Hinckley Swimming Club has been an established club since 1910 and is both a teaching and competitive club and our swimmers range from 5 years to Adults. We take all abilities from complete beginners to competitive swimmers. The swimmers are coached by fully qualified, friendly and dedicated staff. We use all of the leisure centres three pools which enables us to develop a swimmer to his or her full potential. Our more competitive swimmers can also be invited to train at the John Cleveland Pool. Our mission is to enable the people of Hinckley and the surrounding area to learn to swim, and to participate in both competitive and recreational swimming irrespective of age, gender, colour or creed.

Learn to Swim Scheme

Hinckley Swimming Club is committed to the ASA National Teaching Plan and has developed the plan in all swimming sessions.

Swimmers begin in the learner pool where they work through levels 1—3, this is where they master water confidence through to basic strokes. From the learner pool they progress on to the flume pool where they will continue with both water skills and stroke development. At this stage they will work through grades 4—5 and will be able to swim the three main strokes Front Crawl, Back Stroke and Breaststroke. Swimmers will also start to develop the basic concept of Butterfly.

Once swimmers are competent and have achieved a good grade 5 they progress to the main pool where they will continue with stroke development and start to improve their stamina and learn the early basics of competitive swimming.

Diddy and Seniors Sessions Once our swimmers have reached the limit of our learn to swim programme or have shown an early competitive potential they will move into the "Diddy" sessions. Within the coaching sessions swimmers will learn to develop their strokes further and also start to work through the ASA competitive start awards which will teach them the correct competitive dives. The swimmers will also continue their work on stamina and will start to work to a structured training plan. The swimmer progresses they move into the senior session which caters from those as young as 10 up to and including swimmers in their 40's! All swimmers will be encouraged to compete for the club in both friendly competitions and local galas and in the major leagues in which the club competes.

Swimfit

We set aside a lane on Tuesday for those none competitive young swimmers who are swim for fitness.

Masters This part of the club is for our senior swimmers those who are 18 years ond over. The club offers swimming for people who want to keep fit through swimming and for those who want to compete. The more competitive master swimmers are also welcome to train during the main coaching session.

Club Championships

Championships are held at the club in June/July (200m/400m) November (50m/100m). Any member of the club can enter. The championships events are from 25m right through to 400m (not for the faint hearted) events.

Learner Pool and Flume Pool swimmers also have the chance to compete to win medals and trophies in their own events.

Galas

We have two diddy teams which consist of Swimmers who ages range from 9—12 yrs. Each squad have their own captains and the squads are nicknamed the HINCKLEY HORNETS Gold and Red.

Our older swimmers also compete for the club in league galas and many also compete in open meets and we have been very successful over the years with most of our swimmers coming back with medals and trophies.

Hinckley Swimming Club competes in both local friendly galas and they also compete in the Leicester, Nuneaton and Speedo Leagues. Our teams travel all over Leicestershire and the East Midlands to compete against other clubs.

Each year swimmers aged 9 and above can compete in the Leicestershire county age groups. This is where swimmers get to compete against swimmers of their own age from all over the county.