Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club

Affiliated to Swim England East Region

Competition reports

Nine get invites to the UK’s biggest summer swim events

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Congratulations to the nine BSSC swimmers who have been invited to the best of the UK’s summer swimming competitions! Dylan Davenport and Ella Greatbatch have both been invited to compete at the Aquatics GB Summer Championships. They are both also invited to the Swim England National Summer Meet along with Molly Greatbatch, Brandon MacDonald-Williams, Jakey […]
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BSSC take on the East of England

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Twenty five BSSC swimmers recently competed against the top swimmers from the six eastern Counties of England – Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk – at the Swim England East Region Long Course (50m) Championships.  For many of the BSSC swimmers it was their first taste of a regional level competition and they stepped up […]
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Long course records keep falling

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In a blink of an eye it’s mid-May and it’s time to celebrate more club records! Brandon MacDonald-Williams has been adding to his collection in both April and May, breaking an 800m freestyle record that had been held by Nick Botha since 2018 and improving his own 1500m freestyle record. Emma Fields improved on the […]
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Temperatures soar whilst times and records tumble

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Eight BSSC swimmers, assistant head coach Joe Collins and volunteer Team Managers Kat Gore, Lorraine Hayes and Tony Hadnutt recently headed south to the K2 50m pool in Crawley for Romford Town Swimming Club’s Last Chance National Qualifier Meet.  The clue was most definitely in the title, as this long course meet was held on […]
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Reaching the top of Hertfordshire

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The President of Swim England Hertfordshire, Jane O’Brien, recently presented seven Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club athletes with the overall Top Swimmer awards they won for outstanding performances across multiple events at the 2024 Hertfordshire County Championships.  To be eligible for the award, swimmers had to compete and earn points in events in five different categories, […]
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