Sunday 4th December saw 24 of our young athletes head over to Leeds to take part in our Swim Along Santa Meet. Our swimmers competed in a total of 134 swims with 17 new times, 67 personal bests, 20 speeding tickets and 64 medal positions! We saw some amazing swims with some HUGE PB’s and we can’t express just how proud we are of our swimmers and the impeccable behaviour and grit they displayed throughout the day. As well as our seasoned athletes we also had a number of new...

Swim England’s Head of Coaching, Lindsay Trimmings reached out to Doncaster Dartes Head Coach Rob on Monday and offered him a place on the Swim England’s Inspire Coach Programme for 2022-2023. The programme provides a unique coach development opportunity for coaches who are predominantly working with age-group and early youth level athletes within the Swim England Talent Pathways for Swimming and Para Swimming. Coach Rob will be assigned a mentor from Swim England’s National and Regional Coach Developer team who will work with him to provide bespoke, in situ support...

Doncaster Dartes entered it’s very first DMasa (Doncaster Met’s) this weekend with it’s very own Club Squad. We saw 24 swimmers take part which resulted in a fantastic weekend of racing. It was great to see so many swimmers achieve their own personal goals this weekend which ranged from; Achieving their Yorkshire Qualifying Time, racing in their first 100m Fly event & overcoming their fear of diving in from the poolside. All these were achieved and it’s these small successes which sometimes can mean much more to the individual than...

Today we’re celebrating the success of Grace Blair. After such an impressive last season Grace has rightfully earned her place on the Yorkshire Talent Academy for the 22/23 season. The Yorkshire Talent Academy is the foundation of the triathlon talent pathway in England and GB. It is led in by a Head Coach who works with the national talent pathway staff and regional committee to deliver a programme of support to the best young triathletes in Yorkshire. The standard of athletes selected onto Regional Talent Academies nationally continues to rise...

DARTES' older swimmers (13 yrs+) got back to county competition this weekend at the John Charles Centre. The short course winter meet is always a busy one and comes at a time in the season when most swimmers are busy building their aerobic capacity on the back of a summer away from the pool, rather than really dialling into any kind of speed work. As such it is often a task for the coaching staff to manage swimmers’ expectations of slicing huge chunks of their PB’s – but that’s not...

Congratulations to both Grace Burton and Jenson Owen who have both been selected for the National Age Group Development Programme for 2022-2023. Grace will be heading off to Manchester whilst Jenson will be travelling to Huddersfield! The athletes have an opportunity to access face to face training camps with an emphasis on developing stroke efficiency and Individual Medley turns whilst also having access to education workshops such as psychology, nutrition and land training activity. The Swim England Talent Team organise a series of development programmes that provide a pathway to...

The Swim England National County Team Championships once again returned to Sheffield after a lengthy spell without the competition due to Covid-19. The County Team Championships is always a fun, colourful, loud and competitive event that has a huge crowd come along to cheer on their County! Dartes swimmers, Greta Highfield and Jenson Owen were selected to compete for Team Yorkshire! Greta raced in the Women’s 14/15 200m Medley Team, which came 13th out of 20 teams. Greta took the Breaststroke leg of the relay racing a fast 32.76 split!...

A handful of swimmers were over at Ennerdale leisure centre last weekend attempting to log some last minute regional qualifying times ahead of next months NER's, their times can be found here; /ddsc/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/kuhsc-regional-qualifier-results_093897.pdf Full meet results can be found here https://kuhsc.co.uk/liveresults/

On Sunday morning some of our younger swimmers competed in the White Rose meet which up until recent years has been an annual team gala which acts as Yorkshire’s qualifier for the national arena leagues final. Typically, the meet attracts all the top clubs in the county however this year’s addition saw a reduced field of only 6. The two big ‘City of’ clubs, Leeds and Sheffield, each fielding an A & B team in addition to Harrogate and of course us, Doncaster DARTES. The meet organisers are confident that...

And, Another Congratulations are in order for #TeamDartes. This time it's for Phoebe Weatherill who has been selected to for the Swim England North East Regional Development Programme for 2022-2023. This fantastic opportunity will provide Phoebe with an opportunity to receive support, be inspired and connect with a cohort of young swimmers from the region, in Swim England’s joint quest to improve as swimmers. Swim England will look to provide Phoebe with the opportunity to develop her fundamental movement skills, core aquatic skills, technical skills, nutritional knowledge plus her personal...