Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club

Affiliated to Swim England East Region

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2023-24 New Season Newsletter

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Welcome back to another season!  We hope you are suitably refreshed from the summer break and raring to get back into training and competitions.  This edition of Babble not only looks forward to the events of the next few months, but takes time to reflect on and celebrate the superb achievements of so many of […]
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Understanding Nationals

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Once your swimmer has reached “Regionals”, the next step is to aspire to “Nationals”. British Swimming and Swim England hold multiple national level championships and meets each year and we’ve created a guide explaining how they work.
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Jellyfish encounters in the Varsity Channel Relay

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Almost every other year since 1988, Cambridge and Oxford Universities have raced across the English Channel in the Varsity Channel Relay.  Six swimmers, three male and three female, from each university race across the English Channel in hour long rotations from Dover until the French coastline of Calais is reached. The first ever race saw […]
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