Derbyshire ASA International Award
Margaret Roberts is not only our club Secretary, but she is also a Pool and Open Water Swimming Official.

Margaret has been at the club pretty much since day the beginning as her dad was one of the co-founders of the club. Margaret competed for the club in both competitive and synchro swimming.
She was then tasked by David Hunt to become an official which she did many years ago.
When her two daughters became members of the club she stepped back into the role of an official starting off with pool qualifications and made her way up to pool referee. She then took on the open water qualifications again making it to referee level. This is when international duties started; Margaret was added to the FINA officials list which saw her being selected to be one of the Open Water Officials at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

From this she then went on to officiate at the below international meets:
2012 European Open Water in Italy
2016 European Junior Championships in Italy
2017 FINA World Masters in Budapest
2018 European Open Water in Glasgow
2023 World Masters Open Water in Japan

Sunday saw Margaret being recognised for all of the international duties that she has taken part in and was awarded DASA International Award. She is only one of two Derbyshire officials that have been given this award.

Interested?

By becoming an official there are many opportunities that will become available to you, while the possibility of travelling the world also becomes a possibility.

We would love to have more officials within Rykneld! At present we only have two officials (Margaret and another member both of whom don’t have swimmers that compete).

If you would like to find out more please get in touch with us on rykneldscenquiries@gmail.com