Hampshire County ASA

Welcome to the site. Here you will find all you need to know about the various swimming disciplines available throughout Hampshire. Please be patient, we’re currently working hard to build the site. John Tripp is our current president.  John has been chairman of Hart Swimming Club for 5 years, and is an Honorary Life Member […]

Swim England Publishes Return to Swimming Roadmap

Swim England has published its roadmap for the return to competitive swimming. The five stage plan includes: Stage 3: From now: “Level X Racing” Stage 4: No earlier than January 2021: Phased reintroduction of licensed level 4 competitions Stage 5: Date to be confirmed: Reintroduction of licensed level 1, 2 and 3 competitions (subject to […]

Return to Competition

Today, Swim England published details of the first stage of competition, Level X racing, which will permit times recorded during training sessions to be submitted to rankings. Full details are available from: https://www.swimming.org/sport/level-x-racing-launched/ The Swimming Secretary of Hampshire County ASA will host a Q&A session for clubs to try to answer questions that clubs have […]

Training Restarted (but nowhere near normality)

As most members are now aware, the majority of clubs have been able to restart limited training sessions, in accordance with guidelines published by Swim England. All Hampshire clubs will shortly be invited to give the County feedback on the the level to which they have been able to restart activities. We know that many […]

2021 County Swimming Championships

The continuing impact of COVID-19 means that it will not be possible for us to legally run the 2021 Swimming Championships in January/February as planned. Swim England are currently developing A “return to competition” plan (which needs approval through the Department of Culture, Media and Sport before it can be published. A revised calendar for […]

Remaining National Events in 2020 Cancelled/No licences for level 1 or 2 meets will be granted.

The Swim England Swimming Leadership group have issued a statement cancelling all national events scheduled to take place in the latter part of 2020. Additionally, the Swim England Swimming Leadership Group considers that it will be neither possible nor practical to stage regional swimming championships in early November of this year. After very careful consideration, […]