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City of Sunderland ASC

Welcome to the City of Sunderland Amateur Swimming Club website. We are based at the Sunderland Aquatic centre. Our mission is to be the Swimming Club of choice for all communities in the Sunderland and surrounding area.
The Club aim to provide opportunities for Long Term Athlete Development and encourages members to obtain qualifications in teaching and coaching, attend other sport related courses, and for non-swimming members to qualify as ASA Officials.
The Club is primarily a competitive club and members of all ages are encouraged to participate in swimming or swimming related competitive activities such as water polo, diving, triathlon and synchronized swimming.
The Club also recognise that swimming regularly is part of a healthy lifestyle and we will provide opportunities for non-competitive, but coached swimming sessions to be available.

Two members of the City of Sunderland Amateur Swimming Club were awarded the highest regional accolades for their swimming achievements at the Npower North East Disability Sports Awards held at Durham County Cricket Club. Ian Payne of ITV Tyne Tees and Border, presented the event, where Mathew Wylie won the Young Male Achiever award and Eleni Papadopoulos won the Female Young Achiever Award. Both swimmers took the awards after fighting off fierce competition from other disabled sports people representing a wide range of sporting activities from across the region.

Matthew, aged 13 is a pupil at Biddick Sports College Washington. He is a member of the 'North East Regional Disability Squad', the 'Regional Talent Programme' and has been invited onto the 'World Class Talent Programme.' In his class he holds 3 British records in the 400 medley, 200 butterfly and 800 freestyle. He has risen up the European and World rankings in both short and long course and has excelled in the DSE and CP National competitions. During this month alone, Mathew has won seven silver medals at the Junior Disability Sports Events held at Sheffield, gaining three 'World Class Talent' times in the 50m and 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke events to add to his 400m frestyle time. He also won five gold medals at the Cerebral Palsy Nationals held in Nottingham, taking the titles in the 100m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 100m backstroke, 200m individual medley and the 100m butterfly, in which he also achieved a personal best time. Mathew's ambition is to represent his country and swim at the Paralympics.

Seventeen year old Eleni from Gateshead who also won this award last year, has continued to build upon her impressive achivements during the past year. Eleni is a member of the World Class Development Programme, the North Eastern Regional Squad and an Ambassador for the 2012 Paralympic potential programme. On her senior debut at the IPC European Championships Eleni won two silver medals. She also became British Champion in the womens 100m butterfly. In addition to these amazing achievements Eleni has won countless medals and competitions including 6 golds at the DSE Open National Championships at Ponds forge Sheffield.

Alastair Johnson, Head Coach of the City of Sunderland Amateur Swimming Club said; ' We are all immensely proud of Matthew and Eleni for their achievements to date and for winning these awards. Both athletes are enjoying a great season so far and are a real credit to themselves and their respective coaches Val Wilson and Danny Thompson. We are particularly grateful to Npower and the English Federation of Disability Sport for their support and recognition '