Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club

Affiliated to Swim England East Region

Welcome

Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club is one of the oldest competitive swimming clubs in Hertfordshire. Whilst we strive to be competitive we realise our responsibilities to encourage sport for all and this is reflected in a club structure which ranges from the Swim School, through to our competitive squads and Masters.

Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club is a club that puts its swimmers first and with some 200 swimming members, we aim to provide an inclusive experience catering for those learning to swim, those starting out on their competitive swimming careers and to those striving to compete at Counties, Regionals and Nationals.

So if you’re looking for a new club, swimming lessons, a competitive club or simply coming back to swimming after a break, take a moment to look through our site and see what we can offer you.

Squad structure update

Although we are still waiting to hear when pools may be allowed to reopen, our coaching team are already starting to prepare for our return to the water.  We are a club that is changing year on year and to reflect those changes in size and competitiveness our head coach Benoit has reviewed the existing structure and made some updates that will take effect as soon as we start training.  

There are more details on the Squad Structure page.

Please review the PDF download that contains the plan of the new structure and the updated individual criteria for each squad.  Although many of the squad names remain the same, the entry criteria may have changed so please take your child’s year of birth and consider all squads for which they could be eligible.  For example, a swimmer born in 2006 could be in Cadets, Juniors, Minimes or Elites.  

DownloadSquad Structure and Criteria 2020-2021 (163.8 KB)

Movement between squads will be based on age (year of birth), entry criteria (where appropriate) and attendance during the active part of the 2019-2020 season and will be communicated to individual swimmers prior to us starting training.  Swimmers eligible for more than one squad may decide not to become part of a squad and will therefore be directed to a different squad according to their motivations.

Please direct any questions towards Benoit (BSSC Head Coach).

Virtual training and resources

We can’t be together in the pool right now, but that does not mean our swimmers cannot stay physically and mentally well and connected with each other.  For this to work we need all members of our club to come together, make suggestions and support each other.

Visit our Virtual Training and Resources hub to find information on Land based training activities, #BSSCStayAtHome Challenges, #BSSCStayAtHome Live Sessions, Online Resources and Volunteer Training.

Learn to Swim

Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club’s Learn to Swim programme provides high quality swimming lessons based on the ASA Learn to Swim Framework.  Our Learn to Swim lessons have some of the lowest teacher pupil ratio’s in the area with a maximum of 8 swimmers per lesson.

Lessons are held in two locations, Bishops Stortford College Pool on Sundays between 3:00pm and 6:00pm and Leventhorpe School Pool on Mondays and Wednesday between 4:15pm and 5:15pm.

For further information please visit our Learn to Swim pages or alternatively you can contact us by email or phone 07803 329802, if no one is available please leave a message and someone will get back to you.