Darlington Amateur Swimming & Diving Club

Well done Scarlett 👏👏

Down Syndrome Swimming Great Britain is proud to announce that 29 swimmers have been selected to represent Great Britain at the 12th World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships

The event will take place in Albufeira, Portugal from 30th October - 7th November 2026

Congratulations to the following swimmers who have worked extremely hard during the qualifying period to achieve their goal of
being selected for Team GB:

Lizzie Allen Alton & District Swimming Club
Daniel Daley The Cheshire Penguins COMAST
Alexandra Edwards Bristol Penguins SO
Joseph Edwards Verulam SC
Mark Evens Hitchin SC
Caroline Faithfull Taunton Deane SC
Amalia Freeland Leander SC
Caitlin Hatfield Wi******er City Swim
Benjamin Hillyer City Of Manchester Aquatics Swim Team
Ruth Hodgson Leatherhead SC AquademySPORTS
Mark Holmes Colchester Phoenix SC
Dylan Hughes RCT Swim Squad
Scarlett Jones Darlington Amateur Swimming & Diving Club
Zachary Lacey Seaclose SC IoW Swim Team
Conor Macauley-Conway Kingston Royals Epsom District SC
Kathryn Martin Bracknell & Wokingham Masters
Matthew McCreadie Inverness ASC Highland Disability Swim Team
Cerys McCrindle SAST
Zak Pankhurst RRSC
William Reed Teddington SC Masters
William Roberts PSOSG St Ives SC
Jemima Rudd-Jones RTW Masters Swimming Club
Ellen Stephenson RDASC
Harvey Stonebank RDASC
Holly Sullivan Swindon ASC
Helen Thompson Colchester SC
Jake Vicars Pontefract Marlins RDASC
Dorian Williams Trowbridge Amateur Swimming Club
Dylan Williams Torfaen Dolphins

DSS-GB would like to convey a huge thank you to all of the clubs listed and the coaches who have worked
so hard with our swimmers to prepare them for the forthcoming World Championships

An enormous thank you too to the DSS-GB coaches and team manager for preparing the squad and for all the admin that goes into selecting, entering and taking a large team to an international event Neil Lacey Julie Evens

🎉 Big congratulations to Isabella...the diver of the month for July 💥

Isabella has worked hard to secure some excellent new twisting dives 🌀
Keep up the hard work Isabella 💯

🇬🇧🇭🇷Rijeka Junior Open Diving Championship
Congratulations to Evan and Alexa who both represented DASC and GB recently in Croatia.

Evan💥

1m - 6th.

3m - 7th.

Great required dive scores! 💪

Alexa💪

1m - 🥈

3m - 🥉

Synchro - 🥉

What a week and what a venue.

They’ve arrived 💚

Sheffield Diving on Tour ☀️🇭🇷

Divers from Sheffield Diving, Darlington Diving Club and Corby Steel Diving Club, are competing at the Rijeka Junior International Diving competition this week.

Thank you to partners for providing our team with amazing hoodies and the Sheffield Grammar School for supporting the trip 🙏

This stunning diving pool will be the host venue of this years World Aquatics World Junior Diving Championships in August 🌍

Shout out to our fantastic Team Managers who have made ethics trip possible - Ellie, Fiona and Jamie

Sheffield Diving Corby Steel Diving Club Darlington Amateur Swimming & Diving Club

Amazing feedback from our DASC family 💚 and great to have the support from Patrick and Tees Valley Sport

A huge good luck to our junior divers Evan and Alexa who are en route to Croatia to dive in the Rijeka open diving championships. 🇭🇷

Best of luck both 🍀

Junior League Team 2026! 💚

An absolutely amazing afternoon at the Gala today and some brilliant swimming from everyone. Everyone worked really hard practicing their swimming and their team races. You made Darlington Proud.💚👏

We came 4th Overall but every swimmer deserved a gold medal with how fast they swam today. Well done!!🏅

Thank you to everyone who helped support us and big thanks to the Coaches! What great organisation at the Neptune Centre in Middlesbrough as well - well done and thank you!

Good luck swimmers 🍀🍀