Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club
Affiliated to Swim England East Region
Attention Juniors A, B & C and Age Group Competitive Squads!
We will be holding a ‘Starts and Turns Clinic’ during the upcoming half term.
Date: Thursday 31st October
Time: 4.15pm to 5.15pm
Venue: Bishop’s Stortford College pool
Cost: £15, invoiced
The clinic will work on starts and turns in all strokes and help perfect your technique.
To secure a place, please email secretary@bsswimclub.org.uk
Swim England Hertfordshire have released the conditions, schedule and qualifying/consideration times for Hertfordshire County Championships which will take place in January and February 2025.
Key Documents
We will try to keep these document versions up to date, but the latest versions should be available on the County website as we get closer to the date of the competition.
Download2025 County Championships QT and CT
Download2025 County Championships schedule
Download2025 County Championships meet conditions
Venue
The major change this year is that the Championships will be held at Westminster Lodge pool.
Age groups
For 2025 there will be no 16 year old age group and this has been included in the oldest age category. However a higher number of entrants will be accepted into the 16 & older age category if they achieve the consideration times.
Qualifying and Consideration Times
These broadly remain the same; however some QT and CTs have been reduced due to the higher standards achieved. These times are highlighted in blue on the QT/CT sheet. If you want to see how your swimmer is progressing with regards to the qualifying times, see the ‘Qualifying’ tab on Swim Manager.
Age as at 31 December 2025
Please remember that a swimmer’s age for County Championships is age as at 31st December 2025 (e.g. if you are born in 2012, your age group will be the 13 year age group). Times must have been achieved at a licensed meet between 1st April and 8th December 2024.
As our club continues to grow, we will naturally have a number of our swimmers attending competitions for the first time. Even those who have been with the club for 2-3 years will not have experienced many events, so we have created a guide that aims to answer those common questions of what should we bring, where are we going, what do we do when we get there etc etc! It applies to events held for just our club at our home pool and those run by clubs further afield.
We hope you find it useful. Even if you’re an old hand at this, please have a glance through it and let us know if anything is missing or can be improved.
DownloadBSSC Guide to Competitions
Running soon after the Aquatics GB Summer Championships is the Swim England National Summer Meet, where the next batch of fastest swimmers are invited to compete. Invites are again based on qualifying swims from Level 1 (Long Course) meets in a defined March-May window and this year nine current BSSC swimmers were fast enough to receive invites to compete.
Brandon MacDonald-Williams kicked off the BSSC campaign in great style, finishing 9th in the 16yrs 1500m freestyle and shaving ten seconds off his own BSSC club record in the process (17:30.05)! A few days later he was back in record breaking time, this time taking nearly 4 seconds off his 800m freestyle record to finish 15th in his age group (9:06.33).
Ella Greatbatch was our top finisher overall, taking Gold in the 50m breaststroke final (33.89) and Silver in the 100m breaststroke final where she also broke her own club record with a time of 1:14.71.
Fourteen year old Molly Greatbatch was our youngest competitor and performed superbly at her first National level event, finishing 14th in the 14/15yrs 200m breaststroke (5th fastest 14 year old) and 29th in the 100m breaststroke.
Dylan Davenport (15yrs), Emma Fields (18/Over) and Lucy Wheeler (18/Over) all had great swims to reach finals in their age groups. Dylan was 7th in the 50m butterfly final and 22nd in the 100m butterfly; Emma was 10th in the 50m butterfly final and 17th in the 100m butterfly; whilst Lucy was 6th in the 100m freestyle final.
Congratulations also go to Laura Burgess (18/Over) who was 11th in the 50m freestyle, Jakey Hayes (17yrs) 18th in the 200m backstroke and Lauren Gore (18/Over) 29th in the 50m breaststroke.
The 2024 championships sees the top-ranked swimmers in Britain race against each other to be crowned British summer champion and two current BSSC swimmers were invited to compete.
Dylan Davenport, 15 year age group, came 10th in the 50m Freestyle final in a time of 25.55 seconds, having achieved a personal best time of 25.36 to secure his place in the top ten in Britain. He also came 15th in the 100m Freestyle in a time 55.32 just outside his PB.
Ella Greatbatch, 16 year age group, was 13th in the 200m Breaststroke in a time very close to her season’s best.
Recent BSSC alumni Kirsty Neill, 17 year age group, also had a successful championships, securing a personal best time to come 5th in a 200m Breaststroke final where bronze to 6th was decided by 0.22 seconds. She also was 10th in the 100m Breaststroke and 20th in the 50m Breaststroke.
