The full shortlist for the Aquatics GB Awards 2025 has been confirmed, as we prepare to celebrate the stars and highlights of an incredible year for aquatics.
After a season that has taken in a pair of stunning world championship in Singapore - as well as outstanding performances across aquatic disciplines major junior international events - the Aquatics GB Awards 2025 will take place on Saturday 8th November, recognising some of the athletes and staff who played crucial parts in many sporting memories that will last a lifetime.
Five Athlete of the Year awards across diving, para-swimming, swimming, artistic swimming and water polo, Coach of the Year prizes across all those disciplines and Emerging Athlete of the Year recognition in diving, para-swimming and swimming will be presented before the curtain comes down on the night with the Maurice Watkins Champion Athlete trophy - named in memory of our late Chair - awarded to the overall Athlete of the Year winner.
There too will once again be a special acknowledgement for Contribution to Social Impact – following Brock Whiston as the inaugural winner of this award in 2024 – with this trophy presented in recognition for the positive difference an athlete has made away from the elite performance arena.
Find out more about every single nominee across on the dedicated Aquatics GB Awards 2025 page.
Athlete of the Year Nominees
Artistic Swimming
- Ranjuo Tomblin
- Isabelle Thorpe
- Holly Hughes
Diving, sponsored by CSE
- Jordan Houlden
- Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen
- Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding
Para-swimming, sponsored by Everyone Active
- Will Ellard
- Poppy Maskill
- Faye Rogers
Swimming, sponsored by Speedo
- Freya Colbert
- Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team (Matt Richards, James Guy, Jack McMillan and Duncan Scott, Tom Dean and Evan Jones)
- Oliver Morgan
Water Polo
- Kathy Rogers
- Lily Turner
- Sophie Jackson
Emerging Athlete of the Year Nominees
Diving
- Noah Penman
- Todd Geggus
- Siena-Rae Mills
Para-swimming, sponsored by Gray Dawes
- Bruce Dee
- Astrid Carroll
- Ela Letton-Jones
Swimming, sponsored by Sport Passport
- Amalie Smith
- Jacob Mills
- Filip Nowacki
- Dean Fearn
Coach of the Year Nominees
Artistic Swimming
- Paola Basso
- Yulia Diachenko
- Karen Thorpe
Diving
- Alex Rochas
- Anna Sless
- Tom Owens
Para-swimming
- Ric Howard
- Patrick Miley
- Nick Thompson
Swimming, sponsored by Sport Passport
- Ben Higson
- Ryan Livingstone
- Dave Hemmings
Water Polo
- Theo Nousios
- Tim Dunsbee
- Nick Hume
To view further information about nominees for the Aquatics GB Awards 2025 click here.