 
					
					
									
				
							
						
				Youth Counties 2014
Molly, Emma and Rebecca P made a flying start to the Youth County Championships (for swimmers aged 15 years and over) at Beechdale Swimming Centre on Saturday 15 February in
 
					
					
									
				
							Molly, Emma and Rebecca P made a flying start to the Youth County Championships (for swimmers aged 15 years and over) at Beechdale Swimming Centre on Saturday 15 February in
 
					
					
									
				
							Year of the horse? No, no ,no … year of the Marlin! Where to start on a night of class, determination and, of course as always, amazing team spirit? Perhaps
 
					
					
									
				
							Notts ASA Winter Gala & Ripley Rascals The weekend of 18th and 19th January was a busy one for some of our swimmers, representing Portland at the Ripley Rascals Open
 
					
					
									
				
							JC Dobb Spring League at Lammas Leisure Centre, 18 January, the first gala of 2014 – This was a night of adversity and the first round of congratulations must go
 
					
					
									
				
							In this last leg of the JC Dobb Autumn Series at Hucknall Leisure Centre many of our younger and/or newer swimmers gained valuable competitive experience against tough opposition who had
 
					
					
									
				
							Time to shake off the cobwebs from the night before, there was serious swimming to be done! This was the final round of the Sports Centre League, with a trophy
 
					
					
									
				
							What do you call a collection of 55 swimmers? A ‘Peter Pink of swimmers’ of course! For the first time certainly in recent history we had 2 teams representing our
 
					
					
									
				
							After scraping ourselves out of bed to reach Beechdale for the 8am warm-up, the announcement of its delay was not what we wanted to hear. Still, our `free’ programme detailed
 
					
					
									
				
							It was all hands on deck as we hosted the most recent JC Dobb gala and more than a few of us were out of our comfort zones –
 
					
					
									
				
							The half term destination for the gala team was Sutton-in-Ashfield on Saturday night 19th October and a great time was had by all. Arriving in the pouring rain certainly
 
		
		
 
