference to revised 2023-25 FINA Technical Rules.

The Nottinghamshire ASA AGM for 2022 will be taking place at the Balfour Conservative Club 117 High Street, Arnold NG5 7DS on Saturday 12th November 2022 from 10:00am. Parking is available next door or over the road at Arnold Leisure Centre. Parking is free for 2 hours (a ticket must be displayed) or £1 for upto 4 hours (prices correct as at time of this post).

All members of Nottinghamshire Swimming Clubs, and past presidents are welcome, but a maximum of 3 voting delegates may sign in from each Nottinghamshire ASA affiliated club.

Today marks the start of Clean Sport Week.

Swim England are hosting two online webinars over Zoom this week for clubs and coaches, and the second for club members. To register for these meetings, please click on the links below. These meetings are to share more information about anti-doping and the national awareness week which has the theme ‘What you see is 100% me’.

Tuesday 24 May, 18:30, clubs and coaches

Online – Zoom

Thursday 26 May, 18:30, members
Online – Zoom

The world of swimming like many sports has been hit hard over the last few years. We have seen a number of our athletes and volunteers fade away from the sport.

Our sport is run mainly by volunteers and this includes the County Assocciation. We are currently recruiting for volunteers to take on some of our “behind the scenes” roles.

Nottinghamshire ASA have a few different committees with representatives from most clubs within the county that all come together to help run everything in the county. This can be from the day to day running of the accounts, looking after the county swim squad, low level competitions, open meets and county championships.

We are currently looking for volunteers to come onboard to help with many roles including secretary roles, treasurer roles, competition management, officials co-ordination just to name a few.

If you are interested in taking up any of these roles within the county please get intouch with use at web.admin@notts-swimming.co.uk where we will be able to direct your interest to the correct people.

There have been a small number of instances recently where the wearing of a two-piece female race suit has been challenged.

The suit in question is the Arena Powerskin Carbon duo, which consists of a jammer style leg suit with a bodysuit over the top and can be viewed at https://www.arenasport.com/en_uk/powerskin-carbon-duo

This suit was launched in 2019 but obviously due to the limited number of competitions seen in 2020 and 2021, there have not been many opportunities for it to be seen in action.

For the avoidance of doubt, this is a FINA approved suit and bears the FINA approval logo on both parts. Swimmers wearing this suit with the logo on both parts for competition should not be challenged.