Chair of Derby Excel SC, Derbyshire ASA Past President, swimming referee. V proud mum to Jamie and Ella. Veterinary cardiologist in Alfreton.
South Wingfield, England
Joined May 2011
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Looking for an end of season long course meet?
We still have availability for our L3 meet at @MoorwaysV Derby 13th/14th July. Skins event with cash prizes
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We look forward to seeing you! @Swim_England @Aquatics_GB
On hols in Singapore, so swung by the venue for the @WorldAquatics 2025 World Champs. Thanks to the organising team who kindly invited us in and showed us the site plan (yellow star 2 on the map!)
Construction underway, lots to do yet but it’ll be an amazing venue! 🇸🇬
Super swim to end the short course season @JamieIngram18 - 49.94s in 100m butterfly, moving to third fastest ever British swimmer in this event. So unbelievably happy for you and proud of you Jamie! 🥰🎉😘
@DerbyExcelPerf @CoManchAq @Aquatics_GB @derbyshireswim @MoorwaysV
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Please join us for our end of season meet, the July Summer Sizzler - long course, level 3 at Moorways Derby. Heat/finals for 50m/100m events.
Details here:
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1⃣5⃣ of the nation's top swimmers have been in Lanzarote for a week long @Sw_EngTalent training camp 🌅
Members of our performance squad made up the majority of the group that were able to fine tune their race preparation ahead of a packed calendar of events 🙌
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First session done at @DerbyExcelPerf L1 meet at Ponds Forge - some great swims. Such a pleasure to watch world class swimmers Daniel Wiffen and Louise Hanson 🇸🇪 competing @Lboroswimming @DerbyExcelClub
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Our March meet - 15th,16th and 17th March, at Ponds Forge, is now open for entries. Start the qualifying window with a quality meet in a fast pool
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Such a fantastic day at Ella’s graduation, BMus (Hons) from Trinity Laban 💖 we are very proud parents 🥰🍾 @TrinityLaban
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Looking for a meet to kick start the long course season, or something in the qualifying window, then look no further, we’ve got the meet for you
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Great to see two of our Alumni competing at the World Cup series in Berlin, Athens and Budapest last month - @adam_peaty and @JamieIngram18
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Thank you to everyone who entered our Derby Excel Xmas Cracker meet.
Here is a link to accepted entries:
uk.gomotionapp.com/team/derb…
Please let us know if there are any errors/ omissions.
We are offering full refunds to any swimmers who subsequently qualify for Winter Nationals
Looking for a long course meet in January? Join us at Ponds Forge! @DerbyExcelPerf @Swim_England @britishswimming @DerbyExcelClub @derbyshireswim
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Fantastic. Congratulations to our swimmers and coaches 👏
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And it’s another day for 🇬🇧 records!
These four celebrating the 4x50 Mixed Medley and 4x100 Mixed Medley double!
Ethan Lawton
Imogen Clark
Georgie Pryor
Liam Dawson
What a team 💪
Really powerful and moving video @NorwichCityFC 💚💛 OTBC
𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.
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Well done to all the swimmers and coaches on Team Derbyshire, 8th place in Division One at #CountyTeamChamps after being promoted last year. Brilliant 🤩 👏@DerbyExcelPerf @Swim_England @coachashmorris @OllyTipping00
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We are also proud to announce our new Head Coach is Glenn Fisher, who has now taken up a full time position with us. Congratulations Glenn
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We are delighted to announce that Head Coach John Adye has been appointed as our Director of Swimming at Derby Excel. Since Derventio Excel and City of Derby SC merged in April, John has worked tirelessly to amalgamate the two clubs, and build for the future. Congrats @AdyeJohn
Yes!! Wonderful news, @basford_ann you are a joy to work with and I’m absolutely delighted you have won this award 👏👏👏 @derbyshireswim @SwimEastMidland
Congratulations Ann Basford for winning Technical Official of the Year at the Regional Awards. Fully deserved, thank you for everything you do for swimming and for helping us at our Open meets 🙏👏🎉 @SwimEastMidland @DronDolphinsSC @Swim_England @DerbyExcelClub