Day 1 The first of a double weekend of age group North East Regional Championships kicked off at John Charles Leeds on April 27/28 and as ever the young guns did not disappoint. Were we expecting an abundance of Medals? Probably not, the sheer amount of talent across the region is impressively high right now, were we expecting our young stars to give it their best and come back happy with their results and more importantly their performance, absolutely. By the end of Weekend 1 we were sitting happy with...

Head Coach Jordan took a handful of National Squad Athletes, tagging along were a couple from Regional Squad to the extremely high level City of Leeds meet held over a full weekend at John Charles Centre. As usual the meet was hugely oversubscribed, meaning the organisers needed to reject a lot of entries. As licencing for level 1 meets dictates, only the fastest entries survived so there was some tough competition for our Dartes superstars. 54 clubs competed over the three days and it was our third Long Course meet...

The first weekend of April saw 8 National Squad athletes compete at the Derby Excel National Qualifying meet, it’s definitely not our biggest contingent ever during the National Qualifying Window, but there’s a lot of promise rising through the ranks. Suddenly things have become real, with meets coming thick and fast and swimming fast counted for more than just PBs and pride. Swimmers with ambition have just 9 weeks to set times to get them into the National Rankings. The swimming performances were a mixed bag. Swimming meets or the...

There's been some impressive work done by our National swimmers this season, the latest kick set was no different. 10x100m Butterfly Kick off 2:15 TRT with Phoebe Weatherill (Edl) standing on top as the Queen of Kick, followed closely by Jessica Hubery (Drn) bringing her average back down to 1:34 and showing she has the ability to go sub 1:30 by knocking out a 1:26 at the end, her quicket time fo this set yet. Significant improvements were seen too by Lexie Goddard (Drn) bringing her average down to 1:46...

A fantastic day of swimming was had at our Mad March Sprints this weekend. Sunday saw our younger athletes swim a total of 104 races and the results were nothing short of spectacular considering we are not in short course season. 66.3% PB's or new swims A shout out to the following for their incredible PB's!: - Ruby Simpson (dode): 100m IM 12.83s PB - Finlay Woolloff (dode): 100m IM 11.40s PB - Mason Woolloff (dode): 50m Fly 7.06s PB - Ayesha Thomas (dode): 50m Free 13.29s PB - Emma...

It’s been a long, hard slog to get to the Yorkshire Championships this year. With the club still recovering from two tough years, low on numbers, add to the mix of another Head Coach leaving at the end of last year, feeder clubs struggling to find swimmers from the City’s Learn to Swim programme, which in turn has an impact on the number of swimmers the local clubs are able to send to Doncaster DARTES, and you have arguably a very difficult year where most would say “scrap it all...

Good luck to our Regional Squad Lead Coach, Dan Dickinson who is currently down in Tenby, Wales ready to compete this weekend in IRONMAN Wales. For those that don’t know, Ironman is undoubtedly one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. It consists of: 3.8Km Swim 180.2Km Bike 42.2Km Run The men & women that compete in Ironman are arguably wired different to most other athletes that’s for sure. Their mindset, determination and sheer grit is just something else. Dan, from us all at Doncaster Dartes SC,...

Our second session of our Home Champs was held on Thrusday evening. This was the last chance this season to get some last minute Yorkshire Times, we've also included those NER times on there although you can't use these due to Home Champs being a Level 4 meet, it's nice to see who was able to get those times on the evening. We've no doubt you'll do it again at a Level 3 or higher in September. Yorkshire Qualifying Times /ddsc/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/dartes-home-champs-yorkshire-qualifiers_017996.pdf NER Qualifying Times - (Although these don't count with...

A huge well done to Stella & Matt. Both have recently completed their Swim England Level 1 Swimming Coach qualifications. Fantastic work folks.

As always with end of season meets, this is a great chance to pick up some early qualifiers for next seasons county & regional championships and our swimmers didn't disappoint with 105 Yorkshire Qualifying Times and 65 Regional Qualifying Times achieved. This means that we now have swimmers from every single squad attending Yorkshires, that’s right, including Academy Squad! This is simply amazing and all of us at Dartes are so proud of your efforts. Well done to you all Yorkshire Qualifying Times /ddsc/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/fb-sheffield-summer-meet-yorkshire-qualifying-times_076906.pdf NER Qualifying Times /ddsc/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/sheffield-meet-ner-qualifying-times_087579.pdf