Past and Present County Presidents
2026/2027 Presidant Lynne Bartlett
I’m delighted to introduce Lynne Bartlett of Keynsham Amateur Swimming Club as the Somerset ASA President for 2026/27. Lynne has been involved with swimming for more than 25 years, having answered the call for poolside helpers, which soon progressed to coaching qualifications, and weekends in Loughborough to attain her level 3. With Lynne and Thea Beament heading the coaching team in the noughties, the club saw a level of success which will be hard for us to repeat, feeding many swimmers into the performance programmes at the University of Bath, and City of Bristol, most notably Siobhan Marie O’Connor, and a decade in the Premier Division of the Western Arena League. On retiring from poolside, Lynne has become heavily involved in the Keynsham Committee and has been our chairperson for several years now, meeting the increasing demands of running a swimming club as we recover from a pool closure and the pandemic, and the usual challenges faced by our clubs. Currently Lynne has two grandchildren swimming with the club, which has rather scuppered the retirement from poolside, and she is back coaching our Preliminary Squad, with one of her sons, Tom, now coaching our Juniors. I’m delighted that these many years of service are being recognised with the presidency of Somerset ASA.
Writen By Chris Metcalfe
| 1902 J S Walker | 1903 J S Walker | 1904 M Jones | ||
| 1905 J C Richardson | 1906 H H Newport | 1907 F W Wright | ||
| 1908 G Warne | 1909 G H Holway | 1910 J Rowsell | ||
| 1911 Dr L Meade-King | 1912 L W Carder | 1913 W H Weeks | ||
| 1914 A J Clare | 1915 N J Reynolds | 1916 – 1918 No Elections | ||
| 1919 H Collins | 1920 K Pople MC | 1921 F G Warwick | ||
| 1922 P Moffat | 1923 D Perry | 1924 P S Huggins | ||
| 1925 R G Jordan | 1926 T H Thould | 1927 P J Sutton | ||
| 1928 A E Meyer | 1929 H C Foote | 1930 F J Stone | ||
| 1931 F C Banwell | 1932 W E Maynard | 1933 T J Coles | ||
| 1934 Sir C Miles | 1935 Lt Col H C Metcalfe | 1936 L Lott | ||
| 1937 F Care | 1938 C J Young | 1939 G F Luttrell | ||
| 1940 – 1944 No Elections | 1945 C G Burrows | 1946 C G Burrows | ||
| 1947 Miss D Harrison | 1948 F Bennett | 1949 J C Hoyal | ||
| 1950 Ald W E Maynard | 1951 Mrs C M Mitchell | 1952 C Squire | ||
| 1953 G E Allen | 1954 G Newbury | 1955 L Mills | ||
| 1956 E K Williamson MBE | 1957 E D Lewis | 1958 A S Ralph | ||
| 1959 Supt. C S Ford | 1960 Ald W Couch | 1961 H E Hallett | ||
| 1962 Mrs A G Browne | 1963 Mrs E E Cookson | 1964 C/Supt H K James | ||
| 1965 D T O’Brien | 1966 S Bale | 1967 J Derrick | ||
| 1968 Miss J Davis | 1969 Mrs D J Vincent | 1970 T Elsom-Rhymes | ||
| 1971 Mrs P F Salter | 1972 R Bray | 1973 J Hamblett | ||
| 1974 Miss P Densum | 1975 R A E Blackburn | 1976 H H May | ||
| 1977 G Cutting QPM | 1978 M Heath | 1979 Mrs J Findlay | ||
| 1980 D V Toogood | 1981 G K Savory | 1982 A J Lyons | ||
| 1983 Mrs D J Vincent | 1984 G Hoyland | 1985 P Wilson-Chalon | ||
| 1986 B R Bewley | 1987 Mrs J Ford | 1988 R Harrison | ||
| 1989 R V Holman | 1990 J Hamblett | 1991 D White | ||
| 1992 D T O’Brien | 1993 T Jeal | 1994 Dr J M Cooper | ||
| 1995 Mrs Ann Reynolds | 1996 Ray Warren | 1997 Mrs G Lyons | ||
| 1998 G Lock | 1999 J Merritt | 2000 P Brake | ||
| 2001 U Ruutel | 2002 R Reed | 2003 Mrs R Johnson | ||
| 2004 Mrs B Cutting | 2005 Mrs Sue Dors | 2006 B G W Batley | ||
| 2007 Mrs K Savory | 2008 Miss S Pusill | 2009 A Withers | ||
| 2010 Pete Gonsalves | 2011 J Farrant | 2012 G Cockill | ||
| 2013 Mrs Fiona Bowen | 2014 Mike G Coles | 2015 L Debenham | ||
| 2016 P Sartain | 2017 Mrs A Bashford | 2018 Colin Christmas | ||
| 2019 Mrs Kelly Podbury | 2020 Mrs Kelly Podbury | 2021 D Beament | ||
| 2022 Neil Chambers | 2023 Nick Purslow | 2024 Paul Chillingworth | ||
| 2025 Karen Bowen | 2026 Lynne Bartlett |